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Overmind leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "overmind", "name": "Overmind", "vendor": "Overmind Technology Ltd", "vendorUrl": "https://www.overmindlab.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "agent-observability", "summary": "Overmind is a hosted and self-hostable platform that traces AI agents, turns traces and files into versioned datasets, runs evaluations, fine-tunes open-weight models and serves them on an OpenAI-compatible API, driven from a coding agent over MCP, CLI or REST.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/overmind", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/overmind.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/overmind.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/overmind.json", "dns": "overmind.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/overmind-core/overmind", "license": "AGPL-3.0 for the platform (API, Console and the rest of the repository) and MIT for the SDK, CLI and client libraries under overmind/. 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SECURITY.md in the repository gives GitHub private vulnerability reporting and support@overmindlab.ai, with acknowledgement within 3 business days.", "No status page: status.overmindlab.ai doesn't resolve and /status returns 404. The site links a Trust Center on app.eu.vanta.com, whose robots.txt disallows all crawling, so it wasn't read.", "The changelog is the SDK's CHANGELOG.md, which has one undated Unreleased section. 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A critical run of 504s on the EU data plane on 16 July (about 30 minutes), gateway 5xx incidents on 3 August and 27 to 28 August, control plane 5xxs on 4 September, a 40-minute data-loading failure in the US on 9 September and 78 minutes of elevated errors across the US data plane API on 30 September. Most were short and the gateway is a side product, so 5 rather than 0. The only published limit is about 20 BTQL queries a minute on Starter and Pro. Ingestion and REST limits have no numbers (8). The OpenAPI spec documents 429 with a `Retry-After` header on 154 operations and recommends exponential backoff, the SDKs retry 408, 429 and 5xx, and events written with the same `id` overwrite rather than duplicate (15). Enterprise lists SLAs and guaranteed response times with no published terms (3). API and MCP are GA (10).", "b": "No status page. status.overmindlab.ai doesn't resolve, /status returns 404 and neither the site nor the docs link one (0). With no history to read, 5. No request rate limits for the REST API, MCP or OTLP ingest were found in the docs. The only pacing settings, `JEV_REQUESTS_PER_MINUTE` and `JEV_TOKENS_PER_SECOND`, are self-hosting configuration for the scoring model (0). No 429 or Retry-After guidance, but the docs give safe-retry rules in detail. Launches, uploads, pipeline runs and inference take a stable `request_key`, identical retries return the existing receipt, changed payloads conflict, and `run_evaluation` is named as not idempotent (8). The terms promise commercially reasonable efforts toward 99.5 per cent availability a month, with remedies only in an order form or separate SLA, so half (5). The site doesn't call the service beta, but the SDK is classed \"3 - Alpha\" on its package metadata and the public repository is seven weeks old (5). 0+5+0+8+5+5 = 23." }, "scores": { "a": 61, "b": 23 } }, { "by": 12, "category": "security", "leads": "overmind", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "User API keys and service tokens as Bearer tokens. Service tokens attach to permission groups that can be scoped to single projects on any plan, keys can be deleted through `/v1/api_key` and `/v1/service_token`, and the MCP server also takes OAuth 2.0 with dynamic client registration (25). Viewer groups exist, but the MCP server gained write tools in August with no server-side read-only mode, and the docs leave confirmation to the client (12). Traces hold whatever the application logged, and we found no prompt-injection guidance for agents reading them (3). The October changelog mentions audit logging, and a knowledge-base page says org-wide API key auditing is in the UI only (8). SOC 2 Type II is claimed on the pricing page. The Vanta trust centre at trust.braintrust.dev rendered nothing readable to us, there's no security.txt and no SECURITY.md in either SDK repository, and the two credential-capture fixes below were explained in knowledge-base pages rather than advisories (10).", "b": "API keys are account-scoped or pinned to one project, carry read, write or both, expire after 30 to 365 days or never, are shown once and show last use, and rotation is documented as replace then revoke. MCP also takes OAuth 2.1 from api.overmindlab.ai with PKCE S256, dynamic registration, a revocation endpoint, one-hour access tokens and rotating refresh tokens, with scopes `overmind:read` and `overmind:write`, the default being read. A key can only mint keys with the scope and permissions it holds, since 29 October 2026 (30). Read keys see only read tools over MCP, and the REST API refuses writes from a read-only key since the same commit (#263). Only two tools are destructive and lifecycle tools are allowlisted by name in the catalogue. The docs tell agents to confirm the GPU and rate with the user before starting a dedicated deployment, but there's no server-side approval step (15). The MCP prompts tell the agent to treat code, comments and data as untrusted content, and script output is labelled untrusted in resources. We found no guidance for agents reading trace inputs and outputs back (8). The Console's notification list shows what agents and the CLI did in a project, and `overmind://activity` returns it over MCP. No exportable audit log was found (10). SECURITY.md lists GitHub private vulnerability reporting and an email with acknowledgement within 3 business days. No security.txt on either host and no bug bounty. The terms claim an ISO 27001 certified management system and the site links a Vanta Trust Center, whose robots.txt disallows crawling, so neither was checked (7). 30+15+8+10+7 = 70." }, "scores": { "a": 58, "b": 70 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "overmind", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "42 MCP tools load at once, with no toolsets or server-side allowlist found (5). REST lists take `limit`, `starting_after` and `ending_before`, and `sql_query` truncates field values to 1,024 characters by default and swaps results over 1 MB for a signed `overflow_url` (20). Error codes are declared per operation, the MCP server returns 413 above 100 MiB, and 429 carries `Retry-After`. Error bodies are typed as plain text (14). Event inserts upsert on `id` and ACL batch updates are documented as idempotent. Several MCP tools have a no-write `test_*` twin. We couldn't see whether the hosted tools carry `readOnlyHint` or `destructiveHint` (12). Few required parameters, and SDKs in TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, Ruby and C# (15).", "b": "About 85 MCP tools in the source, all loaded for a read-write connection. A key or OAuth grant without write sees only the read tools (about 22), which is the only subset (5, plus 5 for the read-only filter). Cursor and offset pagination, limits by item count and response bytes, `preview_rows` bounded 1 to 1,000, query filters on traces by status, duration, tokens, cost and time, and `evidence_resource` links for paging retained results (20). MCP errors carry a structured code, message, retryability and field details, and authentication failures are kept apart from workflow failures. REST validation errors include details (18). Stable `request_key` on paid and long-running operations with conflict on a changed payload, and every tool sets readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint from its catalogue entry. Only two tools are marked destructive (20). Account connections must pass `project_id` on every project tool. One official SDK, Python, plus OpenTelemetry from any language and the OpenAI client for inference (8). 10+20+18+20+8 = 76." }, "scores": { "a": 66, "b": 76 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "payments", "leads": "braintrust", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402 or other machine payment (0). Usage prices published without login, $4 a GB and $2.50 per 1,000 scores on Starter, $3 and $1.50 on Pro (20). Starter is free with no card (20). A person signs up in a browser to create a key. The MCP OAuth flow also needs a browser sign-in (0).", "b": "No x402 or other machine payment. Paid work spends prepaid credits, and `402` is documented only for insufficient credits (0). Plan prices, the credit rate ($0.01) and per-model \"from\" prices for training and serving are published without login (20). A Free plan with $50 of credits once exists, but neither the pricing page nor the docs say whether a card is needed, so half (10). A person signs up in a browser at console.overmindlab.ai. MCP OAuth with dynamic registration still needs a sign-in, and `create_api_key` needs an existing connection (0). Self-hosting under AGPL is free but runs on the operator's own Modal, OpenRouter, AWS and Hugging Face accounts, so it isn't scored as the hosted option. 0+20+10+0 = 30." }, "scores": { "a": 40, "b": 30 } }, { "by": 9, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "braintrust", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "TypeScript SDK `braintrust` 3.36.0 and Python SDK 0.44.0, both on 2026-10-01 (30). 15 TypeScript and 19 Python releases since 16 July (20). The product changelog lists dozens of September entries and both SDK repositories take outside contributions credited in the changelog. We didn't load issue reply times (12). Official SDKs in six languages, current (15). Public CI (`checks.yaml`), integration tests, Dependabot and a weekly dependency job. We didn't confirm the pass state (8).", "b": "overmind 0.1.115 on PyPI on 2026-10-31, and the last commit on main the same day (30). 41 PyPI releases since 21 September 2026 and 24 git tags from v0.0.15 on 18 September to v0.1.23 on 30 October (20). github.com answered 403 to this session, so issues and pull request replies weren't read. 172 commits on main from eight people since 15 September, a Discord server and a support email (8). One official SDK, Python, current with the platform (10). Public CI workflows for the platform and SDK, Dependabot bumps merged on 28 October and a CI badge. We couldn't see the pass state (8). 30+20+8+10+8 = 76." }, "scores": { "a": 85, "b": 76 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Braintrust", "b": "Overmind Technology Ltd", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.braintrust.dev/v1", "b": "https://api.overmindlab.ai", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs only, platform closed source)", "b": "AGPL-3.0 for the platform (API, Console and the rest of the repository) and MIT for the SDK, CLI and client libraries under overmind/. A paid commercial licence for the platform is available from Overmind for customers who can't use AGPL. The hosted service is under Overmind's terms of 1 March 2026", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "42", "b": "85", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "io.github.braintrustdata/braintrust", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-10-31", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-07-07", "b": "2026-03-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2023-09-21", "b": "2026-10-03", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "2M npm/wk, 1.7M PyPI/wk", "b": "732 stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Braintrust API + MCP scores 61.1 (C) on agent readiness against Overmind's 58.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Overmind leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Braintrust API + MCP or Overmind?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Braintrust API + MCP and Overmind need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Braintrust API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.braintrust.dev/v1 and Overmind at https://api.overmindlab.ai.", "question": "Can an agent call Braintrust API + MCP and Overmind without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Braintrust API + MCP. Overmind is open source (AGPL-3.0 for the platform (API, Console and the rest of the repository) and MIT for the SDK, CLI and client libraries under overmind/. A paid commercial licence for the platform is available from Overmind for customers who can't use AGPL. The hosted service is under Overmind's terms of 1 March 2026).", "question": "Are Braintrust API + MCP and Overmind open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 61 against 23", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 76" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Teams that want evals, datasets and production logs in one hosted product and will drive it from a coding agent through MCP or SQL.", "slug": "braintrust", "watchFor": "Several major incidents on the status page between 16 July and 30 September 2026, the longest 78 minutes on the US data plane" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 76 against 66", "Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 58" ], "also": [ "Open source", "No incidents deducted, where Braintrust API + MCP loses 4 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A team that wants to go from agent traces to a fine-tuned small open model in one place, driven by a coding agent.", "slug": "overmind", "watchFor": "No 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/overmind-vs-respan" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/overmind-vs-wandb-weave.json", "title": "Overmind vs W\u0026B Weave", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/overmind-vs-wandb-weave" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepeval-vs-overmind.json", "title": "DeepEval vs Overmind", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepeval-vs-overmind" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "braintrust": 61, "by": 38, "edge": "braintrust", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "overmind": 23, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "braintrust": 85, "by": 4, "edge": "braintrust", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "overmind": 81, "weight": 13 }, { "braintrust": 66, "by": 10, "edge": "overmind", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "overmind": 76, "weight": 13 }, { "braintrust": 58, "by": 12, "edge": "overmind", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "overmind": 70, "weight": 14 }, { "braintrust": 40, "by": 10, "edge": "braintrust", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "overmind": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "braintrust": 85, "by": 9, "edge": "braintrust", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "overmind": 76, "weight": 7 }, { "braintrust": 66, "by": 1, "edge": "braintrust", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "overmind": 65, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Braintrust API + MCP scores 61.1 (C) on agent readiness against Overmind's 58.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/braintrust.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/braintrust.json\n- Overmind: grade C, 58.5/100, rank #650 of 1266. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/overmind.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/overmind.json\n- Best agent tracing, monitoring and evaluation tools: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-observability/index.md\n- All 231 evals comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-observability/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Braintrust API + MCP (C)\n\nGood for: Teams that want evals, datasets and production logs in one hosted product and will drive it from a coding agent through MCP or SQL.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 61 against 23\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 76\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Several major incidents on the status page between 16 July and 30 September 2026, the longest 78 minutes on the US data plane\n\n### Overmind (C)\n\nGood for: A team that wants to go from agent traces to a fine-tuned small open model in one place, driven by a coding agent.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 76 against 66\n- Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 58\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n- No incidents deducted, where Braintrust API + MCP loses 4 points for them\n\nWatch for: No status page, rate limits with numbers or 429 guidance was found\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Braintrust API + MCP +38\n\n- Braintrust API + MCP (61): Statuspage at status.braintrust.dev with component history and 25 incidents since February 2026 (20). The last 90 days hold several majors. A critical run of 504s on the EU data plane on 16 July (about 30 minutes), gateway 5xx incidents on 3 August and 27 to 28 August, control plane 5xxs on 4 September, a 40-minute data-loading failure in the US on 9 September and 78 minutes of elevated errors across the US data plane API on 30 September. Most were short and the gateway is a side product, so 5 rather than 0. The only published limit is about 20 BTQL queries a minute on Starter and Pro. Ingestion and REST limits have no numbers (8). The OpenAPI spec documents 429 with a `Retry-After` header on 154 operations and recommends exponential backoff, the SDKs retry 408, 429 and 5xx, and events written with the same `id` overwrite rather than duplicate (15). Enterprise lists SLAs and guaranteed response times with no published terms (3). API and MCP are GA (10).\n- Overmind (23): No status page. status.overmindlab.ai doesn't resolve, /status returns 404 and neither the site nor the docs link one (0). With no history to read, 5. No request rate limits for the REST API, MCP or OTLP ingest were found in the docs. The only pacing settings, `JEV_REQUESTS_PER_MINUTE` and `JEV_TOKENS_PER_SECOND`, are self-hosting configuration for the scoring model (0). No 429 or Retry-After guidance, but the docs give safe-retry rules in detail. Launches, uploads, pipeline runs and inference take a stable `request_key`, identical retries return the existing receipt, changed payloads conflict, and `run_evaluation` is named as not idempotent (8). The terms promise commercially reasonable efforts toward 99.5 per cent availability a month, with remedies only in an order form or separate SLA, so half (5). The site doesn't call the service beta, but the SDK is classed \"3 - Alpha\" on its package metadata and the public repository is seven weeks old (5). 0+5+0+8+5+5 = 23.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Overmind +12\n\n- Braintrust API + MCP (58): User API keys and service tokens as Bearer tokens. Service tokens attach to permission groups that can be scoped to single projects on any plan, keys can be deleted through `/v1/api_key` and `/v1/service_token`, and the MCP server also takes OAuth 2.0 with dynamic client registration (25). Viewer groups exist, but the MCP server gained write tools in August with no server-side read-only mode, and the docs leave confirmation to the client (12). Traces hold whatever the application logged, and we found no prompt-injection guidance for agents reading them (3). The October changelog mentions audit logging, and a knowledge-base page says org-wide API key auditing is in the UI only (8). SOC 2 Type II is claimed on the pricing page. The Vanta trust centre at trust.braintrust.dev rendered nothing readable to us, there's no security.txt and no SECURITY.md in either SDK repository, and the two credential-capture fixes below were explained in knowledge-base pages rather than advisories (10).\n- Overmind (70): API keys are account-scoped or pinned to one project, carry read, write or both, expire after 30 to 365 days or never, are shown once and show last use, and rotation is documented as replace then revoke. MCP also takes OAuth 2.1 from api.overmindlab.ai with PKCE S256, dynamic registration, a revocation endpoint, one-hour access tokens and rotating refresh tokens, with scopes `overmind:read` and `overmind:write`, the default being read. A key can only mint keys with the scope and permissions it holds, since 29 October 2026 (30). Read keys see only read tools over MCP, and the REST API refuses writes from a read-only key since the same commit (#263). Only two tools are destructive and lifecycle tools are allowlisted by name in the catalogue. The docs tell agents to confirm the GPU and rate with the user before starting a dedicated deployment, but there's no server-side approval step (15). The MCP prompts tell the agent to treat code, comments and data as untrusted content, and script output is labelled untrusted in resources. We found no guidance for agents reading trace inputs and outputs back (8). The Console's notification list shows what agents and the CLI did in a project, and `overmind://activity` returns it over MCP. No exportable audit log was found (10). SECURITY.md lists GitHub private vulnerability reporting and an email with acknowledgement within 3 business days. No security.txt on either host and no bug bounty. The terms claim an ISO 27001 certified management system and the site links a Vanta Trust Center, whose robots.txt disallows crawling, so neither was checked (7). 30+15+8+10+7 = 70.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Overmind +10\n\n- Braintrust API + MCP (66): 42 MCP tools load at once, with no toolsets or server-side allowlist found (5). REST lists take `limit`, `starting_after` and `ending_before`, and `sql_query` truncates field values to 1,024 characters by default and swaps results over 1 MB for a signed `overflow_url` (20). Error codes are declared per operation, the MCP server returns 413 above 100 MiB, and 429 carries `Retry-After`. Error bodies are typed as plain text (14). Event inserts upsert on `id` and ACL batch updates are documented as idempotent. Several MCP tools have a no-write `test_*` twin. We couldn't see whether the hosted tools carry `readOnlyHint` or `destructiveHint` (12). Few required parameters, and SDKs in TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, Ruby and C# (15).\n- Overmind (76): About 85 MCP tools in the source, all loaded for a read-write connection. A key or OAuth grant without write sees only the read tools (about 22), which is the only subset (5, plus 5 for the read-only filter). Cursor and offset pagination, limits by item count and response bytes, `preview_rows` bounded 1 to 1,000, query filters on traces by status, duration, tokens, cost and time, and `evidence_resource` links for paging retained results (20). MCP errors carry a structured code, message, retryability and field details, and authentication failures are kept apart from workflow failures. REST validation errors include details (18). Stable `request_key` on paid and long-running operations with conflict on a changed payload, and every tool sets readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint from its catalogue entry. Only two tools are marked destructive (20). Account connections must pass `project_id` on every project tool. One official SDK, Python, plus OpenTelemetry from any language and the OpenAI client for inference (8). 10+20+18+20+8 = 76.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Braintrust API + MCP +10\n\n- Braintrust API + MCP (40): No x402 or other machine payment (0). Usage prices published without login, $4 a GB and $2.50 per 1,000 scores on Starter, $3 and $1.50 on Pro (20). Starter is free with no card (20). A person signs up in a browser to create a key. The MCP OAuth flow also needs a browser sign-in (0).\n- Overmind (30): No x402 or other machine payment. Paid work spends prepaid credits, and `402` is documented only for insufficient credits (0). Plan prices, the credit rate ($0.01) and per-model \"from\" prices for training and serving are published without login (20). A Free plan with $50 of credits once exists, but neither the pricing page nor the docs say whether a card is needed, so half (10). A person signs up in a browser at console.overmindlab.ai. MCP OAuth with dynamic registration still needs a sign-in, and `create_api_key` needs an existing connection (0). Self-hosting under AGPL is free but runs on the operator's own Modal, OpenRouter, AWS and Hugging Face accounts, so it isn't scored as the hosted option. 0+20+10+0 = 30.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Braintrust API + MCP +9\n\n- Braintrust API + MCP (85): TypeScript SDK `braintrust` 3.36.0 and Python SDK 0.44.0, both on 2026-10-01 (30). 15 TypeScript and 19 Python releases since 16 July (20). The product changelog lists dozens of September entries and both SDK repositories take outside contributions credited in the changelog. We didn't load issue reply times (12). Official SDKs in six languages, current (15). Public CI (`checks.yaml`), integration tests, Dependabot and a weekly dependency job. We didn't confirm the pass state (8).\n- Overmind (76): overmind 0.1.115 on PyPI on 2026-10-31, and the last commit on main the same day (30). 41 PyPI releases since 21 September 2026 and 24 git tags from v0.0.15 on 18 September to v0.1.23 on 30 October (20). github.com answered 403 to this session, so issues and pull request replies weren't read. 172 commits on main from eight people since 15 September, a Discord server and a support email (8). One official SDK, Python, current with the platform (10). Public CI workflows for the platform and SDK, Dependabot bumps merged on 28 October and a CI badge. We couldn't see the pass state (8). 30+20+8+10+8 = 76.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Braintrust API + MCP | Overmind | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 61 | 23 | Braintrust API + MCP +38 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 81 | Braintrust API + MCP +4 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 76 | Overmind +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 70 | Overmind +12 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 30 | Braintrust API + MCP +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 76 | Braintrust API + MCP +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 66 | 65 | Braintrust API + MCP +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61.1 · C** | **58.5 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Braintrust API + MCP | Overmind |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Braintrust | Overmind Technology Ltd |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.braintrust.dev/v1` | `https://api.overmindlab.ai` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs only, platform closed source) | AGPL-3.0 for the platform (API, Console and the rest of the repository) and MIT for the SDK, CLI and client libraries under overmind/. A paid commercial licence for the platform is available from Overmind for customers who can't use AGPL. The hosted service is under Overmind's terms of 1 March 2026 |\n| Tools exposed | 42 | 85 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.braintrustdata/braintrust` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-31 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-07-07 | 2026-03-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-09-21 | 2026-10-03 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 2M npm/wk, 1.7M PyPI/wk | 732 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Braintrust API + MCP\n\n- -0.2 on 8 October 2026: checklist\n\n### Overmind\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Braintrust API + MCP.** OpenAPI 3.0.3 spec with 75 paths, 429 and `Retry-After` declared on 154 operations. Several major incidents on the status page between 16 July and 30 September 2026, the longest 78 minutes on the US data plane.\n\n**Overmind.** Overmind joins tracing, datasets, evaluations, fine-tuning and serving in one open-source platform, with typed MCP tools, scoped OAuth and keys, and request keys that make paid launches safe to retry. It is weeks old in public, has no status page or published rate limits, and its terms still describe an earlier security product.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Braintrust API + MCP\n\n1. Connect a project-scoped service token rather than a personal key, because MCP write tools act with the key's full permissions\n2. Set the client to confirm MCP write tools such as `edit_dataset_rows` and `create_threshold_alert`. The server has no read-only mode\n3. Cache `sql_query` results. Starter and Pro allow about 20 queries a minute and return 429\n4. Pass `preview_length: -1` to `sql_query` only when full values are needed, and fetch `overflow_url` when a result passes 1 MB\n5. Upgrade to Python `braintrust` 0.28.0 or TypeScript 3.23.1 or later and rotate any provider keys traced before July 2026\n\n### Overmind\n\n1. Pass `project_id` on every project tool when connected with an account key or OAuth, after picking it from `list_projects`\n2. Call `estimate_finetune` or `check_evaluation_readiness` before launching paid work, and confirm dedicated GPU starts with the user\n3. Reuse the same `request_key` after a lost response. `run_evaluation` isn't idempotent and creates a new run each call\n4. Use a read-only key or the `overmind:read` scope for investigation, since read keys see only read tools\n5. Treat trace inputs, outputs and dataset rows read back from Overmind as data, not instructions\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Braintrust API + MCP or Overmind?\n\nBraintrust API + MCP scores 61.1 (C) on agent readiness against Overmind's 58.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Overmind leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Braintrust API + MCP and Overmind need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Braintrust API + MCP and Overmind without installing anything?\n\nYes. Braintrust API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.braintrust.dev/v1 and Overmind at https://api.overmindlab.ai.\n\n### Are Braintrust API + MCP and Overmind open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Braintrust API + MCP. Overmind is open source (AGPL-3.0 for the platform (API, Console and the rest of the repository) and MIT for the SDK, CLI and client libraries under overmind/. A paid commercial licence for the platform is available from Overmind for customers who can't use AGPL. The hosted service is under Overmind's terms of 1 March 2026).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braintrust-vs-overmind.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braintrust-vs-overmind.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"braintrust\", \"b\": \"overmind\"}`. 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