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Access is self-serve inside an Azure subscription (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/authorize-requests-to-azure-storage, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/authorize-access-azure-active-directory).", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Hot tier LRS storage is $0.0208 a GB-month for the first 50 TB in East US, cool $0.0152, cold $0.0036 and archive $0.00099. Hot write operations cost $0.05 per 10,000, list and create container operations $0.05, read and other operations $0.004. Cool and cold reads add a retrieval charge of $0.01 and $0.03 a GB. The pricing page draws its numbers by script and showed none, so these come from the Azure Retail Prices API (https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName%20eq%20%27Storage%27%20and%20armRegionName%20eq%20%27eastus%27%20and%20productName%20eq%20%27General%20Block%20Blob%20v2%27). Internet egress is billed separately as bandwidth and its rate was not read. No free allowance for Blob Storage could be read, because the free services page lists its services by script. 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The page showed no effective date when read on 8 October 2026.", "Self-serve Azure accounts also accept the Microsoft Online Subscription Agreement (last updated March 2019, Microsoft Corporation, Washington law) at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/subscription-agreement/, which incorporates the Online Services Terms and the SLAs.", "The privacy statement (last updated September 2026) names Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052, and Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited. It lists Microsoft Azure among the enterprise online services covered by the Product Terms.", "The Data Protection Addendum read is the English edition of 22 May 2026, a Word file linked from https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/docs/view/Microsoft-Products-and-Services-Data-Protection-Addendum-DPA.", "https://www.microsoft.com/.well-known/security.txt shows Expires 2026-09-23T16:00:00.000Z. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-drive-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-drive-api.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Azure Blob Storage (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents and runtimes already on Azure, where a managed identity writes to one container with no stored key, and jobs that need tiers, immutability or geo-redundant copies.\n\nAhead on:\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 75\n\nWatch for: Shared Key authorisation with the account's access keys is allowed until the owner sets `AllowSharedKeyAccess` to false\n\n### Google Drive API + MCP (A)\n\nGood for: Agents working on files that people already keep in Drive, inside a Workspace organisation with admin controls.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 91 against 81\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 80\n\nWatch for: OAuth consent, scope verification and a Cloud project before an agent can list a folder\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Azure Blob Storage | Google Drive API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 88 | 90 | Google Drive API + MCP +2 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 83 | Azure Blob Storage +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 85 | Google Drive API + MCP +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 81 | 91 | Google Drive API + MCP +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 35 | Google Drive API + MCP +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 85 | Google Drive API + MCP +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 75 | Azure Blob Storage +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **75.7 · BB** | **79.6 · A** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Azure Blob Storage | Google Drive API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Microsoft Corporation | Google |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://\u003caccount\u003e.blob.core.windows.net` | `https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Microsoft's Product Terms. The Azure SDK client libraries are MIT | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | none | 8 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-03 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2021-11-09 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-01 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | 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 | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 12.5M npm/wk, 22.6M PyPI/wk | 12k stars, 1.3M npm/wk, 29.8M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.4/5 (8) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Azure Blob Storage.** Microsoft Entra ID roles can be scoped to one container, and a user delegation signature hands out a link that expires within seven days. Account keys with full access stay enabled until the owner turns them off, request logs are off until configured, and an Azure account needs a person, a phone number and a payment card.\n\n**Google Drive API + MCP.** No charge for API calls within quota, counted in quota units per minute per project and per user. OAuth consent, scope verification and a Cloud project before an agent can list a folder.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Azure Blob Storage\n\n1. Request an Entra ID token for https://storage.azure.com/ and send it as a Bearer header with `x-ms-version` and `x-ms-date`. Put Blob also needs `x-ms-blob-type: BlockBlob`\n2. Ask for a Storage Blob Data role on the one container. Role changes can take up to 10 minutes to apply\n3. To share a file, call Get User Delegation Key, then sign a SAS with `sp=r`, `spr=https` and a short expiry. Treat the URL as a secret\n4. Send `If-None-Match: *` on Put Blob so a retry can't overwrite a blob another call wrote\n5. On 503 ServerBusy back off exponentially. After 500 OperationTimedOut check the blob's state before retrying, since the write may have succeeded\n\n### Google Drive API + MCP\n\n1. Ask for drive.file rather than drive; it needs no verification and covers files the app created or the user picked\n2. Use uploadType=resumable for anything over 5 MB and send chunks in multiples of 256 KB\n3. For a link that expires, share to a user or group with expirationTime; a type=anyone permission can't expire, so delete it yourself\n4. Pass fields= on files.list and files.get to cut the response, and page with pageToken\n5. Back off exponentially on 429 rateLimitExceeded and 403 userRateLimitExceeded; 403 storageQuotaExceeded won't clear by retrying\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Azure Blob Storage or Google Drive API + MCP?\n\nGoogle Drive API + MCP scores 79.6 (A) on agent readiness against Azure Blob Storage's 75.7 (BB), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Azure Blob Storage leads on transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Azure Blob Storage and Google Drive API + MCP need an API key?\n\nAzure Blob Storage takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Google Drive API + MCP uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Azure Blob Storage and Google Drive API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. Azure Blob Storage has a hosted endpoint at https://\u003caccount\u003e.blob.core.windows.net and Google Drive API + MCP at https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-blob-storage-vs-google-drive-api.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-blob-storage-vs-google-drive-api.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"azure-blob-storage\", \"b\": \"google-drive-api\"}`. 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