# CleverTap vs Customer.io (slim)

> Customer.io scores 74.5 (BB) to CleverTap's 48.8 (D) for marketing audiences. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Customer.io scores 74.5 (BB) on agent readiness against CleverTap's 48.8 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do marketing audiences.

- CleverTap: D 48.8, rank #806 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clevertap.min.md
- Customer.io: BB 74.5, rank #69 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/customer-io.min.md
- CleverTap, good for A team already on CleverTap that wants an agent to load profiles and events, read them back, create or stop API campaigns and pull campaign reports.
- Customer.io, good for Product and lifecycle teams already on Customer.io who want an agent to build segments, draft automations and report on campaigns with sends held behind a separate scope. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 30; Schema & documentation, 86 against 57; Agent ergonomics, 83 against 53; Security & auth, 79 against 56; Payments & pricing, 45 against 25; Maintenance & community, 80 against 73; Transparency & trust, 75 against 64. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | CleverTap | Customer.io |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 57 | 86 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 53 | 83 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 79 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 45 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 73 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | CleverTap | Customer.io |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | WizRocket Inc. | Peaberry Software, Inc. d/b/a Customer.io |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.customer.io/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Price for marketing audiences | not published | $0.009 per record |
| Licence | Proprietary service under CleverTap's Terms of Service. The Node.js API library on GitHub is MIT | Proprietary service under Customer.io's terms of service. The CLI is Apache 2.0 with the Commons Clause, and the Claude Code plugin is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 8 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2021-04-30 | 2026-08-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-09 | 2026-08-01 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 3k npm/wk | 5 stars, 751k npm/wk, 216k PyPI/wk |