# Causely MCP server vs incident.io API (slim)

> incident.io scores 68.9 (B) to Causely's 39.5 (E) for incidents. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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incident.io API scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against Causely MCP server's 39.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Causely MCP server leads on payments & pricing. Both do incidents.

- Causely MCP server: E 39.5, rank #1092 of 1210 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/causely.min.md
- incident.io API: B 68.9, rank #220 of 1210 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/incident-io.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. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 20 against 10.
- incident.io API, good for Agents that declare and update incidents, page people, read on-call schedules and post status page incidents in an organisation that already pays for incident.io. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 12; Schema & documentation, 88 against 65; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 42; Security & auth, 64 against 59; Transparency & trust, 76 against 57. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.8 out of 5.

| Category | Causely MCP server | incident.io API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 12 | 90 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 65 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 42 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 59 | 64 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 76 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Causely MCP server | incident.io API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Causely, Inc. | Pineapple Technology Ltd. (incident.io) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.causely.app/mcp` | `https://mcp.incident.io/mcp` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Price for incidents | not published | $19 per seat per month |
| 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 | Proprietary service under incident.io's Terms and Conditions. The SDKs, the `inc` CLI and the skills plugin on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 46 | none |
| MCP registry | `app.causely/causely` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-08-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2024-02-15 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 1.3k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (4) |