Keyfactor vs DigiCert
Enterprise PKI & Certificate Lifecycle Management Compared
Compare Keyfactor vs DigiCert across CA agility, PKI depth, discovery, automation, deployment flexibility, and platform breadth to help you determine the best fit for your environment.
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Why Choose Keyfactor
Keyfactor helps enterprise teams establish and maintain digital trust across every machine identity. From private PKI to certificate lifecycle automation and cryptographic discovery, the platform is built to secure cloud, on-prem and hybrid environments, DevOps, and connected devices at scale.
More Freedom in CA Strategies
Keyfactor helps teams use DigiCert where it makes sense without tying lifecycle management to a single CA roadmap or commercial model. Keyfactor allows for easier provider changes, better business continuity, and more flexibility as requirements evolve.
Broader Visibility Beyond Certificate Inventory
Keyfactor helps security and PKI teams inventory certificates, keys, and cryptographic assets across complex environments, so blind spots do not turn into outages, audit findings, or migration surprises.
Faster Automation in Complex Hybrid Environments
Keyfactor’s orchestration model and integration ecosystem help teams automate across on-prem, cloud, network, DevOps, and device environments without excessive per-host maintenance. Less manual effort, lower operational overhead, and faster time-to-value.
Feature Comparison
Core Platform Capabilities at a Glance
This comparison shows how Keyfactor and DigiCert differ across core certificate management and enterprise PKI capabilities, including CA flexibility, discovery, automation, and operating model.
Keyfactor
DigiCert
Platform focus
End-to-end machine identity platform: modern PKI, certificate lifecycle automation, cryptographic discovery, and code signing
DigiCert ONE digital trust platform spanning public trust, Trust Lifecycle Manager, Private CA, Software Trust, Device Trust, Document Trust, and DNS
CA Agility
CA-agnostic across major public, private, and cloud-based CAs, with freedom to add or switch providers as requirements change
Trust Lifecycle Manager supports some external CAs via connectors and pairs with DigiCert public and private trust services
PKI ownership
Offers modern CA software (EJBCA Enterprise), managed PKI, and lifecycle automation in one portfolio
Combines certificate management with DigiCert PKI services and DigiCert Private CA options
Deployment flexibility
Deployable on-prem, in the cloud, as-a-service, hybrid, or container
Trust Lifecycle Manager supports cloud. Newer to on-premises and hybrid deployment models
Discovery & visibility
Continuous discovery and inventory across certificates, keys, and cryptographic assets in every environment makes Keyfactor the top solution for visibility without compromise
Certificate-focused discovery across CT logs, cloud, network, and system scans, with security ratings and discovery of some additional cryptographic assets on servers
Automation & integrations
One-to-many orchestration with pre-built integrations and CA-agnostic automation across hybrid environments
Broad connector ecosystem across CAs, appliances, cloud, MDM/UEM, DevOps, DNS, and servers; server automation often uses DigiCert agents or ACME clients
Pricing approach
Predictable and straightforward platform pricing designed for scale
Seat-based subscription plans; feature availability varies by plan and enterprise pricing is quote-based. Legacy per-certificate pricing models for certain use cases.
Code signing & broader trust
Code signing plus broader machine identity lifecycle on one platform
Code signing with added threat scanning and SBOM capabilities within DigiCert ONE
Future readiness
Platform is built for long-term cryptographic agility and PQC transition planning
Is investing in PQC readiness, including PQC issuance and discovery in Trust Lifecycle Manager
Last updated Q1 2025 · Based on publicly available information
Keyfactor vs DigiCert
Keyfactor
Keyfactor is purpose-built for enterprise PKI and cryptographic lifecycle management, supporting certificates, keys, and cryptographic assets across public and private CAs, cloud platforms, DevOps pipelines, connected devices, and on-prem environments. This gives teams centralized control and automation beyond basic certificate procurement.
DigiCert
DigiCert’s main strength is as a public CA, and it has expanded DigiCert ONE into a broader digital trust platform spanning Trust Lifecycle Manager, Private CA services, Software Trust Manager, Device Trust Manager, Document Trust, and DNS. It can be a strong fit for organizations that want public trust and some adjacent trust services from one vendor.
Keyfactor
Keyfactor is designed to let organizations standardize lifecycle automation without forcing certificate strategy into a single CA or dealing with sparse environment coverage. Teams can add, switch, or combine public, private, and cloud-based CAs as requirements change.
DigiCert
Trust Lifecycle Manager supports a healthy set of external CA connectors, while also integrating tightly with DigiCert’s own trust services. Organizations evaluating multi-CA strategy should compare how much CA freedom and portability they want over time as DigiCert can be limiting.
Keyfactor
Keyfactor provides continuous discovery and inventory of certificates, keys, and cryptographic assets across networks, cloud, infrastructure, and connected environments. This helps teams see risk earlier and act before outages or security issues occur.
DigiCert
DigiCert offers certificate-centric discovery through CT log monitoring, cloud scans, network scans, system scans, and security ratings. It also documents the discovery of some additional cryptographic assets on servers. Buyers should compare whether they primarily need certificate lifecycle visibility or broader cryptographic discovery across their environments.
Keyfactor
Keyfactor delivers deep, CA-agnostic automation across issuance, renewal, rotation, revocation, provisioning and delivery, with orchestration designed for large hybrid environments. This reduces manual work and helps teams support shorter certificate lifecycles.
DigiCert
DigiCert’s connector ecosystem is getting broader. For server automation, DigiCert’s managed approach still relies on agents installed per host, while sensors and ACME cover network, cloud, and other integration patterns. That can work well, but teams should compare the operational model they want to own.
Keyfactor
Keyfactor’s flexible deployment options across on-prem, cloud, SaaS, as-an-appliance and hybrid environments give enterprises room to align PKI operations with regulatory, network, and ownership requirements. Keyfactor is trusted by large enterprises managing high-volume machine identity environments.
DigiCert
DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager primarily supports cloud, and now on-premises and hybrid deployment models. It is known for public trust and enterprise PKI and can be compelling for organizations that already standardize on DigiCert without plans to expand into new environments or go through significant infrastructural growth.
Keyfactor
Keyfactor is built for long-term cryptographic-agility, helping organizations prepare for shorter certificate lifecycles, algorithm changes, and post-quantum transitions without disruptive platform rework.
DigiCert
DigiCert is now investing in crypto-agility and PQC readiness, including PQC certificate issuance and discovery in Trust Lifecycle Manager. It has maturing to do regarding comprehensive PQC support across its products, long-term migration and agility, inventory, and operational change.
Keyfactor
Enterprise-grade onboarding and support are backed by deep PKI expertise with a global presence, and a customer base across all regulated industries. Keyfactor is often selected by organizations that want a specialist platform built around machine identities and enterprise PKI.
DigiCert
DigiCert has strong brand recognition, global operations, and deep expertise in publicly trusted certificates and adjacent digital trust services. For many enterprises, that makes DigiCert a credible incumbent and a common CA partner – even in environments that evaluate Keyfactor for broader lifecycle automation.
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Millions
of certificates issued across services and workloads
Dozens
of engineering hours saved through automation
Our previous PKI solution required manual management of certificates. Every single piece was human-driven …With few checks and balances, we had very little control around who was requesting, issuing, and renewing, which was a huge blind spot
10x
reduction in software signing costs
80%
decrease in key ceremony costs
Before we engaged with Keyfactor, we had a purpose-built solution for firmware and a SaaS solution for software. They really didn’t know each other, they weren’t scalable, and they were expensive to operate and maintain.
50%
reduction in self-signed certificates identified and eliminated
350,000+
active certificates managed enterprise-wide
As we developed certificate lifecycle management systems internally, we found out that it was much more efficient to do it in the cloud. When it was time to switch to cloud based PKI, we went with Keyfactor because of the ease of transition over to cloud hosted products.
1,000+
corporate devices secured
100%
managed PKI infrastructure
We were struggling with automation. Renewing certificates across less connected or secure networks was especially difficult – and the risk of outages was always looming.
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