# Causely MCP server vs Rootly MCP Server (slim)

> Rootly scores 59.7 (C) to Causely's 39.5 (E) for incidents. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Rootly MCP Server scores 59.7 (C) on agent readiness against Causely MCP server's 39.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do incidents.

- Causely MCP server: E 39.5, rank #1092 of 1210 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/causely.min.md
- Rootly MCP Server: C 59.7, rank #612 of 1210 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rootly-mcp.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.
- Rootly MCP Server, good for Incident and on-call agents in teams that already run Rootly. Ahead on Reliability, 48 against 12; Schema & documentation, 78 against 65; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 42; Security & auth, 65 against 59; Transparency & trust, 80 against 57. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Causely MCP server | Rootly MCP Server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 12 | 48 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 65 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 42 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 59 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Causely MCP server | Rootly MCP Server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Causely, Inc. | Rootly Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.causely.app/mcp` | `https://mcp.rootly.com/mcp` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio |
| Price for incidents | not published | $20 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 | Apache-2.0 for the server. The hosted service runs under Rootly's Terms of Use |
| Tools exposed | 46 | 218 |
| MCP registry | `app.causely/causely` | `com.rootly/mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-07-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (4) |