{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "aws-secrets-manager", "name": "AWS Secrets Manager", "vendor": "Amazon Web Services", "vendorUrl": "https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "secrets", "summary": "Managed secrets store priced per secret and per API call, with IAM for access, KMS for encryption, CloudTrail for audit, cross-region replication and rotation either managed (RDS, Aurora, DocumentDB, Redshift) or by a Lambda function you own.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aws-secrets-manager", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aws-secrets-manager.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aws-secrets-manager.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/aws-secrets-manager.json", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://secretsmanager.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@aws-sdk/client-secrets-manager" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "boto3" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "SigV4-signed requests with AWS credentials. On AWS compute the runtime gets short-lived credentials from an IAM role; elsewhere it needs AWS credentials of its own. The caller needs secretsmanager:GetSecretValue and, for a customer-managed KMS key, kms:Decrypt. Resource policies on a secret can grant cross-account access.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$0.40 per secret a month and $0.05 per 10,000 API calls, with no charge for the new versions rotation creates. New AWS customers since 15 July 2025 get up to $200 of Free Tier credit usable on Secrets Manager, with the free plan lasting 6 months and all credits expiring within 12 months; an AWS account needs a payment method (https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$0.40 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 15195593, "pypiWeekly": 578449536, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "secrets.store", "secrets.rotate", "secrets.machine-identity", "secrets.audit", "infra.aws" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "usage-priced", "card-required", "llms-txt", "typescript", "python", "go", "enterprise", "eu" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 78.1, "grade": "A", "agentReady": true, "rank": 15, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 90, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 20, "reliability": 87, "schema": 96, "security": 88, "transparency": 79 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "IAM roles support access without long-lived credentials on AWS compute services. Each API call is billed, making caching relevant to frequent reads.", "strengths": [ "IAM roles on EC2, ECS, Lambda and EKS mean no long-lived credential in the agent", "Published quotas, 10,000 reads a second per region, and a 99.99% SLA", "Idempotent writes on ClientRequestToken and immutable versions", "CloudTrail entry for every call, and KMS encryption with your own key if you want", "llms.txt for the user guide and typed service models in every AWS SDK" ], "weaknesses": [ "Every API call is billed, so per-request reads add up and the docs push you to cache", "Rotation outside the RDS family means writing and running a Lambda function", "Off-AWS agents need AWS credentials of their own, often a static access key", "No Secrets Manager MCP server, and the general AWS API server's read-only mode still allows GetSecretValue", "The security.txt at aws.amazon.com expired on 24 September 2026, and signup needs a payment method" ], "agentNotes": [ "Give the agent's task or instance role secretsmanager:GetSecretValue on the specific secret ARN, not a wildcard", "Cache the value for the run, or read through the Workload Credentials Provider on localhost; each GetSecretValue is billed and logged", "Use BatchGetSecretValue with a filter when you need several secrets at start-up; it's limited to 100 calls a second", "Pass a ClientRequestToken on PutSecretValue so a retry can't create a second version, and don't write more than once every 10 minutes", "Read VersionStage AWSPREVIOUS if a rotation lands mid-run and the new credential isn't live yet" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 8, "avgRating": 3.9, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "A", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 78.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 90, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 20, "reliability": 87, "schema": 96, "security": 88, "transparency": 63 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install boto3 # or: npm i @aws-sdk/client-secrets-manager", "http": "curl -X POST \"https://secretsmanager.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/\" \\\n --aws-sigv4 \"aws:amz:us-east-1:secretsmanager\" --user \"$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY\" \\\n -H \"X-Amz-Target: secretsmanager.GetSecretValue\" -H \"Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1\" \\\n -d '{\"SecretId\":\"prod/myapp/db\"}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/secrets.store", "tool": "https://letme.dev/aws-secrets-manager" }, "sameCompany": [ "amazon-bedrock-guardrails", "amazon-transcribe", "amazon-polly", "aws-mcp-servers", "amazon-ses", "amazon-translate" ], "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Stored secret", "unit": "month", "usd": 0.4, "note": "Per secret a month" }, { "item": "API calls", "unit": "1k-calls", "usd": 0.005, "note": "$0.05 per 10,000 calls" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Amazon Web Services, Inc. (Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL and other regional entities by account location)", "domain": "amazon.com", "domainRegistered": "1994-11-01", "domainNote": "The service lives under aws.amazon.com, a subdomain of amazon.com.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/", "privacy": "https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status", "changelog": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/doc-history.html", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "Service Terms last updated 15 September 2026 name Amazon Web Services, Inc. for most customers and regional entities for Australia, Japan, Korea, EMEA and India. The privacy notice (18 May 2026) gives 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109-5210.", "security.txt Expires 2026-09-24T16:25:03Z, so it had lapsed when we checked on 1 October 2026. It points to the AWS VDP on HackerOne.", "The pricing page loaded on 1 October 2026 and confirms $0.40 a secret a month and $0.05 per 10,000 calls.", "The document history page returned too many redirects again; the newest Secrets Manager API model change in botocore is from 11 December 2025.", "health.aws.amazon.com/health/status is a JavaScript page; the per-service RSS feed for Secrets Manager in us-east-1 had no items on 1 October 2026." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aws-secrets-manager.json", "live": { "slug": "aws-secrets-manager", "probe": { "target": "https://secretsmanager.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:48:04.506827881Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 1428, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 1790, "p95ms24h": 2226, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 898, "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": 270, "ok": 270 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@aws-sdk/client-secrets-manager", "version": "3.1146.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:21:22.18150713Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "boto3", "version": "1.43.108", "released": "2026-10-02", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:21:22.994336287Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 16134158, "pypiWeekly": 576017728, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:49.458098289Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:22.883710357Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "amazon.com", "registered": "1994-11-01", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/amazon.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:06:18.739682554Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/doc-history.html", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:18.235511313Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" }, { "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:34.797947893Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d96ff3d82a94" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:48:04.506827881Z" } }, "b": { "slug": "bitwarden-secrets-manager", "name": "Bitwarden Secrets Manager", "vendor": "Bitwarden", "vendorUrl": "https://bitwarden.com/products/secrets-manager/", "kind": "sdk", "category": "secrets", "summary": "End-to-end encrypted secrets store from the Bitwarden password manager company.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitwarden-secrets-manager", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitwarden-secrets-manager.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitwarden-secrets-manager.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bitwarden-secrets-manager.json", "repo": "https://github.com/bitwarden/sdk-sm", "license": "Bitwarden's own SDK licence (SDK and bws), GPL-3.0 (Password Manager MCP server), platform closed", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.bitwarden.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@bitwarden/sdk-napi" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "bitwarden-sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A machine account access token (`0.\u003cuuid\u003e.\u003cclient secret\u003e:\u003cencryption key\u003e`) goes in `BWS_ACCESS_TOKEN` or `--access-token`. The SDK exchanges the client secret at identity.bitwarden.com, then decrypts secrets locally with the key embedded in the token, so a plain curl can't read a value. Tokens are shown once, never stored server-side, and can expire on a date you set (default never).", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Secrets Manager has a free plan (2 users, 3 projects, 3 machine accounts, unlimited secrets, no event logs) and paid Teams and Enterprise plans. Teams $6 per user a month with 20 machine accounts included, Enterprise $12 per user a month with 50, and $1 a month per extra machine account on either. Secret storage, projects and users are unlimited on paid plans, and event logs come with Teams and Enterprise. A 14-day trial is on the pricing page; neither page says whether a card is needed. The product page lists self-hosting on Enterprise, while the plans help page still says coming soon (https://bitwarden.com/pricing/business/, https://bitwarden.com/help/secrets-manager-plans/).", "priceSummary": "$6 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 480, "npmWeekly": 24038, "pypiWeekly": 25331, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://bitwarden.com/help/secrets-manager-overview/", "capabilities": [ "secrets.store", "secrets.machine-identity", "secrets.audit", "secrets.self-host" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "self-hosted", "freemium", "source-available", "typescript", "python", "go", "enterprise", "eu" ], "lastRelease": "2026-05-22", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 57.1, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 297, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 52, "maintenance": 36, "payments": 25, "reliability": 71, "schema": 53, "security": 76, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "End-to-end encrypted, decrypted only on the client that holds the token. No release since 22 May 2026, and the npm SDK is still 1.0.0 from September 2024.", "strengths": [ "End-to-end encrypted, decrypted only on the client that holds the token", "Machine accounts at $1 a month each, 3 on the free plan, with Can read or Can read, write per project", "Per-machine-account event logs of secret access, retained indefinitely, on Teams and Enterprise", "SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and a HackerOne bounty", "US or EU cloud, with self-hosting on Enterprise" ], "weaknesses": [ "No release since 22 May 2026, and the npm SDK is still 1.0.0 from September 2024", "33 open issues, mostly bugs, including a Python SDK segfault open since July 2025", "Revoked tokens keep working for up to an hour on already-authenticated machines", "No rotation, dynamic secrets, workload identity login or MCP server for Secrets Manager", "SDK and CLI under Bitwarden's own SDK licence, and no OpenAPI for the secrets API" ], "agentNotes": [ "Create one machine account per agent with Can read on one project, and give its token an expiry date rather than the default of never", "Run the agent under `bws run -- \u003ccmd\u003e` so secrets arrive as environment variables and aren't written to disk or into the context", "Fetch with `bws secret list \u003cproject-id\u003e --output json` once per run; `bws secret get` needs the secret's UUID, not its name", "Set BWS_SERVER_URL for an EU organisation or a self-hosted server; the default is the US cloud", "Rotate the secret's value as well as revoking the token in an emergency, since a live session can read for up to an hour" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 57.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 52, "maintenance": 36, "payments": 25, "reliability": 71, "schema": 53, "security": 76, "transparency": 52 }, "provenanceScore": 90 }, "connect": { "install": "cargo install bws --locked # or: curl https://bws.bitwarden.com/install | sh, npm install @bitwarden/sdk-napi, pip install bitwarden-sdk", "http": "export BWS_ACCESS_TOKEN=\"$BWS_ACCESS_TOKEN\"\nbws secret list \"$BWS_PROJECT_ID\" # values are end-to-end encrypted, so the CLI or SDK decrypts; plain curl can't" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/secrets.store", "tool": "https://letme.dev/bitwarden-secrets-manager" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Secrets Manager, Teams", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 6, "note": "20 machine accounts included" }, { "item": "Secrets Manager, Enterprise", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 12, "note": "50 machine accounts included" }, { "item": "Extra machine account", "unit": "account-month", "usd": 1 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Bitwarden Inc. (terms name 8bit Solutions LLC, wholly owned by Bitwarden Inc.)", "domain": "bitwarden.com", "domainRegistered": "2015-11-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://bitwarden.com/terms/", "privacy": "https://bitwarden.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://status.bitwarden.com", "changelog": "https://github.com/bitwarden/sdk-sm/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "Terms dated 1 June 2017 name 8bit Solutions LLC, a Delaware company wholly owned by Bitwarden Inc. The privacy policy (revised April 2024) gives Bitwarden Inc., 1 North Calle Cesar Chavez, Suite 102, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, with data stored primarily in the EEA and United States.", "bitwarden.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 30 September 2026; the SDK repository's SECURITY.md points to HackerOne.", "status.bitwarden.com runs on Hund.io. Since 3 July 2026 it shows five planned maintenance windows and one unscheduled incident, elevated US API error rates for 38 minutes on 29 September.", "The compliance page claims SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, ISO 27001 and HIPAA, with data on Azure in the US or EU.", "The crate changelogs in sdk-sm stop at 1.0.0 (September 2024); later releases are only described on GitHub." ], "score": 90 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitwarden-secrets-manager.json", "live": { "slug": "bitwarden-secrets-manager", "probe": { "target": "https://api.bitwarden.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:48:05.229595955Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 315, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 99.26, "uptime30d": 97.33, "p50ms24h": 131, "p95ms24h": 328, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 898, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 102 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 239 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 265 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 270, "ok": 268 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.bitwarden.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:39:50.88623142Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "bitwarden/sdk-sm", "version": "python-v2.1.0", "released": "2026-05-21", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:22:18.502566508Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@bitwarden/sdk-napi", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:22:17.909661383Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "bitwarden-sdk", "version": "2.1.0", "released": "2026-05-21", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:22:18.317866887Z" } ], "githubStars": 480, "npmWeekly": 25074, "pypiWeekly": 27867, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://bitwarden.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:46.220509573Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "bitwarden.com", "registered": "2015-11-16", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/bitwarden.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:03:43.146799125Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://bitwarden.com/pricing/business/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:30.968841046Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:29:42.809015327Z", "fingerprint": "8d0a67e9a051" }, { "url": "https://bitwarden.com/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:32.998627256Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:32.998627256Z", "fingerprint": "612dca4ba267" }, { "url": "https://bitwarden.com/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:35.010005656Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:29:46.855070037Z", "fingerprint": "662bff2efe7c" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:48:05.229595955Z" } }, "summary": "AWS Secrets Manager has a score of 78.1 (A) against Bitwarden Secrets Manager's 57.1 (C). Both do secrets store. The largest gap is schema \u0026 documentation, 43 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-bitwarden-secrets-manager", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-bitwarden-secrets-manager.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-bitwarden-secrets-manager.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-bitwarden-secrets-manager.min.md" }, "markdown": "AWS Secrets Manager has a score of 78.1 (A) against Bitwarden Secrets Manager's 57.1 (C). Both do secrets store. The largest gap is schema \u0026 documentation, 43 points.\n\n- AWS Secrets Manager: grade A, 78.1/100, rank #15 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aws-secrets-manager.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/aws-secrets-manager.json\n- Bitwarden Secrets Manager: grade C, 57.1/100, rank #297 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitwarden-secrets-manager.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bitwarden-secrets-manager.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick AWS Secrets Manager for reliability (+16), schema \u0026 documentation (+43), agent ergonomics (+38), security \u0026 auth (+12), maintenance \u0026 community (+29), transparency \u0026 trust (+8).\n\nPick Bitwarden Secrets Manager for payments \u0026 pricing (+5).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | AWS Secrets Manager | Bitwarden Secrets Manager | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 87 | 71 | AWS Secrets Manager +16 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 96 | 53 | AWS Secrets Manager +43 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 52 | AWS Secrets Manager +38 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 88 | 76 | AWS Secrets Manager +12 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 25 | Bitwarden Secrets Manager +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 36 | AWS Secrets Manager +29 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 71 | AWS Secrets Manager +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **78.1 · A** | **57.1 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | AWS Secrets Manager | Bitwarden Secrets Manager |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Bitwarden |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://secretsmanager.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://api.bitwarden.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Bitwarden's own SDK licence (SDK and bws), GPL-3.0 (Password Manager MCP server), platform closed |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\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 | none | 2026-05-22 |\n| Popularity | 15.2M npm/wk, 578.4M PyPI/wk | 480 stars, 24k npm/wk, 25k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.9/5 (8) | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**AWS Secrets Manager.** IAM roles support access without long-lived credentials on AWS compute services. Each API call is billed, making caching relevant to frequent reads.\n\n**Bitwarden Secrets Manager.** End-to-end encrypted, decrypted only on the client that holds the token. No release since 22 May 2026, and the npm SDK is still 1.0.0 from September 2024.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### AWS Secrets Manager\n\n1. Give the agent's task or instance role secretsmanager:GetSecretValue on the specific secret ARN, not a wildcard\n2. Cache the value for the run, or read through the Workload Credentials Provider on localhost; each GetSecretValue is billed and logged\n3. Use BatchGetSecretValue with a filter when you need several secrets at start-up; it's limited to 100 calls a second\n4. Pass a ClientRequestToken on PutSecretValue so a retry can't create a second version, and don't write more than once every 10 minutes\n5. Read VersionStage AWSPREVIOUS if a rotation lands mid-run and the new credential isn't live yet\n\n### Bitwarden Secrets Manager\n\n1. Create one machine account per agent with Can read on one project, and give its token an expiry date rather than the default of never\n2. Run the agent under `bws run -- \u003ccmd\u003e` so secrets arrive as environment variables and aren't written to disk or into the context\n3. Fetch with `bws secret list \u003cproject-id\u003e --output json` once per run; `bws secret get` needs the secret's UUID, not its name\n4. Set BWS_SERVER_URL for an EU organisation or a self-hosted server; the default is the US cloud\n5. Rotate the secret's value as well as revoking the token in an emergency, since a live session can read for up to an hour\n\n## Other comparisons with AWS Secrets Manager or Bitwarden Secrets Manager\n\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- [Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) vs AWS Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akeyless-vs-aws-secrets-manager.md)\n- [Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) vs Bitwarden Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akeyless-vs-bitwarden-secrets-manager.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Doppler](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-doppler.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-google-secret-manager.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-hashicorp-vault.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Infisical](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-infisical.md)\n- [Bitwarden Secrets Manager vs Doppler](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitwarden-secrets-manager-vs-doppler.md)\n- [Bitwarden Secrets Manager vs Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitwarden-secrets-manager-vs-google-secret-manager.md)\n- [Bitwarden Secrets Manager vs HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitwarden-secrets-manager-vs-hashicorp-vault.md)\n- [Bitwarden Secrets Manager vs Infisical](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitwarden-secrets-manager-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": "AWS Secrets Manager vs Bitwarden Secrets Manager", "url": "" } ], "description": "AWS Secrets Manager has a score of 78.1 (A) against Bitwarden Secrets Manager's 57.1 (C). 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