Best Google Drive MCP Server in 2026

Quick comparison: 7 Google Drive MCP servers

A Google Drive MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor list, read and write Drive files from a chat. The servers differ in how much of your Drive they can see, who hosts them and whether you need your own Google Cloud project. Every fact below comes from the vendor's own page, repository or documentation, opened November 10, 2026.

The self-hosted servers need your own Google Cloud OAuth client. The hosted ones sign you in with their own or Google's flow.

What is the best MCP server for Google Drive?

For marketing teams, Ryze AI is our first pick on one axis: Sheets and Docs work next to ad-account work, on a hosted connector with 7 Drive tools and no Google Cloud project. Disclosure: Ryze AI publishes this page and runs that connector, so each reason comes with its limit.

Setup is a Google sign-in. In the Ryze AI app you open Integrations, click Connect on the Google Drive card and approve access. Limit: the tools need an active Ryze AI plan or free trial; adding the connector itself is free.

Narrow access by design. The connection uses the drive.file scope, so Ryze AI only works with files you pick in the Google Drive picker or files it created. Limit: it does not search your whole Drive, and from Claude or ChatGPT you attach the file in the Ryze AI chat first.

Reads and writes both exist. 3 tools read (list files, read a file, read Sheet values) and 4 write (update Sheet values, append rows, create a file, write a Doc). Limit: no delete tool, Doc writes are plain text only, and one Google account connects per workspace.

Need Drive-wide search with Google's own permissions? The official Google server. Need every Workspace app from one self-hosted server? google_workspace_mcp. Need many other apps on one hosted account? Composio.

Side-by-side: scope, setup and tool counts

Scope is the question that matters most for Drive. A server that sees every file is more useful for search and riskier if a prompt goes wrong. None of these servers was connected for this page; counts are the ones each vendor publishes.

Google's official server asks for two scopes, drive.readonly and drive.file, so it can read your Drive broadly. Ryze AI asks only for drive.file. That is a smaller reach, and also a smaller feature set.

The best Google Drive MCP servers, ranked 1 to 4

1. Ryze AI

• What it does: hosted connector for Claude and ChatGPT with 7 Google Drive tools, on the same URL as the other Ryze AI platforms.
• Access: lists the files it can reach, reads Sheets (cell values), Docs and Slides (plain text) and text, CSV and JSON files, updates or appends Sheet values, creates Sheets, Docs and text files, and writes plain text into a Doc.
• Setup: connect Google Drive in the Ryze AI app, pick files with + > Attach files > Upload from Drive in chat, then add https://connector.get-ryze.ai/mcp in Claude or ChatGPT. See the Ryze AI help center.
• Price: Paid Ads is $89 a month with a 7-day free trial; the Drive tools work on any active plan or trial. Annual billing is 30% off the first year (pricing).
• Fits: marketers keeping keyword lists or reports in Sheets and Docs. Limit: picked files only, no delete tool, files over 10 MB and binary files are attached by name only.

2. Google Drive MCP (official)

• What it does: Google's own remote server at https://drivemcp.googleapis.com/mcp/v1, described in its Drive documentation as part of the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program.
• Access: 8 tools: search_files, list_recent_files, get_file_metadata, read_file_content, download_file_content, get_file_permissions, create_file and copy_file. It acts with the signed-in user's permissions.
• Setup: enable the Google Drive API and the Google Drive MCP API in a Google Cloud project, and create an OAuth client marked for use by an AI agent. Scopes are drive.readonly and drive.file.
• Price: the page states none and lists no quotas.
• Fits: teams with a Google Cloud project who want search across the whole Drive. Limit: preview status, and no tool edits Sheet cells or Doc text.

3. Composio

• What it does: hosted MCP platform; its Google Drive toolkit lists 92 tools and 7 triggers.
• Access: broad Drive operations, such as creating folders, per its examples. Several Drive accounts can be connected, and you name the account in each request.
• Setup: managed OAuth, so you sign in with your Google account and need no developer credentials. In Claude you pass the MCP URL and auth headers from a Composio session.
• Price: a free tier of 100,000 tool calls a month, of which 20,000 go through Composio-managed apps such as Drive; paid plans add usage and team features.
• Fits: teams that connect many apps through one vendor. Limit: a third party sits between Claude and your Drive, and 92 tools is a long menu to review.

4. taylorwilsdon/google_workspace_mcp

• What it does: open-source (MIT) server for 12 Google Workspace services; 3,502 stars and last pushed November 9, 2026 on the day checked.
• Access: 16 Drive tools covering search, create, share and Office file imports, within 120+ tools in total, per the README.
• Setup: create your own OAuth client in Google Cloud Console. Docker, stateless container and cloud deployments are described; there is no commercial hosted version.
• Price: free.
• Fits: developers who want Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Drive in one server. Limit: you host it and own the credentials, and the scopes you grant are broad.

Ranked 5 to 7: Docs-focused, automation and archived options

5. a-bonus/google-docs-mcp

• What it does: open-source (MIT) server centered on Docs and Sheets; 684 stars and last pushed October 26, 2026 on the day checked.
• Access: per its README, Docs text, comments and tables, Sheets cells, formatting and charts, Drive file and folder management and search, plus Gmail, Calendar and Apps Script.
• Setup: your own OAuth 2.0 Desktop client with the Docs, Sheets, Drive, Gmail and Calendar APIs enabled, run locally with npx, or on Cloud Run with a Web application client.
• Price: free.
• Fits: heavy Docs editing with formatting. Limit: self-hosted, and the Google project setup is yours to maintain.

6. Pipedream

• What it does: Pipedream lists a Google Drive MCP server on its app page, served from https://mcp.pipedream.net/v2.
• Access: the tool list showed a loading state when we opened the page, so what it can read or write is unverified.
• Setup: connect your Google account and choose your client app, per the page.
• Price: not stated on the page.
• Fits: people who already run Pipedream workflows. Limit: we could not confirm its tools, so it ranks below servers with published lists.

7. modelcontextprotocol gdrive (archived)

• What it does: the reference Drive server from the MCP project. Its repository was archived on May 29, 2025 and is read-only.
• Access: one search tool returning file names and types, with the drive.readonly scope.
• Setup: create a Google Cloud project, enable the Drive API, configure an OAuth consent screen, create Desktop credentials and run its auth command.
• Price: free, MIT license.
• Fits: reading an older tutorial. Limit: no maintenance and no write tools, so choose another server for new work.

Is there an official Google Drive MCP server?

Yes, in preview. Google documents a remote Drive MCP server at https://drivemcp.googleapis.com/mcp/v1 as part of its Workspace Developer Preview Program, with 8 tools and two scopes: drive.readonly and drive.file.

How to enable it. Turn on the Google Drive API (drive.googleapis.com) and the Google Drive MCP API (drivemcp.googleapis.com) in a Cloud project, then create an OAuth client with the option to use it for an AI-powered agent.

Claude's own connector. Anthropic's Google Drive connector help page says it is available for all users on Claude and Claude Desktop, with organization admins enabling it first on Team and Enterprise. It searches and retrieves Docs, reads Sheets, Slides, PDFs and Office files, and can create folders and save files. It is a built-in connector for Claude, not a server you can add to other clients.

What that means for you. Use the official server or Claude's connector for Drive-wide search under your own permissions. Use Ryze AI when the job is editing Sheet cells or Doc text on chosen files from the same chat that handles your ad accounts.

How to choose a Google Drive MCP server

Three questions settle it: how much of your Drive should the agent see, do you need it to edit Sheets and Docs, and who hosts it?

Marketer with keyword lists and reports in Sheets

Ryze AI for picked-file access with Sheet updates and Doc writes next to your ad accounts. For the analytics side, see the best MCP for Google Analytics.

Search across a whole Drive

Google Drive MCP or Claude's Drive connector. Both read with your own permissions, so review who can see what before you ask broad questions.

Developer who wants to self-host

google_workspace_mcp for the widest tool set, google-docs-mcp for Docs and Sheets formatting. Plan time for the Google Cloud OAuth setup.

Already on an automation platform

Composio if you want managed OAuth and many apps, Pipedream after you confirm its tool list. Ecommerce teams can compare the best MCP for Shopify.

Prompts to test a Google Drive MCP server

Run the same prompts on every server you shortlist, reads first. Replace the brackets with your own file names.

Returns the files the server can reach, which shows its real scope at once.

Returns cell values from the tab. Check the grouping against the Sheet itself.

Tests whether the server writes only after your go-ahead. Try it on a copy first.

Returns a link to the new Doc. More prompts: Google Drive with Ryze AI.

Safety checklist before you connect

A Sheet update overwrites cells, and a Doc write can replace the whole document. Test on copies before pointing an agent at a live file.

• Prefer narrow scopes. drive.file limits a server to files you pick or it created; drive.readonly exposes your whole Drive for reading.
• Require approval for writes. In Claude, set write tools to Needs approval under Customize > Connectors > Ryze AI > Tool permissions. In the Ryze AI chat the default is Skip all approvals; switch it to Approve write & delete or Manual approve in the Tool approvals picker.
• Use a copy for first runs. Doc writes can replace the whole document, and Sheet updates overwrite cell values, formulas included.
• Mind shared files. Servers that act with your permissions can read files other people shared with you.
• Revoke access in your Google account security settings when you stop using a server.

How we compared them

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The verdict

Pick by scope and by what the agent must edit. Google's server and Claude's connector suit Drive-wide search, Composio and Pipedream suit teams already on those platforms, and the open-source servers suit developers who will run Google Cloud credentials.

For reading and updating Sheets and Docs from Claude or ChatGPT next to ad-account work, Ryze AI is our pick; keep in mind that it reaches only files you pick, has no delete tool and you set the approval level for writes.