# AWS Secrets Manager vs Keeper Secrets Manager (slim)

> 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 & community. Both do secrets store. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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 & community. Both do secrets store.

- AWS Secrets Manager: BB 77.7, rank #18 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aws-secrets-manager.min.md
- Keeper Secrets Manager: B 69.4, rank #159 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.min.md
- AWS Secrets Manager, good 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 96 against 71; Agent ergonomics, 90 against 63; Security & auth, 91 against 86; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Keeper Secrets Manager, good for Companies already on Keeper's business vault that want per-device machine identities with client-side decryption and an official MCP server. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 92 against 65. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | AWS Secrets Manager | Keeper Secrets Manager |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 77 | 76 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 96 | 71 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 90 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 91 | 86 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 65 | 92 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 78 |

| Fact (where they differ) | AWS Secrets Manager | Keeper Secrets Manager |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Keeper Security, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://secretsmanager.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| Price for secrets store | $0.40 per month (plan) | not published |
| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Keeper's SaaS Terms of Use. The SDKs, CLI, MCP server and agent kit on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 19 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 15.2M npm/wk, 578.4M PyPI/wk | 117 stars, 52k npm/wk, 45k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.9/5 (8) | none |