# Amplitude vs Heap

> Amplitude scores 66.2 (B) on agent readiness against Heap's 53 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Heap leads on reliability. Both do analytics events. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Amplitude scores 66.2 (B) on agent readiness against Heap's 53 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Heap leads on reliability. Both do analytics events.

- Amplitude: grade B, 66.2/100, rank #223 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amplitude.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amplitude.json
- Heap: grade D, 53/100, rank #488 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/heap.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/heap.json

## 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 57
- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 49
- Security & auth, 74 against 41
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 25
- Maintenance & community, 83 against 63
- Transparency & trust, 78 against 64

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

### Heap (D)

Good for: An agent that records backend events or enriches user and account properties in a company's existing Heap project, or that files privacy deletions.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 72 against 60

Watch for: No query, export or definitions endpoint in the developer reference. Reading results needs the app, Heap Connect or the MCP server we couldn't read


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Amplitude | Heap | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 72 | Heap +12 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 57 | Amplitude +15 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 49 | Amplitude +23 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 41 | Amplitude +33 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 25 | Amplitude +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 63 | Amplitude +20 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 64 | Amplitude +14 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **66.2 · B** | **53 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Amplitude | Heap |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Amplitude, Inc. | Contentsquare (Content Square, Inc.) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.amplitude.com/mcp` | `https://heapanalytics.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Amplitude's terms of service. The SDKs, the `amp` CLI and the MCP marketplace plugins on GitHub and npm are MIT | Proprietary service under Contentsquare's master services agreement. The React Native bridge and the Node client on npm are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 45 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `com.amplitude/mcp-server` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-21 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-31 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | yes | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 1.3M npm/wk, 1.8M PyPI/wk | 213 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.

**Heap.** Heap's server-side API suits an agent that records events. Limits are published, bulk calls take 1,000 items and track accepts an idempotency key. The API returns no analytics, and ingest calls carry no secret beyond the environment ID. Heap's help centre lists a Heap MCP article, which a bot check stopped us reading, so the MCP server is ungraded.

## 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

### Heap

1. Send EU projects to https://c.eu.heap-api.com instead of https://heapanalytics.com. The path stays the same
2. Pass one of `identity` or `user_id` on track, never both
3. Set `idempotency_key` on every track event so a retry doesn't duplicate it
4. Stay under 30 requests per 30 seconds per identity, or batch up to 1,000 events in one bulk call
5. For deletion, exchange the app_id and API key of the Main Production environment for a token first. Any other environment ID returns Unauthorized

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Amplitude or Heap?

Amplitude scores 66.2 (B) on agent readiness against Heap's 53 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Heap leads on reliability.

### Do Amplitude and Heap need an API key?

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

### Can an agent call Amplitude and Heap without installing anything?

Yes. Amplitude has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.amplitude.com/mcp and Heap at https://heapanalytics.com.


## For agents

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

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