# Agentcard vs Crossmint API + Docs MCP (slim)

> Crossmint API + Docs MCP scores 67.1 (B) to Agentcard's 56.5 (C) for card payments. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Crossmint API + Docs MCP scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Agentcard's 56.5 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Agentcard leads on schema & documentation. Both do card payments.

- Agentcard: C 56.5, rank #632 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcard.min.md
- Crossmint API + Docs MCP: B 67.1, rank #260 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crossmint.min.md
- Agentcard, 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 80 against 71.
- Crossmint API + Docs MCP, good for Products that let agents spend, especially where a user wants a capped card or a capped stablecoin wallet for an agent, or an agent that buys from ordinary merchant sites. Ahead on Reliability, 53 against 29; Agent ergonomics, 71 against 63; Security & auth, 73 against 68; Payments & pricing, 50 against 42; Maintenance & community, 85 against 74; Transparency & trust, 80 against 44.

| Category | Agentcard | Crossmint API + Docs MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 29 | 53 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 71 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 71 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 73 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 42 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 74 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 44 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Agentcard | Crossmint API + Docs MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Agentcard Corporation | Crossmint |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.agentcard.sh` | `https://www.crossmint.com/api` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | API key |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | none | 1 |
| Last release | 2026-10-09 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-10 | 2026-07-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-21 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 33k npm/wk | 52 stars, 40k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |