# Basecamp vs Financial Cents MCP (slim)

> Basecamp scores 68 (B) to Financial Cents MCP's 39.9 (E) for issues and tasks. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Basecamp scores 68 (B) on agent readiness against Financial Cents MCP's 39.9 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do issues and tasks.

- Basecamp: B 68, rank #264 of 1221 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/basecamp.min.md
- Financial Cents MCP: E 39.9, rank #1100 of 1221 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-cents-mcp.min.md
- Basecamp, good for Teams already on Basecamp that want an agent to create and complete to-dos, move cards, post messages and comments, and read overdue work and assignments, either through the CLI or the REST API. Ahead on Reliability, 74 against 23; Schema & documentation, 80 against 40; Agent ergonomics, 65 against 48; Security & auth, 67 against 61; Payments & pricing, 30 against 25; Maintenance & community, 82 against 50; Transparency & trust, 80 against 55. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Financial Cents MCP, good for Accounting, bookkeeping and tax firms on Financial Cents Scale who want an assistant to answer workload, billing and client questions and log time or create tasks.

| Category | Basecamp | Financial Cents MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 74 | 23 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 40 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 48 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 50 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 80 | 55 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Basecamp | Financial Cents MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | 37signals LLC | Financial Cents LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://3.basecampapi.com` | `https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the 37signals terms of service. The CLI, the SDKs and the OpenAPI spec on GitHub are MIT, and the API docs are CC BY-SA 4.0 | Proprietary hosted service under Financial Cents' terms of use, which are hosted on iubenda and weren't read because iubenda's robots.txt disallows them. No source is public |
| Tools exposed | none | 40 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-16 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-16 |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 286 stars, 3.1k npm/wk, 1.9k PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | none |