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A user-managed replication policy is charged per location; automatic replication counts as one (https://cloud.google.com/secret-manager/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$0.06 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 4224871, "pypiWeekly": 13586494, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/secret-manager/docs", "capabilities": [ "secrets.store", "secrets.rotate", "secrets.machine-identity", "secrets.audit", "infra.cloud" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "usage-priced", "free-tier", "card-required", "typescript", "python", "go", "enterprise", "eu" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 76.5, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 28, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 82, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 20, "reliability": 87, "schema": 83, "security": 85, "transparency": 83 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Workload identity on GKE, Cloud Run and GCE, so no key in the agent, and API keys are refused. Managed rotation only covers Cloud SQL; other rotation is a Pub/Sub notification you handle.", "bestFor": "Agents on GKE, Cloud Run or GCE that should read secrets through workload identity with per-secret, time-bound grants.", "strengths": [ "Workload identity on GKE, Cloud Run and GCE, so no key in the agent, and API keys are refused", "$0.06 a version a month and $0.03 per 10,000 accesses, with 6 versions and 10,000 accesses a month free", "IAM conditions and per-secret roles, with version_destroy_ttl to delay destruction", "Regional secrets for data residency and multi-region storage in US, EU, Canada and India", "99.95% SLA with credits, and five dated release notes between 12 July and 14 September 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Managed rotation only covers Cloud SQL; other rotation is a Pub/Sub notification you handle", "Secret reads are Data Access audit logs, which you have to enable", "Global secrets accept only 2 version writes a second, and AddSecretVersion has no request ID for safe retries", "No llms.txt and no Secret Manager MCP server", "Off Google Cloud you need a service account key or workload identity federation, and a billing account with a card" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pin to a version number in production and use versions/latest only in development, since latest moves when anyone adds a version", "Grant roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor on the individual secret and add an IAM condition with an expiry for a short-lived agent", "Turn on Data Access audit logs for secretmanager.googleapis.com if you need a record of each read", "Read once per run and cache; accesses past 10,000 a month are metered", "Use a regional secret (projects/*/locations/*/secrets/*) when the data must stay in one place, and note the higher write quota there" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 8, "avgRating": 3.6, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 76.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 82, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 20, "reliability": 87, "schema": 83, "security": 85, "transparency": 69 }, "provenanceScore": 97 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install google-cloud-secret-manager # 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Keeper Secrets Manager leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "keeper-secrets-manager", "name": "Keeper Secrets Manager", "vendor": "Keeper Security, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.keepersecurity.com/secrets-manager.html", "kind": "http-api", "category": "secrets", "summary": "Keeper Secrets Manager is a cloud vault for infrastructure secrets, sold as an add-on to Keeper Security's business password manager. Applications read secrets through SDKs in seven languages, the `ksm` CLI or a local MCP server, decrypting on the client.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/keeper-secrets-manager", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Keeper-Security/secrets-manager", "license": "Proprietary service under Keeper's SaaS Terms of Use. The SDKs, CLI, MCP server and agent kit on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "keeper-secrets-manager-core" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "keeper-secrets-manager-cli" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@keeper-security/secrets-manager-core" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Access is granted by a person. A vault user whose role allows it creates a Secrets Manager application, shares folders or records with it, and adds a client device, which yields a one-time access token or a Base64 configuration. The client redeems the token once, registers its own ECC public key and signs every later request with the private key, so no bearer secret is reused. Devices are IP-locked by default, can be given an access expiry and are revoked individually.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Secrets Manager is an add-on to Keeper's business password manager plans, licensed per user per year, and included with KeeperPAM. The add-ons page shows Custom Pricing and Request a Quote for it, so there is no public figure. A 14-day business trial needs no credit card and can enable Secrets Manager, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. Base plan prices are drawn by script and were blank to our reader (https://www.keepersecurity.com/pricing/business-add-ons/, https://www.keepersecurity.com/trial/keeper-free-trial/, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Secrets Manager docs, the SDK repository or the pricing pages (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 19, "popularity": { "githubStars": 117, "npmWeekly": 52332, "pypiWeekly": 45154, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.keeper.io/en/keeperpam/secrets-manager/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.keeper.io/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "secrets.store", "secrets.machine-identity", "secrets.audit", "secrets.rotate" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "enterprise", "zero-knowledge", "mcp", "cli", "python", "javascript", "java", "go", "dotnet", "ruby", "rust", "llms-txt", "sales-led", "status-page", "bug-bounty", "soc2", "fedramp" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.4, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 159, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 92, "payments": 20, "reliability": 76, "schema": 71, "security": 86, "transparency": 78 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Each client device signs requests with its own key, is locked to an IP address by default and can be revoked alone, and secrets decrypt only on the client. The add-on has no public price, no request limits were found in the reviewed documentation, and a person must create the application and device in the vault.", "bestFor": "Companies already on Keeper's business vault that want per-device machine identities with client-side decryption and an official MCP server.", "strengths": [ "Each device registers its own ECC key from a one-time token, is IP-locked by default and can be revoked alone", "Secrets decrypt on the client. Keeper's cloud stores and sends ciphertext only, per the encryption model page", "An application sees only the shared folders and records assigned to it, read-only unless shared as editable", "Official MIT MCP server with 19 typed tools, masked values by default and confirmation for writes, deletes and unmasking", "SDKs for Python, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Go, Ruby and Rust in one MIT repository, with 5 tagged releases since 15 September 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Secrets Manager is priced by quote. The add-ons page shows Custom Pricing and Request a Quote", "No request limits were found in the reviewed documentation. Throttling arrives as HTTP 403 with `{\"error\":\"throttled\"}`", "No OpenAPI or documented raw HTTP use for `/api/rest/sm/v1`. The SDKs are the only supported route", "The Node MCP guide links a GitHub repository that returned 404 on 8 October 2026", "Rotation needs a KeeperPAM licence and a Keeper Gateway, and access events are read in the separately sold reporting module" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the vault owner for a new device on an application that holds only the folders the task needs. Use the Base64 configuration, not the first one-time token", "Run commands under `ksm exec` so secrets arrive as environment variables and stay out of the model's context", "Expect HTTP 403 with `{\"error\":\"throttled\"}` under load. The Python SDK retries five times from 11 seconds, so allow for long waits", "A device is locked to the IP address it first connects from unless it was created with `--unlock-ip`. Check this before running from a dynamic address", "Leave `--auto-approve` off on the MCP server. It removes confirmation for deletes and for unmasking values" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 69.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 92, "payments": 20, "reliability": 76, "schema": 71, "security": 86, "transparency": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 98 }, "connect": { "install": "pip3 install keeper-secrets-manager-cli # or: pip3 install keeper-secrets-manager-core, npm install @keeper-security/secrets-manager-core", "http": "ksm profile init XX:XXXX # one-time access token from the vault\nksm secret list # values decrypt on the client, so plain curl can't read them", "claudeCode": "/plugin marketplace add Keeper-Security/keeper-agent-kit\n/plugin install keeper-secrets@keeper-security", "config": { "mcpServers": { "ksm": { "args": [ "run", "-i", "--rm", "-e", "KSM_CONFIG_BASE64=YOUR_BASE64_CONFIG_STRING_HERE", "keeper/keeper-mcp-server:latest" ], "command": "docker" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/secrets.store", "tool": "https://letme.dev/keeper-secrets-manager" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Keeper Security, Inc.", "domain": "keepersecurity.com", "domainRegistered": "2007-04-12", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.keepersecurity.com/legal/terms-of-use/#saas-terms", "privacy": "https://www.keepersecurity.com/legal/terms-of-use/?s=privacy", "statusPage": "https://statuspage.keeper.io", "changelog": "https://docs.keeper.io/release-notes/enterprise/keeper-secrets-manager/2026", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "Keeper publishes its website terms, SaaS Terms of Use, partner terms, privacy policy and Service Level Objectives as sections of one page at www.keepersecurity.com/legal/terms-of-use/. The SaaS section governs the service and the `?s=privacy` view is the privacy policy. The old `/termsofuse.html` and `/privacypolicy.html` addresses redirect there.", "The SaaS terms name Keeper Security, Inc., 311 W. Monroe Street, Suite 406, Chicago, IL 60606, with Keeper Security EMEA Limited and Keeper Security APAC KK for other regions. The page links legacy terms for the period before 9 March 2026.", "The SaaS terms forbid a customer to perform penetration or load testing on the services, and the website terms prohibit scraping or automated data collection on the website.", "www.keepersecurity.com/.well-known/security.txt answers with a Bugcrowd contact and Expires 2026-12-31T23:59:59Z.", "The SDKs call https://\u003cregion host\u003e/api/rest/sm/v1, where the host is keepersecurity.com, keepersecurity.eu, keepersecurity.com.au, keepersecurity.ca, keepersecurity.jp or govcloud.keepersecurity.us.", "The status page and the docs sit on keeper.io. statuspage.keeper.io is Atlassian Statuspage with a Keeper Secrets Manager component.", "RDAP for keepersecurity.com gives a registration date of 2007-04-12." ], "score": 98 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.json", "live": { "slug": "keeper-secrets-manager", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://statuspage.keeper.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:10.265244465Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:10.265244465Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Google Cloud", "b": "Keeper Security, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://secretmanager.googleapis.com/v1", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0 (client libraries)", "b": "Proprietary service under Keeper's SaaS Terms of Use. The SDKs, CLI, MCP server and agent kit on GitHub are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "19", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-14", "b": "2026-10-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-09-02", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "4.2M npm/wk, 13.6M PyPI/wk", "b": "117 stars, 52k npm/wk, 45k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.6/5 (8)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Google Cloud Secret Manager scores 76.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Keeper Secrets Manager's 69.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Keeper Secrets Manager leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Google Cloud Secret Manager or Keeper Secrets Manager?" }, { "answer": "Google Cloud Secret Manager uses an OAuth sign-in. Keeper Secrets Manager needs an API key.", "question": "Do Google Cloud Secret Manager and Keeper Secrets Manager need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Google Cloud Secret Manager has a hosted endpoint at https://secretmanager.googleapis.com/v1. Keeper Secrets Manager runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.", "question": "Can an agent call Google Cloud Secret Manager and Keeper Secrets Manager without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 87 against 76", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 71", "Agent ergonomics, 82 against 63", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 83 against 78" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Agents on GKE, Cloud Run or GCE that should read secrets through workload identity with per-secret, time-bound grants.", "slug": "google-secret-manager", "watchFor": "Managed rotation only covers Cloud SQL; other rotation is a Pub/Sub notification you handle" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Maintenance \u0026 community, 92 against 87" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "Companies already on Keeper's business vault that want per-device machine identities with client-side decryption and an official MCP server.", "slug": "keeper-secrets-manager", "watchFor": "Secrets Manager is priced by quote. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/keeper-secrets-manager-vs-phase" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/keeper-secrets-manager-vs-pulumi-esc.json", "title": "Keeper Secrets Manager vs Pulumi ESC", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/keeper-secrets-manager-vs-pulumi-esc" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 11, "edge": "google-secret-manager", "google-secret-manager": 87, "keeper-secrets-manager": 76, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "google-secret-manager", "google-secret-manager": 83, "keeper-secrets-manager": 71, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 19, "edge": "google-secret-manager", "google-secret-manager": 82, "keeper-secrets-manager": 63, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "keeper-secrets-manager", "google-secret-manager": 85, 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Keeper Secrets Manager leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do secrets store.", "verdicts": { "google-secret-manager": "Workload identity on GKE, Cloud Run and GCE, so no key in the agent, and API keys are refused. Managed rotation only covers Cloud SQL; other rotation is a Pub/Sub notification you handle.", "keeper-secrets-manager": "Each client device signs requests with its own key, is locked to an IP address by default and can be revoked alone, and secrets decrypt only on the client. The add-on has no public price, no request limits were found in the reviewed documentation, and a person must create the application and device in the vault." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-secret-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-secret-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-secret-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-secret-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.min.md" }, "markdown": "Google Cloud Secret Manager scores 76.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Keeper Secrets Manager's 69.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Keeper Secrets Manager leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do secrets store.\n\n- Google Cloud Secret Manager: grade BB, 76.5/100, rank #28 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-secret-manager.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-secret-manager.json\n- Keeper Secrets Manager: grade B, 69.4/100, rank #159 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Google Cloud Secret Manager (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents on GKE, Cloud Run or GCE that should read secrets through workload identity with per-secret, time-bound grants.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 87 against 76\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 71\n- Agent ergonomics, 82 against 63\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 83 against 78\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Managed rotation only covers Cloud SQL; other rotation is a Pub/Sub notification you handle\n\n### Keeper Secrets Manager (B)\n\nGood for: Companies already on Keeper's business vault that want per-device machine identities with client-side decryption and an official MCP server.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 92 against 87\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: Secrets Manager is priced by quote. The add-ons page shows Custom Pricing and Request a Quote\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Google Cloud Secret Manager | Keeper Secrets Manager | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 87 | 76 | Google Cloud Secret Manager +11 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 71 | Google Cloud Secret Manager +12 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 63 | Google Cloud Secret Manager +19 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 85 | 86 | Keeper Secrets Manager +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 87 | 92 | Keeper Secrets Manager +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 78 | Google Cloud Secret Manager +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **76.5 · BB** | **69.4 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Google Cloud Secret Manager | Keeper Secrets Manager |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Google Cloud | Keeper Security, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://secretmanager.googleapis.com/v1` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (client libraries) | Proprietary service under Keeper's SaaS Terms of Use. The SDKs, CLI, MCP server and agent kit on GitHub are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 19 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-14 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-02 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 4.2M npm/wk, 13.6M PyPI/wk | 117 stars, 52k npm/wk, 45k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.6/5 (8) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Google Cloud Secret Manager.** Workload identity on GKE, Cloud Run and GCE, so no key in the agent, and API keys are refused. Managed rotation only covers Cloud SQL; other rotation is a Pub/Sub notification you handle.\n\n**Keeper Secrets Manager.** Each client device signs requests with its own key, is locked to an IP address by default and can be revoked alone, and secrets decrypt only on the client. The add-on has no public price, no request limits were found in the reviewed documentation, and a person must create the application and device in the vault.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Google Cloud Secret Manager\n\n1. Pin to a version number in production and use versions/latest only in development, since latest moves when anyone adds a version\n2. Grant roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor on the individual secret and add an IAM condition with an expiry for a short-lived agent\n3. Turn on Data Access audit logs for secretmanager.googleapis.com if you need a record of each read\n4. Read once per run and cache; accesses past 10,000 a month are metered\n5. Use a regional secret (projects/*/locations/*/secrets/*) when the data must stay in one place, and note the higher write quota there\n\n### Keeper Secrets Manager\n\n1. Ask the vault owner for a new device on an application that holds only the folders the task needs. Use the Base64 configuration, not the first one-time token\n2. Run commands under `ksm exec` so secrets arrive as environment variables and stay out of the model's context\n3. Expect HTTP 403 with `{\"error\":\"throttled\"}` under load. The Python SDK retries five times from 11 seconds, so allow for long waits\n4. A device is locked to the IP address it first connects from unless it was created with `--unlock-ip`. Check this before running from a dynamic address\n5. Leave `--auto-approve` off on the MCP server. It removes confirmation for deletes and for unmasking values\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Google Cloud Secret Manager or Keeper Secrets Manager?\n\nGoogle Cloud Secret Manager scores 76.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Keeper Secrets Manager's 69.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Keeper Secrets Manager leads on maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Google Cloud Secret Manager and Keeper Secrets Manager need an API key?\n\nGoogle Cloud Secret Manager uses an OAuth sign-in. Keeper Secrets Manager needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Google Cloud Secret Manager and Keeper Secrets Manager without installing anything?\n\nGoogle Cloud Secret Manager has a hosted endpoint at https://secretmanager.googleapis.com/v1. Keeper Secrets Manager runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-secret-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-secret-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"google-secret-manager\", \"b\": \"keeper-secrets-manager\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare google-secret-manager keeper-secrets-manager`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-secret-manager.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Google Cloud Secret Manager or Keeper Secrets Manager\n\n- [1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP vs Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-google-secret-manager.md)\n- [1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP vs Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1password-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md)\n- [Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) vs Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akeyless-vs-google-secret-manager.md)\n- [Akeyless (SecretlessAI and MCP server) vs Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akeyless-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-google-secret-manager.md)\n- [AWS Secrets Manager vs Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aws-secrets-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md)\n- [Azure Key Vault vs Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-key-vault-vs-google-secret-manager.md)\n- [Azure Key Vault vs Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-key-vault-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md)\n- [Bitwarden Secrets Manager vs Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitwarden-secrets-manager-vs-google-secret-manager.md)\n- [Bitwarden Secrets Manager vs Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bitwarden-secrets-manager-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md)\n- [Doppler vs Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/doppler-vs-google-secret-manager.md)\n- [Doppler vs Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/doppler-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md)\n- [Google Cloud Secret Manager vs HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-secret-manager-vs-hashicorp-vault.md)\n- [Google Cloud Secret Manager vs Infisical](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-secret-manager-vs-infisical.md)\n- [Google Cloud Secret Manager vs Phase](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-secret-manager-vs-phase.md)\n- [Google Cloud Secret Manager vs Pulumi ESC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-secret-manager-vs-pulumi-esc.md)\n- [HashiCorp Vault + Vault MCP Server vs Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hashicorp-vault-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md)\n- [Infisical vs Keeper Secrets Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/infisical-vs-keeper-secrets-manager.md)\n- [Keeper Secrets Manager vs Phase](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/keeper-secrets-manager-vs-phase.md)\n- [Keeper Secrets Manager vs Pulumi ESC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/keeper-secrets-manager-vs-pulumi-esc.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-08", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "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 Cloud Secret Manager vs Keeper Secrets Manager", "url": "" } ], "description": "Google Cloud Secret Manager scores 76.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Keeper Secrets Manager's 69.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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