{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "financial-cents-mcp", "name": "Financial Cents MCP", "vendor": "Financial Cents LLC", "vendorUrl": "https://financial-cents.com", "kind": "mcp", "category": "project-management", "summary": "Financial Cents MCP is a hosted MCP server from Financial Cents LLC that lets AI assistants read and update an accounting firm's practice data, including clients, projects, tasks, time, invoices, proposals and client chat.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-cents-mcp", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-cents-mcp.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-cents-mcp.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/financial-cents-mcp.json", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Financial Cents' terms of use, which are hosted on iubenda and weren't read because iubenda's robots.txt disallows them. No source is public", "transports": [ "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth only, with no API key. The protected-resource metadata names one scope, `mcp:use`, and the authorisation server gives the authorisation code grant with PKCE S256, refresh tokens and dynamic client registration; no revocation endpoint is advertised. The person signs in on app.financial-cents.com and picks one firm on the consent screen, and the token stays bound to it. Every call runs through the user's own app permissions, so rates and billing data need the matching permissions. Connections are listed and revoked in Settings, API, FC MCP. Cloud-hosted clients need their callback approved by Financial Cents; Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Cursor's web agents, VS Code for the Web, Perplexity, Notion, Gumloop and Viktor are approved (https://app.financial-cents.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp, https://app.financial-cents.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server, https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp-guide, checked 2026-10-27).", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Included in the Scale plan, $69 a user a month billed annually or $89 a user a month billed monthly with at least 5 users, all on 12-month agreements. Team ($49) and Solo ($19) don't include it, and Enterprise is by sales. A 14-day trial needs no card; whether the MCP is on during the trial isn't stated, and the MCP page says support may need to enable it for a firm. The pricing page has no MCP row. Month-End Close is an add-on at $5 a client a month (https://financial-cents.com/pricing/, https://financial-cents.com/mcp/, checked 2026-10-27).", "priceSummary": "$69 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the MCP page, the setup guide, the pricing page or the release. Unauthenticated MCP calls answer 401 with an OAuth resource-metadata pointer, not a payment request (checked 2026-10-27).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 40, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-27" }, "docsUrl": "https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp-guide", "capabilities": [ "tasks.create", "tasks.update", "projects.manage", "projects.reporting", "crm.records", "accounting.invoices" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "mcp", "closed-source", "oauth", "paid", "free-trial", "no-card", "no-status-page", "soc2", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 39.9, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1100, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1221, "categoryRank": 15, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 48, "maintenance": 50, "payments": 25, "reliability": 23, "schema": 40, "security": 61, "transparency": 55 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-27" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "-2, misleading claim. The MCP page and its FAQ (last modified 15 October 2026) say the server can view invoices, payments and proposals, while the setup guide lists `manage_invoice`, `invoice_actions` (send, finalise, charge, void) and `proposal_actions` (send). That understates the server's reach over client money. Checked 27 October 2026 (https://financial-cents.com/mcp/, https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp-guide)." ], "verdict": "The server gives assistants 40 tools over an accounting firm's Financial Cents data, under the user's own permissions and bound to one firm by OAuth. Tool descriptions are detailed and client chat is marked as untrusted. It can send and charge invoices with one undivided scope, and there's no status page, numeric MCP rate limit or readable tool schema.", "bestFor": "Accounting, bookkeeping and tax firms on Financial Cents Scale who want an assistant to answer workload, billing and client questions and log time or create tasks.", "strengths": [ "OAuth 2.1 with PKCE S256 and dynamic client registration, each token bound to one firm and revocable in Settings, API", "Every one of the 40 tools is named and described on a public page, with when to use it, what it won't do and units such as cents or dollars", "List tools filter, group and total across the whole filtered set, so one call answers most firm-wide questions", "Client-written chat text and topic names come back wrapped in `\u003cuntrusted\u003e` tags, and the guide warns about prompt injection", "No delete tool, and risky writes carry guards such as `preview` on proposal sends, `confirm_notify` and `expected_amount_remaining`" ], "weaknesses": [ "One OAuth scope, `mcp:use`, covers reads and every write, including sending, charging and voiding invoices", "The MCP marketing page says invoices, payments and proposals are view-only, while the guide lists tools that send, charge and void them", "No status page, SLA or numeric rate limit for the MCP; the REST API's 250 requests a minute is a separate surface", "Input schemas and annotations aren't public, since `initialize` and `tools/list` need a signed-in Scale account", "Scale plan only, at $69 a user a month billed annually; no free plan and no MCP row on the pricing page" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `whoami` first and work out date windows from `user.timezone`, not `company.timezone`", "Resolve clients and projects with `list_clients` or `list_projects` search, since `lookup` covers only reference data such as users, tags and service items", "Check money units per tool. Invoices, payments, proposals and credit memos use integer cents, while time entries and service-item rates use dollars", "Never retry a successful `invoice_actions`, `proposal_actions` or credit-memo create, since a second call can email or charge the client again", "Get the person's approval before any write, and use `preview: true` before sending a proposal" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 39.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 48, "maintenance": 50, "payments": 25, "reliability": 23, "schema": 40, "security": 61, "transparency": 30 }, "provenanceScore": 79, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-27", "maintenance": "2026-10-27", "payments": "2026-10-27", "reliability": "2026-10-27", "schema": "2026-10-27", "security": "2026-10-27", "transparency": "2026-10-27" }, "last": "2026-10-27", "lastMoved": "2026-10-27", "oldest": "2026-10-27", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http financial-cents https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "financial-cents": { "url": "https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/tasks.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/financial-cents-mcp" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Scale plan, billed annually", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 69, "note": "Includes the MCP server and the REST API; 12-month agreement" }, { "item": "Scale plan, billed monthly", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 89, "note": "At least 5 users; 12-month agreement" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Financial Cents LLC", "domain": "financial-cents.com", "domainRegistered": "2017-04-10", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://financial-cents.com/terms-of-use/", "privacy": "https://financial-cents.com/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://financial-cents.canny.io/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-27", "notes": [ "The setup guide's footer reads Copyright 2017-2026 Financial Cents LLC. The release is datelined Atlanta.", "The terms-of-use page embeds iubenda's terms (https://www.iubenda.com/terms-and-conditions/98813471), which iubenda's robots.txt disallows for every crawler, so they weren't read.", "The privacy-policy page shows a policy with an effective date of 5 October 2018 for the website, and links an iubenda privacy policy that robots.txt also disallows.", "/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on financial-cents.com and app.financial-cents.com.", "No status page was found. status.financial-cents.com doesn't resolve, and the Statuspage and Instatus names for the company redirect to those vendors' home pages.", "The product changelog is on Canny, with a roadmap and feedback board beside it.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 10 April 2017 for financial-cents.com." ], "score": 79 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-cents-mcp.json", "live": { "slug": "financial-cents-mcp", "probe": { "target": "https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp", "method": "mcp-initialize", "lastAt": "2026-10-28T08:42:50.115370127Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 177, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 192, "p95ms24h": 287, "samples24h": 251, "samples30d": 292, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 200, "ok": 200 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 92, "ok": 92 } ] }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://financial-cents.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T15:32:48.78759103Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://financial-cents.canny.io/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:34:57.704864604Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "506e78284d67" }, { "url": "https://financial-cents.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:34:58.261417107Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e0310478819a" }, { "url": "https://financial-cents.com/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:35:01.04440388Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b55c371dc3d1" }, { "url": "https://financial-cents.com/terms-of-use/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:35:02.385015595Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0218f6f020df" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T00:35:43.619245024Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-10-28T00:35:43.619245024Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-28T08:42:50.115370127Z" } }, "answer": "Linear MCP scores 53.9 (D) on agent readiness against Financial Cents MCP's 39.9 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Financial Cents MCP leads on agent ergonomics.", "b": { "slug": "linear-mcp", "name": "Linear MCP", "vendor": "Linear", "vendorUrl": "https://linear.app", "kind": "mcp", "category": "productivity", "summary": "Linear's centrally hosted MCP server for finding, creating and updating issues, projects and comments, with a read-only endpoint variant.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linear-mcp", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linear-mcp.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linear-mcp.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/linear-mcp.json", "license": "proprietary", "transports": [ "streamable-http", "sse" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.linear.app/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration (interactive), or a Linear API key / Bearer token in the Authorization header; enterprise Okta SAML managed auth. Read-only endpoint: https://mcp.linear.app/mcp/readonly. Legacy SSE: https://mcp.linear.app/sse.", "pricing": "byo-plan", "pricingNotes": "No separate charge; available to Linear workspaces (Linear has a free plan). No plan restriction stated in docs.", "priceSummary": "Your plan", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 support in Linear docs.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-26" }, "docsUrl": "https://linear.app/docs/mcp", "llmsTxt": "https://linear.app/llms.txt", "registryName": "app.linear/linear", "capabilities": [ "work.issues" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "oauth", "read-only-mode", "llms-txt" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-13", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53.9, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 814, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1221, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 38, "maintenance": 57, "payments": 30, "reliability": 60, "schema": 51, "security": 71, "transparency": 72 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration, so most MCP clients connect without a registered app. No published tool list, schemas or MCP error responses.", "bestFor": "Teams on Linear who want an agent to triage, file and update issues under the user's permissions, with a hard read-only option.", "strengths": [ "OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration, so most MCP clients connect without a registered app", "A `read` OAuth scope and Read-only API keys that can't reach write APIs, plus a `/mcp/readonly` endpoint", "llms.txt with Markdown pages, including the MCP page", "SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 on the security page", "Enterprise-managed MCP authorisation through Okta since 13 August 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "No published tool list, schemas or MCP error responses", "No MCP component on linearstatus.com", "Rate limits are documented for the GraphQL API only, and a limit returns HTTP 400 rather than 429", "The privacy policy (March 2025) says US hosting while the security page lets a workspace choose EU or US", "SSE endpoint deprecated with no end date" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use `https://mcp.linear.app/mcp/readonly` for triage and reporting, it only exposes read tools", "Headless runs take `Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI key\u003e`, and a key created with Read permission can't write", "Treat an HTTP 400 with RATELIMITED as a rate limit and wait for the X-RateLimit-Requests-Reset time", "Call `list_teams` first, since team visibility and retired teams come back in its output" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 38, "maintenance": 57, "payments": 30, "reliability": 60, "schema": 51, "security": 71, "transparency": 50 }, "provenanceScore": 93, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-01", "maintenance": "2026-10-01", "payments": "2026-10-01", "reliability": "2026-10-01", "schema": "2026-10-01", "security": "2026-10-01", "transparency": "2026-10-01" }, "last": "2026-10-01", "lastMoved": "2026-10-27", "oldest": "2026-10-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http linear https://mcp.linear.app/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "linear": { "url": "https://mcp.linear.app/mcp/readonly" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/work.issues", "tool": "https://letme.dev/linear-mcp" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Linear Orbit, Inc.", "domain": "linear.app", "domainRegistered": "2018-05-09", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://linear.app/terms", "privacy": "https://linear.app/privacy", "statusPage": "https://linearstatus.com", "changelog": "https://linear.app/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-26", "score": 93 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linear-mcp.json", "live": { "slug": "linear-mcp", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.linear.app/mcp", "method": "mcp-initialize", "lastAt": "2026-10-28T08:42:55.095248901Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 32, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 42, "p95ms24h": 82, "samples24h": 251, "samples30d": 7997, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-27", "probes": 132, "ok": 132 }, { "date": "2026-09-28", "probes": 285, "ok": 285 }, { "date": "2026-09-29", "probes": 286, "ok": 286 }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 286, "ok": 286 }, { "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": 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"https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp", "b": "https://mcp.linear.app/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "Streamable HTTP", "b": "Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Your plan", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary hosted service under Financial Cents' terms of use, which are hosted on iubenda and weren't read because iubenda's robots.txt disallows them. No source is public", "b": "proprietary", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "40", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "app.linear/linear", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-05", "b": "2026-08-13", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "", "b": "2026-06-09", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "2025-03-17", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Linear MCP scores 53.9 (D) on agent readiness against Financial Cents MCP's 39.9 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Financial Cents MCP leads on agent ergonomics.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Financial Cents MCP or Linear MCP?" }, { "answer": "Financial Cents MCP uses an OAuth sign-in. Linear MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Financial Cents MCP and Linear MCP need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Financial Cents MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp and Linear MCP at https://mcp.linear.app/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call Financial Cents MCP and Linear MCP without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 48 against 38" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Accounting, bookkeeping and tax firms on Financial Cents Scale who want an assistant to answer workload, billing and client questions and log time or create tasks.", "slug": "financial-cents-mcp", "watchFor": "One OAuth scope, `mcp:use`, covers reads and every write, including sending, charging and voiding invoices" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 60 against 23", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 51 against 40", "Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 61", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 25", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 57 against 50", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 55" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams on Linear who want an agent to 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"title": "Linear MCP vs Todoist", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linear-mcp-vs-todoist" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linear-mcp-vs-trello.json", "title": "Linear MCP vs Trello", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linear-mcp-vs-trello" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linear-mcp-vs-wrike.json", "title": "Linear MCP vs Wrike", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linear-mcp-vs-wrike" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linear-mcp-vs-youtrack.json", "title": "Linear MCP vs YouTrack", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linear-mcp-vs-youtrack" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlassian-rovo-mcp-vs-linear-mcp.json", "title": "Atlassian Rovo MCP Server vs Linear MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atlassian-rovo-mcp-vs-linear-mcp" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 37, "edge": "linear-mcp", "financial-cents-mcp": 23, "key": "reliability", "linear-mcp": 60, 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Financial Cents MCP leads on agent ergonomics. Both do issues and tasks.\n\n- Financial Cents MCP: grade E, 39.9/100, rank #1100 of 1221. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-cents-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/financial-cents-mcp.json\n- Linear MCP: grade D, 53.9/100, rank #814 of 1221. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linear-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/linear-mcp.json\n- Best project and task management tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/project-management/index.md\n- All 152 projects comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/project-management/index.md\n- Best issue tracking, docs and chat tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/productivity/index.md\n- All 42 work comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/productivity/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Financial Cents MCP (E)\n\nGood for: Accounting, bookkeeping and tax firms on Financial Cents Scale who want an assistant to answer workload, billing and client questions and log time or create tasks.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 48 against 38\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: One OAuth scope, `mcp:use`, covers reads and every write, including sending, charging and voiding invoices\n\n### Linear MCP (D)\n\nGood for: Teams on Linear who want an agent to triage, file and update issues under the user's permissions, with a hard read-only option.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 60 against 23\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 51 against 40\n- Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 61\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 57 against 50\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 55\n\nWatch for: No published tool list, schemas or MCP error responses\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Financial Cents MCP | Linear MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 23 | 60 | Linear MCP +37 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 40 | 51 | Linear MCP +11 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 48 | 38 | Financial Cents MCP +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 71 | Linear MCP +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 30 | Linear MCP +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 57 | Linear MCP +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 55 | 72 | Linear MCP +17 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **39.9 · E** | **53.9 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Financial Cents MCP | Linear MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | MCP server |\n| Vendor | Financial Cents LLC | Linear |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp` | `https://mcp.linear.app/mcp` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP | Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Your plan |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Financial Cents' terms of use, which are hosted on iubenda and weren't read because iubenda's robots.txt disallows them. No source is public | proprietary |\n| Tools exposed | 40 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `app.linear/linear` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-08-13 |\n| Terms last updated | | 2026-06-09 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | | 2025-03-17 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | not found in the text |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Financial Cents MCP.** The server gives assistants 40 tools over an accounting firm's Financial Cents data, under the user's own permissions and bound to one firm by OAuth. Tool descriptions are detailed and client chat is marked as untrusted. It can send and charge invoices with one undivided scope, and there's no status page, numeric MCP rate limit or readable tool schema.\n\n**Linear MCP.** OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration, so most MCP clients connect without a registered app. No published tool list, schemas or MCP error responses.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Financial Cents MCP\n\n1. Call `whoami` first and work out date windows from `user.timezone`, not `company.timezone`\n2. Resolve clients and projects with `list_clients` or `list_projects` search, since `lookup` covers only reference data such as users, tags and service items\n3. Check money units per tool. Invoices, payments, proposals and credit memos use integer cents, while time entries and service-item rates use dollars\n4. Never retry a successful `invoice_actions`, `proposal_actions` or credit-memo create, since a second call can email or charge the client again\n5. Get the person's approval before any write, and use `preview: true` before sending a proposal\n\n### Linear MCP\n\n1. Use `https://mcp.linear.app/mcp/readonly` for triage and reporting, it only exposes read tools\n2. Headless runs take `Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI key\u003e`, and a key created with Read permission can't write\n3. Treat an HTTP 400 with RATELIMITED as a rate limit and wait for the X-RateLimit-Requests-Reset time\n4. Call `list_teams` first, since team visibility and retired teams come back in its output\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Financial Cents MCP or Linear MCP?\n\nLinear MCP scores 53.9 (D) on agent readiness against Financial Cents MCP's 39.9 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Financial Cents MCP leads on agent ergonomics.\n\n### Do Financial Cents MCP and Linear MCP need an API key?\n\nFinancial Cents MCP uses an OAuth sign-in. Linear MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Financial Cents MCP and Linear MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. Financial Cents MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp and Linear MCP at https://mcp.linear.app/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-cents-mcp-vs-linear-mcp.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-cents-mcp-vs-linear-mcp.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"financial-cents-mcp\", \"b\": \"linear-mcp\"}`. 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