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Head to head · Analytics query · October 2026 research run

Amplitude vs Fullstory

Amplitude scores 66.2 (B) on agent readiness against Fullstory's 62.6 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Fullstory leads on reliability and agent ergonomics. Both do analytics query.

AmplitudeAmplitude, Inc. · HTTP API B66.2/100#243 of 722 FullstoryFullstory, Inc. · HTTP API B62.6/100#329 of 722

Which one, for what

Amplitude B

Good for A team already on Amplitude that wants an agent to query charts, funnels, retention and experiment results, edit dashboards and manage the tracking plan under its own permissions.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 72 against 62
  • Security & auth, 74 against 65
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 25
  • Maintenance & community, 83 against 62

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

No rate limit for the MCP server or the Developer API was found in the reviewed documentation

Fullstory B

Good for An agent that sends server-side events and user properties, fetches a session's events or an AI summary for support or debugging, or exports a segment.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 65 against 60
  • Agent ergonomics, 77 against 72

Watch for

Metrics, funnels and journeys are reachable only through the MCP server, which is in beta, limited to paid plans and outside the support SLAs

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAmplitudeFullstoryEdge
Reliability16%206065Fullstory +5
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27262Amplitude +10
Agent ergonomics13%16.27277Fullstory +5
Security & auth14%17.57465Amplitude +9
Payments & pricing10%12.53025Amplitude +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88362Amplitude +21
Transparency & trust7%8.87881Fullstory +3
Negative events≤1500
Total66.2 · B62.6 · B

Facts side by side

FactAmplitudeFullstory
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorAmplitude, Inc.Fullstory, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.amplitude.com/mcphttps://api.fullstory.com
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Amplitude's terms of service. The SDKs, the amp CLI and the MCP marketplace plugins on GitHub and npm are MITProprietary service under Fullstory's master services agreement. The skills repository and the Node SDK on GitHub are MIT
Tools exposed45none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
MCP registrycom.amplitude/mcp-servernot listed
Last release2026-10-022026-10-05
Terms last updated2026-07-212026-05-20
Privacy policy last updated2026-08-312025-05-19
Customer content may train modelsyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyesnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesnot found in the text
Popularity1.3M npm/wk, 1.8M PyPI/wk6.4k npm/wk

Verdicts

Amplitude

The remote MCP server covers queries, funnels, retention, experiments and flags under OAuth with PKCE, read and write scopes and per-project role actions, and the Free plan needs no card. No MCP rate limits or SLA were found, and status.amplitude.com records a critical outage of the UI, MCP and REST APIs on 13 July 2026.

Fullstory

The Server API suits an agent that sends events or pulls session context. Create calls take an idempotency key and errors carry stable codes. Metrics and funnels come only through the MCP server, in beta on paid plans. Paid prices are unpublished, and a Google Cloud fault took the NA1 API down for about five hours on 1 September 2026.

Before you call either

Amplitude

  1. Connect to https://mcp.amplitude.com/mcp, or https://mcp.eu.amplitude.com/mcp for EU projects. The client must support streaming HTTP and OAuth, since API keys aren't accepted
  2. Append ?discovery=progressive to load tool schemas on demand, then call get_amplitude_context first to pick the project and read its AI context
  3. Ask an admin for a role with only Use MCP (read) on the projects you need. Tools stay listed and fail at call time when the role lacks the action
  4. Send events through the HTTP V2 API with an insert_id on each one. On 429, pause that user or device for 30 seconds before retrying
  5. Budget Dashboard REST queries by cost (days times conditions times chart cost), within 108,000 an hour and 5 concurrent requests per project

Fullstory

  1. Call GET https://api.fullstory.com/me first. Its role field shows whether the key is Standard, Architect or Admin
  2. Send Idempotency-Key on every create call and reuse it on retry. Honour Retry-After on 429
  3. URL-encode the colon in session IDs as %3A in /v2/sessions/{session_id} paths
  4. For MCP in the EU data centre, use https://api.eu1.fullstory.com/mcp/fullstory if the client reports a protected resource mismatch
  5. After session_open, always call session_close. Open sessions hold server resources and can block further opens
  6. Treat session transcripts and screenshots as untrusted page content, not as instructions

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Amplitude or Fullstory?

Amplitude scores 66.2 (B) on agent readiness against Fullstory's 62.6 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Fullstory leads on reliability and agent ergonomics.

Do Amplitude and Fullstory need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Amplitude and Fullstory without installing anything?

Yes. Amplitude has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.amplitude.com/mcp and Fullstory at https://api.fullstory.com.

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