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          "Use cursors through advanced filtering or the event log for large pulls, since `_skip` has a per-resource ceiling",
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          "item": "Outbound calls",
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      "authNotes": "Personal API token in the x-api-token header (older docs show it as an api_token query parameter, which puts it in logs); one active token per user per company. OAuth 2.0 with scopes for marketplace apps. The MCP server at https://mcp.pipedrive.ai/mcp is OAuth only, through oauth.pipedrive.com, with scopes for deals, contacts, leads, activities, products and search.",
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      "pricingNotes": "No free plan, a 14-day trial with no card. Lite $14, Growth $39, Premium $59 and Ultimate $79 a seat a month billed yearly ($24, $49, $79 and $99 billed monthly per the 30 September check). API and MCP on every plan. Each company gets a daily API budget of 30,000 tokens times a plan multiplier (Lite 1 up to Ultimate 7) times seats; extra token packs are sold from $100 a month (https://www.pipedrive.com/en/pricing).",
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        "evidence": "No payments. Access follows the Pipedrive subscription and its daily API token budget.",
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        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "webhooks",
        "closed-source",
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        "no-card"
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        "score": 60.6,
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          "Hosted MCP server on every plan, with actions recorded in the change log",
          "Detailed rate-limit docs with token costs per call type and remaining-budget headers",
          "Official Node (33.7.0, 8 September 2026) and PHP SDKs",
          "ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and SOC 2 Type 2",
          "Dated deprecations announced months ahead"
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          "Four incidents over an hour in September 2026, and no status component for API v2 or MCP",
          "Personal API tokens carry full user rights and can travel as a query parameter",
          "Daily token budget is shared by the whole company",
          "No security.txt and no retention period after account closure"
        ],
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          "Use v2 endpoints, which cost fewer tokens than v1",
          "Read `x-daily-requests-left` before a bulk run, since a search costs 40 tokens",
          "Send the token in the `x-api-token` header, never as `api_token` in the URL",
          "Keep under 10 search requests per 2 seconds on every plan",
          "Ask the user to load all Pipedrive tools in the client if an expected tool is missing"
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          "schema": 80,
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        {
          "item": "Premium",
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          "The MCP server is on pipedrive.ai, a separate domain from the REST API."
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedrive.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipedrive.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Close API + MCP for reliability (+28), security \u0026 auth (+13).\n\nPick Pipedrive API + MCP for agent ergonomics (+5), transparency \u0026 trust (+9).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Close API + MCP | Pipedrive API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 81 | 53 | Close API + MCP +28 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 80 | Close API + MCP +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 61 | Pipedrive API + MCP +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 53 | Close API + MCP +13 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 83 | Pipedrive API + MCP +4 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 78 | Pipedrive API + MCP +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.9 · B** | **60.6 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Close API + MCP | Pipedrive API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Close | Pipedrive |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.close.com/api/v1` | `https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\n| Tools exposed | 121 | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `com.close/close-mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-08 |\n| Popularity | 70 stars, 14k PyPI/wk | 234 stars, 72k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Close API + MCP.** Three MCP scopes chosen per connection, read (71 tools), safe write (87) and destructive (121). 121 MCP tools, and even the read scope loads 71.\n\n**Pipedrive API + MCP.** Hosted MCP server on every plan, with actions recorded in the change log. MCP tool list not published, and the server is labelled beta.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Close API + MCP\n\n1. Connect with `Close-Scope: mcp.read` unless the job needs writes, and `mcp.write_safe` if it only creates\n2. Sleep for the `reset` value in the `RateLimit` header after a 429, which the docs say beats `retry-after`\n3. Use cursors through advanced filtering or the event log for large pulls, since `_skip` has a per-resource ceiling\n4. Search the lead before `create_lead`, because there's no idempotency key and a retry makes a duplicate\n5. Expect `create_draft_email` to leave a draft, and tell the user to send it from Close\n\n### Pipedrive API + MCP\n\n1. Use v2 endpoints, which cost fewer tokens than v1\n2. Read `x-daily-requests-left` before a bulk run, since a search costs 40 tokens\n3. Send the token in the `x-api-token` header, never as `api_token` in the URL\n4. Keep under 10 search requests per 2 seconds on every plan\n5. Ask the user to load all Pipedrive tools in the client if an expected tool is missing\n\n## Other comparisons with Close API + MCP or Pipedrive API + MCP\n\n- [Attio API + MCP vs Close API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/attio-vs-close.md)\n- [Attio API + MCP vs Pipedrive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/attio-vs-pipedrive.md)\n- [Close API + MCP vs Copper API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/close-vs-copper.md)\n- [Close API + MCP vs folk API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/close-vs-folk.md)\n- [Close API + MCP vs Freshsales API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/close-vs-freshsales.md)\n- [Close API + MCP vs HubSpot API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/close-vs-hubspot-mcp.md)\n- [Close API + MCP vs Salesforce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/close-vs-salesforce.md)\n- [Close API + MCP vs Streak API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/close-vs-streak.md)\n- [Close API + MCP vs Twenty API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/close-vs-twenty.md)\n- [Copper API vs Pipedrive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/copper-vs-pipedrive.md)\n- [folk API + MCP vs Pipedrive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-vs-pipedrive.md)\n- [Freshsales API vs Pipedrive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freshsales-vs-pipedrive.md)\n- [HubSpot API + MCP vs Pipedrive API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hubspot-mcp-vs-pipedrive.md)\n- [Pipedrive API + MCP vs Salesforce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipedrive-vs-salesforce.md)\n- [Pipedrive API + MCP vs Streak API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipedrive-vs-streak.md)\n- [Pipedrive API + MCP vs Twenty API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipedrive-vs-twenty.md)\n",
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