# Adyen MCP server vs Paid (slim)

> Adyen scores 60.3 (C) to Paid's 55.1 (C) for checkout. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Adyen MCP server scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Paid's 55.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Paid leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance & community. Both do checkout.

- Adyen MCP server: C 60.3, rank #520 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adyen-mcp-server.min.md
- Paid: C 55.1, rank #669 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paid.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 Reliability, 65 against 35; Schema & documentation, 73 against 64; Payments & pricing, 35 against 30; Transparency & trust, 83 against 51. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- Paid, good for A team selling an AI agent that needs usage metering, credit balances, cost and margin tracking and invoicing in one service, with Stripe as the payment rail. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 70 against 56; Maintenance & community, 77 against 42. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Adyen MCP server | Paid |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 73 | 64 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 56 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 42 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 83 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Adyen MCP server | Paid |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Adyen N.V. | Agent Paid Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.agentpaid.io/api/v2` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| 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 | Proprietary service under Paid's Master Subscription Agreement. The Node and Python SDKs on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 38 | none |
| Last release | 2026-08-24 | 2026-09-15 |
| Terms last updated | 2023-11-01 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-04 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 27 stars, 168 npm/wk | 24k npm/wk |