{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "crossmint", "name": "Crossmint API + Docs MCP", "vendor": "Crossmint", "vendorUrl": "https://www.crossmint.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "payment-platforms", "summary": "Wallet, checkout and stablecoin infrastructure with an agent product line.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crossmint", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crossmint.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crossmint.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crossmint.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Crossmint/crossmint-sdk", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://www.crossmint.com/api", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@crossmint/wallets-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@crossmint/client-sdk-react-ui" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Server-side and client-side API keys in the X-API-KEY header, each with scopes; client keys can require JWTs from your own auth provider. Staging keys work on testnets at staging.crossmint.com and production keys on mainnets. The docs MCP server needs no auth.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Wallets free for 1,000 monthly active wallets and up to 2,000 transactions, then from $0.02 per monthly active wallet with volume discounts. Tokenisation from $0.01 an action. Onramp, offramp, checkout and stablecoin orchestration are per-transaction fees with volume discounts, not published. Agent Cards and Agent Checkouts pricing isn't published. Enterprise (premium SLAs and rate limits) is through sales (https://www.crossmint.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$0.02 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "partial", "evidence": "Agent Wallets pay x402 and MPP endpoints, and an n8n node puts an x402 paywall in front of workflows. The Crossmint API itself isn't paid over x402 (https://docs.crossmint.com/agents/payment-flows/x402).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 1, "popularity": { "githubStars": 52, "npmWeekly": 39991, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.crossmint.com/agents/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.crossmint.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Crossmint/crossmint-sdk/main/packages/wallets/src/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "payments.card", "payments.x402", "payments.stablecoin", "payments.checkout", "payments.payouts" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "mcp", "llms-txt", "stablecoin", "x402", "wallet", "typescript", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.1, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 260, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 50, "reliability": 53, "schema": 71, "security": 73, "transparency": 80 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Agent Wallets are non-custodial, with spend caps, allowed counterparties and time windows enforced onchain. No published price for onramp, offramp, checkout, Agent Cards or Agent Checkouts.", "bestFor": "Products that let agents spend, especially where a user wants a capped card or a capped stablecoin wallet for an agent, or an agent that buys from ordinary merchant sites.", "strengths": [ "Agent Wallets are non-custodial, with spend caps, allowed counterparties and time windows enforced onchain", "Scoped server and client API keys, with each operation's required scope named in the spec", "Idempotency keys on transaction and transfer creation, and cursor or page pagination with date filters", "Regulatory footprint stated in public, a Spanish CNMV crypto-asset service provider authorisation plus FinCEN and FINTRAC registrations", "16 SDK release commits since 1 July, the latest on 1 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "No published price for onramp, offramp, checkout, Agent Cards or Agent Checkouts", "Agent Checkouts runs in production only, so the first test spends real money", "Status history is on a JavaScript-only Datadog page, and the docs changelog stops at 11 February 2026", "No MCP server for wallets or payments, only a one-tool docs search", "SDKs in TypeScript only" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send an `x-idempotency-key` on every transaction or transfer create so a retry can't pay twice", "Use staging keys against testnets; production keys work on mainnets only, and Agent Checkouts has no staging at all", "On 429, wait and retry. No Retry-After header is documented, and writes are capped at 120 a minute per project", "Use Agent Wallets for x402 and MPP endpoints and Agent Cards for card merchants; they aren't interchangeable", "Append `.md` to any docs URL for a Markdown copy" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 50, "reliability": 53, "schema": 71, "security": 73, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://staging.crossmint.com/api/2025-06-09/wallets -H \"X-API-KEY: $CROSSMINT_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"chainType\":\"evm\"}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http crossmint-docs https://docs.crossmint.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "crossmint-docs": { "url": "https://docs.crossmint.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/payments.card", "tool": "https://letme.dev/crossmint" }, "area": "payments", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Wallet over free tier", "unit": "month", "usd": 0.02, "note": "per monthly active wallet above 1,000, volume discounts" }, { "item": "Tokenisation action", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.01, "note": "starting price, volume discounts" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Crossmint, Inc.", "domain": "crossmint.com", "domainRegistered": "2007-02-23", "domainNote": "crossmint.com was registered in 2007, long before Crossmint was founded. Terms also name Crossmint Europe, S.L. and Crossmint Horizon, Inc. The security.txt lists a contact and policy but no Expires field.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.crossmint.com/legal/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.crossmint.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.crossmint.com", "changelog": "https://docs.crossmint.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-30", "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crossmint.json", "live": { "slug": "crossmint", "probe": { "target": "https://www.crossmint.com/api", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T05:38:48.189630316Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 255, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 190, "p95ms24h": 1136, "samples24h": 248, "samples30d": 2494, "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": 58, "ok": 58 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.crossmint.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T00:50:23.763107543Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@crossmint/client-sdk-react-ui", "version": "4.9.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:48:02.937817598Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@crossmint/wallets-sdk", "version": "1.20.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:48:02.042314638Z" } ], "githubStars": 52, "npmWeekly": 41954, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://crossmint.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:40:16.859997151Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.crossmint.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:01:46.52402267Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "crossmint.com", "registered": "2007-02-23", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/crossmint.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:50.738904164Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.crossmint.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:37:05.527461493Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9586f8e8a1d3" }, { "url": "https://www.crossmint.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:49:26.734830906Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "dffec4faf7a5" }, { "url": "https://www.crossmint.com/legal/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:49:21.855402721Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-02T15:26:08.112583044Z", "fingerprint": "73ab07afabce" }, { "url": "https://www.crossmint.com/legal/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:49:24.219347989Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "869ee89b903b" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T05:38:48.189630316Z" } }, "answer": "Crossmint API + Docs MCP and Orb score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.1 (B) and 66.5 (B). Orb leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and agent ergonomics.", "b": { "slug": "orb", "name": "Orb", "vendor": "Orb, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.withorb.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "payment-platforms", "summary": "Orb is a hosted billing platform for usage-based, seat-based and hybrid pricing. It ingests usage events, computes metrics, and runs plans, subscriptions, prepaid credits and invoices through a REST API with SDKs in six languages.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orb.json", "repo": "https://github.com/orbcorp/orb-python", "license": "Proprietary service under Orb's Platform Terms and Conditions. The SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.withorb.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "orb-billing" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "orb-billing" }, { "registry": "go", "name": "github.com/orbcorp/orb-go" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "The API takes an API key as a Bearer token. A person creates it in the Orb web app under organisation settings, in test mode or live mode, after Orb's sales team has opened the account. No self-serve sign-up, OAuth flow or programmatic key API was found. Keys can be revoked, which is irreversible, and no scope list was found in the docs.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public prices. Core, Advanced and Enterprise all show custom pricing, based on billings and ingested events, with a platform fee on the upper two tiers, and each starts with a sales contact. The terms describe a 30-day free trial that Orb may grant, and test mode works as a sandbox once an account exists. No free tier was found (https://www.withorb.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI description, the docs index or the pricing page. Orb can charge a Stripe Shared Payment Token granted by a buyer's agent, through the merchant's Stripe account and on request (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 5, "npmWeekly": 184768, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.withorb.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.withorb.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.withorb.com/api-reference/orb-openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "payments.metering", "payments.card" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "sales-led", "enterprise", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "python", "typescript", "go", "java", "kotlin", "ruby", "status-page", "soc2", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-09", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 289, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 84, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 5, "reliability": 77, "schema": 88, "security": 55, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Orb suits a company that bills on usage and wants one API for events, plans, credits and invoices. It publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 file, numeric rate limits, idempotency keys and a dry-run header. Every plan is priced on request and access starts with sales. No scope list for API keys or public sub-processor list was found.", "bestFor": "A software or AI company that bills on usage and needs event metering, plan versioning, prepaid credits, invoicing and revenue reporting behind one API, with Stripe or Adyen collecting the money.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.1 description with 147 operations and 79 webhook events, plus llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page", "`Idempotency-Key` on every POST and PATCH for 48 hours, with `Idempotent-Replayed` and `Transient-Error` response headers", "A `Dry-Run: True` header validates most write requests and returns the would-be result without saving it", "Rate limits are published per category for live, test and trial accounts, from 10 analytics queries a second to 100 reads a second in live mode", "SDKs for Python, TypeScript and Go were each released on 9 October 2026, with 30 Python releases since 11 July" ], "weaknesses": [ "All three plans (Core, Advanced, Enterprise) show custom pricing only, and the pricing page sends new customers to sales", "No list of API key scopes or a read-only key was found. Keys are created in the web app and revocation is irreversible", "Audit logs are in private preview and limited to the Enterprise plan", "The DPA and SOC reports sit behind an access request, and no public sub-processor list or hosting region was found", "The SDK changelog shows the ingestion `debug` parameter removed on 12 September 2026 while the reliability page still refers to it, and the product changelog has no entry" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `https://api.withorb.com/v1` with `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. A person creates the key in the Orb web app under organisation settings, in test mode or live mode", "Send an `Idempotency-Key` of at most 64 characters on every POST and PATCH. A 409 means the first request is still running or the body changed", "Add `Dry-Run: True` to check a write first, and confirm `Orb-Dry-Run: true` in the response. Ingest, amend and deprecate event calls ignore it and run for real", "Do not send `Idempotency-Key` with `Dry-Run`. Orb returns a validation error", "Page with `limit` (default 20, maximum 100) and pass `next_cursor` back as `cursor` while `has_more` is true", "Back off exponentially on 429. Test mode allows 5 writes a second and 2,000 ingested events a minute" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 66.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 84, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 5, "reliability": 77, "schema": 88, "security": 55, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 84 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install orb-billing", "http": "curl --request POST \\\n --url https://api.withorb.com/v1/subscriptions \\\n --header 'Dry-Run: True' \\\n --header 'Accept: application/json' \\\n --header 'Authorization: Bearer \u003cTOKEN\u003e' \\\n --header 'Content-Type: application/json'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/payments.metering", "tool": "https://letme.dev/orb" }, "area": "payments", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Orb, Inc.", "domain": "withorb.com", "domainRegistered": "2019-10-12", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.withorb.com/terms", "privacy": "https://www.withorb.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.withorb.com", "changelog": "https://changelog.withorb.com", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The website terms of use (effective 21 April 2025) give Orb, Inc., 2261 Market Street #5171, San Francisco, CA 94114. The trust centre and the API description's contact block also name Orb, Inc.", "The Platform Terms and Conditions at /terms govern the Orb Platform and Orb API to the extent an Order Form refers to them, under California law. No version date was read on the page.", "The privacy policy was last updated on 7 May 2025 and covers data collected through the website and the product, including end customers' names and billing addresses.", "The API answers at api.withorb.com and the web app at app.withorb.com, both on the vendor's domain.", "www.withorb.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. The security page gives security@withorb.com and a written disclosure scope.", "RDAP for withorb.com gives a registration date of 2019-10-12 and Squarespace Domains II LLC as registrar.", "The DPA is available on request by email or through the trust centre at security.withorb.com, and was not read." ], "score": 84 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb.json", "live": { "slug": "orb", "probe": { "target": "https://api.withorb.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T05:38:59.901241461Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 403, "lastMs": 248, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 257, "p95ms24h": 337, "samples24h": 143, "samples30d": 143, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 58, "ok": 58 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.withorb.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T05:35:35.027315226Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "orbcorp/orb-python", "version": "v4.83.0", "released": "2026-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:11:19.948988838Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "orb-billing", "version": "6.27.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:11:19.103890585Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "orb-billing", "version": "4.83.0", "released": "2026-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:11:18.985061165Z" } ], "githubStars": 5, "npmWeekly": 184768, "pypiWeekly": 334816, "pages": [ { "url": "https://changelog.withorb.com", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:33:43.924244658Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2f5e7d2a385a" }, { "url": "https://www.withorb.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:55:42.770953537Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a352af138f81" }, { "url": "https://www.withorb.com/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:55:45.239973302Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1516bbe57809" }, { "url": "https://www.withorb.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:55:47.191671669Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "4e15ade75c2a" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T05:38:59.901241461Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Crossmint", "b": "Orb, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://www.crossmint.com/api", "b": "https://api.withorb.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "payer tooling only", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "Proprietary service under Orb's Platform Terms and Conditions. The SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "1", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-10-09", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-07-01", "b": "2024-11-13", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-21", "b": "2025-05-07", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "52 stars, 40k npm/wk", "b": "5 stars, 185k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Crossmint API + Docs MCP and Orb score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.1 (B) and 66.5 (B). Orb leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and agent ergonomics.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Crossmint API + Docs MCP or Orb?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Crossmint API + Docs MCP and Orb need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Crossmint API + Docs MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://www.crossmint.com/api and Orb at https://api.withorb.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Crossmint API + Docs MCP and Orb without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 73 against 55", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 5", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 65" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Products that let agents spend, especially where a user wants a capped card or a capped stablecoin wallet for an agent, or an agent that buys from ordinary merchant sites.", "slug": "crossmint", "watchFor": "No published price for onramp, offramp, checkout, Agent Cards or Agent Checkouts" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 77 against 53", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 71", "Agent ergonomics, 84 against 71" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A software or AI company that bills on usage and needs event metering, plan versioning, prepaid credits, invoicing and revenue reporting behind one API, 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adyen-mcp-server-vs-crossmint" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-paypal-mcp-server.json", "title": "Crossmint API + Docs MCP vs PayPal MCP server", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-paypal-mcp-server" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/circle-gateway-nanopayments-vs-crossmint.json", "title": "Circle Gateway Nanopayments vs Crossmint API + Docs MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/circle-gateway-nanopayments-vs-crossmint" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 24, "crossmint": 53, "edge": "orb", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "orb": 77, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 17, "crossmint": 71, "edge": "orb", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "orb": 88, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 13, "crossmint": 71, "edge": "orb", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "orb": 84, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 18, "crossmint": 73, "edge": "crossmint", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "orb": 55, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 45, "crossmint": 50, "edge": "crossmint", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "orb": 5, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 3, "crossmint": 85, "edge": "crossmint", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "orb": 82, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 15, "crossmint": 80, "edge": "crossmint", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "orb": 65, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Crossmint API + Docs MCP and Orb score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.1 (B) and 66.5 (B). 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No scope list for API keys or public sub-processor list was found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-orb", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-orb.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-orb.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-orb.min.md" }, "markdown": "Crossmint API + Docs MCP and Orb score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.1 (B) and 66.5 (B). Orb leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and agent ergonomics. Both do card payments.\n\n- Crossmint API + Docs MCP: grade B, 67.1/100, rank #260 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crossmint.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crossmint.json\n- Orb: grade B, 66.5/100, rank #289 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orb.json\n- Best payment and monetisation platforms for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/payment-platforms/index.md\n- All 76 platforms comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/payment-platforms/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Crossmint API + Docs MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Products that let agents spend, especially where a user wants a capped card or a capped stablecoin wallet for an agent, or an agent that buys from ordinary merchant sites.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 73 against 55\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 5\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 65\n\nWatch for: No published price for onramp, offramp, checkout, Agent Cards or Agent Checkouts\n\n### Orb (B)\n\nGood for: A software or AI company that bills on usage and needs event metering, plan versioning, prepaid credits, invoicing and revenue reporting behind one API, with Stripe or Adyen collecting the money.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 77 against 53\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 71\n- Agent ergonomics, 84 against 71\n\nWatch for: All three plans (Core, Advanced, Enterprise) show custom pricing only, and the pricing page sends new customers to sales\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Crossmint API + Docs MCP | Orb | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 53 | 77 | Orb +24 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 88 | Orb +17 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 84 | Orb +13 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 73 | 55 | Crossmint API + Docs MCP +18 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 5 | Crossmint API + Docs MCP +45 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 82 | Crossmint API + Docs MCP +3 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 65 | Crossmint API + Docs MCP +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.1 · B** | **66.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Crossmint API + Docs MCP | Orb |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Crossmint | Orb, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://www.crossmint.com/api` | `https://api.withorb.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | payer tooling only | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under Orb's Platform Terms and Conditions. The SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 1 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-09 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-07-01 | 2024-11-13 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-21 | 2025-05-07 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 52 stars, 40k npm/wk | 5 stars, 185k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Crossmint API + Docs MCP.** Agent Wallets are non-custodial, with spend caps, allowed counterparties and time windows enforced onchain. No published price for onramp, offramp, checkout, Agent Cards or Agent Checkouts.\n\n**Orb.** Orb suits a company that bills on usage and wants one API for events, plans, credits and invoices. It publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 file, numeric rate limits, idempotency keys and a dry-run header. Every plan is priced on request and access starts with sales. No scope list for API keys or public sub-processor list was found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Crossmint API + Docs MCP\n\n1. Send an `x-idempotency-key` on every transaction or transfer create so a retry can't pay twice\n2. Use staging keys against testnets; production keys work on mainnets only, and Agent Checkouts has no staging at all\n3. On 429, wait and retry. No Retry-After header is documented, and writes are capped at 120 a minute per project\n4. Use Agent Wallets for x402 and MPP endpoints and Agent Cards for card merchants; they aren't interchangeable\n5. Append `.md` to any docs URL for a Markdown copy\n\n### Orb\n\n1. Call `https://api.withorb.com/v1` with `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. A person creates the key in the Orb web app under organisation settings, in test mode or live mode\n2. Send an `Idempotency-Key` of at most 64 characters on every POST and PATCH. A 409 means the first request is still running or the body changed\n3. Add `Dry-Run: True` to check a write first, and confirm `Orb-Dry-Run: true` in the response. Ingest, amend and deprecate event calls ignore it and run for real\n4. Do not send `Idempotency-Key` with `Dry-Run`. Orb returns a validation error\n5. Page with `limit` (default 20, maximum 100) and pass `next_cursor` back as `cursor` while `has_more` is true\n6. Back off exponentially on 429. Test mode allows 5 writes a second and 2,000 ingested events a minute\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Crossmint API + Docs MCP or Orb?\n\nCrossmint API + Docs MCP and Orb score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.1 (B) and 66.5 (B). Orb leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and agent ergonomics.\n\n### Do Crossmint API + Docs MCP and Orb need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Crossmint API + Docs MCP and Orb without installing anything?\n\nYes. Crossmint API + Docs MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://www.crossmint.com/api and Orb at https://api.withorb.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-orb.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-orb.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"crossmint\", \"b\": \"orb\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare crossmint orb`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crossmint.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orb.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Crossmint API + Docs MCP or Orb\n\n- [ATXP vs Orb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atxp-vs-orb.md)\n- [Lago vs Orb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lago-vs-orb.md)\n- [Metronome vs Orb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/metronome-vs-orb.md)\n- [Nevermined API + MCP vs Orb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nevermined-vs-orb.md)\n- [Orb vs Paid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orb-vs-paid.md)\n- [Orb vs Stripe API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orb-vs-stripe-mcp.md)\n- [Orb vs Tempo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orb-vs-tempo.md)\n- [Adyen MCP server vs Orb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adyen-mcp-server-vs-orb.md)\n- [Agentcard vs Crossmint API + Docs MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcard-vs-crossmint.md)\n- [Crossmint API + Docs MCP vs Lago](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-lago.md)\n- [Crossmint API + Docs MCP vs Nevermined API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-nevermined.md)\n- [Crossmint API + Docs MCP vs Paid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-paid.md)\n- [Crossmint API + Docs MCP vs Payman Genie MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-payman.md)\n- [Crossmint API + Docs MCP vs Skyfire API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-skyfire.md)\n- [Crossmint API + Docs MCP vs Stripe API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-stripe-mcp.md)\n- [Orb vs Payman Genie MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orb-vs-payman.md)\n- [Orb vs Skyfire API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orb-vs-skyfire.md)\n- [ATXP vs Crossmint API + Docs MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atxp-vs-crossmint.md)\n- [Crossmint API + Docs MCP vs Tempo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-tempo.md)\n- [Adyen MCP server vs Crossmint API + Docs MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adyen-mcp-server-vs-crossmint.md)\n- [Crossmint API + Docs MCP vs PayPal MCP server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crossmint-vs-paypal-mcp-server.md)\n- [Circle Gateway Nanopayments vs Crossmint API + Docs MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/circle-gateway-nanopayments-vs-crossmint.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-10", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Crossmint API + Docs MCP vs Orb", "url": "" } ], "description": "Crossmint API + Docs MCP and Orb score within a point of each other for card payments, 67.1 and 66.5 out of 100. 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