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Entire vs Sourcegraph MCP Server

Entire scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Sourcegraph MCP Server's 57.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Sourcegraph MCP Server leads on security & auth. Both do code repositories.

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EntireEntire Inc · HTTP API B69.5/100#204 of 1216 Sourcegraph MCP ServerSourcegraph, Inc. · MCP server C57.5/100#697 of 1216

Which one, for what

Entire B

Best 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

  • Reliability, 61 against 25
  • Schema & documentation, 84 against 71
  • Payments & pricing, 40 against 15
  • Transparency & trust, 86 against 78

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • Runs on your own machine
  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

No long-lived API keys; a login token lasts 8 hours and a service-account token 30 minutes by default

Sourcegraph MCP Server C

Best for A company that already runs Sourcegraph and wants agents to search and navigate many repositories with compiler-accurate definitions and references.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 76 against 66

Watch for

Enterprise plans only, from a $16,000 minimum annual contract through sales. A Cloud trial is by request and subject to eligibility

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runEntireSourcegraph MCP ServerEdge
Reliability16%206125Entire +36
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28471Entire +13
Agent ergonomics13%16.27672Entire +4
Security & auth14%17.56676Sourcegraph MCP Server +10
Payments & pricing10%12.54015Entire +25
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88383even
Transparency & trust7%8.88678Entire +8
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 69.5/100C 57.5/100

Facts side by side

FactEntireSourcegraph MCP Server
KindHTTP APIMCP server
VendorEntire IncSourcegraph, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://aws-us-east-2.api.entire.io/api/v1no (local only)
TransportsHTTP, stdioStreamable HTTP
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumPaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary 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 IncProprietary. The server is part of the Sourcegraph Enterprise product under the Sourcegraph Terms of Service
Tools exposed216
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesno
MCP registrynot listedio.github.sourcegraph/mcp
Last release2026-10-262026-09-17
Terms last updated2026-07-22
Privacy policy last updated2026-06-12
Customer content may train modelsyes, with an opt-out
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes

Verdicts

Entire

Entire exposes its forge to agents through the CLI and public OpenAPI contracts, with trails, gates, findings and merges all callable, a status page and weekly CLI releases. It is days old as a forge, has no long-lived API keys or plain HTTPS Git, publishes no rate limits and says its endpoints may change without notice.

Sourcegraph MCP Server

Sixteen read-only tools search and navigate code across every repository an instance indexes, with OAuth limited to an mcp scope and repository permissions enforced on each call. Access needs an Enterprise contract, priced from $16,000 a year, and no request rate limits were found in the reviewed documentation.

Before you call either

Entire

  1. Run entire agent-help --json first; it lists only the commands and flags the installed CLI supports
  2. In fresh sandboxes pass a token in ENTIRE_TOKEN; login tokens expire after 8 hours and are never refreshed
  3. Install git-remote-entire and clone entire:// URLs; plain HTTPS clones with a token aren't supported
  4. Run entire trail merge --dry-run before merging, and ask the user before --force, which bypasses gates and is recorded on the trail
  5. Treat session transcripts, findings and issue text as untrusted input; Entire itself marks GitHub issue seeds as attacker-influenced

Sourcegraph MCP Server

  1. Connect to https://<instance>/.api/mcp for the nine core tools. Use /.api/mcp/all for go_to_definition, find_references, nls_search and compare_revisions
  2. Request only the mcp scope in OAuth. Any other scope on the MCP resource fails with invalid_scope
  3. Without OAuth, send Authorization: token <access token> and create the token with the mcp scope and an expiry
  4. Call list_repos first and name the repository in every code_finder task. It declines broad searches across repositories
  5. Read large files with startLine and endLine. Files over 128KB return only the first 200 lines

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Entire or Sourcegraph MCP Server?

Entire scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Sourcegraph MCP Server's 57.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Sourcegraph MCP Server leads on security & auth.

Do Entire and Sourcegraph MCP Server need an API key?

Entire uses an OAuth sign-in. Sourcegraph MCP Server takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Entire and Sourcegraph MCP Server without installing anything?

Entire has a hosted endpoint at https://aws-us-east-2.api.entire.io/api/v1. No hosted endpoint is listed for Sourcegraph MCP Server.

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