{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "fast-io", "name": "Fastio", "vendor": "VividEngine, LLC", "vendorUrl": "https://fast.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "file-storage", "summary": "Fastio is hosted file storage with workspaces, share links and document search for teams and AI agents, from VividEngine, LLC. Agents reach it through a REST API, a hosted MCP server and an open-source CLI.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fast-io", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fast-io.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fast-io.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fast-io.json", "repo": "https://github.com/MediaFire/fastio_cli", "license": "Proprietary service under Fast's terms of service. 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Usage past the allowance is billed at $0.0001 a credit, extra storage at 1.5 cents a GB-month and extra bandwidth at 4 cents a GB (https://fast.io/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$9.99 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the pricing page, the API reference or the agent guide. HTTP 402 is used for a missing plan or spent credits (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 35, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1, "npmWeekly": 653, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.fast.io/", "llmsTxt": "https://api.fast.io/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "storage.drive", "storage.share", "knowledge.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "mcp", "oauth", "api-key", "cli", "llms-txt", "paid", "trial" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.2, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 663, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 30, "reliability": 33, "schema": 65, "security": 74, "transparency": 61 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-09. fast.io/llms.txt states storage at 100 credits a GB and bandwidth at 212, while the pricing page and the agent guide (version 1.40.0, 2 October 2026) give 150 and 400. The same file points to a security.txt that answers 404. An agent reading only llms.txt would understate cost by a third or more (-2). https://fast.io/llms.txt" ], "verdict": "OAuth with PKCE, scoped API keys with read, write and admin modes, and separate read and write MCP tools limit what an agent can touch. There is no free tier, the 30-day trial needs a card, and no status page, SLA, OpenAPI file or public changelog was found.", "bestFor": "A team that wants agents and people in one shared drive with share links, document search and an audit trail.", "strengths": [ "OAuth 2.0 with PKCE and dynamic client registration, plus API keys scoped as `entity_type:entity_id:access_mode` with `r`, `rw` and `rwa` modes and optional expiry", "Named MCP mode splits each area into a read tool and a `_manage` write tool, and a read-only key hides the write tools", "Shares take a password, an expiry date and a `download_security` level, and file links can carry `expires`", "Sub-processor list with locations and 15 days' notice, and deletion periods of 15, 30, 60 and 90 days stated alike in the terms and privacy policy", "The CLI is Apache-2.0 on GitHub with CI, and shipped v0.2.93 on 8 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "No free tier. A new organisation answers HTTP 402 until a paid plan is chosen, and the 30-day trial needs a credit card", "No status page, incident history or SLA found. The terms give no guarantee of API availability or backward compatibility", "No OpenAPI file. `OPTIONS` introspection covers about 40 per cent of endpoints, and rate limits are published as headers without numbers", "fast.io/llms.txt gives 100 credits a GB for storage and 212 for bandwidth. The pricing page and agent guide give 150 and 400", "No SOC 2 report yet (the Trust Centre says an audit is being prepared), no bug bounty, and `/.well-known/security.txt` answers 404", "The terms forbid robots and spiders outside the programmatic access of Section 12. This matters before any probe is run" ], "agentNotes": [ "Connect to `https://mcp.fast.io/mcp/tools` for named tools or `https://mcp.fast.io/mcp/code` for the 8-tool code mode. The URL fixes the tool set for the session", "Call `action=\"describe\"` on a tool before first use. Parameters live there, not in the tool list", "To update a file, upload again with the same parent folder and filename. Deleting first loses the version history", "On 429 wait until `x-ve-limit-expires` or the `Retry-After` value. On 402 the organisation has no plan or no credits, so stop and tell the owner", "Ask the owner for a key scoped to one workspace with `r` or `rw`. A key made without scopes carries `user:*:rw` across the account" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 55.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 30, "reliability": 33, "schema": 65, "security": 74, "transparency": 70 }, "provenanceScore": 51 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @vividengine/fastio-cli", "config": { "mcpServers": { "fastio": { "args": [ "mcp" ], "command": "fastio" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/storage.drive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/fast-io" }, "area": "everyday", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Starter plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 9.99, "note": "250 GB, 100,000 credits, 3 seats" }, { "item": "Business plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 49.99, "note": "5 TB, 600,000 credits, 10 seats" }, { "item": "Enterprise plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 199.99, "note": "25 TB, 3,000,000 credits, 30 seats" }, { "item": "Additional storage", "unit": "gb-month", "usd": 0.015 }, { "item": "Additional bandwidth", "unit": "gb", "usd": 0.04 }, { "item": "Credit overage", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.0001, "note": "$10 per 100,000 credits" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "VividEngine, LLC (doing business as Fast Technologies)", "domain": "fast.io", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://fast.io/terms/", "privacy": "https://fast.io/privacy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The terms of service (effective 2 October 2026) name VividEngine, LLC, doing business as Fast Technologies, 4747 Research Forest Dr., Ste 180-265, The Woodlands, TX 77381-4902.", "The API answers at api.fast.io and the MCP server at mcp.fast.io, both on the vendor's domain.", "fast.io/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, although fast.io/llms.txt lists it as the security contact.", "No status page or changelog is linked from the home page, the developer hub, the docs or the Trust Centre.", "rdap.org answered that no RDAP service is available for fast.io, so the registration date is blank.", "The DPA binds only when signed by both parties, and the Trust Centre says it is executed with Enterprise Plus customers and on request." ], "score": 51 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fast-io.json", "live": { "slug": "fast-io", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.fast.io/mcp/tools", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:08.945358081Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 400, "lastMs": 215, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 192, "p95ms24h": 609, "samples24h": 107, "samples30d": 107, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 22, "ok": 22 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "MediaFire/fastio_cli", "version": "v0.2.93", "released": "2026-10-08", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:52:49.974838832Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@vividengine/fastio-cli", "version": "0.2.93", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:52:47.611452489Z" } ], "githubStars": 1, "npmWeekly": 653, "pages": [ { "url": "https://fast.io/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:39:18.30204828Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f3ab609635d0" }, { "url": "https://fast.io/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:39:21.559921856Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "dac598e7cd59" }, { "url": "https://fast.io/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:39:22.401428685Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "8aa657d5df36" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:08.945358081Z" } }, "answer": "Google Drive API + MCP scores 79.6 (A) on agent readiness 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"name": "google-api-python-client" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 with Drive scopes; drive.file limits an app to files it created or the user picked, the full drive scope is restricted and needs Google's verification for public apps. Service accounts with domain-wide delegation work for Workspace domains. The MCP server needs a Google Cloud project with drive.googleapis.com and drivemcp.googleapis.com enabled, an OAuth web client with your MCP client's redirect URI, the drive.readonly and drive.file scopes, and membership of the Workspace Developer Preview Program.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "The Drive API costs nothing within quota. Limits are 1,000,000 quota units a minute a project and 325,000 a minute a user, with 400,000,000 units and 1 TB of egress a day a project before charges apply. A files.get costs 5 units, an edit 50, a files.list 100 and a download 200. Google says exceeding the quota request limits is planned to incur charges to the Cloud billing account later in 2026, with no prices published yet and at least 90 days' notice before billing changes take effect. The 1 May 2026 release note also says Workspace users can egress only 1 TB a day. Files count against the account's own Drive storage, which is bought as Google One or a Workspace plan (https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/guides/limits; https://developers.google.com/workspace/release-notes).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": 12300, "npmWeekly": 1321000, "pypiWeekly": 29823951, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/guides/about-sdk", "capabilities": [ "storage.drive", "storage.share", "work.docs" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "free", "mcp", "oauth", "typescript", "python", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-03", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 79.6, "grade": "A", "agentReady": true, "rank": 11, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 35, "reliability": 90, "schema": 83, "security": 91, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-04" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "Agents working on files that people already keep in Drive, inside a Workspace organisation with admin controls.", "strengths": [ "No charge for API calls within quota, counted in quota units per minute per project and per user", "Public discovery document, refreshed three times in September 2026, and 40-odd documented error reasons with backoff advice", "Official MCP server with eight tools, none that delete or share, and a setup page that warns about prompt injection", "drive.file and drive.readonly scopes keep an agent to its own files or to reading", "No Drive incidents on the Workspace status dashboard between the 31 May 2026 multi-product incident and 4 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "OAuth consent, scope verification and a Cloud project before an agent can list a folder", "The MCP server is Developer Preview and needs your own OAuth client and programme membership", 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"google-speech-to-text", "gemini-live", "google-adk", "google-secret-manager", "google-cloud-document-ai", "google-weather-api", "chrome-devtools-mcp", "google-maps-platform", "google-cloud-translation", "google-calendar-api", "firebase-cloud-messaging", "gemini-cli", "google-search-console", "google-ads-api", "google-forms", "google-sheets-api", "gmail-api" ], "area": "everyday", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC", "domain": "google.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-09-15", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://developers.google.com/terms", "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/", "changelog": "https://developers.google.com/workspace/release-notes", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The API endpoints sit on googleapis.com, not google.com.", "The MCP server is part of the Workspace Developer Preview Program and can change or need re-enrolment.", "The Google APIs Terms 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Google Drive API + MCP uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Fastio and Google Drive API + MCP need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Fastio has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.fast.io/mcp/tools and Google Drive API + MCP at https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3.", "question": "Can an agent call Fastio and Google Drive API + MCP without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "A team that wants agents and people in one shared drive with share links, document search and an audit trail.", "slug": "fast-io", "watchFor": "No free tier. 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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- Best file storage and sharing APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/file-storage/index.md\n- All 75 storage comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/file-storage/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Fastio (C)\n\nGood for: A team that wants agents and people in one shared drive with share links, document search and an audit trail.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: No free tier. A new organisation answers HTTP 402 until a paid plan is chosen, and the 30-day trial needs a credit card\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- Reliability, 90 against 33\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 65\n- Agent ergonomics, 85 against 73\n- Security \u0026 auth, 91 against 74\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 70\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\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 | Fastio | Google Drive API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 33 | 90 | Google Drive API + MCP +57 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 83 | Google Drive API + MCP +18 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 85 | Google Drive API + MCP +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 91 | Google Drive API + MCP +17 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 35 | Google Drive API + MCP +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 85 | Google Drive API + MCP +15 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 75 | Google Drive API + MCP +14 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.2 · C** | **79.6 · A** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Fastio | Google Drive API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | VividEngine, LLC | Google |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.fast.io/mcp/tools` | `https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Fast's terms of service. The CLI, which includes a local MCP server, is Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 35 | 8 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-03 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-02 | 2021-11-09 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 1 stars, 653 npm/wk | 12k stars, 1.3M npm/wk, 29.8M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.4/5 (8) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Fastio.** OAuth with PKCE, scoped API keys with read, write and admin modes, and separate read and write MCP tools limit what an agent can touch. There is no free tier, the 30-day trial needs a card, and no status page, SLA, OpenAPI file or public changelog was found.\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### Fastio\n\n1. Connect to `https://mcp.fast.io/mcp/tools` for named tools or `https://mcp.fast.io/mcp/code` for the 8-tool code mode. The URL fixes the tool set for the session\n2. Call `action=\"describe\"` on a tool before first use. Parameters live there, not in the tool list\n3. To update a file, upload again with the same parent folder and filename. Deleting first loses the version history\n4. On 429 wait until `x-ve-limit-expires` or the `Retry-After` value. On 402 the organisation has no plan or no credits, so stop and tell the owner\n5. Ask the owner for a key scoped to one workspace with `r` or `rw`. A key made without scopes carries `user:*:rw` across the account\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, Fastio or Google Drive API + MCP?\n\nGoogle Drive API + MCP scores 79.6 (A) on agent readiness against Fastio's 55.2 (C), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do Fastio and Google Drive API + MCP need an API key?\n\nFastio takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. 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