# Bitwarden Secrets Manager vs Keeper Secrets Manager (slim)

> Keeper Secrets Manager scores 69.4 (B) on agent readiness against Bitwarden Secrets Manager's 56.8 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Bitwarden Secrets Manager leads on payments & pricing. Both do secrets store. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by…

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Keeper Secrets Manager scores 69.4 (B) on agent readiness against Bitwarden Secrets Manager's 56.8 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Bitwarden Secrets Manager leads on payments & pricing. Both do secrets store.

- Bitwarden Secrets Manager: C 56.8, rank #485 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitwarden-secrets-manager.min.md
- Keeper Secrets Manager: B 69.4, rank #159 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.min.md
- Bitwarden Secrets Manager, good for Teams already on Bitwarden who want cheap, end-to-end encrypted, project-scoped machine identities for a few agents, injected with bws run. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 25 against 20. Also 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 Reliability, 76 against 71; Schema & documentation, 71 against 53; Agent ergonomics, 63 against 52; Security & auth, 86 against 76; Maintenance & community, 92 against 36; Transparency & trust, 78 against 68. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Bitwarden Secrets Manager | Keeper Secrets Manager |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 71 | 76 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 53 | 71 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 52 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 76 | 86 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 36 | 92 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 78 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Bitwarden Secrets Manager | Keeper Secrets Manager |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Bitwarden | Keeper Security, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.bitwarden.com` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | Bitwarden's own SDK licence (SDK and bws), GPL-3.0 (Password Manager MCP server), platform closed | 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 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-05-22 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms restrict automated access | 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 | 480 stars, 24k npm/wk, 25k PyPI/wk | 117 stars, 52k npm/wk, 45k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |