# Keeper Secrets Manager vs Phase (slim)

> Keeper Secrets Manager scores 69.4 (B) on agent readiness against Phase's 68 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Phase leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do secrets store. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Keeper Secrets Manager scores 69.4 (B) on agent readiness against Phase's 68 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Phase leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do secrets store.

- Keeper Secrets Manager: B 69.4, rank #159 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/keeper-secrets-manager.min.md
- Phase: B 68, rank #194 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/phase.min.md
- Keeper Secrets Manager, good for Companies already on Keeper's business vault that want per-device machine identities with client-side decryption and an official MCP server. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 71 against 58; Agent ergonomics, 63 against 56; Maintenance & community, 92 against 83; Transparency & trust, 78 against 73. Also Runs on your own machine.
- 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 Reliability, 91 against 76; Payments & pricing, 25 against 20. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Open source.

| Category | Keeper Secrets Manager | Phase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 76 | 91 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 71 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 56 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 86 | 83 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 92 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 78 | 73 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Keeper Secrets Manager | Phase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Keeper Security, Inc. | Phi Security Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.phase.dev` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Keeper's SaaS Terms of Use. The SDKs, CLI, MCP server and agent kit on GitHub are MIT | MIT outside the `ee/` directories, which are under the proprietary Phase Console Enterprise licence |
| Tools exposed | 19 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-04 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2025-10-06 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-03-11 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 117 stars, 52k npm/wk, 45k PyPI/wk | 928 stars, 2.5k npm/wk, 235 PyPI/wk |