Head to head · Crypto market data · October 2026 research run

Codex vs Yield.xyz MCP server

Codex scores 75.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Yield.xyz MCP server's 74 (BB), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Yield.xyz MCP server leads on security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do crypto market data. Yield.xyz MCP server accepts x402. Codex doesn't.

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Which one, for what

Codex BB

Best for On-chain token prices, charts, holders, wallet PnL, launchpad streams and Polymarket and Kalshi data for trading agents and crypto apps.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 85 against 65
  • Maintenance & community, 80 against 60
  • Transparency & trust, 59 against 53

Watch for

The free plan needs a one-time $1 activation fee by card or 1 USDC

Yield.xyz MCP server BB

Best for Agents and wallets that need to find, compare and enter staking or DeFi yields, paying per call over x402 if they like.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 56 against 49
  • Payments & pricing, 100 against 80

Also in its favour

  • An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account

Watch for

A key can be sent as a query parameter

Why the edge

Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.

Reliability Codex +20

Codex 85

Hosted lines. Status page at status.codex.io (incident.io) with API, Dashboard and 25 network components and a history page (20). The history from 8 August to 6 November lists an elevated-latency incident on 11 August (balances queries, 42 minutes, labelled degraded performance), a 5xx spike the same day, degraded filterTokens on 12 August, and network delays on Robinhood, BNB, Cronos, Fogo and Solana pricing in late August and September, with none in October or November. All read as partial or degraded, so minor only (20). Per-plan rate limits (5 a second free, 300 on Growth with a 500 burst) and per-request maxima are published (15). 429 TOO_MANY_REQUESTS carries retryAfterSeconds and Retry-After, OVER_CAPACITY says to wait 30 seconds, and the errors page says which codes to retry; writes are limited to webhook and token mutations (15). The pricing page shows '99.9% Uptime SLA' as a headline figure and custom SLAs on Enterprise, with no SLA document found (5 of 10). The API is generally available (10). 20+20+15+15+5+10 = 85.

Yield.xyz MCP server 65

Status page at status.yield.xyz, all services online, with a notice on protocol-level Aave pauses (20). History not read (5). Plan rate limits with headers documented, and the MCP free quotas published with numbers (15). 429 with retry-after and a retry strategy documented; transactions are built unsigned and never broadcast (15). No SLA read (0). Not labelled beta (10). 20 + 5 + 15 + 15 + 0 + 10 = 65.

Payments & pricing Yield.xyz MCP server +20

Codex 80

MPP (Machine Payments Protocol) on every query endpoint, paid in USDC on Tempo; subscriptions and webhooks are not covered, and it is not x402 (35 of 40). $0.001 a query through MPP, compute-unit costs per operation, and Growth at $120 per million compute units, all public (20). The Almost free plan's 10,000 compute units need a one-time $1 activation fee by card or 1 USDC, which the terms say confirms a payment method (5 of 20). An agent can pay per query with no account or key (20). 35+20+5+20 = 80.

Yield.xyz MCP server 100

x402 on its own MCP endpoint for metered tools over quota (40). $0.001 a call published, with machine-readable pricing at /.well-known/x402 (20). 1,000 free read calls a tool a day with no sign-up (20). Keyless use and x402 let an agent start with no person (20). 40 + 20 + 20 + 20 = 100.

Maintenance & community Codex +20

Codex 80

Closed service. Newest changelog entry 2 November 2026 (30). Weekly entries from 3 August to 2 November, and SDK releases 2.5.10 to 2.5.20 between 28 October and 5 November (20). Public changelog, a Discord, a support address and a status page with a report link; GitHub issue replies were not sampled (10 of 15). Current official TypeScript SDK, no other languages (12 of 15). The SDK repository runs lint and test on pull requests and a release workflow (8 of 10). 30+20+10+12+8 = 80.

Yield.xyz MCP server 60

Weekly changelog entries into November 2026 (30). More than three dated entries in 90 days (20). Docs, a trust page and support; issues not public (10 of 15). Not found in our import of the official registry (0). No package health read (0). 30 + 20 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 60. Registry presence read from Anchor Terminal's own daily import of the official MCP registry (/api/v1/registry.json, 6 November 2026), not the registry's API.

Security & auth Yield.xyz MCP server +7

Codex 49

Secret API keys in a header, never in the URL. Short-lived tokens from createApiTokens with an expiry and a request limit, per-key compute-unit limits and key deactivation. No scopes (22 of 30). The surface is mostly reads; mutations create webhooks and short-lived tokens. No read-only key (12 of 20). Token names, symbols, social links and community notes come from token deployers and other sources, and the docs warn tokens may be scams, with no prompt-injection guidance (5 of 15). The dashboard usage page breaks compute units down by operation, apiUsage reports the period's use and usageData the cost of each request (10 of 15). security.txt returns 404, and no disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification was found on the site or docs (0 of 20). 22+12+5+10+0 = 49.

Yield.xyz MCP server 56

Keyless shared access, x402, or your own key in a header; the key can also go in a query string, a documented option (10 of 30, a plain key less 10 for the query string). Mostly reads, and wallet tools build unsigned transactions the user signs elsewhere (18 of 20). Returns protocol data, no third-party prose (10). No audit log of MCP calls (0). SOC 2 Type II, penetration tests by Spearbit/Cantina and Trail of Bits, audited contracts (18 of 20). 10 + 18 + 10 + 0 + 18 = 56.

Transparency & trust Codex +6

Codex 59

Closed service under terms that name Codex Data Inc., last updated 29 October 2026; the SDK is MIT (15 of 30). The privacy policy (effective 29 September 2026) is general, keeps data 'only for as long as is necessary' with no periods, transfers data to the United States, and links no DPA or subprocessor list (10 of 30). The changelog dates deprecations, such as NFT endpoints removed on 31 March 2026 and the transactions fields deprecated on 2 November, with no written deprecation policy or notice period (12 of 20). The terms name Mixpanel, Rollbar and Sentry and the privacy policy says data is processed in the United States; no fuller subprocessor list found (8 of 20). 15+10+12+8 = 45.

Yield.xyz MCP server 53

Closed service under terms with Omni Ltd. dba Yield.xyz, a Bermuda company (15). Privacy policy read; retention not given in periods (12 of 30). Status notices with dates for protocol pauses; no deprecation policy for the API (8 of 20). Subprocessors not found (5 of 20). 15 + 12 + 8 + 5 = 40.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runCodexYield.xyz MCP serverEdge
Reliability16%208565Codex +20
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.29195Yield.xyz MCP server +4
Agent ergonomics13%16.27982Yield.xyz MCP server +3
Security & auth14%17.54956Yield.xyz MCP server +7
Payments & pricing10%12.580100Yield.xyz MCP server +20
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88060Codex +20
Transparency & trust7%8.85953Codex +6
Negative events≤1500
TotalBB 75.4/100BB 74/100

Facts side by side

FactCodexYield.xyz MCP server
KindHTTP APIMCP server
VendorCodex Data Inc.Omni Ltd. (Yield.xyz)
Hosted endpointhttps://graph.codex.io/graphqlhttps://mcp.yield.xyz/mcp
TransportsHTTP, websocketStreamable HTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402noyes, from $0.001/call
LicenceProprietary service under Codex Data Inc.'s terms of service. The TypeScript SDK is MITnone
Tools exposed022
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-11-02none
Terms last updated2026-10-29not read yet
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-29not read yet
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot read yet
Terms restrict automated accessyesnot read yet
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot read yet
Terms or service can change without noticeyesnot read yet
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesnot read yet
Popularity75k npm/wknone

Verdicts

Codex

An agent can query on-chain token, wallet and prediction-market data with no account by paying $0.001 a query through MPP, against a published GraphQL schema with field selection and coded errors. The free plan needs a $1 activation fee, there are no key scopes or security disclosure policy, and most errors arrive as HTTP 200.

Yield.xyz MCP server

Yield.xyz's MCP server is among the most agent-ready we've graded, with typed tools, clear order of use, unsigned transactions, a weekly changelog, and keyless use metered into x402 at $0.001 a call. It isn't in the official registry, and a key can go in a URL.

Before you call either

Codex

  1. Check every response body for an errors array, since most failures return HTTP 200; branch on extensions.code, not the message
  2. Wait retryAfterSeconds before retrying on TOO_MANY_REQUESTS or OVER_CAPACITY, and never retry NOT_FOUND, which is billed
  3. Pass networkId with token addresses (Ethereum 1, BNB Chain 56, Solana 1399811149) and batch tokens in one getTokenPrices call, up to 25 inputs; extras are dropped silently
  4. Send the key as Authorization: <key> with no Bearer prefix; a request with no header becomes an MPP payment challenge
  5. Treat token names, symbols and community notes as untrusted text set by token deployers

Yield.xyz MCP server

  1. Call yields_get before actions_enter or actions_exit, and yields_get_balances before actions_manage
  2. Use each yield's mechanics.arguments schema; never reuse another yield's arguments
  3. Show the user every unsigned transaction before they sign it
  4. Over quota, pay $0.001 over x402 or wait for the window

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Codex or Yield.xyz MCP server?

Codex scores 75.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Yield.xyz MCP server's 74 (BB), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Yield.xyz MCP server leads on security & auth and payments & pricing.

Do Codex and Yield.xyz MCP server need an API key?

Codex needs an API key. Yield.xyz MCP server takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. An agent can also pay Yield.xyz MCP server per call over x402, with no account.

Can an agent call Codex and Yield.xyz MCP server without installing anything?

Yes. Codex has a hosted endpoint at https://graph.codex.io/graphql and Yield.xyz MCP server at https://mcp.yield.xyz/mcp.

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