getsops/sops vs hashicorp/vault
getsops/sops shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, sops shows healthier maintenance signals than vault. sops rates Healthy overall while vault rates Mixed. sops was committed to 3 weeks ago with 8+ active contributors, while vault was committed to 2 weeks ago with 2+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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getsops/sops
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 63% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓MPL-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
hashicorp/vault
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
top contributor handles 99% of recent commits; license evidence incomplete
license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; license evidence incomplete
- ⚠Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 99% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓2 active contributors
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| sops | vault | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 22,955 | 36,183 |
| Last commit | 21d ago | 19d ago |
| License | MPL-2.0 | Unknown |
| Open issues | 443 | 1,431 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 42% | 51% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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