# ATXP vs Paid (slim)

> Paid scores 55.1 (C) to ATXP's 42.9 (E) for usage billing. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Paid scores 55.1 (C) on agent readiness against ATXP's 42.9 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. ATXP leads on payments & pricing. Both do usage billing.

- ATXP: E 42.9, rank #887 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atxp.min.md
- Paid: C 55.1, rank #669 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paid.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 30.
- Paid, good for A team selling an AI agent that needs usage metering, credit balances, cost and margin tracking and invoicing in one service, with Stripe as the payment rail. Ahead on Reliability, 35 against 13; Schema & documentation, 64 against 54; Agent ergonomics, 70 against 51; Security & auth, 65 against 41; Maintenance & community, 77 against 33; Transparency & trust, 51 against 43. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | ATXP | Paid |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 13 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 54 | 64 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 51 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 41 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 75 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 33 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 43 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ATXP | Paid |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Circuit & Chisel, Inc. | Agent Paid Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://llm.atxp.ai/v1` | `https://api.agentpaid.io/api/v2` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | payer tooling only | no |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Circuit & Chisel's Terms of Service. The SDK packages and the `atxp` CLI on GitHub are MIT | Proprietary service under Paid's Master Subscription Agreement. The Node and Python SDKs on GitHub are MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-06-02 | 2026-09-15 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-03 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-17 | no date given |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | 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 | 6 stars, 499 npm/wk | 24k npm/wk |