# DeepEval vs Respan API + MCP (slim)

> Respan and DeepEval score within a point of each other for evaluations, 65.5 and 64.7 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Respan API + MCP and DeepEval score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 65.5 (B) and 64.7 (B). DeepEval leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do evaluations.

- DeepEval: B 64.7, rank #343 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepeval.min.md
- Respan API + MCP: B 65.5, rank #317 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/respan.min.md
- DeepEval, good for Teams that want evaluations in pytest or a CLI on their own machines, with agent, RAG, multi-turn and MCP metrics. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 72 against 66; Payments & pricing, 60 against 30; Transparency & trust, 63 against 57. Also Free to start without a card; Open source.
- Respan API + MCP, good for Teams that want a gateway and tracing in one integration and an agent that can manage prompts, datasets and evaluators over MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 73 against 59; Schema & documentation, 89 against 78; Security & auth, 66 against 47. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | DeepEval | Respan API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 59 | 73 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 66 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 57 |

| Fact (where they differ) | DeepEval | Respan API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Confident AI, Inc. | Respan (formerly Keywords AI) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.respan.ai/api` |
| Transports |  | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 for the Python and TypeScript packages and the agent skills. Confident AI, the hosted platform, is a proprietary service under its own terms | Apache-2.0 (SDKs only, platform closed source) |
| Tools exposed | none | 67 |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-02-25 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-02-25 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 19k stars, 35k npm/wk, 736k PyPI/wk | 270 npm/wk, 13k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |