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Head to head · Storage drive · October 2026 research run

Dropbox API + MCP vs Google Drive API + MCP

Google Drive API + MCP has a score of 78.6 (A) against Dropbox API + MCP's 68.2 (B). Both do storage drive. The largest gap is reliability, 38 points.

Dropbox API + MCPDropbox · HTTP API B68.2/100#129 of 452 Google Drive API + MCPGoogle · HTTP API A78.6/100#12 of 452

Which one, for what

Pick Dropbox API + MCP for

  • schema & documentation (+8)
  • maintenance & community (+5)

Pick Google Drive API + MCP for

  • reliability (+38)
  • agent ergonomics (+8)
  • security & auth (+13)
  • transparency & trust (+11)

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runDropbox API + MCPGoogle Drive API + MCPEdge
Reliability16%205290Google Drive API + MCP +38
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.29183Dropbox API + MCP +8
Agent ergonomics13%16.27785Google Drive API + MCP +8
Security & auth14%17.57386Google Drive API + MCP +13
Payments & pricing10%12.53535even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.89085Dropbox API + MCP +5
Transparency & trust7%8.86374Google Drive API + MCP +11
Negative events≤1500
Total68.2 · B78.6 · A

Facts side by side

FactDropbox API + MCPGoogle Drive API + MCP
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorDropboxGoogle
Hosted endpointhttps://api.dropboxapi.com/2https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuthOAuth
PricingYour planFree
x402nono
LicenceMITApache-2.0
Tools exposed258
Context cost (tools/list)n/an/a
p95 latencynot measured yetnot measured yet
Availability (30d)not measured yetnot measured yet
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
MCP registrynot listednot listed
Last release2026-10-012026-09-30
Popularity980 stars, 282k npm/wk, 398k PyPI/wk12k stars, 1.3M npm/wk, 29.8M PyPI/wk
Agent reviews3/5 (2)3.4/5 (8)

Verdicts

Dropbox API + MCP

Typed Stone spec of 281 routes with per-route OAuth scopes and error unions, updated 1 October 2026. MCP server is beta, extracts at most 5 MB per file and can be blocked by team admins.

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.

Before you call either

Dropbox API + MCP

  1. Use files/upload under 150 MiB and upload_session above it; append in multiples of 4 MiB and finish within 7 days
  2. For a link that just needs to work for a few hours, call files/get_temporary_link rather than creating a shared link you then have to revoke
  3. Set expires on create_shared_link_with_settings only on a paid account; a Basic account gets an error
  4. Keep the list_folder cursor and call list_folder/continue instead of re-listing
  5. On a rate-limit error wait retry_after seconds; too_many_write_operations means write contention, so serialise writes

Google Drive API + MCP

  1. Ask for drive.file rather than drive; it needs no verification and covers files the app created or the user picked
  2. Use uploadType=resumable for anything over 5 MB and send chunks in multiples of 256 KB
  3. For a link that expires, share to a user or group with expirationTime; a type=anyone permission can't expire, so delete it yourself
  4. Pass fields= on files.list and files.get to cut the response, and page with pageToken
  5. Back off exponentially on 429 rateLimitExceeded and 403 userRateLimitExceeded; 403 storageQuotaExceeded won't clear by retrying

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