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          "value": "yes",
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          "value": "yes",
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          "value": "no",
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          "value": "no",
          "note": "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."
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        "Integration logic lives in the customer's own TypeScript code, with syncs, webhooks and triggers as well as agent tools.",
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          "url": "https://nango.dev/docs/guides/platform/self-hosting/self-hosting",
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      "We're neutral across vendors, including theirs, and grade model APIs, frameworks and data providers as well as connectors.",
      "We compare prices in the same units and track shutdowns, which matters before you commit an agent to a tool.",
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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 Nango is better\n\n- Auth for 1,000+ APIs, with token refresh, credential storage and OAuth to external MCP servers handled for the customer.\n- Integration logic lives in the customer's own TypeScript code, with syncs, webhooks and triggers as well as agent tools.\n- Agent sessions scope each agent to one tenant's tools and keep raw credentials away from the model.\n- The source can be read on GitHub, and Enterprise customers can run Nango in their own cloud.\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 | Nango |\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. No scores or grades found on its integrations page or in the reviewed documentation. |\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 its integrations 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. Its own platform holds SOC 2 Type II, audited annually, with regular penetration tests. No assessment of third-party APIs found in the reviewed documentation. |\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 a customer's integration functions and agent tool calls on Nango Cloud, with retries and rate-limit handling. BYOC and self-managed hosting need Enterprise. The free self-hosted edition leaves out tool calls, syncs and the MCP server. |\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. OAuth flows, API keys, token refresh and credential storage for 1,000+ APIs, and OAuth to external MCP servers such as Notion and Linear. Agents in a session don't see raw credentials. |\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, metrics and alerts for a customer's own integrations, with logs kept 15 days and OpenTelemetry export. No public cross-customer figures found. |\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. Agent sessions, launched 2 September 2026, give each agent its own MCP server with a tool search tool, scoped to one tenant's tools. A Management MCP runs the account, and the API catalogue is published as plain text for agents. |\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 price comparison found. It publishes only its own prices. |\n| Open source | No. The data is published under CC BY 4.0; the code is private for now. | Partly. Source available on GitHub under the Elastic License 2.0, which bars offering it to others as a hosted service, so not an open-source licence. Nango describes the project as open source. |\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 its integrations page, and no statement on paid placement found either way. |\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. | Software companies building integrations for their products and agents. Free with 10 connections, 10 compute hours and 10GB a month. Pay-as-you-go is $50 a month, returned as $50 of usage credits, then $0.29 a connection a month, $0.72 a compute hour and $0.50 a GB. An optional Growth add-on is $450 a month. Enterprise is custom and includes BYOC and self-managed hosting. 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