{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "akeyless", "name": "Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server)", "vendor": "Akeyless", "vendorUrl": "https://www.akeyless.io", "kind": "platform", "category": "secrets", "summary": "SaaS secrets and machine-identity platform with a self-hosted Gateway that brokers access.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/akeyless", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/akeyless.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/akeyless.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/akeyless.json", "repo": "https://github.com/akeylesslabs/akeyless-python", "license": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs), closed platform", "transports": [ "http", "stdio", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.akeyless.io", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "akeyless" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "akeyless" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "POST /auth with an access-id and a credential from an access key, AWS IAM, Azure AD, GCP, Kubernetes, OIDC, SAML, LDAP, JWT, certificate, OCI, Kerberos or Universal Identity, returning a token passed in the body of later calls. The docs say API key auth is for proofs of concept, not production, and the access key is shown once. The MCP servers reuse the CLI profile or explicit auth flags and inherit its RBAC.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free and Enterprise plans. The free plan has 5 clients, 500 static secrets, 5 dynamic secrets, 5 rotated secrets, 3 targets, 1 OIDC app, 1 SSH and 1 PKI certificate issuer, 5 managed certificates, 1,000 encryption and KMS transactions a day, 5 KMS keys, 5 password manager users with 5 static and 50 shared passwords, 1 Gateway cluster and 3 days of audit log retention, without SAML, OIDC or LDAP auth, zero-knowledge mode, HSM integration or event forwarding. Enterprise is quoted, with clients and transactions counted at the end of each month and overage billed at the end of the 12-month contract. No dollar figures are published (https://www.akeyless.io/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 2, "npmWeekly": 3523, "pypiWeekly": 219234, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.akeyless.io", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.akeyless.io/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://github.com/akeylesslabs/akeyless-go/blob/v5/api/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "secrets.store", "secrets.rotate", "secrets.machine-identity", "secrets.audit", "auth.agent-identity" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "freemium", "free-tier", "mcp", "local", "python", "typescript", "go", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-17", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 73.6, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 74, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 25, "reliability": 90, "schema": 81, "security": 89, "transparency": 72 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "Enterprises that want agents to use credentials without holding them, through a Gateway they run, and who will sign a quoted contract.", "strengths": [ "Gateway-brokered SecretlessAI and a runtime-authority MCP server with 4 tools that return results, not credentials", "Runtime Authority intent rules with a kill switch, generally available since 9 September 2026", "SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, PCI DSS and FIPS 140-3 validation listed in the trust centre, plus a bug bounty", "A 99.99% availability SLA on every support tier, with transaction caps published per tier", "OpenAPI 3.0 document for 657 paths in the Go SDK repository, and an llms.txt with about 800 Markdown links" ], "weaknesses": [ "No published prices above the free plan; clients and transactions are metered with overage billed at the end of a 12-month contract", "Errors come back as a single `error` string with no code, and no Retry-After or backoff guidance turned up", "The free plan has no OIDC, SAML or LDAP auth and keeps audit logs for 3 days", "akeyless mcp can return secret values to the model, and neither MCP server has a published tool list, version or registry entry", "No security.txt, and the closed CLI and Gateway are the only way to run the MCP servers" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "Authenticate with a cloud identity, Kubernetes or Universal Identity rather than an access key, which the docs reserve for proofs of concept", "Use CLI 1.130.0 or later for either MCP server, and point the client at your Gateway URL", "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", "Pass the token in the JSON body of each POST, and page `/list-items` with `pagination-token`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 73.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 25, "reliability": 90, "schema": 81, "security": 89, "transparency": 71 }, "provenanceScore": 72 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install akeyless # or: npm i akeyless", "http": "TOKEN=$(curl -s -X POST https://api.akeyless.io/auth -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d \"{\\\"access-id\\\":\\\"$AKEYLESS_ACCESS_ID\\\",\\\"access-key\\\":\\\"$AKEYLESS_ACCESS_KEY\\\"}\" | jq -r .token)\ncurl -s -X POST https://api.akeyless.io/get-secret-value -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d \"{\\\"names\\\":[\\\"/prod/db-password\\\"],\\\"token\\\":\\\"$TOKEN\\\"}\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add akeyless -- akeyless mcp-runtime-authority", "config": { "mcpServers": { "akeyless": { "args": [ "mcp-runtime-authority" ], "command": "akeyless" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/secrets.store", "tool": "https://letme.dev/akeyless" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Akeyless Security Ltd.", "domain": "akeyless.io", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.akeyless.io/terms-of-service/", "privacy": "https://www.akeyless.io/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.akeyless.io", "changelog": "https://changelog.akeyless.io/cli", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "Website terms (21 March 2026) and privacy policy (5 May 2026) name Akeyless Security Ltd., Ze'ev Jabotinsky St. 7, Ramat Gan, Israel, with a US subsidiary Akeyless Security USA, Inc. The terms cover the website only; the service runs under a separate licence or master services agreement.", "www.akeyless.io/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 when checked on 30 September 2026.", "The .io RDAP servers answered 429 and a robots.txt failure, so the registration date is blank.", "The status page history shows one incident since 3 July 2026, 21 minutes of degraded dynamic secret performance in us-east-2 on 23 September, and a scheduled maintenance window on 19 July.", "The CLI changelog at changelog.akeyless.io dates each release, 1.152.0 on 16 September 2026 being the newest." ], "score": 72 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/akeyless.json", "live": { "slug": "akeyless", "probe": { "target": "https://api.akeyless.io", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:03.218286057Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 44, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 51, "p95ms24h": 110, "samples24h": 271, "samples30d": 1955, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 239, "ok": 239 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.akeyless.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:05:50.770643767Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "akeyless", "version": "5.0.39", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T15:57:22.638958691Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "akeyless", "version": "5.0.39", "released": "2026-10-06", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T15:57:19.679296437Z" } ], "githubStars": 2, "npmWeekly": 3587, "pypiWeekly": 192330, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://akeyless.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:50.161949588Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.akeyless.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T13:59:59.863503602Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "akeyless.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:25.717264008Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://changelog.akeyless.io/cli", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:06.245599167Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:03:10.44050169Z", "fingerprint": "f0221e37b77a" }, { "url": "https://www.akeyless.io/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:04.908061169Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:36:56.900207187Z", "fingerprint": "23bd00d937d2" }, { "url": "https://www.akeyless.io/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:07.401360347Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:36:59.079097768Z", "fingerprint": "ae198dd0fa22" }, { "url": "https://www.akeyless.io/terms-of-service/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:10.020038635Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:37:02.238780939Z", "fingerprint": "32e16cb5a55b" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:03.218286057Z" } }, "answer": "Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) scores 73.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Keeper Secrets Manager's 69.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Keeper Secrets Manager leads on maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "keeper-secrets-manager", "name": "Keeper Secrets Manager", "vendor": "Keeper Security, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.keepersecurity.com/secrets-manager.html", "kind": "http-api", "category": "secrets", "summary": "Keeper Secrets Manager is a cloud vault for infrastructure secrets, sold as an add-on to Keeper Security's business password manager. Applications read secrets through SDKs in seven languages, the `ksm` CLI or a local MCP server, decrypting on the client.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/keeper-secrets-manager", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Keeper-Security/secrets-manager", "license": "Proprietary service under Keeper's SaaS Terms of Use. The SDKs, CLI, MCP server and agent kit on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "keeper-secrets-manager-core" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "keeper-secrets-manager-cli" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@keeper-security/secrets-manager-core" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Access is granted by a person. A vault user whose role allows it creates a Secrets Manager application, shares folders or records with it, and adds a client device, which yields a one-time access token or a Base64 configuration. The client redeems the token once, registers its own ECC public key and signs every later request with the private key, so no bearer secret is reused. Devices are IP-locked by default, can be given an access expiry and are revoked individually.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Secrets Manager is an add-on to Keeper's business password manager plans, licensed per user per year, and included with KeeperPAM. The add-ons page shows Custom Pricing and Request a Quote for it, so there is no public figure. A 14-day business trial needs no credit card and can enable Secrets Manager, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. Base plan prices are drawn by script and were blank to our reader (https://www.keepersecurity.com/pricing/business-add-ons/, https://www.keepersecurity.com/trial/keeper-free-trial/, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Secrets Manager docs, the SDK repository or the pricing pages (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 19, "popularity": { "githubStars": 117, "npmWeekly": 52332, "pypiWeekly": 45154, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.keeper.io/en/keeperpam/secrets-manager/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.keeper.io/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "secrets.store", "secrets.machine-identity", "secrets.audit", "secrets.rotate" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "enterprise", "zero-knowledge", "mcp", "cli", "python", "javascript", "java", "go", "dotnet", "ruby", "rust", "llms-txt", "sales-led", "status-page", "bug-bounty", "soc2", "fedramp" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.4, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 159, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 92, "payments": 20, "reliability": 76, "schema": 71, "security": 86, "transparency": 78 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Each client device signs requests with its own key, is locked to an IP address by default and can be revoked alone, and secrets decrypt only on the client. The add-on has no public price, no request limits were found in the reviewed documentation, and a person must create the application and device in the vault.", "bestFor": "Companies already on Keeper's business vault that want per-device machine identities with client-side decryption and an official MCP server.", "strengths": [ "Each device registers its own ECC key from a one-time token, is IP-locked by default and can be revoked alone", "Secrets decrypt on the client. Keeper's cloud stores and sends ciphertext only, per the encryption model page", "An application sees only the shared folders and records assigned to it, read-only unless shared as editable", "Official MIT MCP server with 19 typed tools, masked values by default and confirmation for writes, deletes and unmasking", "SDKs for Python, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Go, Ruby and Rust in one MIT repository, with 5 tagged releases since 15 September 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Secrets Manager is priced by quote. The add-ons page shows Custom Pricing and Request a Quote", "No request limits were found in the reviewed documentation. Throttling arrives as HTTP 403 with `{\"error\":\"throttled\"}`", "No OpenAPI or documented raw HTTP use for `/api/rest/sm/v1`. The SDKs are the only supported route", "The Node MCP guide links a GitHub repository that returned 404 on 8 October 2026", "Rotation needs a KeeperPAM licence and a Keeper Gateway, and access events are read in the separately sold reporting module" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the vault owner for a new device on an application that holds only the folders the task needs. Use the Base64 configuration, not the first one-time token", "Run commands under `ksm exec` so secrets arrive as environment variables and stay out of the model's context", "Expect HTTP 403 with `{\"error\":\"throttled\"}` under load. The Python SDK retries five times from 11 seconds, so allow for long waits", "A device is locked to the IP address it first connects from unless it was created with `--unlock-ip`. Check this before running from a dynamic address", "Leave `--auto-approve` off on the MCP server. It removes confirmation for deletes and for unmasking values" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 69.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 92, "payments": 20, "reliability": 76, "schema": 71, "security": 86, "transparency": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 98 }, "connect": { "install": "pip3 install keeper-secrets-manager-cli # or: pip3 install keeper-secrets-manager-core, npm install @keeper-security/secrets-manager-core", "http": "ksm profile init XX:XXXX # one-time access token from the vault\nksm secret list # values decrypt on the client, so plain curl can't read them", "claudeCode": "/plugin marketplace add Keeper-Security/keeper-agent-kit\n/plugin install keeper-secrets@keeper-security", "config": { "mcpServers": { "ksm": { "args": [ "run", "-i", "--rm", "-e", "KSM_CONFIG_BASE64=YOUR_BASE64_CONFIG_STRING_HERE", "keeper/keeper-mcp-server:latest" ], "command": "docker" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/secrets.store", "tool": "https://letme.dev/keeper-secrets-manager" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Keeper Security, Inc.", "domain": "keepersecurity.com", "domainRegistered": "2007-04-12", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.keepersecurity.com/legal/terms-of-use/#saas-terms", "privacy": "https://www.keepersecurity.com/legal/terms-of-use/?s=privacy", "statusPage": "https://statuspage.keeper.io", "changelog": "https://docs.keeper.io/release-notes/enterprise/keeper-secrets-manager/2026", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "Keeper publishes its website terms, SaaS Terms of Use, partner terms, privacy policy and Service Level Objectives as sections of one page at www.keepersecurity.com/legal/terms-of-use/. The SaaS section governs the service and the `?s=privacy` view is the privacy policy. The old `/termsofuse.html` and `/privacypolicy.html` addresses redirect there.", "The SaaS terms name Keeper Security, Inc., 311 W. Monroe Street, Suite 406, Chicago, IL 60606, with Keeper Security EMEA Limited and Keeper Security APAC KK for other regions. The page links legacy terms for the period before 9 March 2026.", "The SaaS terms forbid a customer to perform penetration or load testing on the services, and the website terms prohibit scraping or automated data collection on the website.", "www.keepersecurity.com/.well-known/security.txt answers with a Bugcrowd contact and Expires 2026-12-31T23:59:59Z.", "The SDKs call https://\u003cregion host\u003e/api/rest/sm/v1, where the host is keepersecurity.com, keepersecurity.eu, keepersecurity.com.au, keepersecurity.ca, keepersecurity.jp or govcloud.keepersecurity.us.", "The status page and the docs sit on keeper.io. statuspage.keeper.io is Atlassian Statuspage with a Keeper Secrets Manager component.", "RDAP for keepersecurity.com gives a registration date of 2007-04-12." ], "score": 98 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.json", "live": { "slug": "keeper-secrets-manager", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://statuspage.keeper.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:10.265244465Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:10.265244465Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model platform", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Akeyless", "b": "Keeper Security, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.akeyless.io", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs), closed platform", "b": "Proprietary service under Keeper's SaaS Terms of Use. The SDKs, CLI, MCP server and agent kit on GitHub are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "19", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-17", "b": "2026-10-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-03-21", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-05", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "2 stars, 3.5k npm/wk, 219k PyPI/wk", "b": "117 stars, 52k npm/wk, 45k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) scores 73.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Keeper Secrets Manager's 69.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Keeper Secrets Manager leads on maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) or Keeper Secrets Manager?" }, { "answer": "Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) has a hosted endpoint at https://api.akeyless.io. Keeper Secrets Manager runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.", "question": "Can an agent call Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) and Keeper Secrets Manager without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 90 against 76", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 71", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Enterprises that want agents to use credentials without holding them, through a Gateway they run, and who will sign a quoted contract.", "slug": "akeyless", "watchFor": "No published prices above the free plan; clients and transactions are metered with overage billed at the end of a 12-month contract" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Maintenance \u0026 community, 92 against 82", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 78 against 72" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Companies already on Keeper's business vault that want per-device machine identities with client-side decryption and an official MCP server.", "slug": "keeper-secrets-manager", "watchFor": "Secrets Manager is priced by quote. 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Pulumi ESC", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/keeper-secrets-manager-vs-pulumi-esc" } ], "scores": [ { "akeyless": 90, "by": 14, "edge": "akeyless", "keeper-secrets-manager": 76, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "akeyless": 81, "by": 10, "edge": "akeyless", "keeper-secrets-manager": 71, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "akeyless": 63, "by": 0, "edge": "", "keeper-secrets-manager": 63, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "akeyless": 89, "by": 3, "edge": "akeyless", "keeper-secrets-manager": 86, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "akeyless": 25, "by": 5, "edge": "akeyless", "keeper-secrets-manager": 20, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "akeyless": 82, "by": 10, "edge": "keeper-secrets-manager", "keeper-secrets-manager": 92, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "akeyless": 72, "by": 6, "edge": "keeper-secrets-manager", "keeper-secrets-manager": 78, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) scores 73.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Keeper Secrets Manager's 69.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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The add-on has no public price, no request limits were found in the reviewed documentation, and a person must create the application and device in the vault." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akeyless-vs-keeper-secrets-manager", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akeyless-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akeyless-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akeyless-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.min.md" }, "markdown": "Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) scores 73.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Keeper Secrets Manager's 69.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Keeper Secrets Manager leads on maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do secrets store.\n\n- Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server): grade BB, 73.6/100, rank #74 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/akeyless.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/akeyless.json\n- Keeper Secrets Manager: grade B, 69.4/100, rank #159 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) (BB)\n\nGood for: Enterprises that want agents to use credentials without holding them, through a Gateway they run, and who will sign a quoted contract.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 90 against 76\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 71\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No published prices above the free plan; clients and transactions are metered with overage billed at the end of a 12-month contract\n\n### Keeper Secrets Manager (B)\n\nGood for: Companies already on Keeper's business vault that want per-device machine identities with client-side decryption and an official MCP server.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 92 against 82\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 78 against 72\n\nWatch for: Secrets Manager is priced by quote. The add-ons page shows Custom Pricing and Request a Quote\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) | Keeper Secrets Manager | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 76 | Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) +14 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 71 | Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 63 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 89 | 86 | Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) +3 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 20 | Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 92 | Keeper Secrets Manager +10 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 78 | Keeper Secrets Manager +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **73.6 · BB** | **69.4 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) | Keeper Secrets Manager |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Akeyless | Keeper Security, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.akeyless.io` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs), closed platform | Proprietary service under Keeper's SaaS Terms of Use. The SDKs, CLI, MCP server and agent kit on GitHub are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 19 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-17 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-03-21 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-05 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 2 stars, 3.5k npm/wk, 219k PyPI/wk | 117 stars, 52k npm/wk, 45k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**Keeper Secrets Manager.** Each client device signs requests with its own key, is locked to an IP address by default and can be revoked alone, and secrets decrypt only on the client. The add-on has no public price, no request limits were found in the reviewed documentation, and a person must create the application and device in the vault.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server)\n\n1. 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\n2. Authenticate with a cloud identity, Kubernetes or Universal Identity rather than an access key, which the docs reserve for proofs of concept\n3. Use CLI 1.130.0 or later for either MCP server, and point the client at your Gateway URL\n4. 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\n5. Pass the token in the JSON body of each POST, and page `/list-items` with `pagination-token`\n\n### Keeper Secrets Manager\n\n1. Ask the vault owner for a new device on an application that holds only the folders the task needs. Use the Base64 configuration, not the first one-time token\n2. Run commands under `ksm exec` so secrets arrive as environment variables and stay out of the model's context\n3. Expect HTTP 403 with `{\"error\":\"throttled\"}` under load. The Python SDK retries five times from 11 seconds, so allow for long waits\n4. A device is locked to the IP address it first connects from unless it was created with `--unlock-ip`. Check this before running from a dynamic address\n5. Leave `--auto-approve` off on the MCP server. It removes confirmation for deletes and for unmasking values\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) or Keeper Secrets Manager?\n\nAkeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) scores 73.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Keeper Secrets Manager's 69.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Keeper Secrets Manager leads on maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Can an agent call Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) and Keeper Secrets Manager without installing anything?\n\nAkeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) has a hosted endpoint at https://api.akeyless.io. Keeper Secrets Manager runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akeyless-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akeyless-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"akeyless\", \"b\": \"keeper-secrets-manager\"}`. 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