# Adam vs Autodesk Platform Services (slim)

> Adam scores 59.4 (C) to Autodesk Platform Services's 44.3 (E) for cad generate. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Adam scores 59.4 (C) on agent readiness against Autodesk Platform Services's 44.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Autodesk Platform Services leads on reliability. Both do cad generate.

- Adam: C 59.4, rank #630 of 1349 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adam-cad.min.md
- Autodesk Platform Services: E 44.3, rank #1154 of 1349 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autodesk-platform-services.min.md
- Adam, good for An agent that drives mechanical CAD work in Onshape, Fusion or SOLIDWORKS through a hosted engineering agent, or needs STEP and 3MF exports of Adam-stored models. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 81 against 59; Agent ergonomics, 82 against 52; Security & auth, 74 against 47; Payments & pricing, 15 against 0; Transparency & trust, 72 against 34. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Autodesk Platform Services, good for Agents that must process existing Autodesk files (Inventor, Revit, AutoCAD, Fusion) at scale with add-ins a team already has, or translate models for viewing. Ahead on Reliability, 52 against 35.

| Category | Adam | Autodesk Platform Services |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 52 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 59 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 82 | 52 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 74 | 47 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 15 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 55 | 53 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 34 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Adam | Autodesk Platform Services |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Adam AI Labs, Inc. | Autodesk |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://adam.new/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | Closed service under Adam's Terms of Service (Adam AI Labs, Inc., last updated 5 June 2026). The CADAM text-to-CAD web application is open source under GPL-3.0. | none |
| Tools exposed | none | 0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-16 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Popularity | 5.4k stars | none |

Why the edge:
- Transparency & trust, Adam +38: Adam 72 (Closed service under terms of 5 June 2026 that name Adam AI Labs, Inc. but state no governing law, refund or notice terms beyond email; CADAM is GPL-3.0 (13 of 30). The privacy policy of 24 October 2026 keeps data as long as needed, while the compliance page of 7 October 2026 gives 30-day deletion after closure, 7-day backups, no training on model inputs under the providers' commercial terms, and a DPA on request; the two agree where they overlap (20 of 30). Removals announced at least 90 days ahead with Deprecation and Sunset headers and changelog notices, though no removal has been recorded yet (16 of 20). Every subprocessor named with purpose, data and region, and data residency by category (18 of 20). 13 + 20 + 16 + 18 = 67.); Autodesk Platform Services 34 (Closed service. The APS terms of service are on www.autodesk.com and were not read, so terms clarity scores as absent (5 of 30). Privacy policy, data processing and retention statements are on the same host and unread (0 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices were readable; the docs pages that would carry them rendered empty (0 of 20). The status page names regional variants for the data APIs, which is the only location disclosure read; no subprocessor list was read (5 of 20). 5 + 0 + 0 + 5 = 10. These scores reflect what our reader could load, not a finding that the documents don't exist.)
- Agent ergonomics, Adam +30: Adam 82 (The docs name 15 adam_ tools plus displayFile and loadSkill, so 11 to 30 (15), and task tools are discovered per task with adam_list_task_tools rather than listed up front, which earns 8 back (23 of 25). Cursor pagination with limit 1 to 50, status and project filters on tasks, and message parts that admins can trim, though results of tool calls may be truncated without a size control (18 of 20). One error envelope with type, message and requestId, 402 and 403 that name the plan or scope at fault, and a recovery table for each direct-tool failure (18 of 20). Idempotency-Key required on every write that starts work, a 24-hour replay, cancel documented as safe to repeat, and an unknown status that tells the agent to inspect before retrying; deletes need confirmation, but readOnlyHint and destructiveHint annotations were not confirmed since tools/list was not read (16 of 20). Few required parameters, but no official SDK in any language (7 of 15). 23 + 18 + 18 + 16 + 7 = 82.); Autodesk Platform Services 52 (Data Management lists support filter and page parameters and Model Derivative returns per-object properties, so responses can be narrowed on the APIs with specs; the Automation API's job outputs are files (15 of 25). Pagination and filtering on the data APIs (15 of 20). Error responses are typed in the specs with reasons and the OSS spec explains 429, though the Automation API's error catalogue was unread (12 of 20). No idempotency key or safe-retry guidance was found; WorkItems are submitted and polled (0 of 20). Official SDKs in TypeScript (npm) and .NET (NuGet), but a Design Automation job needs an AppBundle, an Activity and a WorkItem and the add-in compiled against the desktop product (10 of 15). 15 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 52.)
- Security & auth, Adam +27: Adam 74 (OAuth 2.1 authorisation code with PKCE S256, automatic client registration, RFC 8707 resource indicators, refresh tokens, a revocation endpoint and 11 scopes, or a personal key minted for one workspace with chosen scopes and shown once; bearer header only, no query-string option (30). Read and change approved separately per area, `tools:execute` kept apart and blockable by an admin under Allow full harness execution, deletes behind confirmation, and access revoked at once from Connected apps. `tools:execute` is broad, covering commands, connected accounts, paired devices, stored credentials and billable tools (18 of 20). Task messages return the agent's output and tool results, which can include web search and connected-account content, and no prompt-injection guidance was found; per-user sandboxes isolate execution but do not address it (4 of 15). Connected apps are listed with revocation, every error carries a requestId and the billing summary reports usage, but no audit log for the operator was found (6 of 15). SOC 2 Type I approved with Type II in progress, a bug bounty of $10 to $100 per finding with a 90-day window and safe harbour, patch SLAs by CVSS severity, 72-hour incident notification, and no security.txt (16 of 20). 30 + 18 + 4 + 6 + 16 = 74.); Autodesk Platform Services 47 (OAuth 2.0 with client credentials and authorisation code flows and named scopes (data:read, data:write, data:create, bucket scopes, code:all) in the published Authentication v2 spec, plus Secure Service Accounts for server workloads (30). Read-only scopes exist; no confirmation step before destructive calls was found (12 of 20). The engines execute add-ins and scripts on uploaded design files, and no prompt-injection guidance for agents was found on the pages read (5 of 15). No audit log or per-call visibility was found on the pages read (0 of 15). Autodesk's trust and security pages are on www.autodesk.com, unread, and aps.autodesk.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 406, and no disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification was established from the pages read (0 of 20). 30 + 12 + 5 + 0 + 0 = 47.)
- Schema & documentation, Adam +22: Adam 81 (Public OpenAPI 3.1 for the REST API (adam.new/openapi.json and api.adam.new/openapi.json), a site spec for OAuth and MCP endpoints, and an MCP manifest. MCP tool schemas were not read, since tools/list needs a sign-in, though adam_list_task_tools is documented to return input schemas (20 of 25). llms.txt, a docs index at docs.adam.new/llms.txt, Markdown for every page on request through the Accept header, and a starter SKILL.md (10). The direct-tools page gives each MCP tool a purpose and its scopes, and OpenAPI descriptions state conditional requirements such as cron or runAt, but no tool definition says when not to use it (12 of 20). Enums for task status, limit 1 to 50, required fields and multipart file fields are typed; the component schemas past the first 100,000 characters were not read (11 of 15). Every operation documents 400 to 500 responses with one error envelope, and the API introduction carries curl and JSON examples (13 of 15). Versioned /v1 paths, Deprecation and Sunset headers with 90 days' notice, and a dated changelog, though its newest entry is 10 September 2026 (15). 20 + 10 + 12 + 11 + 13 + 15 = 81.); Autodesk Platform Services 59 (OpenAPI 3.0 specs for Authentication v2, Data Management, Model Derivative v2, OSS, Webhooks, Secure Service Accounts and Construction are public in the aps-sdk-openapi repository with every operation described; the Design Automation v3 API, the one the audit led with, has none there and its reference did not render (18 of 25). No llms.txt found and the docs are not served as Markdown (0). The specs state purpose per operation and the product pages explain the engines and workflow; the Automation API's own guide was unread (12 of 20). Typed schemas, enums and required fields in the specs read (11 of 15). The specs carry 429 and error responses with descriptions; examples in the guides were unread (8 of 15). APIs are versioned in the path (v2, v3), the specs carry versions 1.0 and 2.0 with dated commits, and the blog has a changelog topic, but no changelog page was readable (10 of 15). 18 + 0 + 12 + 11 + 8 + 10 = 59.)
- Reliability, Autodesk Platform Services +17: Adam 35 (Read with the hosted lines. status.adam.new exists and is linked from the docs, but it loads its components and history by script and nothing readable was served, so the page counts for half (10 of 20) and the incident record is unread (5). Rate limits are documented as two refilling buckets reported in RateLimit, RateLimit-Policy and X-RateLimit headers, with no numeric quota published (5 of 15). 429 carries Retry-After, and Idempotency-Key is required on task creation, messages and tool calls and replayed for 24 hours (15). No SLA found (0). The MCP server and the REST API are labelled beta, with breaking changes allowed (0 of 10). 10 + 5 + 5 + 15 + 0 + 0 = 35.); Autodesk Platform Services 52 (Read with the hosted lines. health.autodesk.com is an Atlassian Statuspage listing APS components (Automation API, Model Derivative, Data Management, Developer Portal, Webhooks and the data model APIs) with history feeds (20). The history page didn't render for our reader; the RSS feed holds 20 items from 22 October to 2 November 2026, none naming an APS component, so most of the 90-day window is unread (15 of 30). Rate limits and quotas are documented on pages under /en/docs that rendered as empty shells, so no number was read (0). The OSS spec documents 429 with an instruction to wait and lengthen the wait on each attempt; no Retry-After header or idempotency guidance was found (7 of 15). No SLA found on the pages read (0). The Automation API is a released product with no beta label on its overview (10). 20 + 15 + 0 + 7 + 0 + 10 = 52.)
- Payments & pricing, Adam +15: Adam 15 (Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). The pricing page's prices are drawn by script and were not readable; the Markdown version and the billing docs name Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise with no figure, so pricing is scored as unread (0 of 20, named in openQuestions). A Free plan with a daily usage pool and Lite models exists, and trials charge a saved card only when confirmed; whether Free needs a card is not stated (15 of 20). A person signs in with OAuth in a browser and picks a workspace (0). 0 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 15.); Autodesk Platform Services 0 (No x402, MPP or L402 in the specs or pages read (0). Pricing is on www.autodesk.com/products/autodesk-platform-services/overview#pricing, where aps.autodesk.com/pricing redirects; www.autodesk.com/robots.txt answered 403, so no price was read and the line scores as absent (0). A free trial is referred to on the developer pages, but its terms and whether a card is needed were on the unread pages (0). A person signs in to the developer portal to create the app that holds the client id and secret (0). 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0, the reading contentful, personio and coupa took on 7 October 2026 when their pricing pages were unreadable.)