# ATXP vs Nevermined API + MCP (slim)

> Nevermined scores 70.8 (BB) to ATXP's 42.9 (E) for stablecoin payments. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Nevermined API + MCP scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against ATXP's 42.9 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. ATXP leads on payments & pricing. Both do stablecoin payments.

- ATXP: E 42.9, rank #887 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atxp.min.md
- Nevermined API + MCP: BB 70.8, rank #142 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nevermined.min.md
- ATXP, good for An agent that needs to start with no human signup and pay small amounts for inference, search, media, email or SMS from one balance, and builders who want to charge per MCP tool call. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 75 against 65.
- Nevermined API + MCP, good for Builders who want to charge agents per call or by plan, with fiat and stablecoin rails and caps on the buyer side, and for agents that need one budget across x402 and MPP services. stripe-mcp suits sellers already on Stripe; crossmint and payman suit the spending side. Ahead on Reliability, 72 against 13; Schema & documentation, 80 against 54; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 51; Security & auth, 63 against 41; Maintenance & community, 89 against 33; Transparency & trust, 51 against 43. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.

| Category | ATXP | Nevermined API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 13 | 72 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 54 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 51 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 41 | 63 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 75 | 65 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 33 | 89 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 43 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ATXP | Nevermined API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Circuit & Chisel, Inc. | Nevermined |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://llm.atxp.ai/v1` | `https://api.live.nevermined.app` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Circuit & Chisel's Terms of Service. The SDK packages and the `atxp` CLI on GitHub are MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 12 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.nevermined-io/catalog` |
| Last release | 2026-06-02 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-03 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-17 | no date given |
| 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 | 6 stars, 499 npm/wk | 17 stars, 468 npm/wk, 4.4k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |