{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "datocms", "name": "DatoCMS", "vendor": "Dato Srl", "vendorUrl": "https://www.datocms.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "cms", "summary": "DatoCMS is a hosted headless CMS from Dato Srl in Milan. Agents write records, assets, locales and schema through the REST Content Management API, the `datocms` CLI or a hosted MCP server, and read through a GraphQL Content Delivery API.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datocms", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datocms.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datocms.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/datocms.json", "repo": "https://github.com/datocms/js-rest-api-clients", "license": "Proprietary service under Dato Srl's terms of service. The API clients in datocms/js-rest-api-clients and the CLI in datocms/cli are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://site-api.datocms.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@datocms/cma-client-node" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@datocms/cma-client" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "datocms" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. The Content Management API takes an API token as a Bearer header. A person creates the token in the project's settings and binds it to a role, which limits it by model, action and environment. Every project starts with a read-only token, and tokens can be rotated by API. The hosted MCP server uses browser OAuth through oauth.datocms.com with PKCE and dynamic client registration, where the person picks projects and one of three access levels. Accounts on single sign-on can't use the MCP server. No app review or sales approval is needed.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The Free plan needs no card and includes 25,000 Content Management API calls a month, 300 records and three sandbox environments, with no overage. Professional is €199 a month, or €149 a month billed yearly, with 100,000 management API calls and €9 per extra 100,000. Enterprise is sold through sales. Prices are in euros only (https://www.datocms.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Content Management API docs, the MCP server docs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 9, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 152666, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.datocms.com/docs/content-management-api", "llmsTxt": "https://www.datocms.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "cms.content", "cms.publish", "cms.assets", "cms.localisation", "cms.schema" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "closed-source", "no-card", "free-tier", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "typescript", "cli", "graphql", "status-page", "iso27001" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 74.4, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 70, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 35, "reliability": 80, "schema": 85, "security": 77, "transparency": 80 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The Content Management API publishes a JSON Hyper-Schema for 202 operations, 100 documented error codes and rate-limit headers, and the hosted MCP server adds OAuth with three access levels. There are no idempotency keys, the only official client library is JavaScript, audit logs are Enterprise only, and prices are in euros with no machine payment route.", "bestFor": "Teams on DatoCMS who want an agent to create, translate and publish records, upload assets or change models, testing first in a sandbox environment.", "strengths": [ "Machine-readable JSON Hyper-Schema at `https://site-api.datocms.com/docs/site-api-hyperschema.json` covering 53 resources and 202 operations, with 656 examples", "Error bodies carry one of 100 documented codes, a `doc_url` and a `transient` flag, and 429 responses carry `x-ratelimit-reset`", "API tokens bind to custom roles by model, action and environment, and every project starts with a read-only token", "Hosted MCP server with OAuth (PKCE, dynamic client registration, revocation), per-project selection and a read-only level enforced at the network layer", "Free plan with no card, 25,000 Content Management API calls a month and three sandbox environments for testing changes away from the primary" ], "weaknesses": [ "No idempotency keys in the reviewed documentation. Safe retries rest on optimistic locking and the JavaScript client's automatic retry", "The only official client library is JavaScript and TypeScript. No Python, Go, PHP or Ruby client appears in the documentation index", "Audit logs are an Enterprise feature with a default retention of two months", "A database upgrade on 19 September 2026 put every project in read-only mode for about four hours, over an hour past its announced window", "The terms let Dato Srl modify or discontinue API access with or without notice, and free projects are suspended for the rest of the month at a quota limit" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `X-Api-Version: 3` and `Accept: application/json` on every request, with `Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json` on writes", "Records are `items`, models are `item_types` and assets are `uploads` in every path and payload", "Save a record, then call the publish endpoint as a separate PUT. Send `meta.current_version` on updates and re-fetch on `STALE_ITEM_VERSION`", "Stay under 60 requests every 3 seconds. On 429 wait the seconds in `x-ratelimit-reset`, and retry any error whose body has `transient` set to true", "Fork a sandbox environment for schema changes and promote it when checked. Use `POST /items/validate` to test a payload without saving it" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 74.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 35, "reliability": 80, "schema": 85, "security": 77, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 94 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @datocms/cma-client-node", "http": "curl \\\n -H 'Authorization: Bearer \u003cYOUR-API-TOKEN\u003e' \\\n -H 'Accept: application/json' \\\n -H 'X-Api-Version: 3' \\\n https://site-api.datocms.com/site", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http DatoCMS https://mcp.datocms.com", "config": { "mcpServers": { "DatoCMS": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.datocms.com" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/cms.content", "tool": "https://letme.dev/datocms" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Dato Srl", "domain": "datocms.com", "domainRegistered": "2016-03-18", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.datocms.com/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://www.datocms.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.datocms.com", "changelog": "https://www.datocms.com/product-updates", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms of service and the privacy policy name DATO SRL, Via U. Visconti di Modrone 2, 20122 Milano, Italy. The terms cover every plan except Enterprise, which has a separate agreement we did not find published.", "The Content Management API answers at site-api.datocms.com, the MCP server at mcp.datocms.com and the OAuth server at oauth.datocms.com.", "www.datocms.com/.well-known/security.txt gives security@datocms.com, a PGP key and the security policy page, and has no Expires field.", "The privacy policy carries no revision date in the Markdown copy we read. The GDPR page was last updated on 3 June 2026 and the security page on 2 September 2025.", "RDAP for datocms.com gives a registration date of 2016-03-18.", "The status page is the vendor's own, with a static mirror at status2.datocms.com and RSS, Atom and JSON history feeds. No data processing agreement was found on the legal pages." ], "score": 94 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datocms.json", "live": { "slug": "datocms", "probe": { "target": "https://site-api.datocms.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T10:14:12.604090366Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 58, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 59, "p95ms24h": 92, "samples24h": 159, "samples30d": 159, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 50, "ok": 50 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.datocms.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T07:57:47.034267357Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T10:14:12.604090366Z" } }, "answer": "DatoCMS scores 74.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Hygraph's 69.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hygraph leads on reliability.", "b": { "slug": "hygraph", "name": "Hygraph", "vendor": "Hygraph GmbH", "vendorUrl": "https://hygraph.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "cms", "summary": "Hygraph is a hosted headless CMS from Hygraph GmbH in Berlin. Agents read and write entries, assets and localisations through a GraphQL Content API, change schema through a Management API and SDK, or connect through a hosted MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hygraph", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hygraph.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hygraph.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hygraph.json", "repo": "https://github.com/hygraph/management-sdk", "license": "Proprietary service under Hygraph GmbH's Terms of Service. The `@hygraph/management-sdk` package is MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@hygraph/management-sdk" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. The Content API and Management API take a Permanent Auth Token as a Bearer header. A person creates the token in Project Settings and sets its content permissions (by model, stage, locale, environment and action) and its Management API permissions. A new token has none enabled. Deleting a token invalidates it, and no expiry or rotation was found. The project MCP endpoint takes the same token. The global MCP endpoint uses a browser login through auth.hygraph.com and follows the user's own permissions. OAuth for third-party apps needs a client ID from Hygraph support. No app review or sales approval is needed for tokens.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The Hobby plan is free with no card and includes 500,000 API calls a month, 1,000 entries, 2 locales and 3 API tokens. Usage past the limit is blocked until the next period. Growth is $199 a month with 1,000,000 API calls, and overage of $0.20 per 10,000 API operations and per GB of asset traffic. Enterprise is sold through sales, with a 30-day trial that needs no card (https://hygraph.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$199 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API reference, the MCP server docs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 17, "popularity": { "githubStars": 52, "npmWeekly": 8645, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://hygraph.com/docs/api-reference", "llmsTxt": "https://hygraph.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "cms.content", "cms.publish", "cms.assets", "cms.localisation", "cms.schema" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "mcp", "graphql", "closed-source", "no-card", "free-tier", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "typescript", "status-page", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.3, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 182, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 74, "payments": 35, "reliability": 89, "schema": 78, "security": 63, "transparency": 60 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Tokens are limited by model, stage, locale and action, the GraphQL schema is typed and introspectable, and a hosted MCP server rejects delete and unpublish operations. Error bodies carry a message without a machine code, there are no idempotency keys, audit logs are Enterprise only, and no data processing agreement, sub-processor list or security.txt was found.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Permanent Auth Tokens are limited by model, stage, locale, environment and action, and a new token starts with no permissions enabled", "The hosted MCP server rejects `delete*` and `unpublish*` operations, and `submit_batch_migration` takes `dry_run` and applies schema changes in one transaction", "GraphQL field selection, `first`, `skip` and cursor arguments and typed filters size every response. The default page is 10 entries and the maximum 100", "The Hobby plan needs no card and includes 500,000 API calls a month, 1,000 entries and 3 API tokens", "`llms.txt` links a Markdown copy of every documentation section, and the changelog has dated entries for 30 July, 31 August and 30 September 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "GraphQL error bodies carry a message and a `requestId` with no machine-readable code, and only asset transformation 429 responses are documented with `Retry-After`", "No idempotency keys in the reviewed documentation. Safe retries rest on `upsert` mutations keyed on a unique field", "Audit logs, backups with recovery and an uptime SLA are Enterprise only, and version history is absent on Hobby and 14 days on Growth", "No data processing agreement, named sub-processor list, security.txt or disclosure policy was found on hygraph.com. The privacy policy names categories of service provider only", "The only official SDK is `@hygraph/management-sdk` for JavaScript and TypeScript, and its public GitHub repository was last pushed on 13 September 2024" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the Permanent Auth Token as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` to `https://\u003cregion\u003e.hygraph.com/v2/\u003cprojectId\u003e/\u003cenvironment\u003e`. Read the schema by introspection first, because every type is generated from the project's models", "Mutations write to DRAFT. Call `publish\u003cModel\u003e` with `to: [PUBLISHED]` as a separate mutation, and pass `locales` to write or publish a localisation", "Stay under the plan's limit for uncached requests (5 a second on Hobby, 25 on Growth) and its concurrent mutations (5 and 10). Back off exponentially on 429", "Upload an asset with `createAsset`, then POST the file to the returned pre-signed URL, or pass `uploadUrl` for a remote file. The asset stays `ASSET_CREATE_PENDING` until processed", "Schema changes go to the Management API through `@hygraph/management-sdk` or the MCP tool `submit_batch_migration`. Version restore has no documented mutation, so read `\u003cmodel\u003eVersion` and write the old values back" ], "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": 69.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 74, "payments": 35, "reliability": 89, "schema": 78, "security": 63, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 75 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @hygraph/management-sdk", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add hygraph https://mcp-{REGION}.hygraph.com/{PROJECT_ID}/{ENVIRONMENT}/mcp \\\n --transport http \\\n --header \"Authorization: Bearer ${HYGRAPH_TOKEN}\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "hygraph": { "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp-{REGION}.hygraph.com/{PROJECT_ID}/master/mcp", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer ${HYGRAPH_TOKEN}" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "HYGRAPH_TOKEN": "token_here" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/cms.content", "tool": "https://letme.dev/hygraph" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Growth", "unit": "month", "usd": 199, "note": "10 seats, 1,000,000 API calls and 500 GB of asset traffic included" }, { "item": "Additional API operations on Growth", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.02, "note": "sold as $0.20 per 10,000 API operations" }, { "item": "Additional asset traffic on Growth", "unit": "gb", "usd": 0.2, "note": "per GB past the plan's 500 GB" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Hygraph GmbH", "domain": "hygraph.com", "domainRegistered": "2022-03-04", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://hygraph.com/terms", "privacy": "https://hygraph.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.hygraph.com", "changelog": "https://hygraph.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The imprint and the privacy policy name Hygraph GmbH, Dircksenstraße 47, 10178 Berlin, registered at Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg under HRB 250696 B.", "The Terms of Service define the Hygraph Services to include the cloud platform and the Hygraph API. The pricing page lists them as the online terms for Hobby and Growth, with custom terms on Enterprise.", "The privacy policy has a section on use of the Hygraph service and was last updated on 19 March 2025. It names categories of service provider and no companies. No data processing agreement was found on hygraph.com.", "The Content API answers at \u003cregion\u003e.hygraph.com, the Management API at management.hygraph.com, the MCP server at mcp.hygraph.com and the OAuth server at auth.hygraph.com.", "https://hygraph.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on 8 October 2026.", "RDAP for hygraph.com gives a registration date of 2022-03-04. The product was named GraphCMS before that, and the older SDK is still on npm as `@graphcms/management`." ], "score": 75 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hygraph.json", "live": { "slug": "hygraph", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T10:14:17.145306856Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 161, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 80, "p95ms24h": 161, "samples24h": 28, "samples30d": 28, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 28, "ok": 28 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.hygraph.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T10:11:00.581074358Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T10:14:17.145306856Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Dato Srl", "b": "Hygraph GmbH", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://site-api.datocms.com", "b": "https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Dato Srl's terms of service. The API clients in datocms/js-rest-api-clients and the CLI in datocms/cli are MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under Hygraph GmbH's Terms of Service. The `@hygraph/management-sdk` package is MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "9", "b": "17", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-09-30", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "153k npm/wk", "b": "52 stars, 8.6k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "DatoCMS scores 74.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Hygraph's 69.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hygraph leads on reliability.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, DatoCMS or Hygraph?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do DatoCMS and Hygraph need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. DatoCMS has a hosted endpoint at https://site-api.datocms.com and Hygraph at https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call DatoCMS and Hygraph without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 78", "Agent ergonomics, 78 against 72", "Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 63", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 81 against 74", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 60" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better" ], "goodFor": "Teams on DatoCMS who want an agent to create, translate and publish records, upload assets or change models, testing first in a sandbox environment.", "slug": "datocms", "watchFor": "No idempotency keys in the reviewed documentation. Safe retries rest on optimistic locking and the JavaScript client's automatic retry" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 89 against 80" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "hygraph", "watchFor": "GraphQL error bodies carry a message and a `requestId` with no machine-readable code, and only asset transformation 429 responses are documented with `Retry-After`" } ], "job": { "capability": "cms.content", "name": "Cms content" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/contentstack-vs-datocms.json", "title": "Contentstack vs DatoCMS", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/contentstack-vs-datocms" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/contentstack-vs-hygraph.json", "title": "Contentstack vs Hygraph", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/contentstack-vs-hygraph" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-directus.json", "title": "DatoCMS vs Directus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-directus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-ghost.json", "title": "DatoCMS vs Ghost", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-ghost" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-payload.json", "title": "DatoCMS vs Payload", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-payload" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-prismic.json", "title": "DatoCMS vs Prismic", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-prismic" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-sanity.json", "title": "DatoCMS vs Sanity", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-sanity" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-storyblok.json", "title": "DatoCMS vs Storyblok", "url": 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success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 7, "datocms": 81, "edge": "datocms", "hygraph": 74, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 20, "datocms": 80, "edge": "datocms", "hygraph": 60, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "DatoCMS scores 74.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Hygraph's 69.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hygraph leads on reliability. Both do cms content.", "verdicts": { "datocms": "The Content Management API publishes a JSON Hyper-Schema for 202 operations, 100 documented error codes and rate-limit headers, and the hosted MCP server adds OAuth with three access levels. There are no idempotency keys, the only official client library is JavaScript, audit logs are Enterprise only, and prices are in euros with no machine payment route.", "hygraph": "Tokens are limited by model, stage, locale and action, the GraphQL schema is typed and introspectable, and a hosted MCP server rejects delete and unpublish operations. Error bodies carry a message without a machine code, there are no idempotency keys, audit logs are Enterprise only, and no data processing agreement, sub-processor list or security.txt was found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-hygraph", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-hygraph.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-hygraph.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-hygraph.min.md" }, "markdown": "DatoCMS scores 74.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Hygraph's 69.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hygraph leads on reliability. Both do cms content.\n\n- DatoCMS: grade BB, 74.4/100, rank #70 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datocms.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/datocms.json\n- Hygraph: grade B, 69.3/100, rank #182 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hygraph.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hygraph.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### DatoCMS (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams on DatoCMS who want an agent to create, translate and publish records, upload assets or change models, testing first in a sandbox environment.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 78\n- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 72\n- Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 63\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 81 against 74\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 60\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: No idempotency keys in the reviewed documentation. Safe retries rest on optimistic locking and the JavaScript client's automatic retry\n\n### Hygraph (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 89 against 80\n\nWatch for: GraphQL error bodies carry a message and a `requestId` with no machine-readable code, and only asset transformation 429 responses are documented with `Retry-After`\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | DatoCMS | Hygraph | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 89 | Hygraph +9 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 78 | DatoCMS +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 72 | DatoCMS +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 77 | 63 | DatoCMS +14 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 35 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 74 | DatoCMS +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 60 | DatoCMS +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **74.4 · BB** | **69.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | DatoCMS | Hygraph |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Dato Srl | Hygraph GmbH |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://site-api.datocms.com` | `https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Dato Srl's terms of service. The API clients in datocms/js-rest-api-clients and the CLI in datocms/cli are MIT | Proprietary service under Hygraph GmbH's Terms of Service. The `@hygraph/management-sdk` package is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 9 | 17 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 153k npm/wk | 52 stars, 8.6k npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**DatoCMS.** The Content Management API publishes a JSON Hyper-Schema for 202 operations, 100 documented error codes and rate-limit headers, and the hosted MCP server adds OAuth with three access levels. There are no idempotency keys, the only official client library is JavaScript, audit logs are Enterprise only, and prices are in euros with no machine payment route.\n\n**Hygraph.** Tokens are limited by model, stage, locale and action, the GraphQL schema is typed and introspectable, and a hosted MCP server rejects delete and unpublish operations. Error bodies carry a message without a machine code, there are no idempotency keys, audit logs are Enterprise only, and no data processing agreement, sub-processor list or security.txt was found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### DatoCMS\n\n1. Send `X-Api-Version: 3` and `Accept: application/json` on every request, with `Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json` on writes\n2. Records are `items`, models are `item_types` and assets are `uploads` in every path and payload\n3. Save a record, then call the publish endpoint as a separate PUT. Send `meta.current_version` on updates and re-fetch on `STALE_ITEM_VERSION`\n4. Stay under 60 requests every 3 seconds. On 429 wait the seconds in `x-ratelimit-reset`, and retry any error whose body has `transient` set to true\n5. Fork a sandbox environment for schema changes and promote it when checked. Use `POST /items/validate` to test a payload without saving it\n\n### Hygraph\n\n1. Send the Permanent Auth Token as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` to `https://\u003cregion\u003e.hygraph.com/v2/\u003cprojectId\u003e/\u003cenvironment\u003e`. Read the schema by introspection first, because every type is generated from the project's models\n2. Mutations write to DRAFT. Call `publish\u003cModel\u003e` with `to: [PUBLISHED]` as a separate mutation, and pass `locales` to write or publish a localisation\n3. Stay under the plan's limit for uncached requests (5 a second on Hobby, 25 on Growth) and its concurrent mutations (5 and 10). Back off exponentially on 429\n4. Upload an asset with `createAsset`, then POST the file to the returned pre-signed URL, or pass `uploadUrl` for a remote file. The asset stays `ASSET_CREATE_PENDING` until processed\n5. Schema changes go to the Management API through `@hygraph/management-sdk` or the MCP tool `submit_batch_migration`. Version restore has no documented mutation, so read `\u003cmodel\u003eVersion` and write the old values back\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, DatoCMS or Hygraph?\n\nDatoCMS scores 74.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Hygraph's 69.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hygraph leads on reliability.\n\n### Do DatoCMS and Hygraph need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call DatoCMS and Hygraph without installing anything?\n\nYes. DatoCMS has a hosted endpoint at https://site-api.datocms.com and Hygraph at https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-hygraph.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-hygraph.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"datocms\", \"b\": \"hygraph\"}`. 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