# Entire vs GitLab MCP Server (slim)

> Entire scores 69.4 (B) to GitLab's 67.3 (B) for code repositories. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Entire scores 69.4 (B) on agent readiness against GitLab MCP Server's 67.3 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Both do code repositories.

- Entire: B 69.4, rank #246 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/entire.min.md
- GitLab MCP Server: B 67.3, rank #335 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gitlab-mcp.min.md
- Entire, good for Teams whose coding agents push often and want agent sessions, review-agent scores and merge gates in one place, or regional Git hosting with data residency. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 76 against 66; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.
- GitLab MCP Server, good for Agents working in GitLab projects, merge requests and pipelines, including self-managed instances. github-mcp-server and azure-devops-mcp are the closest listings; teams on GitHub should use GitHub's server.

| Category | Entire | GitLab MCP Server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 61 | 62 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 76 | 66 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 66 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 84 | 87 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Entire | GitLab MCP Server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Entire Inc | GitLab Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://aws-us-east-2.api.entire.io/api/v1` | `https://gitlab.com/api/v4/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | Streamable HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Entire's Terms of Service (last updated 6 July 2026). The Entire CLI and `git-remote-entire`, entire-graph, entire-brain and the ForgeMark benchmark are MIT-licensed by Entire Inc | none |
| Tools exposed | 2 | 47 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.gitlab/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-15 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-04-23 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |

Why the edge:
- Agent ergonomics, Entire +10: Entire 76 (Read as an HTTP API with a CLI. Responses can be sized with `limit`, `include`, `includeStats` and similar parameters, and summary commands such as `recap` and `status --json` exist (20 of 25). Cursor pagination (`cursor`, `pageToken`, `nextPageToken`) and filters with `[eq]` and `[ne]` forms on trails and sessions (20). Status codes are documented per operation, with recoverable cases such as 409, 412 and 428 for preconditions and 429 with a wait, but the body carries only a message string, with no machine-readable code beyond the partner auth errors such as `repository_required` (13 of 20). `Idempotency-Key` on run creation, `expectedSHA` preconditions on writes, `trail merge --dry-run`, and trail comment writes refused from agent sessions since 0.12.2. The two MCP tools are read-only by the docs but carry no annotations (14 of 20). The CLI derives the repository from the Git remote and picks the host and token itself; one official SDK, in Go (9 of 15).); GitLab MCP Server 66 (About 47 tools by default, plus 5 Duo tools where Duo is on, so more than 30 (5), with toolset and single-tool headers to cut the list (plus 10). Cursor pagination with first and after on most list tools, include facets one at a time, byte offsets and limits on files, jobs and artifacts (20). Documented error cases and a structured rate_limited result (15). The docs don't say whether tools carry readOnlyHint or destructiveHint; accept_merge_request has a SHA guard, and 19.4 governance sets write and delete tools to Always Ask for Duo (8). Sensible default toolsets, but no official SDKs for the REST API in two languages were found on the pages read (8). 15 + 20 + 15 + 8 + 8 = 66.)
- Payments & pricing, Entire +10: Entire 40 (No x402, MPP or L402, and no 402 response in either contract (0). Hosting and the CLI are free, and Agents usage is priced per million tokens at each listed model's provider rate in the public billing docs (20). Everything except Agents is free with no card. The one-time $100 Agents trial credit now needs a verified card on file, and on 1 November the billing docs said new trials were "temporarily paused"; the free functions alone hold the line (20). A person signs in with GitHub or Google in a browser, or approves a device code; there is no keyless or programmatic sign-up (0).); GitLab MCP Server 30 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public for Free and Premium, Ultimate is by quote and GitLab Credits are $1 each, but the MCP server has no per-call price (10). GitLab.com Free needs no card, and the MCP server is on every tier (20). A person signs up, and an administrator must enable MCP and a user must authorise in a browser (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30.)