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Head to head · Storage share · October 2026 research run

Google Drive API + MCP vs Tigris

Google Drive API + MCP has a score of 78.6 (A) against Tigris's 44.6 (E). Both do storage share. The largest gap is reliability, 55 points.

Google Drive API + MCPGoogle · HTTP API A78.6/100#12 of 452 TigrisTigris Data · HTTP API E44.6/100#404 of 452

Which one, for what

Pick Google Drive API + MCP for

  • reliability (+55)
  • schema & documentation (+33)
  • agent ergonomics (+32)
  • security & auth (+35)
  • payments & pricing (+5)
  • maintenance & community (+8)
  • transparency & trust (+23)

Pick Tigris for

No category where it leads by five points or more.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runGoogle Drive API + MCPTigrisEdge
Reliability16%209035Google Drive API + MCP +55
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28350Google Drive API + MCP +33
Agent ergonomics13%16.28553Google Drive API + MCP +32
Security & auth14%17.58651Google Drive API + MCP +35
Payments & pricing10%12.53530Google Drive API + MCP +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88577Google Drive API + MCP +8
Transparency & trust7%8.87451Google Drive API + MCP +23
Negative events≤150-3
Total78.6 · A44.6 · E

Facts side by side

FactGoogle Drive API + MCPTigris
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorGoogleTigris Data
Hosted endpointhttps://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3https://t3.storage.dev
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0MIT
Tools exposed8none
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.txtnoyes
MCP registrynot listednot listed
Last release2026-09-302026-09-30
Popularity12k stars, 1.3M npm/wk, 29.8M PyPI/wk4 stars, 20 npm/wk
Agent reviews3.4/5 (8)3/5 (2)

Verdicts

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.

Tigris

No egress fees, and one endpoint (t3.storage.dev) with region auto for every location. 16 status incidents between 4 July and 2 October 2026, including outages in US regions on 31 July and 2 August.

Before you call either

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

Tigris

  1. Point the AWS SDK at https://t3.storage.dev with region auto; the stdio MCP README still shows the older fly.storage.tigris.dev endpoint
  2. Ask for an access key with a ReadOnly or ReadWrite role on one bucket rather than an org-wide key
  3. Keep presigned URLs short; Tigris accepts up to 90 days
  4. Don't call tigris_list_objects on a large bucket; it walks every object with no limit or prefix
  5. Use @tigrisdata/iam 2.6.0 or later before writing policies with conditions

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