{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "affinity", "name": "Affinity", "vendor": "Project Affinity, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.affinity.co", "kind": "http-api", "category": "crm", "summary": "Affinity is a relationship CRM for venture capital and private equity firms, from Project Affinity, Inc. Agents reach it through a versioned REST API with a public OpenAPI file and a hosted MCP server, on the Scale plan and above.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/affinity", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/affinity.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/affinity.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/affinity.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Affinity's master subscription agreement. The `affinity-mcp` package on PyPI is MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.affinity.co/v2", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "affinity-mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A paying customer's user makes an API key in Settings, Manage Apps, which needs the Generate an API key permission from the firm's admin. API v2 takes the key as a Bearer token. A key acts with all of its owner's permissions, has no scopes or expiry, can be revoked, and can be tied to an IP allowlist. The hosted MCP server takes OAuth 2.0 through login.affinity.co, with a read-only choice at consent, or the same API key in an `Authorization` header. There is no self-serve signup. Outside developers building for shared customers sign the Affinity Developer Agreement.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "From $2,300 a user a year (Scale), the lowest plan with the API and the MCP server. Essential is $2,000 without either, Advanced $2,700, Enterprise on quote, all billed yearly and bought through sales. Scale and Advanced include 100,000 API calls a month, MCP calls counted in, and Enterprise has no monthly cap. No free tier or sandbox was found, and trial accounts can't use the API (https://www.affinity.co/product/affinity-pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$191.67 / seat-mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the OpenAPI file or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 75, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 268, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.affinity.co", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.affinity.co/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developer.affinity.co/api-reference/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "crm.records", "crm.pipeline", "crm.activities", "crm.search", "crm.webhooks" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "paid", "sales-led", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "closed-source", "python", "status-page", "soc2", "iso27001", "private-capital" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-02", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.4, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 311, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 10, "reliability": 64, "schema": 91, "security": 66, "transparency": 70 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.1.1 files for three dated versions (2024-01-01, 2026-07-15, 2026-09-17), 112 operations in the newest, plus `llms.txt` and Markdown copies of every docs page", "Breaking changes ship only in new dated versions, selected per key or per request with `X-Affinity-Api-Version`, each with written migration steps", "Hosted MCP server at `https://mcp.affinity.co/mcp` takes OAuth with a read-only scope chosen at consent, and admins can switch off any AI client for the whole firm", "Every MCP delete and merge shows what it will affect and waits for confirmation, and the `affinity-mcp` 0.5.1 package sets `readOnlyHint` and `destructiveHint` on its tools", "Dated API changelog with eight entries between 5 August and 2 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "No self-serve access. Every plan button reads Contact sales, the Essential plan has no API, and trial accounts can't call the API", "36 of 112 v2 operations are beta, among them create person, the three search endpoints and webhooks, and the docs say beta endpoints can break without notice or versioning", "API keys carry their owner's full permissions with no per-key scopes or expiry. An IP allowlist is the only narrowing", "No idempotency keys and no Retry-After or backoff guidance found. Scale and Advanced plans stop at 100,000 calls a month across API and MCP", "The hosted MCP server lists 75 tools and skills and returns notes, transcripts and files, with no prompt-injection guidance found", "The published master terms forbid using the product or Affinity Data for machine learning or natural language processing, and forbid publishing benchmarks" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "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", "Follow `pagination.nextUrl` for the next page, and pass `fieldIds` or `fieldTypes` so list calls return only the fields needed", "Check for duplicates before a create. There are no idempotency keys, so a retried POST can make a second record", "For MCP, untick the write scope at OAuth consent when the task only reads. Treat note, transcript and file text as untrusted input" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 63.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 10, "reliability": 64, "schema": 91, "security": 66, "transparency": 64 }, "provenanceScore": 75 }, "connect": { "install": "uvx affinity-mcp", "http": "curl https://api.affinity.co/v2/persons -H \"Authorization: Bearer \u003cYOUR_API_KEY\u003e\" -H \"X-Affinity-Api-Version: 2026-09-17\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http affinity-mcp https://mcp.affinity.co/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "affinity-mcp": { "args": [ "affinity-mcp" ], "command": "uvx", "env": { "AFFINITY_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/crm.records", "tool": "https://letme.dev/affinity" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Scale", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 191.67, "note": "$2,300 a user a year, billed yearly. Lowest plan with the API and MCP, 100,000 calls a month" }, { "item": "Advanced", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 225, "note": "$2,700 a user a year, billed yearly. 100,000 calls a month" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Project Affinity, Inc.", "domain": "affinity.co", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6372644369a530caa8c39dfc/69aa97b4ff59044c68b6df92_Affinity%20MSA%20-%202025-10-30%2C%20v2025.2%20%5BNO%20SIG%5D.pdf?v=2", "privacy": "https://www.affinity.co/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.affinity.co", "changelog": "https://developer.affinity.co/pages/changelog/previous-changes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The master subscription agreement (v2025.2, listed as updated 30 October 2025) names Project Affinity, Inc., a Delaware corporation at 182 Howard Street, PMB #3, San Francisco, CA 94105. It is the customer contract, published as a PDF linked from https://www.affinity.co/legal.", "Outside developers building for shared customers are governed by the Affinity Developer Agreement (v2025.1, listed as updated 18 September 2025), also linked from the legal page. The page at /legal/terms-of-use is the website terms of 16 July 2018 and is not used here.", "The privacy policy is marked updated July 2026 and covers personal data gathered through the services. Customer data is handled under the DPA (March 2025 online terms).", "The API answers at api.affinity.co and the hosted MCP server at mcp.affinity.co, both on the vendor's domain.", "https://www.affinity.co/.well-known/security.txt and https://affinity.co/.well-known/security.txt both returned 404.", "Domain registration date not established. The three RDAP services we tried returned 404 or no answer for affinity.co." ], "score": 75 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/affinity.json", "live": { "slug": "affinity", "probe": { "target": "https://api.affinity.co/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:03.005524603Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 428, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 457, "p95ms24h": 488, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.affinity.co", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:05:50.505819253Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:03.005524603Z" } }, "answer": "Affinity scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against Nutshell's 49.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Nutshell leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "nutshell", "name": "Nutshell", "vendor": "Nutshell, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.nutshell.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "crm", "summary": "Nutshell is a sales CRM for small teams, with email marketing and quoting built in. Agents reach it through a REST API at `app.nutshell.com/rest`, a legacy JSON-RPC API, webhooks and a hosted read-only MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nutshell", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nutshell.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nutshell.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nutshell.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Nutshell's Terms of Service", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.nutshell.com/rest", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "REST and JSON-RPC use HTTP Basic over HTTPS, with a Nutshell user's email as the username and an API key as the password. An admin creates keys under Setup, API keys, and chooses a permission type, one of which allows impersonating any user. Keys have no scopes. The MCP server at `https://app.nutshell.com/mcp` uses OAuth authorisation code with PKCE (S256), dynamic client registration at `/oauth/register`, a revocation endpoint and two scopes, `read` and `write`. Access is self-serve on every plan and the trial.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No free plan. A 14-day trial needs no card, and the API and MCP server are included on every plan. Five plans a seat a month billed yearly, Foundation $13, Growth $25, Pro $42, Business $59 and Enterprise $79, or $19, $32, $49, $67 and $89 billed monthly. API calls are not billed separately. The docs publish sandbox credentials for a demo account (https://www.nutshell.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$13 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the OAuth metadata or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.nutshell.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.nutshell.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "crm.records", "crm.pipeline", "crm.activities", "crm.search", "crm.webhooks" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "mcp", "oauth", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "no-card", "status-page", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 49.6, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 607, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 44, "maintenance": 46, "payments": 35, "reliability": 42, "schema": 57, "security": 58, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The REST reference is served as Markdown with an OpenAPI fragment per operation, and the hosted MCP server uses OAuth with PKCE and can only read. No rate limit numbers, error format or API changelog were found in the reviewed documentation, and API keys carry no scopes.", "bestFor": "Small sales teams already on Nutshell who want an agent to read pipeline data over MCP or write records over REST at a low seat price.", "strengths": [ "API access and the MCP server are included on every plan, from Foundation at $13 a seat a month billed yearly", "`developers.nutshell.com/llms.txt` indexes 114 REST operations, each served as Markdown with its OpenAPI 3.0 definition", "Hosted MCP server at `https://app.nutshell.com/mcp` with OAuth, PKCE, dynamic client registration, a revocation endpoint and read-only tools", "Terms and privacy policy of 2 June 2026 both state that customer data is not used to train generalised AI models", "14-day trial with no card, and the docs publish sandbox credentials for a demo account" ], "weaknesses": [ "No rate limit numbers, 429 handling or Retry-After found for the REST API", "Error responses are documented on 9 of 114 operations, with no error body schema, and an unauthenticated REST call returns an HTML page", "API keys have no scopes or read-only type, and the key travels as an HTTP Basic password with a user's email", "No dated API changelog, no official SDK for REST and whole-spec OpenAPI download is disabled", "A database fault on 28 September 2026 left the application unavailable for some customers, marked major on the status page" ], "agentNotes": [ "Authenticate REST calls with HTTP Basic, a Nutshell user's email as username and the API key as password, against `https://app.nutshell.com/rest`", "Use IDs in the `\u003cnumber\u003e-\u003ctype\u003e` form, such as `3-accounts`, and send updates as JSON Patch with `content-type: application/json-patch+json`", "Page lists with `page[limit]` and `page[page]`, which is 0-based, and call `/accounts/list/fields` or the lead and contact equivalents for valid filter keys", "Use the REST API for writes. The MCP server only reads, and OAuth tokens need the `read` scope", "Filter webhook events yourself, because every webhook receives all events and subscriptions are created in Setup, not through the API" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 49.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 44, "maintenance": 46, "payments": 35, "reliability": 42, "schema": 57, "security": 58, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 86 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -u \"$NUTSHELL_USER_EMAIL:$NUTSHELL_API_KEY\" \\\n --url https://app.nutshell.com/rest/accounts \\\n --header 'accept: */*'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/crm.records", "tool": "https://letme.dev/nutshell" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Foundation (API and MCP included, 100 open leads)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 13, "note": "billed yearly; $19 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Growth", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 25, "note": "billed yearly; $32 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Pro", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 42, "note": "billed yearly; $49 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Business (first plan with the audit log)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 59, "note": "billed yearly; $67 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Enterprise (SSO and SQL access)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 79, "note": "billed yearly; $89 billed monthly" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Nutshell, Inc.", "domain": "nutshell.com", "domainRegistered": "1995-05-02", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.nutshell.com/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://www.nutshell.com/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.nutshell.com", "changelog": "https://www.nutshell.com/product-updates", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (last updated 2 June 2026) name Nutshell, Inc., 1705 North Front Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102, cover the applications and APIs, and are governed by Pennsylvania law. The site footer says Nutshell is brought to you by WebFX.", "The REST API, the JSON-RPC API and the MCP server all answer at app.nutshell.com.", "www.nutshell.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The security page asks for reports at security@nutshell.com and says there is no bug bounty.", "The product updates page lists launches without dates and is not an API changelog. No dated API changelog was found.", "The subprocessor list is at trust.nutshell.com/subprocessors, a page drawn by script that we could not read.", "RDAP for nutshell.com gives a registration date of 1995-05-02." ], "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nutshell.json", "live": { "slug": "nutshell", "probe": { "target": "https://app.nutshell.com/rest", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:17.00492712Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 254, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 270, "p95ms24h": 310, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.nutshell.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:13.221021272Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:17.00492712Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Project Affinity, Inc.", "b": "Nutshell, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.affinity.co/v2", "b": "https://app.nutshell.com/rest", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Affinity's master subscription agreement. The `affinity-mcp` package on PyPI is MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under Nutshell's Terms of Service", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "75", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-02", "b": "2026-08-21", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "", "b": "2026-06-02", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-07-01", "b": "2026-06-02", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "268 PyPI/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Affinity scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against Nutshell's 49.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Nutshell leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Affinity or Nutshell?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Affinity and Nutshell need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Affinity has a hosted endpoint at https://api.affinity.co/v2 and Nutshell at https://app.nutshell.com/rest.", "question": "Can an agent call Affinity and Nutshell without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 64 against 42", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 91 against 57", "Agent ergonomics, 66 against 44", "Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 58", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 70 against 46" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "affinity", "watchFor": "No self-serve access. Every plan button reads Contact sales, the Essential plan has no API, and trial accounts can't call the API" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 10" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Small sales teams already on Nutshell who want an agent to read pipeline data over MCP or write records over REST at a low seat price.", "slug": "nutshell", "watchFor": "No rate limit numbers, 429 handling or Retry-After found for the REST API" } ], "job": { "capability": "crm.records", "name": "Crm records" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-attio.json", "title": "Affinity vs Attio API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-attio" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-capsule-crm.json", "title": "Affinity vs Capsule CRM", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-capsule-crm" }, { "json": 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No rate limit numbers, error format or API changelog were found in the reviewed documentation, and API keys carry no scopes." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-nutshell", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-nutshell.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-nutshell.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-nutshell.min.md" }, "markdown": "Affinity scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against Nutshell's 49.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Nutshell leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do crm records.\n\n- 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\n- Nutshell: grade D, 49.6/100, rank #607 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nutshell.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nutshell.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Affinity (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 64 against 42\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 91 against 57\n- Agent ergonomics, 66 against 44\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 58\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 70 against 46\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch 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\n\n### Nutshell (D)\n\nGood for: Small sales teams already on Nutshell who want an agent to read pipeline data over MCP or write records over REST at a low seat price.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 10\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No rate limit numbers, 429 handling or Retry-After found for the REST API\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Affinity | Nutshell | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 64 | 42 | Affinity +22 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 57 | Affinity +34 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 44 | Affinity +22 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 58 | Affinity +8 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 35 | Nutshell +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 46 | Affinity +24 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 71 | Nutshell +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.4 · B** | **49.6 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Affinity | Nutshell |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Project Affinity, Inc. | Nutshell, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.affinity.co/v2` | `https://app.nutshell.com/rest` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Affinity's master subscription agreement. The `affinity-mcp` package on PyPI is MIT | Proprietary service under Nutshell's Terms of Service |\n| Tools exposed | 75 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-08-21 |\n| Terms last updated | | 2026-06-02 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-01 | 2026-06-02 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n| Popularity | 268 PyPI/wk | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**Nutshell.** The REST reference is served as Markdown with an OpenAPI fragment per operation, and the hosted MCP server uses OAuth with PKCE and can only read. No rate limit numbers, error format or API changelog were found in the reviewed documentation, and API keys carry no scopes.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Affinity\n\n1. 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\n2. 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\n3. Follow `pagination.nextUrl` for the next page, and pass `fieldIds` or `fieldTypes` so list calls return only the fields needed\n4. Check for duplicates before a create. There are no idempotency keys, so a retried POST can make a second record\n5. For MCP, untick the write scope at OAuth consent when the task only reads. Treat note, transcript and file text as untrusted input\n\n### Nutshell\n\n1. Authenticate REST calls with HTTP Basic, a Nutshell user's email as username and the API key as password, against `https://app.nutshell.com/rest`\n2. Use IDs in the `\u003cnumber\u003e-\u003ctype\u003e` form, such as `3-accounts`, and send updates as JSON Patch with `content-type: application/json-patch+json`\n3. Page lists with `page[limit]` and `page[page]`, which is 0-based, and call `/accounts/list/fields` or the lead and contact equivalents for valid filter keys\n4. Use the REST API for writes. The MCP server only reads, and OAuth tokens need the `read` scope\n5. Filter webhook events yourself, because every webhook receives all events and subscriptions are created in Setup, not through the API\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Affinity or Nutshell?\n\nAffinity scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against Nutshell's 49.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Nutshell leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Affinity and Nutshell need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Affinity and Nutshell without installing anything?\n\nYes. Affinity has a hosted endpoint at https://api.affinity.co/v2 and Nutshell at https://app.nutshell.com/rest.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-nutshell.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-nutshell.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"affinity\", \"b\": \"nutshell\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare affinity nutshell`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/affinity.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nutshell.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Affinity or Nutshell\n\n- [Affinity vs Attio API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-attio.md)\n- [Affinity vs Capsule CRM](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-capsule-crm.md)\n- [Affinity vs Close API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-close.md)\n- [Affinity vs Copper API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-copper.md)\n- [Affinity vs Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-dynamics-365-sales.md)\n- [Affinity vs folk API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-folk.md)\n- [Affinity vs Freshsales API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-freshsales.md)\n- [Affinity vs HubSpot API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-hubspot-mcp.md)\n- [Affinity vs Pipedrive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-pipedrive.md)\n- [Affinity vs Salesforce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-salesforce.md)\n- [Affinity vs Streak API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-streak.md)\n- [Affinity vs Twenty API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-twenty.md)\n- [Affinity vs Zoho CRM](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-zoho-crm.md)\n- [Attio API + MCP vs Nutshell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/attio-vs-nutshell.md)\n- [Capsule CRM vs Nutshell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/capsule-crm-vs-nutshell.md)\n- [Close API + MCP vs Nutshell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/close-vs-nutshell.md)\n- [Copper API vs Nutshell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/copper-vs-nutshell.md)\n- [Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales vs Nutshell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dynamics-365-sales-vs-nutshell.md)\n- [folk API + MCP vs Nutshell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-vs-nutshell.md)\n- [Freshsales API vs Nutshell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freshsales-vs-nutshell.md)\n- [HubSpot API + MCP vs Nutshell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hubspot-mcp-vs-nutshell.md)\n- [Nutshell vs Pipedrive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nutshell-vs-pipedrive.md)\n- [Nutshell vs Salesforce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nutshell-vs-salesforce.md)\n- [Nutshell vs Streak API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nutshell-vs-streak.md)\n- [Nutshell vs Twenty API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nutshell-vs-twenty.md)\n- [Nutshell vs Zoho CRM](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nutshell-vs-zoho-crm.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-08", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Affinity vs Nutshell", "url": "" } ], "description": "Affinity scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against Nutshell's 49.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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