# 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP vs Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server)

> Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) has a score of 73.7 (BB) against 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP's 69.9 (B). Both do secrets store. The largest gap is reliability, 22 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-05

Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) has a score of 73.7 (BB) against 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP's 69.9 (B). Both do secrets store. The largest gap is reliability, 22 points.

- 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP: grade B, 69.9/100, rank #104 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/1password.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/1password.json
- Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server): grade BB, 73.7/100, rank #55 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/akeyless.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/akeyless.json

## Which one, for what

Pick 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP for agent ergonomics (+6), security & auth (+5), transparency & trust (+16).

Pick Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) for reliability (+22), schema & documentation (+7), payments & pricing (+5), maintenance & community (+10).

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP | Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 90 | Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) +22 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 81 | Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) +7 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 63 | 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP +6 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 94 | 89 | 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP +5 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 25 | Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 82 | Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) +10 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 89 | 73 | 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP +16 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **69.9 · B** | **73.7 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP | Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | Model platform |
| Vendor | 1Password | Akeyless |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.akeyless.io` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 (SDKs), closed platform |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |
| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-07-31 | 2026-09-17 |
| Popularity | 110 stars, 1M npm/wk, 817k PyPI/wk | 2 stars, 3.5k npm/wk, 219k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP.** Service accounts scoped per vault to read, write or share, with an optional expiry and permissions that can't be changed after creation. Teams, Families and Individual get 1,000 service account reads an hour per token, and the 429 carries no Retry-After.

**Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server).** Gateway-brokered SecretlessAI and a runtime-authority MCP server with 4 tools that return results, not credentials. No published prices above the free plan; clients and transactions are metered with overage billed at the end of a 12-month contract.

## Before you call either

### 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP

1. Read secrets by reference (op://vault/item/field) with client.secrets.resolve or resolveAll, and keep the reference, not the value, in config
2. On Teams or personal plans budget for 1,000 reads an hour per token and cache resolved values for the run; a 429 means wait for the hourly window, there's no Retry-After
3. Create the service account with only read_items on one vault and --expires-in set to the job length, since permissions can't be narrowed later
4. Set integrationName and integrationVersion in createClient so the usage report shows which agent read what
5. Don't ask the Environments MCP server for a value. Use it to find the variable name, then load it with op run or the SDK

### Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server)

1. Run akeyless mcp-runtime-authority, not akeyless mcp, for an agent that acts on systems; the first returns results, the second has get_secret and get_password
2. Authenticate with a cloud identity, Kubernetes or Universal Identity rather than an access key, which the docs reserve for proofs of concept
3. Use CLI 1.130.0 or later for either MCP server, and point the client at your Gateway URL
4. Count identities and calls before scaling. The free plan allows 5 clients, and calls over a tier's cap (200 a minute on Silver) are billed as extra clients, not refused
5. Pass the token in the JSON body of each POST, and page `/list-items` with `pagination-token`

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