# Agentcard vs Kite Agent Passport (slim)

> Agentcard scores 56.5 (C) to Kite Agent Passport's 51.5 (D) for card payments. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-10

Agentcard scores 56.5 (C) on agent readiness against Kite Agent Passport's 51.5 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Kite Agent Passport leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and transparency & trust. Both do card payments.

- Agentcard: C 56.5, rank #637 of 961 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcard.min.md
- Kite Agent Passport: D 51.5, rank #755 of 961 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kite-agent-passport.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 64; Payments & pricing, 42 against 35. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Kite Agent Passport loses 5 points for them.
- Kite Agent Passport, good for Coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex that need to pay x402 or MPP services within budgets a person approves by passkey. Ahead on Reliability, 35 against 29; Agent ergonomics, 68 against 63; Transparency & trust, 56 against 44.

| Category | Agentcard | Kite Agent Passport |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 29 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 64 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 72 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 42 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 74 | 71 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 44 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Agentcard | Kite Agent Passport |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Platform |
| Vendor | Agentcard Corporation | Kite AI |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.agentcard.sh` | no (local only) |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| 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 | Closed service under terms from Datalego Inc. dated 29 April 2026. The Passport Skills repository is MIT. The kpass CLI is distributed as binaries and its source repository is private. |
| Last release | 2026-10-09 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-10 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 33k npm/wk | none |