# ButterCMS vs Hygraph (slim)

> Hygraph scores 69.3 (B) to ButterCMS's 53.3 (D) for content management. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Hygraph scores 69.3 (B) on agent readiness against ButterCMS's 53.3 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do content management.

- ButterCMS: D 53.3, rank #711 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/buttercms.min.md
- Hygraph: B 69.3, rank #191 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hygraph.min.md
- ButterCMS, good for A team already on a paid ButterCMS plan that wants an agent to draft and publish pages, collection items and blog posts in small volumes.
- Hygraph, good for Teams on Hygraph who want an agent to create, localise and publish entries, upload assets or change schema, with delete and unpublish kept out of reach on MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 89 against 83; Agent ergonomics, 72 against 64; Security & auth, 63 against 36; Payments & pricing, 35 against 20; Maintenance & community, 74 against 27; Transparency & trust, 60 against 51.

| Category | ButterCMS | Hygraph |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 83 | 89 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 36 | 63 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 27 | 74 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 51 | 60 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ButterCMS | Hygraph |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | ButterCMS LLC | Hygraph GmbH |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.buttercms.com/v2` | `https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under ButterCMS's terms of service. The SDKs and starter projects on GitHub are MIT | Proprietary service under Hygraph GmbH's Terms of Service. The `@hygraph/management-sdk` package is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 17 |
| Last release | 2025-09-04 | 2026-09-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2022-08-15 | no date given |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 6.9k npm/wk | 52 stars, 8.6k npm/wk |