# Google Cloud Secret Manager vs Phase (slim)

> Google Cloud Secret Manager scores 76.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Phase's 68 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Phase leads on payments & pricing. Both do secrets store. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Google Cloud Secret Manager scores 76.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Phase's 68 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Phase leads on payments & pricing. Both do secrets store.

- Google Cloud Secret Manager: BB 76.5, rank #28 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-secret-manager.min.md
- Phase: B 68, rank #194 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/phase.min.md
- Google Cloud Secret Manager, good for Agents on GKE, Cloud Run or GCE that should read secrets through workload identity with per-secret, time-bound grants. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 83 against 58; Agent ergonomics, 82 against 56; Transparency & trust, 83 against 73. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- Phase, good for Small teams that want an open-source secrets manager hosted in the EU or self-hosted, with coding agents kept away from values through the CLI. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 25 against 20. Also Open source.

| Category | Google Cloud Secret Manager | Phase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 87 | 91 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 82 | 56 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 85 | 83 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 83 | 73 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Google Cloud Secret Manager | Phase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Google Cloud | Phi Security Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://secretmanager.googleapis.com/v1` | `https://api.phase.dev` |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (client libraries) | MIT outside the `ee/` directories, which are under the proprietary Phase Console Enterprise licence |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-14 | 2026-10-04 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-02 | 2025-10-06 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-03-11 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 4.2M npm/wk, 13.6M PyPI/wk | 928 stars, 2.5k npm/wk, 235 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.6/5 (8) | none |