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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, 1,000,000 quota units a minute a project and 325,000 a minute a user, with a 400,000,000-a-day threshold, and since 2026-05-01 quotas are counted in quota units with a 1 TB daily egress cap per Workspace user. 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. 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": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 78.6, "grade": "A", "agentReady": true, "rank": 12, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 35, "reliability": 90, "schema": 83, "security": 86, "transparency": 74 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "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.", "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 dashboard from 3 July to 1 October 2026, and a 99.9 per cent Workspace SLA that names Drive" ], "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", "expirationTime can't be set on domain or anyone shares, so a public link never expires on its own", "No llms.txt or Markdown 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"google-calendar-api", "gemini-cli" ], "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 of Service (last modified 2021-11-09) name Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-drive-api.json", "live": { "slug": "google-drive-api", "probe": { "target": "https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3", "method": "get", "lastAt": 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Keys can be scoped per bucket with ReadOnly, ReadWrite or Editor roles and IAM policies, and revoked or rotated. AssumeRole, STS and temporary credentials aren't supported, so every key lives until revoked. The hosted MCP server signs in with OAuth; the stdio server reads AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_ENDPOINT_URL_S3, or an AWS CLI profile.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free every month, 5 GB of Standard storage, 10,000 PUT, COPY, POST and LIST requests and 100,000 GET, SELECT and other requests. Beyond that, Standard $0.02 a GB-month, Infrequent Access $0.01 (30-day minimum, $0.01 a GB retrieval), Archive and Archive Instant Retrieval $0.004 (90-day minimum, $0.03 a GB instant retrieval). Class A requests $0.005 per 1,000, Class B $0.0005 per 1,000, deletes free, object notifications $0.01 per 1,000 events. Egress is free in every tier and region. Storage is metered on the average daily peak over the month (https://www.tigrisdata.com/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$0.005 / 1k req", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 4, "npmWeekly": 20, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/", "llmsTxt": "https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "storage.object", "storage.s3", "storage.presigned", "storage.share" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "s3-compatible", "freemium", "free-tier", "mcp", "oauth", "typescript", "llms-txt" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 44.6, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 404, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 53, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 30, "reliability": 35, "schema": 50, "security": 51, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-09-21. @tigrisdata/iam 2.6.0 fixed policy create, update and read dropping the Condition and Sid fields, so IP-restricted or time-limited policies made with Tigris's own SDK or CLI had silently become unrestricted. Fixed and documented in the changelog, so we deduct less (-3). https://github.com/tigrisdata/storage/blob/main/packages/iam/CHANGELOG.md" ], "verdict": "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.", "strengths": [ "No egress fees, and one endpoint (t3.storage.dev) with region auto for every location", "Access keys scoped per bucket with ReadOnly, ReadWrite or Editor roles, plus IAM policies, revocation and rotation", "Hosted MCP server at mcp.storage.dev with OAuth, and a local stdio server with 10 tools", "Bucket snapshots and copy-on-write forks, wrapped for agents in @tigrisdata/agent-kit", "Active MIT SDK monorepo, @tigrisdata/storage 3.22.0 on 30 September 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "16 status incidents between 4 July and 2 October 2026, including outages in US regions on 31 July and 2 August", "No STS or expiring keys; presigned URLs, which can run to 90 days, are the only short-lived credential", "No published rate limits, retry guidance, OpenAPI, product changelog or audit logs", "The stdio MCP server last released on 17 November 2025, lists whole buckets with no limit and carries no tool annotations", "@tigrisdata/iam dropped Condition fields from policies until 2.6.0 on 21 September 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "Ask for an access key with a ReadOnly or ReadWrite role on one bucket rather than an org-wide key", "Keep presigned URLs short; Tigris accepts up to 90 days", "Don't call tigris_list_objects on a large bucket; it walks every object with no limit or prefix", "Use @tigrisdata/iam 2.6.0 or later before writing policies with conditions" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 44.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 53, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 30, "reliability": 35, "schema": 50, "security": 51, "transparency": 52 }, "provenanceScore": 50 }, "connect": { "http": "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$TIGRIS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$TIGRIS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY \\\n aws s3 cp ./hello.txt s3://my-bucket/hello.txt \\\n --endpoint-url https://t3.storage.dev --region auto", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http tigris https://mcp.storage.dev/mcp --scope user", "config": { "mcpServers": { "tigris": { "args": [ "-y", "@tigrisdata/tigris-mcp-server", "run" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID": "${TIGRIS_ACCESS_KEY_ID}", "AWS_ENDPOINT_URL_S3": "https://t3.storage.dev", "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY": "${TIGRIS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY}" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/storage.object", "tool": "https://letme.dev/tigris" }, "area": "everyday", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Standard storage", "unit": "gb-month", "usd": 0.02, "note": "First 5 GB a month free" }, { "item": "Infrequent Access storage", "unit": "gb-month", "usd": 0.01, "note": "30-day minimum, $0.01 a GB retrieval" }, { "item": "Archive storage", "unit": "gb-month", "usd": 0.004, "note": "90-day minimum. Archive Instant Retrieval is the same rate plus $0.03 a GB retrieval" }, { "item": "Egress", "unit": "gb", "usd": 0 }, { "item": "Class A requests (PUT, COPY, POST, LIST)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.005, "note": "First 10,000 a month free" }, { "item": "Class B requests (GET, SELECT, other)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.0005, "note": "First 100,000 a month free" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Tigris Data Inc.", "domain": "tigrisdata.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/legal/service-terms/", "privacy": "https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/legal/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.tigrisdata.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The service agreement names Tigris Data Inc., 1250 Borregas Ave, #87, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, last updated 2024-12-26.", "The S3 endpoint is on storage.dev and the hosted MCP on mcp.storage.dev, not tigrisdata.com.", "www.tigrisdata.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "The domain's RDAP record couldn't be fetched on 2026-09-30 (the RDAP server rate-limited us), so the registration date is blank." ], "score": 50 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tigris.json", "live": { "slug": "tigris", "probe": { "target": "https://t3.storage.dev", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-05T02:30:03.66450661Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 135, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 155, "p95ms24h": 287, "samples24h": 273, "samples30d": 929, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 29, "ok": 29 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.tigrisdata.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T02:29:15.264938688Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "tigrisdata/tigris-mcp-server", "version": "v1.14.0", "released": "2025-11-17", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:41:54.881060386Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tigrisdata/storage", "version": "3.22.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:41:53.519245468Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tigrisdata/tigris-mcp-server", "version": "1.14.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:41:52.671246556Z" } ], "githubStars": 4, "npmWeekly": 15, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://tigrisdata.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:36.802389708Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:17.942052226Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "tigrisdata.com", "registered": "2021-09-28", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/tigrisdata.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:06:26.738654248Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.tigrisdata.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:52:30.927222957Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "31bb3b3a8224" }, { "url": "https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/legal/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 404, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:52:26.857408966Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/legal/service-terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 404, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:52:28.943575422Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T02:30:03.66450661Z" } }, "summary": "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." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-drive-api-vs-tigris", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-drive-api-vs-tigris.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-drive-api-vs-tigris.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-drive-api-vs-tigris.min.md" }, "markdown": "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.\n\n- Google Drive API + MCP: grade A, 78.6/100, rank #12 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-drive-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-drive-api.json\n- Tigris: grade E, 44.6/100, rank #404 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tigris.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tigris.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Google Drive API + MCP for reliability (+55), schema \u0026 documentation (+33), agent ergonomics (+32), security \u0026 auth (+35), payments \u0026 pricing (+5), maintenance \u0026 community (+8), transparency \u0026 trust (+23).\n\nPick Tigris for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Google Drive API + MCP | Tigris | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 35 | Google Drive API + MCP +55 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 50 | Google Drive API + MCP +33 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 53 | Google Drive API + MCP +32 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 86 | 51 | Google Drive API + MCP +35 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 30 | 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) | 85 | 77 | Google Drive API + MCP +8 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 51 | Google Drive API + MCP +23 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **78.6 · A** | **44.6 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Google Drive API + MCP | Tigris |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Google | Tigris Data |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3` | `https://t3.storage.dev` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 8 | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Popularity | 12k stars, 1.3M npm/wk, 29.8M PyPI/wk | 4 stars, 20 npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.4/5 (8) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\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**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.\n\n## Before you call either\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### Tigris\n\n1. 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\n2. Ask for an access key with a ReadOnly or ReadWrite role on one bucket rather than an org-wide key\n3. Keep presigned URLs short; Tigris accepts up to 90 days\n4. Don't call tigris_list_objects on a large bucket; it walks every object with no limit or prefix\n5. Use @tigrisdata/iam 2.6.0 or later before writing policies with conditions\n\n## Other comparisons with Google Drive API + MCP or Tigris\n\n- [Amazon S3 vs Google Drive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-s3-vs-google-drive-api.md)\n- [Backblaze B2 vs Google Drive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/backblaze-b2-vs-google-drive-api.md)\n- [Box API + MCP vs Tigris](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/box-api-vs-tigris.md)\n- [Cloudflare R2 vs Google Drive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-r2-vs-google-drive-api.md)\n- [Dropbox API + MCP vs Tigris](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropbox-api-vs-tigris.md)\n- [Amazon S3 vs Tigris](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-s3-vs-tigris.md)\n- [Backblaze B2 vs Tigris](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/backblaze-b2-vs-tigris.md)\n- [Bunny Storage vs Tigris](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bunny-storage-vs-tigris.md)\n- [Cloudflare R2 vs Tigris](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-r2-vs-tigris.md)\n- [Box API + MCP vs Google Drive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/box-api-vs-google-drive-api.md)\n- [Dropbox API + MCP vs Google Drive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dropbox-api-vs-google-drive-api.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-05", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.3", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Google Drive API + MCP vs Tigris", "url": "" } ], "description": "Google Drive API + MCP has a score of 78.6 (A) against Tigris's 44.6 (E). 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