# Adyen MCP server vs Lago (slim)

> Lago scores 65.7 (B) to Adyen's 60.3 (C) for card payments. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Lago scores 65.7 (B) on agent readiness against Adyen MCP server's 60.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Adyen MCP server leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do card payments.

- Adyen MCP server: C 60.3, rank #520 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adyen-mcp-server.min.md
- Lago: B 65.7, rank #311 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lago.min.md
- Adyen MCP server, good for An Adyen merchant's developer or operations staff who want an assistant to create payment links and sessions, look up terminals, webhooks, users and credentials, and change terminal settings, with a person watching writes. Ahead on Security & auth, 63 against 37; Transparency & trust, 83 against 59. Also Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Lago loses 3 points for them.
- Lago, good for A team that wants usage metering, plans, wallets and invoicing under its own control and can run PostgreSQL and Redis. Ahead on Reliability, 86 against 65; Schema & documentation, 87 against 73; Agent ergonomics, 71 against 56; Payments & pricing, 50 against 35; Maintenance & community, 91 against 42.

| Category | Adyen MCP server | Lago |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 86 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 73 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 56 | 71 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 37 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 42 | 91 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 83 | 59 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Adyen MCP server | Lago |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Adyen N.V. | Get Lago Corp. |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT for the server. The Adyen APIs it calls are a closed service under a merchant agreement and the Adyen Terms and Conditions | AGPL-3.0 (platform). The MCP server and agent SDKs are MIT. Premium capabilities and Lago Cloud are commercial |
| Tools exposed | 38 | none |
| Last release | 2026-08-24 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2023-11-01 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-04 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | yes |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 27 stars, 168 npm/wk | 11k stars, 48k npm/wk |