{ "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 ($100 at signup and up to $100 more), on a free plan of up to 6 months, and all credits expire within 12 months. AWS says most new customers can sign up without a payment method, though it may ask for one to verify identity, and a free-plan account is suspended at the end of the plan unless upgraded to paid (https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/pricing/, https://aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs/).", "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", "free-tier", "card-required", "llms-txt", "typescript", "python", "go", "enterprise", "eu" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 77.7, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 18, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 90, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 30, "reliability": 77, "schema": 96, "security": 91, "transparency": 77 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-04" }, "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.", "bestFor": "Agents running on AWS compute that should read credentials through a role with no key at all, and for RDS-family databases that need managed rotation.", "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 AWS's general MCP servers can put secret values in context unless its best-effort hook blocks the call", "Account creation needs a person in a browser, with no keyless or x402 route, and the aws.amazon.com security.txt expired on 24 September 2026" ], "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", "In Claude Code or Codex, install the aws-core plugin from the Agent Toolkit for AWS and pass secrets as {{resolve:secretsmanager:...}} references through asm-exec so values stay out of context", "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": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 77.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 90, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 30, "reliability": 77, "schema": 96, "security": 91, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 88 }, "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-location", "amazon-translate", "amazon-ads-api" ], "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/document-history.html", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-10-04", "notes": [ "Service Terms show Last Updated 1 October 2026 (15 September on the 1 October check). The entities named, Amazon Web Services, Inc. for most customers and regional entities for Australia, Japan, Korea, EMEA and India, are per the 1 October check, not re-read on 4 October. The privacy notice date (18 May 2026) and address (410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109-5210) are per the 30 September check, not re-read on 4 October.", "security.txt still shows Expires 2026-09-24T16:25:03Z on 4 October 2026. It points to the AWS VDP on HackerOne and the policy at vdp.aws.security.", "The pricing page loaded on 4 October 2026 and confirms $0.40 a secret a month and $0.05 per 10,000 calls.", "The changelog address used on 1 October (doc-history.html) still fails with too many redirects; the user guide's document history loads at document-history.html, newest entry 2 June 2026. The newest Secrets Manager API model change in botocore is still from 11 December 2025, as of botocore 1.43.108 (2 October 2026).", "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 4 October 2026." ], "score": 88 }, "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": "2026-10-08T21:12:04.768062423Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 1630, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 1742, "p95ms24h": 2221, "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 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@aws-sdk/client-secrets-manager", "version": "3.1147.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:00:34.913290633Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "boto3", "version": "1.43.109", "released": "2026-10-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:00:37.131880282Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 16234370, "pypiWeekly": 573748207, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:45.56973403Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:10.065688579Z" }, "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://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/document-history.html", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:20.64827697Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "75e2caf24ffc" }, { "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:39.77741838Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d96ff3d82a94" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:04.768062423Z" } }, "answer": "AWS Secrets Manager scores 77.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Keeper Secrets Manager's 69.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Keeper Secrets Manager leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "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": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Amazon Web Services", "b": "Keeper Security, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://secretsmanager.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$0.40 per month (plan)", "b": "not published", "name": "Price for secrets store" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "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": "none", "b": "2026-10-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-18", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes, with an opt-out", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "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": "15.2M npm/wk, 578.4M PyPI/wk", "b": "117 stars, 52k npm/wk, 45k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.9/5 (8)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "AWS Secrets Manager scores 77.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Keeper Secrets Manager's 69.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Keeper Secrets Manager leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, AWS Secrets Manager or Keeper Secrets Manager?" }, { "answer": "AWS Secrets Manager takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Keeper Secrets Manager needs an API key.", "question": "Do AWS Secrets Manager and Keeper Secrets Manager need an API key?" }, { "answer": "AWS Secrets Manager has a hosted endpoint at https://secretsmanager.us-east-1.amazonaws.com. Keeper Secrets Manager runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.", "question": "Can an agent call AWS Secrets Manager and Keeper Secrets Manager without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 96 against 71", "Agent ergonomics, 90 against 63", "Security \u0026 auth, 91 against 86", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Agents running on AWS compute that should read credentials through a role with no key at all, and for RDS-family databases that need managed rotation.", "slug": "aws-secrets-manager", "watchFor": "Every API call is billed, so per-request reads add up and the docs push you to cache" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Maintenance \u0026 community, 92 against 65" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "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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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/keeper-secrets-manager-vs-pulumi-esc.json", "title": "Keeper Secrets Manager vs Pulumi ESC", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/keeper-secrets-manager-vs-pulumi-esc" } ], "scores": [ { "aws-secrets-manager": 77, "by": 1, "edge": "aws-secrets-manager", "keeper-secrets-manager": 76, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "aws-secrets-manager": 96, "by": 25, "edge": "aws-secrets-manager", "keeper-secrets-manager": 71, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "aws-secrets-manager": 90, "by": 27, "edge": "aws-secrets-manager", "keeper-secrets-manager": 63, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "aws-secrets-manager": 91, "by": 5, "edge": "aws-secrets-manager", "keeper-secrets-manager": 86, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { 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Keeper Secrets Manager leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do secrets store.", "verdicts": { "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.", "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.min.md" }, "markdown": "AWS Secrets Manager scores 77.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Keeper Secrets Manager's 69.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Keeper Secrets Manager leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do secrets store.\n\n- AWS Secrets Manager: grade BB, 77.7/100, rank #18 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aws-secrets-manager.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/aws-secrets-manager.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### AWS Secrets Manager (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents running on AWS compute that should read credentials through a role with no key at all, and for RDS-family databases that need managed rotation.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 96 against 71\n- Agent ergonomics, 90 against 63\n- Security \u0026 auth, 91 against 86\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 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: Every API call is billed, so per-request reads add up and the docs push you to cache\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 65\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\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 | AWS Secrets Manager | Keeper Secrets Manager | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 77 | 76 | AWS Secrets Manager +1 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 96 | 71 | AWS Secrets Manager +25 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 63 | AWS Secrets Manager +27 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 91 | 86 | AWS Secrets Manager +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 20 | AWS Secrets Manager +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 92 | Keeper Secrets Manager +27 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 78 | Keeper Secrets Manager +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **77.7 · BB** | **69.4 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | AWS Secrets Manager | Keeper Secrets Manager |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Keeper Security, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://secretsmanager.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |\n| Price for secrets store | $0.40 per month (plan) | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | 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 | none | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 15.2M npm/wk, 578.4M PyPI/wk | 117 stars, 52k npm/wk, 45k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.9/5 (8) | none |\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**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### 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. In Claude Code or Codex, install the aws-core plugin from the Agent Toolkit for AWS and pass secrets as {{resolve:secretsmanager:...}} references through asm-exec so values stay out of context\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### 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, AWS Secrets Manager or Keeper Secrets Manager?\n\nAWS Secrets Manager scores 77.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Keeper Secrets Manager's 69.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Keeper Secrets Manager leads on maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do AWS Secrets Manager and Keeper Secrets Manager need an API key?\n\nAWS Secrets Manager takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Keeper Secrets Manager needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call AWS Secrets Manager and Keeper Secrets Manager without installing anything?\n\nAWS Secrets Manager has a hosted endpoint at https://secretsmanager.us-east-1.amazonaws.com. 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/aws-secrets-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"aws-secrets-manager\", \"b\": \"keeper-secrets-manager\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare aws-secrets-manager keeper-secrets-manager`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/aws-secrets-manager.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.json\n\n## Other comparisons with AWS Secrets Manager or Keeper 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 Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-keeper-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 Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akeyless-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Azure Key Vault](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-azure-key-vault.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Bitwarden Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-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- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Phase](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-phase.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Pulumi ESC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-pulumi-esc.md)\n- [Azure Key Vault vs Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-key-vault-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md)\n- [Bitwarden Secrets Manager vs Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitwarden-secrets-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md)\n- [Doppler vs Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/doppler-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md)\n- [Google Cloud Secret Manager vs Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-secret-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md)\n- [HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server vs Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hashicorp-vault-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md)\n- [Infisical vs Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/infisical-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md)\n- [Keeper Secrets Manager vs Phase](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/keeper-secrets-manager-vs-phase.md)\n- [Keeper Secrets Manager vs Pulumi ESC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/keeper-secrets-manager-vs-pulumi-esc.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-08", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "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 Keeper Secrets Manager", "url": "" } ], "description": "AWS Secrets Manager scores 77.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Keeper Secrets Manager's 69.4 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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