Head to head · CRM records · October 2026 research run
Breakcold vs Pipedrive API + MCP
Pipedrive API + MCP scores 61.5 (C) on agent readiness against Breakcold's 58 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Breakcold leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do crm records.
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Which one, for what
Best for Small sales teams who run outreach on email and social channels and want an agent to keep records, tasks and replies in order.
Ahead on
- Schema & documentation, 90 against 80
- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 61
- Security & auth, 60 against 53
Watch for
No status page or SLA was found; status.breakcold.com did not answer
Best for Small and mid-size sales teams running deal pipelines who want an agent to update deals and log activities.
Ahead on
- Reliability, 58 against 45
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 15
- Maintenance & community, 83 against 60
- Transparency & trust, 76 against 67
Also in its favour
- Free to start without a card
Watch for
51 MCP tools, including add and update tools, with no read-only mode or confirmation documented
Why the edge
Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.
Maintenance & community Pipedrive API + MCP +23
Breakcold 60
API changelog entry on 6 November 2026 (30). More than 60 dated entries since 8 August 2026 (20). Closed service with a public API changelog, an RSS feed, a help centre and support by email; no public issue tracker (10 of 15). The CRM MCP server is not in the official MCP registry (the registry's io.github.breakcold/inboxmcp is a separate product at inbox-mcp.com), and no official SDK exists (0). No package to check (0). 30 + 20 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 60.
Pipedrive API + MCP 83
Node client v36.1.0 on 21 October 2026 (30). Node releases on 6 August, 13 August, twice on 8 September, and 13 more from 9 to 21 October, counted half as SDK tags (20). Public changelog with dated entries, the newest announced on 29 July and effective 1 August 2026. We didn't test support (10 of 15). Not in the official MCP registry (only third-party Pipedrive servers), but official SDKs are current (15). The Node client publishes from CI, and a workflow auto-closes stale issues (8 of 10).
Payments & pricing Pipedrive API + MCP +15
Breakcold 15
No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public, and each call's cost in usage tokens is published, but the money value of a token is not (10). The 14-day trial needs a card (0). auth.md documents an agent identity endpoint that takes an identity assertion or an anonymous request followed by a claim by a person, which we read and did not call; access still needs a paid or card-backed trial account (5 of 20). 0 + 10 + 0 + 5 = 15.
Pipedrive API + MCP 30
No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices public, Lite $14 to Ultimate $79 a seat a month billed yearly, with token top-ups from $100 a month. No per-call price for the API (10). 14-day trial with no card (20). A person signs up in a browser (0).
Reliability Pipedrive API + MCP +13
Breakcold 45
Graded as a hosted service on the REST API and hosted MCP server. No status page is linked from the site or docs, and status.breakcold.com failed the TLS handshake (0). With no readable history the incident line scores 5. Rate limits published per organisation (600 a minute), workspace (300), identity or key (180) and route (120), for REST and MCP (15). 429 carries Retry-After and retryAfterMs, the docs give backoff guidance, and creates take an Idempotency-Key so retries return the original result (15). No SLA found in the services agreement summary, the pricing page or the docs (0). Neither surface is marked beta (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 15 + 0 + 10 = 45.
Pipedrive API + MCP 58
Status page at status.pipedrive.com (run on Sorry), linked from Pipedrive's developer pages, with components including REST API v1 but nothing for API v2 or the MCP server, per the 1 October check (20). On 4 November its robots.txt answered an empty 406, which this run reads as a refusal, so the 1 October incident readings from it are struck and no part of the window from 6 August could be read (5). Rate limits documented in detail, a daily token budget per company plus burst limits per 2 seconds by plan and auth type (15). Responses carry x-ratelimit-* and x-daily-requests-left headers and a 429 when the budget runs out. The rate-limit page gives no Retry-After or safe-retry guidance for writes, though the Node client's 36.1.0 notes (21 October) mention Retry-After on a 429 (8 of 15). No SLA found (0). REST is GA, and the MCP setup article for Claude, updated on 22 October 2026, no longer labels the server beta (10).
Schema & documentation Breakcold +10
Breakcold 90
OpenAPI 3.1 contract at docs.breakcold.com/api/openapi.json with 70 operations, each with a description (25). llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each page, plus auth.md and an MCP server card (10). Tool descriptions say how to use them, such as records_create asking for every required field and a stable idempotency key and the send tools saying to send only after the user confirms (17 of 20). 84 enums and 488 required lists, with typed attribute pages for each field type (13 of 15). Every operation documents 400 to 429 responses and the error body is shown, but the spec carries only two examples (10 of 15). /api/v1, and an API changelog with dated entries and migration steps (15). 25 + 10 + 17 + 13 + 10 + 15 = 90.
Pipedrive API + MCP 80
OpenAPI 3.0.1 file for v2, re-read on 4 November with 158 operations and the token in the x-api-token header (25). llms.txt on the readme.io docs (10). Pipedrive's MCP tools article (updated 22 October 2026) lists 51 tools by resource, each with its action and some with a use case; the server's own tool definitions weren't read. API reference descriptions are adequate (10 of 20). Typed parameters in the OpenAPI (12 of 15). Examples on every reference page. We didn't read an error reference (10 of 15). v1 and v2 paths and a dated changelog that flags breaking changes and deprecations (13 of 15).
Transparency & trust Pipedrive API + MCP +9
Breakcold 67
Closed service with a legal centre whose terms name Logike SAS, its registration and French law (15 of 30). The privacy policy of 27 October 2026 and the DPA agree, give retention periods for specific copies (deleted record snapshots 30 days, exports 7 days, import rows 90 days, call recordings 30 to 365 days) and promise breach notice without undue delay (27 of 30). The developer terms tie notice of material breaking changes to the services agreement, and the changelog gives migration steps, with no fixed notice period found (12 of 20). DPA Annex C lists providers and their functions with 30 days' notice of changes; locations are said to depend on configuration, with US and EU app regions (15 of 20). 15 + 27 + 12 + 15 = 69.
Pipedrive API + MCP 76
Closed service with terms naming Pipedrive Inc. in the US and Pipedrive OÜ in the EU (15). Privacy notice updated 2 July 2026, with DPF and SCCs and a subprocessor link, but no retention periods after closure and no clear statement on training AI with customer data (18 of 30). Dated deprecations with notice, such as the Channels API (announced 14 November 2025, effective 1 February 2026) and deprecated v1 endpoints out of support from 1 August 2026 (16 of 20). Subprocessor list maintained, including Anthropic and Recall.ai, on AWS in several regions (17 of 20).
Security & auth Breakcold +7
Breakcold 60
API keys take chosen read and write scopes, an optional workspace limit and an expiry, are shown once, show activity history and can be revoked. MCP also accepts OAuth with PKCE through WorkOS AuthKit. Tokens travel in headers (30). Read-only keys are possible and message sends stay drafts until sendMode is set after the user confirms (17 of 20). The inbox returns email, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Telegram text from outside parties, and no prompt-injection guidance was found (0). API key activity history is visible to the user; no organisation audit log was found (7 of 15). A vulnerability disclosure policy (3 September 2026) with reports to support@breakcold.com, no bounty, no security.txt (404) and no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 found (6 of 20). 30 + 17 + 0 + 7 + 6 = 60.
Pipedrive API + MCP 53
Personal API tokens carry the user's full rights, one active per user per company, and per the 30 September check older docs still show the token as an api_token query parameter. OAuth 2.0 with scopes for apps, and the MCP server is OAuth only with scopes for deals, contacts, leads, activities, products and search (25, less 10 for the query-string option, 15 of 30). No read-only mode or write confirmation documented for MCP (7 of 20). Email sync and notes reach the model, and we found no injection guidance (3 of 15). The launch post says every MCP action is recorded in Pipedrive's change logs (12 of 15). ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27701, SOC 2 Type 2 and SOC 3 in the trust centre, with a responsible disclosure programme. No security.txt (404) (16 of 20).
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Breakcold | Pipedrive API + MCP | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 45 | 58 | Pipedrive API + MCP +13 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 90 | 80 | Breakcold +10 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 67 | 61 | Breakcold +6 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 60 | 53 | Breakcold +7 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 15 | 30 | Pipedrive API + MCP +15 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 60 | 83 | Pipedrive API + MCP +23 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 67 | 76 | Pipedrive API + MCP +9 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | C 58/100 | C 61.5/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Breakcold | Pipedrive API + MCP |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Logike SAS | Pipedrive |
| Hosted endpoint | https://mcp.breakcold.com/mcp/v1 | https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2 |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Tools exposed | 72 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-10-21 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-09-16 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-07-02 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |
| Popularity | none | 234 stars, 72k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |
How the scores have moved
Breakcold
No score change since it was listed.
Verdicts
Breakcold
Breakcold's API and hosted MCP server are built for agents, with an OpenAPI contract, scoped and expiring keys, published rate limits, idempotency keys and message sends that stay drafts until confirmed. No status page, SLA or security certification was found, and the only trial needs a card on a plan from $99 a month.
Pipedrive API + MCP
Hosted MCP server on every plan, with actions recorded in the change log and no beta label in its setup guide since 22 October 2026. No read-only mode or confirmation is documented for its write tools, and the status page's history couldn't be read on 4 November.
Before you call either
Breakcold
- Call
capabilities_listortools_searchfirst to see which tools the granted scopes allow - Send an Idempotency-Key on REST creates and a stable idempotency key on
records_create, so retries return the original result - Leave
sendModeunset on compose and send tools until the user has confirmed the message - Pass
fieldson record lists to cut the response to the fields you need - On 429 wait for Retry-After or
retryAfterMs; over MCP the error code is -32029
Pipedrive API + MCP
- Use v2 endpoints, which cost fewer tokens than v1
- Read
x-daily-requests-leftbefore a bulk run, since a search costs 40 tokens - Send the token in the
x-api-tokenheader, never asapi_tokenin the URL - Keep under 10 search requests per 2 seconds on every plan
- Ask the user to load all Pipedrive tools in the client if an expected tool is missing, since Claude may not load every tool by default
- Use the Node client's
WithHttpInfomethods (36.1.0) to read rate-limit headers before a bulk run
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Breakcold or Pipedrive API + MCP?
Pipedrive API + MCP scores 61.5 (C) on agent readiness against Breakcold's 58 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Breakcold leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and security & auth.
Do Breakcold and Pipedrive API + MCP need an API key?
Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.
Can an agent call Breakcold and Pipedrive API + MCP without installing anything?
Yes. Breakcold has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.breakcold.com/mcp/v1 and Pipedrive API + MCP at https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2.
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