{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "coinbase-mcp", "name": "Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents)", "vendor": "Coinbase, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/ai-agents/coinbase-for-agents/coinbase-mcp", "kind": "mcp", "category": "agent-wallets", "summary": "Coinbase's remote MCP server connects an agent to a person's Coinbase account to trade crypto, eligible US stocks and futures, manage portfolios and pay for x402 data from the account's USDC balance, after the person signs in with OAuth.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coinbase-mcp", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coinbase-mcp.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coinbase-mcp.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/coinbase-mcp.json", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Coinbase's account terms, which we couldn't read. The companion CLI, @coinbase/coinbase-cli, is MIT-licensed on npm with no public repository", "transports": [ "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://agents.coinbase.com/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@coinbase/coinbase-cli" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "Coinbase OAuth at login.coinbase.com, authorisation code with PKCE S256, with dynamic client registration and Client ID Metadata Documents. Coinbase allowlists clients; the docs name ChatGPT, Grok, Grok Bot, Muse, Perplexity Computer, Claude, Claude Code and Codex CLI, and say registration alone grants nothing. The person signs in and picks which portfolios the agent may use. Ten `mcp:*` scopes cover reads, portfolio changes, orders, trades and transfers between portfolios; `offline_access` adds a refresh token. Access is revoked under Coinbase Account \u003e Security \u003e Connections. Other clients use the local CLI with a CDP API key scoped to portfolios with View, Trade and Transfer permissions (https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/coinbase-for-agents/skill.md, checked 2026-10-24).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "No charge for the MCP server was found in Coinbase's docs. Orders execute through Coinbase Advanced Trade, so Advanced Trade fees and eligibility apply; the fee schedule on coinbase.com sits behind a bot check and wasn't read. x402 data payments come from the account's USDC balance on Base at the provider's price, capped at 5 USDC per payment; catalogue prices are advisory and shown only after sign-in (https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/ai-agents/coinbase-for-agents/coinbase-mcp.md, checked 2026-10-24).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "partial", "evidence": "The server pays x402 as a buyer. `coinbase_x402_resources`, `coinbase_x402_fetch` and `coinbase_x402_pay` find and pay curated x402 resources (Arkham, Dripstack, Exa, Glassnode, Massive, Nansen, You.com) in USDC on Base from the account balance, x402 v2 only for fetch, 5 USDC per payment. The MCP endpoint itself isn't paid per call; it answers 401 with OAuth metadata (https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/ai-agents/coinbase-for-agents/coinbase-mcp.md, checked 2026-10-24).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 29, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 509, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-24" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/ai-agents/coinbase-for-agents/coinbase-mcp", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "wallet.custody", "market.crypto", "data.markets", "payments.x402", "wallet.spend-limits", "payments.stablecoin" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "closed-source", "x402-payer", "stablecoin", "llms-txt", "cli", "free", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.2, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 593, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1210, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 40, "reliability": 55, "schema": 65, "security": 70, "transparency": 64 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-24" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Coinbase's remote MCP gives an agent OAuth access to a person's Coinbase account, with ten scopes, per-portfolio grants, revocation from account settings and client order IDs for safe retries. Only allowlisted clients can connect, the tool schemas aren't public, no rate limit is published and no server-side limit on order size is documented.", "bestFor": "An agent acting in a person's own Coinbase account, trading spot crypto, US futures and eligible US stocks and paying for market research by x402.", "strengths": [ "OAuth with PKCE S256, ten `mcp:*` scopes, and a consent screen where the person picks the portfolios the agent may use", "Access is revoked from Coinbase Account \u003e Security \u003e Connections, and transfers move funds only between the person's own portfolios", "Orders take a `client_order_id` that returns the existing order on retry, and x402 payments an `idempotency_key` kept for the same payment", "Setup guide and docs in Markdown with a routing matrix of what works for spot, equities and futures, and an error table with causes and fixes", "x402 payments for data from the account's USDC balance, capped at 5 USDC per payment by the server" ], "weaknesses": [ "Only clients Coinbase has allowlisted can connect; other agents need the local CLI and a CDP API key", "`tools/list` needs a signed-in account, so tool schemas and annotations can't be read before connecting", "No numeric rate limit for the remote server, no SLA and no status component for it", "No per-order size limit or server-side spending budget is documented beyond portfolio scoping and the 5 USDC x402 cap", "Not in the official MCP registry, and the companion CLI is at 0.0.10 with no public repository" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `coinbase_portfolios_list` first and name the portfolio on every order; an order without one falls back to the default portfolio and fails if it isn't granted", "Send a fresh `client_order_id` with each order and reuse it on retry, so a dropped connection doesn't place a second order", "Preview with `coinbase_orders_preview` and confirm with the person before `coinbase_orders_create`; equity previews may be unavailable", "Use `ETH-USDC`-style pairs when buying with a USDC balance, and `base_size` in contracts for futures", "Agree a spending budget before `coinbase_x402_fetch`, set `max_amount`, and keep the `idempotency_key` for any retry; settled payments can't be reversed" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 40, "reliability": 55, "schema": 65, "security": 70, "transparency": 32 }, "provenanceScore": 95, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-24", "maintenance": "2026-10-24", "payments": "2026-10-24", "reliability": "2026-10-24", "schema": "2026-10-24", "security": "2026-10-24", "transparency": "2026-10-24" }, "last": "2026-10-24", "oldest": "2026-10-24", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @coinbase/coinbase-cli", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add coinbase --transport http https://agents.coinbase.com/mcp", "config": { "args": [ "mcp" ], "command": "coinbase", "transport": "stdio" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/wallet.custody", "tool": "https://letme.dev/coinbase-mcp" }, "area": "payments", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Coinbase, Inc.", "domain": "coinbase.com", "domainRegistered": "2011-07-02", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.coinbase.com/legal/user_agreement", "privacy": "https://www.coinbase.com/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.coinbase.com", "changelog": "https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/get-started/changelog", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-10-24", "notes": [ "The docs don't name the terms that govern agent access. coinbase.com's legal pages answered a Cloudflare bot check and weren't read; the terms and privacy URLs are Coinbase's standard ones and Coinbase, Inc. is the entity named in the coinbase-cdp-agentkit listing and in CDP's third-party user agreement.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2 July 2011 for coinbase.com.", "https://www.coinbase.com/.well-known/security.txt points to HackerOne and expired on 1 June 2024. agents.coinbase.com has no security.txt (404).", "status.coinbase.com is a Statuspage site shared with the rest of Coinbase, with no component for the agents MCP server.", "The CDP changelog carries dated Coinbase for Agents entries for 12 June, 19 June, 17 August and 21 August 2026." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coinbase-mcp.json", "live": { "slug": "coinbase-mcp", "probe": { "target": "https://agents.coinbase.com/mcp", "method": "mcp-initialize", "lastAt": "2026-10-25T20:42:25.592612157Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 184, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 178, "p95ms24h": 406, "samples24h": 69, "samples30d": 69, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 69, "ok": 69 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.coinbase.com", "indicator": "minor", "summary": "Partially Degraded Service", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T20:47:39.104819823Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://coinbase.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2024-06-01T00:00:00z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T15:27:59.146056518Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T14:51:48.210003694Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-25T20:47:39.104819823Z" } }, "answer": "Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) scores 69.9 (B) on agent readiness against Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents)'s 60.2 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) leads on reliability.", "b": { "slug": "privy", "name": "Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine)", "vendor": "Privy (Stripe)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.privy.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "agent-wallets", "summary": "Wallet infrastructure owned by Stripe since June 2025.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/privy", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/privy.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/privy.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/privy.json", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.privy.io/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@privy-io/node" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@privy-io/agent-wallet-cli" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "privy-client" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "REST API uses Basic auth with app ID and app secret plus a privy-app-id header. Wallets owned by an authorisation key (or a key quorum) also need a signature from that key on each request. The Agent CLI uses a device authorisation flow approved in a browser, then short-lived signing keys; sessions last up to 30 days.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Developer plan free up to 499 monthly active users, with 50,000 signatures and $1M transaction volume a month included. Core $299 a month (500 to 2,499 MAU) and Scale $499 a month (2,500 to 9,999 MAU). Past 10,000 MAU or 50,000 signatures, a $2,000 base plus $0.05 per MAU and $0.01 per signature. Enterprise is custom, from $0.001 per signature, with premium SLAs (https://www.privy.io/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$299 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "partial", "evidence": "Privy ships x402 and MPP payer clients (createX402Client in Node, useX402Fetch in React) that sign 402 payment authorisations with a Privy wallet and retry, with a per-request maxValue cap; x402 works with gas-sponsored wallets. Privy's own API isn't paid via x402 (https://docs.privy.io/wallets/overview/solutions/agent-wallets; https://docs.privy.io/changelogs/product-updates).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 296371, "pypiWeekly": 12798, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.privy.io/wallets/overview/solutions/agent-wallets", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.privy.io/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.privy.io/v1/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "wallet.onchain", "wallet.custody", "wallet.spend-limits", "payments.x402" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "llms-txt", "openapi", "typescript", "python", "wallet", "stablecoin", "x402", "closed-source", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 183, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1210, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 55, "reliability": 48, "schema": 83, "security": 85, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Default-deny policies with DENY precedence on recipients, values, contracts, calldata, typed data and time windows, enforced in AWS Nitro Enclaves. Database problems took API endpoints down for 71 minutes on 18 September 2026, one of 13 incidents since July.", "bestFor": "Builders who need fine-grained, enclave-enforced spending rules on programmatic wallets, or who want an agent to sign for a person's wallet with a revocable scoped signer.", "strengths": [ "Default-deny policies with DENY precedence on recipients, values, contracts, calldata, typed data and time windows, enforced in AWS Nitro Enclaves", "Agent-owned wallets or revocable scoped signers on a person's wallet, plus key quorums for m-of-n approval", "Idempotency keys on every state-changing wallet route, honoured for 24 hours", "SOC 2 Type I and II, audits by Cure53, Zellic and Doyensec, and a HackerOne bug bounty", "x402 and MPP payer clients with a per-request `maxValue` cap" ], "weaknesses": [ "Database problems took API endpoints down for 71 minutes on 18 September 2026, one of 13 incidents since July", "Rate limits aren't published as numbers", "Rolling caps are EVM only and update after signing, so parallel requests can exceed them", "The app secret can do anything in the app; the limits come from authorisation keys and policies", "No MCP server, and the Agent CLI needs a person to approve its login in a browser" ], "agentNotes": [ "Add a rule for every RPC method the agent needs; a wallet with a policy denies anything unlisted", "Pair a rolling cap with a lower per-transaction cap, since aggregations update only after signing", "Send an idempotency key on `/rpc`, `/transfer` and `/wallets` calls; reusing one with a changed body returns 400", "Set `maxValue` on the x402 or MPP client for every request", "Retry a `transaction_broadcast_failure`; don't retry a `policy_violation`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 69.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 55, "reliability": 48, "schema": 83, "security": 85, "transparency": 60 }, "provenanceScore": 82, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-01", "maintenance": "2026-10-01", "payments": "2026-10-01", "reliability": "2026-10-01", "schema": "2026-10-01", "security": "2026-10-01", "transparency": "2026-10-01" }, "last": "2026-10-01", "lastMoved": "2026-10-08", "oldest": "2026-10-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @privy-io/agent-wallet-cli", "http": "curl https://api.privy.io/v1/wallets --user \"$PRIVY_APP_ID:$PRIVY_APP_SECRET\" -H \"privy-app-id: $PRIVY_APP_ID\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/wallet.onchain", "tool": "https://letme.dev/privy" }, "area": "payments", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Core plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 299, "note": "500 to 2,499 MAU" }, { "item": "Scale plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 499, "note": "2,500 to 9,999 MAU" }, { "item": "Signature overage", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.01, "note": "per signature above 50,000 a month" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Horkos, LLC", "domain": "privy.io", "domainRegistered": "2018-10-07", "domainNote": "Privy trades as Horkos, LLC d/b/a Privy, a Stripe subsidiary since June 2025.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.privy.io/developer-terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.privy.io/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.privy.io", "changelog": "https://docs.privy.io/changelogs/product-updates", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "score": 82 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/privy.json", "live": { "slug": "privy", "probe": { "target": "https://api.privy.io/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-25T20:42:43.492084038Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 42, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 36, "p95ms24h": 131, "samples24h": 252, "samples30d": 6417, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 217, "ok": 217 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.privy.io", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T15:40:40.617523656Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@privy-io/agent-wallet-cli", "version": "0.3.10", "seenAt": "2026-10-25T09:16:29.185373374Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@privy-io/node", "version": "0.36.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-25T09:16:28.30478021Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "privy-client", "version": "0.7.0", "released": "2026-09-08", "seenAt": "2026-10-25T09:16:30.601926557Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 237309, "pypiWeekly": 19911, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://privy.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T15:27:29.835300447Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.privy.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T14:53:00.77571996Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "privy.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T13:47:15.684643096Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.privy.io/changelogs/product-updates", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T02:45:52.818692807Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-24T02:16:11.041527921Z", "fingerprint": "c2544b1cdb68" }, { "url": "https://www.privy.io/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T03:04:55.56559783Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3fafdab3dba6" }, { "url": "https://www.privy.io/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T03:04:57.569604952Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3dc0c2d903e9" }, 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The companion CLI, @coinbase/coinbase-cli, is MIT-licensed on npm with no public repository", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "29", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-30", "b": "2026-09-28", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "", "b": "2025-12-16", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "509 npm/wk", "b": "296k npm/wk, 13k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (4)", "b": "3.5/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) scores 69.9 (B) on agent readiness against Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents)'s 60.2 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) leads on reliability.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) or Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine)?" }, { "answer": "Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) uses an OAuth sign-in. Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) and Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) has a hosted endpoint at https://agents.coinbase.com/mcp and Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) at https://api.privy.io/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) and Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 55 against 48" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "An agent acting in a person's own Coinbase account, trading spot crypto, US futures and eligible US stocks and paying for market research by x402.", "slug": "coinbase-mcp", "watchFor": "Only clients Coinbase has allowlisted can connect; other agents need the local CLI and a CDP API key" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 65", "Agent ergonomics, 73 against 66", "Security \u0026 auth, 85 against 70", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 55 against 40", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 58", 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agent wallets, policy engine) vs Turnkey Agentic Wallets", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/privy-vs-turnkey-agentic-wallets" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcard-vs-privy.json", "title": "Agentcard vs Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcard-vs-privy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-kite-agent-passport.json", "title": "Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) vs Kite Agent Passport", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-kite-agent-passport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-self-agent-vault.json", "title": "Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) vs Agent Vault by Self", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-self-agent-vault" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/privy-vs-self-agent-vault.json", "title": "Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) vs Agent Vault by Self", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/privy-vs-self-agent-vault" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcard-vs-coinbase-mcp.json", "title": "Agentcard vs Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcard-vs-coinbase-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/circle-wallets-vs-coinbase-mcp.json", "title": "Circle Wallets (Agent Wallets, Programmable Wallets) vs Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/circle-wallets-vs-coinbase-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-cdp-agentkit-vs-coinbase-mcp.json", "title": "Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) vs Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-cdp-agentkit-vs-coinbase-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-openfort.json", "title": "Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) vs Openfort", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-openfort" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-sponge-wallet.json", "title": "Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) vs Sponge Wallet", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-sponge-wallet" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-turnkey-agentic-wallets.json", "title": "Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) vs Turnkey Agentic Wallets", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-turnkey-agentic-wallets" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 7, "coinbase-mcp": 55, "edge": "coinbase-mcp", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "privy": 48, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 18, "coinbase-mcp": 65, "edge": "privy", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "privy": 83, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 7, "coinbase-mcp": 66, "edge": "privy", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "privy": 73, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 15, "coinbase-mcp": 70, "edge": "privy", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "privy": 85, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 15, "coinbase-mcp": 40, "edge": "privy", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "privy": 55, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 22, "coinbase-mcp": 58, "edge": "privy", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "privy": 80, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 7, "coinbase-mcp": 64, "edge": "privy", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "privy": 71, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) scores 69.9 (B) on agent readiness against Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents)'s 60.2 (C), and leads in 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Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) leads on reliability. Both do wallet custody.", "tutorials": [ { "title": "Find an agent wallet by external ID with Privy", "tool": "privy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/privy/" } ], "verdicts": { "coinbase-mcp": "Coinbase's remote MCP gives an agent OAuth access to a person's Coinbase account, with ten scopes, per-portfolio grants, revocation from account settings and client order IDs for safe retries. Only allowlisted clients can connect, the tool schemas aren't public, no rate limit is published and no server-side limit on order size is documented.", "privy": "Default-deny policies with DENY precedence on recipients, values, contracts, calldata, typed data and time windows, enforced in AWS Nitro Enclaves. Database problems took API endpoints down for 71 minutes on 18 September 2026, one of 13 incidents since July." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-privy", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-privy.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-privy.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-privy.min.md" }, "markdown": "Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) scores 69.9 (B) on agent readiness against Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents)'s 60.2 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) leads on reliability. Both do wallet custody.\n\n- Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents): grade C, 60.2/100, rank #593 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coinbase-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/coinbase-mcp.json\n- Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine): grade B, 69.9/100, rank #183 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/privy.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/privy.json\n- Best agent wallets and spending controls: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-wallets/index.md\n- All 47 wallets comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-wallets/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) (C)\n\nGood for: An agent acting in a person's own Coinbase account, trading spot crypto, US futures and eligible US stocks and paying for market research by x402.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 55 against 48\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: Only clients Coinbase has allowlisted can connect; other agents need the local CLI and a CDP API key\n\n### Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) (B)\n\nGood for: Builders who need fine-grained, enclave-enforced spending rules on programmatic wallets, or who want an agent to sign for a person's wallet with a revocable scoped signer.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 65\n- Agent ergonomics, 73 against 66\n- Security \u0026 auth, 85 against 70\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 55 against 40\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 58\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 64\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: Database problems took API endpoints down for 71 minutes on 18 September 2026, one of 13 incidents since July\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) | Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 48 | Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) +7 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 83 | Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) +18 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 73 | Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) +7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 85 | Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 55 | Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 80 | Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) +22 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 71 | Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.2 · C** | **69.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) | Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Coinbase, Inc. | Privy (Stripe) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://agents.coinbase.com/mcp` | `https://api.privy.io/v1` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | payer tooling only | payer tooling only |\n| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Coinbase's account terms, which we couldn't read. The companion CLI, @coinbase/coinbase-cli, is MIT-licensed on npm with no public repository | none |\n| Tools exposed | 29 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-28 |\n| Terms last updated | | 2025-12-16 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n| Popularity | 509 npm/wk | 296k npm/wk, 13k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents).** Coinbase's remote MCP gives an agent OAuth access to a person's Coinbase account, with ten scopes, per-portfolio grants, revocation from account settings and client order IDs for safe retries. Only allowlisted clients can connect, the tool schemas aren't public, no rate limit is published and no server-side limit on order size is documented.\n\n**Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine).** Default-deny policies with DENY precedence on recipients, values, contracts, calldata, typed data and time windows, enforced in AWS Nitro Enclaves. Database problems took API endpoints down for 71 minutes on 18 September 2026, one of 13 incidents since July.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents)\n\n1. Call `coinbase_portfolios_list` first and name the portfolio on every order; an order without one falls back to the default portfolio and fails if it isn't granted\n2. Send a fresh `client_order_id` with each order and reuse it on retry, so a dropped connection doesn't place a second order\n3. Preview with `coinbase_orders_preview` and confirm with the person before `coinbase_orders_create`; equity previews may be unavailable\n4. Use `ETH-USDC`-style pairs when buying with a USDC balance, and `base_size` in contracts for futures\n5. Agree a spending budget before `coinbase_x402_fetch`, set `max_amount`, and keep the `idempotency_key` for any retry; settled payments can't be reversed\n\n### Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine)\n\n1. Add a rule for every RPC method the agent needs; a wallet with a policy denies anything unlisted\n2. Pair a rolling cap with a lower per-transaction cap, since aggregations update only after signing\n3. Send an idempotency key on `/rpc`, `/transfer` and `/wallets` calls; reusing one with a changed body returns 400\n4. Set `maxValue` on the x402 or MPP client for every request\n5. Retry a `transaction_broadcast_failure`; don't retry a `policy_violation`\n\n## Tutorials\n\n- [Find an agent wallet by external ID with Privy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/privy/), for Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) or Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine)?\n\nPrivy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) scores 69.9 (B) on agent readiness against Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents)'s 60.2 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) leads on reliability.\n\n### Do Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) and Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) need an API key?\n\nCoinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) uses an OAuth sign-in. Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) and Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) without installing anything?\n\nYes. Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) has a hosted endpoint at https://agents.coinbase.com/mcp and Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) at https://api.privy.io/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-privy.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-privy.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"coinbase-mcp\", \"b\": \"privy\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare coinbase-mcp privy`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/coinbase-mcp.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/privy.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) or Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine)\n\n- [Circle Wallets (Agent Wallets, Programmable Wallets) vs Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/circle-wallets-vs-privy.md)\n- [Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) vs Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-cdp-agentkit-vs-privy.md)\n- [Kite Agent Passport vs Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kite-agent-passport-vs-privy.md)\n- [Openfort vs Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openfort-vs-privy.md)\n- [Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) vs Sponge Wallet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/privy-vs-sponge-wallet.md)\n- [Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) vs Turnkey Agentic Wallets](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/privy-vs-turnkey-agentic-wallets.md)\n- [Agentcard vs Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcard-vs-privy.md)\n- [Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) vs Kite Agent Passport](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-kite-agent-passport.md)\n- [Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) vs Agent Vault by Self](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-self-agent-vault.md)\n- [Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine) vs Agent Vault by Self](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/privy-vs-self-agent-vault.md)\n- [Agentcard vs Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcard-vs-coinbase-mcp.md)\n- [Circle Wallets (Agent Wallets, Programmable Wallets) vs Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/circle-wallets-vs-coinbase-mcp.md)\n- [Coinbase Developer Platform (Agentic Wallet, AgentKit, CDP MCP) vs Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-cdp-agentkit-vs-coinbase-mcp.md)\n- [Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) vs Openfort](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-openfort.md)\n- [Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) vs Sponge Wallet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-sponge-wallet.md)\n- [Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) vs Turnkey Agentic Wallets](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coinbase-mcp-vs-turnkey-agentic-wallets.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "attributionRequired": true, "credit": "CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link the page or API address you took it from (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-25", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.6", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "terms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Coinbase MCP server (Coinbase for Agents) vs Privy Wallets (server wallets, agent wallets, policy engine)", "url": "" } ], "description": "Privy Wallets scores 69.9 (B) to Coinbase's 60.2 (C) for wallet custody. 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