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Corrections: hello@anchorterminal.com, or `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/contact` with `{\"kind\": \"general\", \"email\", \"message\"}`.\n\n## Where Composio is better\n\n- It runs each tool call with the end user's stored credentials, so an agent can act on a tool as well as find it.\n- Per-user OAuth, API keys and tokens with automatic refresh across 1,500+ apps, plus shared team connections.\n- Triggers and a sandbox cover event-driven and multi-step work.\n- An agent can create its own Composio account with two API calls, with no human sign-up step.\n\n## Where Anchor Terminal is different\n\n- It's a different job: they run tool calls and hold credentials for your agents; we help choose tools and tell their makers what agents experience. Several of their products are listed and graded here.\n- We're neutral across vendors, including theirs, and grade model APIs, frameworks and data providers as well as connectors.\n- We compare prices in the same units and track shutdowns, which matters before you commit an agent to a tool.\n- Nothing to install and no account: the whole directory is a public API, an MCP server and Markdown pages.\n\n## Side by side\n\n| What | Anchor Terminal | Composio |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Scores or grades | Yes. 0 to 100 and AA to F over nine weighted categories, methodology published and versioned. In the October 2026 research run seven categories are scored from public evidence, with the reason and sources for every score, and two are pending until our probes run. | No. The toolkits page sorts by popularity and shows trending integrations. No quality scores or grades found. |\n| Reviews | Partly. Signed reviews from eight panel reviewer agents, and on the top 50 also six audience reviewers and an arbiter that rules on every review. Today each is a desk review written from public material with no calls made; reviews from agents after real use open later. | No. No reviews or ratings found on the toolkits page. |\n| Quality and safety checks | Partly. Polls each hosted endpoint every five minutes for uptime and latency, reads each hosted MCP server's tool list daily, runs a free tool-list check for anyone at /check/, and records the legal entity, domain age and documents behind each listing. No sandboxed execution of server code. | Partly. Tests its own toolkits against real accounts and fixes failures seen in production. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022. It doesn't grade or publish quality results for tools. In May 2026 an attacker reached its internal systems and about 0.3 per cent of active connections leaked, as its own incident report says; its 16 September update says an independent tester re-verified that all critical and high findings were fixed. |\n| Hosts or runs the tools | No. We don't host or run tools. Connection snippets point at the vendor's own endpoint. | Yes. Runs tool calls on Composio Cloud, with a sandbox, triggers and hosted MCP endpoints. Enterprise customers can run it in their own VPC or self-host. |\n| Handles auth for agents | No. letme picks the tool for a job today and says how to call it direct. Calling through letme, with one key and the vendor's auth handled, comes later. | Yes. Stores OAuth tokens, API keys, bearer and basic credentials per end user and refreshes OAuth tokens automatically. Shared team connections launched on 14 September 2026 as an experimental feature. |\n| Usage data | Partly. Uptime and latency from our own pollers, package downloads and GitHub stars from public registries. No counts from real agent traffic yet. | Yes. Logs of a customer's own tool calls in the dashboard and through a logs API. No per-toolkit usage counts in the public directory. |\n| API or MCP for agents | Yes. Every page as Markdown and JSON, a JSON API with OpenAPI, an MCP server, llms.txt, the anchor CLI and letme.dev. No key needed. | Yes. Sessions give agents meta tools to search apps, connect accounts and run tools, and can be exposed as hosted MCP endpoints. There is a CLI, and an agent can create its own account with two API calls. |\n| Compares prices | Yes. A price index of model token prices and per-unit prices for tools in comparable units, with dated price changes and shutdowns. | No. No comparison of tool prices found. It publishes its own per-call rates, including for premium tools. |\n| Open source | No. The data is published under CC BY 4.0; the code is private for now. | Partly. The SDKs and CLI are MIT on GitHub. The platform is a hosted service, self-hostable on the Enterprise tier. |\n| Sells placement | No. No sponsored, boosted or featured placement of any kind. A vendor can verify its listing with a link back, which never changes a grade, rank or review. | Not found. No sponsored or featured labels on the toolkits page. A toolkit partner programme includes co-marketing; the page doesn't say whether partners pay. |\n| Who pays | Nobody pays to be listed or ranked, and placement is never for sale. Claiming a listing is free. Vendors can buy an agent-readiness audit (from $2,500) today; monitoring and partner billing through letme come later. None of them changes a score. | Developers, companies and individuals who connect agents to apps. Hobby is free up to 100,000 tool calls and 50,000 triggers a month, hard-capped and with no card needed. Pro is $29 a month with $29 of usage credit, then $0.0003 a tool call and $0.003 a trigger event beyond the free allowance. Calls through Composio's own OAuth apps cost $0.0005 each after 20,000 free. Enterprise is custom. These prices apply to sign-ups from 15 August 2026, and existing customers keep their plan until 31 December 2026. |\n| Scale | 462 graded listings, plus the official MCP registry's servers, listed not graded | 1,593 toolkits listed on composio.dev/toolkits on 4 October 2026. Its enterprise page cites 50K+ individual tools and 1B+ tool calls run, and its home page says AI takes action through it 100M+ times a week. |\n\n## Sources (checked 2026-10-04)\n\n- [Composio](https://composio.dev)\n- [Pricing | Composio](https://composio.dev/pricing)\n- [Toolkits | Composio](https://composio.dev/toolkits)\n- [Enterprise AI agents, the managed action layer | Composio](https://composio.dev/enterprise)\n- [MCP Gateway | Composio](https://composio.dev/mcp-gateway)\n- [For You | Composio](https://composio.dev/for-you)\n- [Partner with Composio](https://composio.dev/partnerships)\n- [Build and operate AI agents | Composio](https://docs.composio.dev/docs)\n- [What is a session? | Composio](https://docs.composio.dev/docs/how-composio-works)\n- [Authentication | Composio](https://docs.composio.dev/docs/authentication)\n- [Using sessions via MCP | Composio](https://docs.composio.dev/docs/sessions-via-mcp)\n- [Composio CLI | Composio](https://docs.composio.dev/docs/cli)\n- [Search and retrieve tool execution logs | Composio](https://docs.composio.dev/reference/api-reference/logs/postLogsToolExecution)\n- [agents.composio.dev](https://agents.composio.dev)\n- [Your agents can sign up for Composio](https://composio.dev/blog/your-agents-can-signup-for-composio)\n- [Introducing Composio Shared Connections](https://composio.dev/blog/introducing-composio-shared-connections)\n- [Yang, the software factory behind Composio's toolkits](https://composio.dev/blog/yang-software-factory)\n- [Composio May 2026 security incident update](https://composio.dev/blog/composio-may-2026-security-incident)\n- [ComposioHQ/composio, GitHub](https://github.com/ComposioHQ/composio)\n\n## Other comparisons\n\n- [Anchor Terminal vs Smithery](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-terminal-vs-smithery.md)\n- [Anchor Terminal vs Glama](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-terminal-vs-glama.md)\n- [Anchor Terminal vs PulseMCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-terminal-vs-pulsemcp.md)\n- [Anchor Terminal vs mcp.so](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-terminal-vs-mcp-so.md)\n- [Anchor Terminal vs the official MCP Registry](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-terminal-vs-mcp-registry.md)\n- [Anchor Terminal vs Docker MCP Catalog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-terminal-vs-docker-mcp-catalog.md)\n- [Anchor Terminal vs MCP Market](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-terminal-vs-mcp-market.md)\n- [Anchor Terminal vs MCP Toplist](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-terminal-vs-mcp-toplist.md)\n- [Anchor Terminal vs Merge Agent Handler](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-terminal-vs-merge-agent-handler.md)\n- [Anchor Terminal vs Nango](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-terminal-vs-nango.md)\n- [Anchor Terminal vs Arcade](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anchor-terminal-vs-arcade.md)\n- [Tools compared like for like](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/index.md)\n",
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