# Affinity vs Copper API

> Affinity scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against Copper API's 46.7 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Copper API leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do crm records. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-08

Affinity scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against Copper API's 46.7 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Copper API leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do crm records.

- Affinity: grade B, 63.4/100, rank #311 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/affinity.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/affinity.json
- Copper API: grade D, 46.7/100, rank #642 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/copper.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/copper.json

## Which one, for what

### Affinity (B)

Good for: Venture capital, private equity and other private capital firms that already run Affinity and want an agent to read relationship strength, pipeline lists, notes and meetings, then update fields and log notes.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 91 against 48
- Agent ergonomics, 66 against 40
- Security & auth, 66 against 27
- Maintenance & community, 70 against 21

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine

Watch for: No self-serve access. Every plan button reads Contact sales, the Essential plan has no API, and trial accounts can't call the API

### Copper API (D)

Good for: Teams already on Copper and Google Workspace who want an agent to read and update deals and contacts through REST.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 79 against 64
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 10

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: No official MCP server, OpenAPI spec or llms.txt


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Affinity | Copper API | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 64 | 79 | Copper API +15 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 48 | Affinity +43 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 40 | Affinity +26 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 27 | Affinity +39 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 30 | Copper API +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 21 | Affinity +49 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 72 | Copper API +2 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **63.4 · B** | **46.7 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Affinity | Copper API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Project Affinity, Inc. | Copper |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.affinity.co/v2` | `https://api.copper.com/developer_api/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Affinity's master subscription agreement. The `affinity-mcp` package on PyPI is MIT | none |
| Tools exposed | 75 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-07-02 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2025-07-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-01 | 2026-05-11 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 268 PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 1.5/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**Affinity.** A public OpenAPI 3.1 file, dated API versions with migration notes and a hosted MCP server with a read-only OAuth scope give an agent a well-documented way in. Access needs a Scale plan at $2,300 a user a year, sold through sales, with no trial that includes the API, and 36 of the 112 v2 operations are marked beta.

**Copper API.** Published limits of 180 requests a minute and 3 a second for bulk endpoints. No official MCP server, OpenAPI spec or llms.txt.

## Before you call either

### Affinity

1. Send `X-Affinity-Api-Version: 2026-09-17` on every request, or the key's default version applies. Unauthenticated calls answered as 2024-01-01 when we checked
2. Read `x-ratelimit-limit-user-remaining` and `x-ratelimit-limit-org-remaining` on each response. The limits are 900 calls a minute per user and, below Enterprise, 100,000 a month per account, shared by v1, v2 and MCP
3. Follow `pagination.nextUrl` for the next page, and pass `fieldIds` or `fieldTypes` so list calls return only the fields needed
4. Check for duplicates before a create. There are no idempotency keys, so a retried POST can make a second record
5. For MCP, untick the write scope at OAuth consent when the task only reads. Treat note, transcript and file text as untrusted input

### Copper API

1. Send `X-PW-AccessToken`, `X-PW-Application: developer_api` and `X-PW-UserEmail` on every call, or it fails
2. Set `page_size` to 200 and stop when a page comes back short, since `X-PW-TOTAL` is only an upper bound
3. Back off on 429 on your own clock, since no Retry-After is documented
4. Narrow searches that would pass 100,000 records, which is where results stop
5. Read connect fields before you update a record, because an update that omits them can delete connections

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Affinity or Copper API?

Affinity scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against Copper API's 46.7 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Copper API leads on reliability and payments & pricing.

### Do Affinity and Copper API need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Affinity and Copper API without installing anything?

Yes. Affinity has a hosted endpoint at https://api.affinity.co/v2 and Copper API at https://api.copper.com/developer_api/v1.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-copper.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-copper.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "affinity", "b": "copper"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare affinity copper`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/affinity.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/copper.json

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