{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "1password", "name": "1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP", "vendor": "1Password", "vendorUrl": "https://1password.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "secrets", "summary": "Password manager with a developer layer for agents.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/1password", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/1password.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/1password.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/1password.json", "repo": "https://github.com/1Password/onepassword-sdk-js", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@1password/sdk" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "onepassword-sdk" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Service account tokens (`OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN`) for unattended use, scoped to chosen vaults and Environments and unable to read Personal, Private or Employee vaults. 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Unified Access, Privileged Access and the other enterprise products are quote only (https://1password.com/pricing/business, https://1password.com/pricing/password-manager).", "priceSummary": "$8.99 / seat-mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": 110, "npmWeekly": 1013526, "pypiWeekly": 816683, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.1password.dev", "llmsTxt": "https://www.1password.dev/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://i.1password.com/media/1password-connect/1password-connect-api_1.8.1.yaml", "capabilities": [ "secrets.store", "secrets.machine-identity", "secrets.audit" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "card-required", "mcp", "local", "typescript", "python", "go", "enterprise", "eu" ], "lastRelease": "2026-07-31", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 104, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 20, "reliability": 68, "schema": 74, "security": 94, "transparency": 89 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "strengths": [ "Service accounts scoped per vault to read, write or share, with an optional expiry and permissions that can't be changed after creation", "Environments MCP server with 8 tools that never returns a secret value and asks for approval per Environment", "Official Go, JavaScript and Python SDKs, MIT, with workload identity through the Credential Broker in JavaScript 0.5.0 (public preview)", "llms.txt for the developer docs and a public OpenAPI file for the self-hosted Connect server", "Signed security.txt, a HackerOne programme, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 listed on the trust centre" ], "weaknesses": [ "Teams, Families and Individual get 1,000 service account reads an hour per token, and the 429 carries no Retry-After", "SDKs are version 0 with three months of patches per release, and 5 of the 8 newest Python SDK issues have no reply", "No SLA found, and the audit log and Events API need Business", "The MCP server is beta and needs the desktop app running and unlocked, so it's for a developer's machine, not a server", "No MCP registry entry and no way to create a service account without a signed-in person" ], "agentNotes": [ "Read secrets by reference (op://vault/item/field) with client.secrets.resolve or resolveAll, and keep the reference, not the value, in config", "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", "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", "Set integrationName and integrationVersion in createClient so the usage report shows which agent read what", "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" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 69.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 20, "reliability": 68, "schema": 74, "security": 94, "transparency": 78 }, "provenanceScore": 100 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @1password/sdk # or: pip install onepassword-sdk", "http": "export OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN=\"$OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN\"\nop read \"op://Production/Stripe/api_key\" # 1Password CLI, no REST endpoint for secret reads", "config": { "mcpServers": { "1password": { "args": [], "command": "1password-mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/secrets.store", "tool": "https://letme.dev/1password" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Business plan", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 8.99, "note": "Billed yearly. Developer tools and SSO included" }, { "item": "Teams Starter Pack", "unit": "month", "usd": 24.95, "note": "10 members, $4.99 a month per extra seat" }, { "item": "Individual plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 3.99, "note": "$2.99 promotional, billed yearly" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "AgileBits Inc. (doing business as 1Password)", "domain": "1password.com", "domainRegistered": "2003-11-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://1password.com/legal/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://1password.com/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.1password.com", "changelog": "https://releases.1password.com/developers/sdks/", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "Terms name AgileBits Inc., 4711 Yonge Street, Toronto, governed by Ontario law, last updated 12 September 2024. The privacy notice is effective 29 December 2025.", "security.txt lists security@agilebits.com and a HackerOne programme and is signed, but has no Expires field.", "developer.1password.com now redirects to www.1password.dev.", "The status page history shows six incidents between 2 July and 9 September 2026, on Device Trust, SaaS Manager, personal account management and the CLI update server, none posted against service accounts or Connect." ], "score": 100 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/1password.json", "live": { "slug": "1password", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.1password.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T23:27:39.687234777Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "1Password/onepassword-sdk-js", "version": "v0.5.0", "released": "2026-07-31", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:19:29.795045796Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@1password/sdk", "version": "0.5.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:19:27.453978185Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "onepassword-sdk", "version": "0.4.1", "released": "2026-07-30", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:19:28.470969321Z" } ], "githubStars": 110, "npmWeekly": 1144520, "pypiWeekly": 907992, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://1password.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:51.698169765Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.1password.dev/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:12.603904586Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "1password.com", "registered": "2003-11-30", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/1password.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:03:36.930043964Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://releases.1password.com/developers/sdks/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:47:15.347202499Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:35:15.432558355Z", "fingerprint": "70bd81831178" }, { "url": "https://1password.com/pricing/business", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:11.172504664Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c7410e7a546a" }, { "url": "https://1password.com/pricing/password-manager", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:13.479557667Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "20bf1ab35205" }, { "url": "https://1password.com/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:07.067811579Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "7a043d1fa57f" }, { "url": "https://1password.com/legal/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:09.169984797Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "440d3b48cc3c" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:27:39.687234777Z" } }, "b": { "slug": "hashicorp-vault", "name": "HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server", "vendor": "HashiCorp (IBM)", "vendorUrl": "https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault", "kind": "http-api", "category": "secrets", "summary": "Secrets management platform for storing credentials and controlling application access.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hashicorp-vault", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hashicorp-vault.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hashicorp-vault.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hashicorp-vault.json", "repo": "https://github.com/hashicorp/vault", "license": "BUSL-1.1 (Vault), MPL-2.0 (MCP server)", "transports": [ "http", "stdio", "streamable-http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Every request carries a Vault token in `X-Vault-Token` (or as an HTTP bearer token). Machines get a token from an auth method such as AppRole, Kubernetes, JWT/OIDC, AWS, GCP, Azure, TLS certificates and more. Enterprise 2.0.3+ lets a registered agent present an OAuth 2.0 JWT from your identity provider directly, with RAR claims (RFC 9396) narrowing paths. The MCP server reads VAULT_ADDR, VAULT_TOKEN and VAULT_NAMESPACE, or takes them as headers in HTTP mode.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Vault Community is free to run under the BUSL-1.1, which forbids selling a competing hosted product. HCP Vault Dedicated is hourly per cluster on the IBM price list. Development extra small $0.61644 an hour, Essentials small $1.57799, medium $3.16299, large $7.48857, Standard small $1.84299, medium $3.69099, large $9.40599, plus $72.92 a month per product client. Prices are indicative and exclude tax. Vault Enterprise self-managed is quoted, and the 2.1.0 licence added Agentic IAM terms. HCP has a $500 pay-as-you-go credit (https://www.ibm.com/products/hashicorp/pricing, https://www.hashicorp.com/en/pricing).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 16, "popularity": { "githubStars": 36234, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs", "capabilities": [ "secrets.store", "secrets.rotate", "secrets.machine-identity", "secrets.audit", "secrets.self-host", "auth.agent-identity" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "self-hosted", "source-available", "freemium", "mcp", "local", "go", "enterprise", "eu" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.4, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 184, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 30, "reliability": 71, "schema": 74, "security": 86, "transparency": 83 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -5, "negativeNotes": [ "-4: The official Vault MCP server fixed cross-user credential inheritance through a shared MCP session ID on 2026-07-28 and an SSRF through a VAULT_ADDR query parameter on 2026-08-11, but the newest binary and Docker image are still 0.2.0 from 2025-09-24 and no advisory was published (https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-mcp-server/commits/main, https://releases.hashicorp.com/vault-mcp-server/)", "-1: Vault 2.0.3 (2026-06-17) fixed a LIST ACL bypass where a trailing slash skipped a more specific deny rule; fixed and documented in the changelog, so it decays (https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)" ], "verdict": "Dynamic secrets with leases, so a database or cloud credential can live for one agent run and be revoked after. The MCP server's newest build is 0.2.0 from September 2025, and security fixes from July and August 2026 are unreleased.", "strengths": [ "Dynamic secrets with leases, so a database or cloud credential can live for one agent run and be revoked after", "Path policies with explicit deny, audit devices on every edition, and Agent Registry with ceiling policies on Enterprise", "Auth methods for every major cloud, Kubernetes, JWT/OIDC and AppRole", "Three releases between 4 August and 16 September 2026 with a dated changelog that names each CVE fixed", "Each server generates its own OpenAPI document at /v1/sys/internal/specs/openapi" ], "weaknesses": [ "The MCP server's newest build is 0.2.0 from September 2025, and security fixes from July and August 2026 are unreleased", "Agentic IAM, control groups and the OAuth resource server are Enterprise only", "BUSL-1.1, not an OSI licence, and HCP Vault Secrets was retired within two years of launch", "No llms.txt, and the only official client library is Go", "HCP client pricing ($72.92 a client a month) can dwarf the cluster price for many agents, and no SLA is published" ], "agentNotes": [ "Prefer a dynamic secret (database, AWS, GCP engines) over a KV read; the lease expires with the run and revoke is one call", "Log in with AppRole or Kubernetes auth and keep the token for its TTL. Renew with auth/token/renew-self rather than logging in per request", "For KV v2, GET /v1/\u003cmount\u003e/data/\u003cpath\u003e and read data.data, and pass cas on writes so a retry can't overwrite a newer version", "If you must use the MCP server, build it from main rather than running the 0.2.0 image, run it over stdio, and give it a token limited to one mount", "Ask your operator to set enable_rate_limit_response_headers on the quota so a 429 carries Retry-After" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 30, "reliability": 71, "schema": 74, "security": 86, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 100 }, "connect": { "install": "docker run --rm -p 8200:8200 hashicorp/vault server -dev # or download vault-mcp-server from releases.hashicorp.com", "http": "curl -H \"X-Vault-Token: $VAULT_TOKEN\" \"$VAULT_ADDR/v1/secret/data/myapp\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add vault -e VAULT_ADDR=$VAULT_ADDR -e VAULT_TOKEN=$VAULT_TOKEN -- vault-mcp-server stdio", "config": { "mcpServers": { "vault": { "args": [ "run", "-i", "--rm", "-e", "VAULT_ADDR", "-e", "VAULT_TOKEN", "hashicorp/vault-mcp-server" ], "command": "docker", "env": { "VAULT_ADDR": "${VAULT_ADDR}", "VAULT_TOKEN": "${VAULT_TOKEN}" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/secrets.store", "tool": "https://letme.dev/hashicorp-vault" }, "sameCompany": [ "terraform-mcp" ], "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "HCP Vault Dedicated, product client", "unit": "account-month", "usd": 72.92, "note": "Per client a month, Essentials and Standard" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "HashiCorp, Inc. (an IBM company)", "domain": "hashicorp.com", "domainRegistered": "2011-04-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.hashicorp.com/en/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.hashicorp.com/en/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.hashicorp.com", "changelog": "https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "The website terms name HashiCorp, Inc. and were last updated March 2018. The privacy policy (20 April 2026) gives HashiCorp, an IBM Company, c/o 1 North Castle Drive, Armonk, New York, and notes the IBM acquisition closed on 27 February 2025.", "security.txt has Contact, Policy and Encryption but no Expires field.", "HCP prices come from the IBM price table and are marked indicative, varying by country.", "status.hashicorp.com runs on incident.io. From 1 July to 1 October 2026 it posted nothing against HCP Vault Dedicated; it did post a DR cluster creation failure on HCP (6 August) and a releases.hashicorp.com outage (26 September).", "The Vault MCP server's newest published build is 0.2.0 (24 September 2025) on releases.hashicorp.com and Docker Hub, although its VERSION file and changelog say 0.2.1." ], "score": 100 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hashicorp-vault.json", "live": { "slug": "hashicorp-vault", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.hashicorp.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T23:27:50.15354632Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "hashicorp/vault", "version": "v2.1.1", "released": "2026-09-16", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:29:29.320950791Z" } ], "githubStars": 36339, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://hashicorp.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "unknown", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:16:00.556489725Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "hashicorp.com", "registered": "2011-04-30", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/hashicorp.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:10:23.718306751Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hashicorp/vault/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:47:41.235618427Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0620845f2f7e" }, { "url": "https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/hcp-vault-secrets-end-life", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:50.575718841Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e24e2e2b51c3" }, { "url": "https://www.hashicorp.com/en/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 429, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:36.37620806Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://www.ibm.com/products/hashicorp/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:46.127664694Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0e262eb503c4" }, { "url": "https://www.hashicorp.com/en/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 429, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:38.389849123Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://www.hashicorp.com/en/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 429, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:40.386204192Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:27:50.15354632Z" } }, "summary": "1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP has a score of 69.9 (B) against HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server's 64.4 (B). Both do secrets store. The largest gap is payments \u0026 pricing, 10 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-hashicorp-vault", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-hashicorp-vault.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-hashicorp-vault.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-hashicorp-vault.min.md" }, "markdown": "1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP has a score of 69.9 (B) against HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server's 64.4 (B). Both do secrets store. The largest gap is payments \u0026 pricing, 10 points.\n\n- 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\n- HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server: grade B, 64.4/100, rank #184 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hashicorp-vault.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hashicorp-vault.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP for agent ergonomics (+5), security \u0026 auth (+8), transparency \u0026 trust (+6).\n\nPick HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server for payments \u0026 pricing (+10), maintenance \u0026 community (+5).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP | HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 71 | HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 74 | even |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 64 | 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 94 | 86 | 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP +8 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 77 | HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 89 | 83 | 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -5 | |\n| **Total** | | **69.9 · B** | **64.4 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP | HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | 1Password | HashiCorp (IBM) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | stdio | HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | BUSL-1.1 (Vault), MPL-2.0 (MCP server) |\n| Tools exposed | 8 | 16 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-07-31 | 2026-09-16 |\n| Popularity | 110 stars, 1M npm/wk, 817k PyPI/wk | 36k stars |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server.** Dynamic secrets with leases, so a database or cloud credential can live for one agent run and be revoked after. The MCP server's newest build is 0.2.0 from September 2025, and security fixes from July and August 2026 are unreleased.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP\n\n1. Read secrets by reference (op://vault/item/field) with client.secrets.resolve or resolveAll, and keep the reference, not the value, in config\n2. 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\n3. 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\n4. Set integrationName and integrationVersion in createClient so the usage report shows which agent read what\n5. 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\n\n### HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server\n\n1. Prefer a dynamic secret (database, AWS, GCP engines) over a KV read; the lease expires with the run and revoke is one call\n2. Log in with AppRole or Kubernetes auth and keep the token for its TTL. Renew with auth/token/renew-self rather than logging in per request\n3. For KV v2, GET /v1/\u003cmount\u003e/data/\u003cpath\u003e and read data.data, and pass cas on writes so a retry can't overwrite a newer version\n4. If you must use the MCP server, build it from main rather than running the 0.2.0 image, run it over stdio, and give it a token limited to one mount\n5. Ask your operator to set enable_rate_limit_response_headers on the quota so a 429 carries Retry-After\n\n## Other comparisons with 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP or HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server\n\n- [1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP vs Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-akeyless.md)\n- [1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP vs AWS Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-aws-secrets-manager.md)\n- [1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP vs Bitwarden Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-bitwarden-secrets-manager.md)\n- [1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP vs Doppler](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-doppler.md)\n- [1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP vs Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-google-secret-manager.md)\n- [1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP vs Infisical](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-infisical.md)\n- [Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) vs HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akeyless-vs-hashicorp-vault.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-hashicorp-vault.md)\n- [Bitwarden Secrets Manager vs HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitwarden-secrets-manager-vs-hashicorp-vault.md)\n- [Doppler vs HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/doppler-vs-hashicorp-vault.md)\n- [Google Cloud Secret Manager vs HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-secret-manager-vs-hashicorp-vault.md)\n- [HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server vs Infisical](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hashicorp-vault-vs-infisical.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-04", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.3", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP vs HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server", "url": "" } ], "description": "1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP has a score of 69.9 (B) against HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server's 64.4 (B). 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