# ATXP vs Tempo (slim)

> Tempo scores 76.6 (BB) to ATXP's 42.9 (E) for stablecoin payments. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

Tempo scores 76.6 (BB) on agent readiness against ATXP's 42.9 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do stablecoin payments.

- ATXP: E 42.9, rank #887 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atxp.min.md
- Tempo: BB 76.6, rank #27 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tempo.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.
- Tempo, good for Builders who want to settle MPP payments in stablecoins at fractions of a cent, or agents that need chain data and can pay per request without an account. Ahead on Reliability, 71 against 13; Schema & documentation, 88 against 54; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 51; Security & auth, 70 against 41; Payments & pricing, 80 against 75; Maintenance & community, 88 against 33; Transparency & trust, 63 against 43. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Open source.

| Category | ATXP | Tempo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 13 | 71 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 54 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 51 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 41 | 70 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 75 | 80 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 33 | 88 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 43 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ATXP | Tempo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Circuit & Chisel, Inc. | Tempo |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://llm.atxp.ai/v1` | `https://api.tempo.xyz/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| 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 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 4 |
| Last release | 2026-06-02 | 2026-09-24 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-03 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-17 | 2026-07-31 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 6 stars, 499 npm/wk | 1k stars, 209k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.1/5 (8) |