# Contentstack vs Hygraph (slim)

> Hygraph scores 69.3 (B) on agent readiness against Contentstack's 64 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Contentstack leads on security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do cms content. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by…

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Hygraph scores 69.3 (B) on agent readiness against Contentstack's 64 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Contentstack leads on security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do cms content.

- Contentstack: B 64, rank #331 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/contentstack.min.md
- Hygraph: B 69.3, rank #182 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hygraph.min.md
- Contentstack, good for Teams already on Contentstack, or starting on its free plan, who want an agent to draft, localise, release and publish structured content with scoped credentials and an audit trail. Ahead on Security & auth, 69 against 63; Maintenance & community, 82 against 74; Transparency & trust, 73 against 60. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Hygraph, good for Teams on Hygraph who want an agent to create, localise and publish entries, upload assets or change schema, with delete and unpublish kept out of reach on MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 89 against 71; Agent ergonomics, 72 against 67; Payments & pricing, 35 against 30. Also No incidents deducted, where Contentstack loses 3 points for them.

| Category | Contentstack | Hygraph |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 71 | 89 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 69 | 63 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 74 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 73 | 60 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Contentstack | Hygraph |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Contentstack Inc. | Hygraph GmbH |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.contentstack.io` | `https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Contentstack's Master Agreement and Terms of Service. The OpenAPI files, the management SDKs, the CLI and the @contentstack/mcp package are MIT | Proprietary service under Hygraph GmbH's Terms of Service. The `@hygraph/management-sdk` package is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 206 | 17 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-22 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2022-08-01 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-30 | no date given |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 44k npm/wk, 1.5k PyPI/wk | 52 stars, 8.6k npm/wk |