# Adyen MCP server vs Orb (slim)

> Orb scores 66.5 (B) to Adyen's 60.3 (C) for card payments. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Orb scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Adyen MCP server's 60.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Adyen MCP server leads on security & auth, payments & pricing 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
- Orb: B 66.5, rank #289 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb.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 55; Payments & pricing, 35 against 5; Transparency & trust, 83 against 65. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- Orb, good for A software or AI company that bills on usage and needs event metering, plan versioning, prepaid credits, invoicing and revenue reporting behind one API, with Stripe or Adyen collecting the money. Ahead on Reliability, 77 against 65; Schema & documentation, 88 against 73; Agent ergonomics, 84 against 56; Maintenance & community, 82 against 42. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Adyen MCP server | Orb |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 77 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 73 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 56 | 84 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 5 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 42 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 83 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Adyen MCP server | Orb |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Adyen N.V. | Orb, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.withorb.com/v1` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| Licence | MIT for the server. The Adyen APIs it calls are a closed service under a merchant agreement and the Adyen Terms and Conditions | Proprietary service under Orb's Platform Terms and Conditions. The SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 38 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-08-24 | 2026-10-09 |
| Terms last updated | 2023-11-01 | 2024-11-13 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-04 | 2025-05-07 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 27 stars, 168 npm/wk | 5 stars, 185k npm/wk |