# Causely MCP server vs Grafana MCP Server (slim)

> Grafana scores 73.9 (BB) to Causely's 39.5 (E) for incidents. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Grafana MCP Server scores 73.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Causely MCP server's 39.5 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do incidents.

- Causely MCP server: E 39.5, rank #1092 of 1210 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/causely.min.md
- Grafana MCP Server: BB 73.9, rank #81 of 1210 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grafana-mcp-server.min.md
- Causely MCP server, good for Teams that already run Causely, or will, and want agents to start an incident from an inferred root cause, blast radius and recent changes rather than raw metrics and logs. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Grafana MCP Server, good for Teams on Grafana, self-managed or Cloud, that want an agent to read dashboards and query Prometheus, Loki, Tempo and Pyroscope, and to work with alert rules, incidents and OnCall. Ahead on Reliability, 91 against 12; Schema & documentation, 81 against 65; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 42; Security & auth, 67 against 59; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 96 against 79; Transparency & trust, 79 against 57. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Causely MCP server | Grafana MCP Server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 12 | 91 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 65 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 42 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 59 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 96 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 79 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Causely MCP server | Grafana MCP Server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Causely, Inc. | Grafana Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.causely.app/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | stdio, SSE (legacy), Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Causely's Terms of Service and Platform Terms & Conditions. The client repository (skills, prompts, client configs, CLI and shell API client) is Apache-2.0; the MCP server's source is not public | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 46 | 119 |
| MCP registry | `app.causely/causely` | `io.github.grafana/mcp-grafana` |
| Last release | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-07-10 |
| Popularity | none | 3.5k stars, 152k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |