# Agentcard vs Agent Vault by Self (slim)

> Agentcard scores 56.5 (C) to Agent Vault by Self's 52.4 (D) for card payments. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Agentcard scores 56.5 (C) on agent readiness against Agent Vault by Self's 52.4 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Agent Vault by Self leads on reliability and security & auth. Both do card payments.

- Agentcard: C 56.5, rank #700 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcard.min.md
- Agent Vault by Self: D 52.4, rank #823 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/self-agent-vault.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 Payments & pricing, 42 against 30; Maintenance & community, 74 against 48. Also No incidents deducted, where Agent Vault by Self loses 4 points for them.
- Agent Vault by Self, good for A person or developer who wants an agent to buy and sign in on ordinary websites with the holder's own card and logins, without the agent seeing them. Ahead on Reliability, 40 against 29; Security & auth, 76 against 68. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Agentcard | Agent Vault by Self |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 29 | 40 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 66 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 76 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 42 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 74 | 48 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 44 | 47 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Agentcard | Agent Vault by Self |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Agentcard Corporation | SocialConnect Labs, Inc. (Self Labs) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.agentcard.sh` | `https://mcp.agentvault.io/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Price for card payments | not published | free |
| 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 | Proprietary hosted service. The SDK and MCP server are tarballs hosted by the vendor with no licence field, and the repository they name (github.com/selfxyz/agent-vault) is not public. The checkout recipe registry, selfxyz/agent-checkout-skill, is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 30 |
| Last release | 2026-10-09 | 2026-10-17 |
| 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 |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |