# AWS Secrets Manager vs Phase (slim)

> AWS Secrets Manager scores 77.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Phase's 68 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Phase leads on reliability and 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 Phase's 68 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Phase leads on reliability and 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
- Phase: B 68, rank #194 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/phase.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 58; Agent ergonomics, 90 against 56; Security & auth, 91 against 83; Payments & pricing, 30 against 25. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- Phase, good for Small teams that want an open-source secrets manager hosted in the EU or self-hosted, with coding agents kept away from values through the CLI. Ahead on Reliability, 91 against 77; Maintenance & community, 83 against 65. Also Open source.

| Category | AWS Secrets Manager | Phase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 77 | 91 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 96 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 90 | 56 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 91 | 83 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 65 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 73 |

| Fact (where they differ) | AWS Secrets Manager | Phase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Phi Security Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://secretsmanager.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://api.phase.dev` |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Price for secrets store | $0.40 per month (plan) | not published |
| Licence | none | MIT outside the `ee/` directories, which are under the proprietary Phase Console Enterprise licence |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-04 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2025-10-06 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-03-11 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 15.2M npm/wk, 578.4M PyPI/wk | 928 stars, 2.5k npm/wk, 235 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.9/5 (8) | none |