# Circle Gateway Nanopayments vs Nevermined API + MCP (slim)

> Nevermined scores 70.8 (BB) to Circle Gateway Nanopayments's 67.6 (B) for x402 payments. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Nevermined API + MCP scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Circle Gateway Nanopayments's 67.6 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Circle Gateway Nanopayments leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do x402 payments.

- Circle Gateway Nanopayments: B 67.6, rank #247 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/circle-gateway-nanopayments.min.md
- Nevermined API + MCP: BB 70.8, rank #142 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nevermined.min.md
- Circle Gateway Nanopayments, good for Sellers charging fractions of a cent per API call and agents making many small payments from one prefunded balance on EVM chains. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 80 against 65; Transparency & trust, 72 against 51. Also No key needed to call it.
- Nevermined API + MCP, good for Builders who want to charge agents per call or by plan, with fiat and stablecoin rails and caps on the buyer side, and for agents that need one budget across x402 and MPP services. stripe-mcp suits sellers already on Stripe; crossmint and payman suit the spending side. Ahead on Reliability, 72 against 56; Maintenance & community, 89 against 77. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No incidents deducted, where Circle Gateway Nanopayments loses 3 points for them.

| Category | Circle Gateway Nanopayments | Nevermined API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 56 | 72 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 64 | 63 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 80 | 65 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 77 | 89 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Circle Gateway Nanopayments | Nevermined API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Circle | Nevermined |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://gateway-api.circle.com` | `https://api.live.nevermined.app` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under the Circle Developer Terms. The `@circle-fin/x402-batching` SDK on npm and the Gateway contracts on GitHub are Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 12 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.nevermined-io/catalog` |
| Last release | 2026-09-16 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-16 | no date given |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 17k npm/wk | 17 stars, 468 npm/wk, 4.4k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |