# Agentcard vs Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP)

> Coinbase Developer Platform scores 71.2 (BB) to Agentcard's 56.5 (C) for wallet spend limits. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-09

Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) scores 71.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Agentcard's 56.5 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do wallet spend limits.

- Agentcard: grade C, 56.5/100, rank #632 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcard.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agentcard.json
- Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP): grade BB, 71.2/100, rank #134 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coinbase-cdp-agentkit.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/coinbase-cdp-agentkit.json
- Best agent wallets and spending controls: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-wallets/index.md
- All 23 wallets comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-wallets/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Agentcard (C)

Good for: A company building a shopping or purchasing agent that needs users to pay with their own cards under passkey approval, or needs capped virtual Visa cards per task.

Also in its favour:
- No incidents deducted, where Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) loses 5 points for them

Watch for: No status page or incident history was found on the site or in the docs. An SLA is listed for Enterprise plans only, with no published text

### Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) (BB)

Good for: Giving a personal agent a USDC wallet with hard caps in two commands, and for builders who want policy-bound server wallets and x402 on both sides.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 49 against 29
- Schema & documentation, 94 against 80
- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 63
- Security & auth, 78 against 68
- Payments & pricing, 85 against 42
- Transparency & trust, 76 against 44

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- Runs on your own machine
- Open source

Watch for: AgentKit on npm is 0.10.4 from December 2025, and its fix for a local file read and public upload path is unreleased


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Agentcard | Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 29 | 49 | Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) +20 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 94 | Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) +14 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 83 | Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) +20 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 78 | Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) +10 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 42 | 85 | Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) +43 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 77 | Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) +3 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 44 | 76 | Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) +32 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -5 | |
| **Total** | | **56.5 · C** | **71.2 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Agentcard | Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |
| Vendor | Agentcard Corporation | Coinbase Developer Platform |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.agentcard.sh` | `https://mcp.base.org` |
| Transports | HTTP | stdio, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | payer tooling only |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Agentcard's terms of use. The `agent-cards` CLI on npm declares no licence, `@agent-cards/checkout` is marked as having none, and the repository they name is private | Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-09 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-10 | 2026-06-23 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-05-27 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |
| Popularity | 33k npm/wk | 1.3k stars, 5.8k npm/wk, 1.5k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**Agentcard.** Purchases need the user's passkey approval by default, cards carry spending rules, and card creation takes an idempotency key. No status page, published rate limits beyond the token endpoint, or privacy policy of Agentcard's own was found, and the Trust Centre could not be read. Issuing costs $5,000 a month.

**Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP).** Operator-set max per call and max per session that the agent can't change, set in the wallet UI. AgentKit on npm is 0.10.4 from December 2025, and its fix for a local file read and public upload path is unreleased.

## Before you call either

### Agentcard

1. Mint a platform token with `POST /api/v2/oauth/token` and cache it for its one hour. The endpoint allows 30 requests per 5 minutes per IP
2. Send the same `Idempotency-Key` on every retry of `POST /api/v2/cards`, and the same `idempotency_key` on every retry of `buy_checkout`
3. Pass `source: "issued"` to the MCP `create_card` tool for a card number. Without it the tool may start Vault setup and return a link
4. Call `get_card_details` only at the payment form and never log the result. Each read notifies the member and may return `approval_required`
5. Treat `transaction.authorized` and `order.*` webhooks as the record of a payment, and deduplicate deliveries on the event `id`

### Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP)

1. Run `npx awal@2.12.1 status` first and sign in with `auth login` and `auth verify` if it fails
2. Pass `--max-amount` on every `awal x402 pay`; 1000000 is $1.00
3. Send an `X-Idempotency-Key` on server-wallet writes so a retry can't send twice
4. Don't register AgentKit's flaunch or zora providers on 0.10.4; they read local files
5. Give an agent a policy-bound server account or an Agentic Wallet, never a full CDP API key

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Agentcard or Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP)?

Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) scores 71.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Agentcard's 56.5 (C), and leads in every scored category.

### Can an agent call Agentcard and Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) without installing anything?

Yes. Agentcard has a hosted endpoint at https://api.agentcard.sh and Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) at https://mcp.base.org.

### Are Agentcard and Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) open source?

No open-source release is listed for Agentcard. Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) is open source (Apache-2.0).


## For agents

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

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