# Financial Cents MCP vs ONES

> ONES scores 46.9 (D) to Financial Cents MCP's 39.5 (E) for issues and tasks. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-11-07

ONES scores 46.9 (D) on agent readiness against Financial Cents MCP's 39.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Financial Cents MCP leads on agent ergonomics. Both do issues and tasks.

- Financial Cents MCP: grade E, 39.5/100, rank #1322 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-cents-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/financial-cents-mcp.json
- ONES: grade D, 46.9/100, rank #1149 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ones.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ones.json
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## Which one, for what

### Financial Cents MCP (E)

Good 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.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 48 against 40

Watch for: One OAuth scope, `mcp:use`, covers reads and every write, including sending, charging and voiding invoices

### ONES (D)

Good for: Teams moving off Jira and Confluence who want issues, sprints, worklogs, test cases and a wiki in one tool an agent can reach.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 55 against 40
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 25
- Maintenance & community, 68 against 50
- Transparency & trust, 62 against 51

Watch for: No status page or rate limit documentation was found


## Why the edge

### Maintenance & community: ONES +18

- Financial Cents MCP (50): Closed hosted service. The changelog dates the initial release to 5 October 2026, 22 days ago (30 of 30). One dated MCP entry in 90 days; the tool count grew from 33 in the recap of 19 October to 40 now, without dated notes (10 of 20). A public changelog, roadmap and feedback board on Canny, an Intercom help centre with an MCP article updated 23 October, and a Facebook community (10 of 15). Not in the official MCP registry (searches for financial-cents and financialcents returned nothing on 27 October 2026) and no SDK (0 of 15). No package (0 of 10). The server is about three weeks old. Total 50.
- ONES (68): Latest dated release notes are 7.33.0 on 30 September 2026, 37 days before this check. The registry entry moved to 1.0.3 on 8 October with no release note behind it, so it doesn't set recency (20). Nine dated releases since 8 August, several adding Open API endpoints or MCP capabilities (7.23.0, 7.26.0, 7.27.0, 7.29.0) (20). Closed service with a public changelog and support by email, with no public issue tracker (8 of 15). Verified com.ones/ones namespace in the official MCP registry (15). One official SDK for apps, with package health not checked (5 of 10). 20 + 20 + 8 + 15 + 5 = 68.

### Schema & documentation: ONES +15

- Financial Cents MCP (40): No machine-readable contract could be read. `tools/list` answers 401 without a signed-in Scale account and no public manifest or schema exists (0 of 25). No llms.txt on either host and no Markdown docs for the MCP; the gitbook llms.txt covers the REST API only (0 of 10). Every tool's full description is public on the setup guide, and they say what each tool is for, which tool to use instead, what it won't do and the units of money fields (18 of 20). The descriptions name enums such as `resource`, `board`, `group_by` and `log_type` and the required fields on create, but the typed schemas weren't read (6 of 15). Example prompts mapped to tools, a troubleshooting section, and descriptions that say which inputs are rejected and why; no error shape (8 of 15). A public changelog with a dated entry for the initial release, but no server version (8 of 15). Total 40.
- ONES (55): No downloadable OpenAPI file was found. The reference is rendered pages, and the MCP docs list tool names and one-line descriptions without input schemas (0). llms.txt with sized indexes and a Markdown copy of every page (10). Endpoint and tool descriptions state what each does in one line, with version history per endpoint but little on when not to use one (10 of 20). Parameters are typed with defaults, limits (`limit` at most 100) and required marks (10 of 15). Each endpoint lists 200, 401, 403, 404 and 500 responses with schemas and examples (10 of 15). API version 2.0, a History table per endpoint and dated release notes (15). 0 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 15 = 55.

### Transparency & trust: ONES +11

- Financial Cents MCP (51): The editorial half. A closed service whose terms sit on iubenda behind a robots.txt disallow, so they weren't read (10 of 30). The privacy page shows a 2018 website policy and links an iubenda policy that wasn't readable. The security page says deleted records are removed within six months and vault records at once. Nothing was found on how MCP call logs or assistant data are kept (10 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices; the REST API docs warn breaking changes could happen (0 of 20). The security page names DigitalOcean and AWS with servers in New York City and Virginia, and the privacy page names Google Analytics; no full subprocessor list (10 of 20). Total 30.
- ONES (62): Closed service under terms naming The Beautiful ONES Technology PTE. LTD. and Singapore law (15 of 30). The privacy policy of 7 January 2026 deletes business data 30 days after a service ends with no login for 365 days, and honours deletion requests within 30 days, but no DPA or subprocessor list is public (12 of 30). Endpoint version histories record changes, with no deprecation policy (5 of 20). The privacy policy names AWS, Oracle cloud and OpenAI and says data is transferred mostly to the US, China and Singapore, with no subprocessor list or regions (6 of 20). 15 + 12 + 5 + 6 = 38.

### Agent ergonomics: Financial Cents MCP +8

- Financial Cents MCP (48): Graded on the MCP server. 40 tools, more than 30, with about 30,000 characters of descriptions on the guide, the longest about 2,100, before schemas. No toolsets or read-only subset (5 of 25). List tools take filters, `limit`, pagination, `include` for nested data and `group_by`, with totals over the whole filtered set (18 of 20). Descriptions say what gets rejected and that the reason is returned, such as a locked time entry or a proposal reminder sent too soon with the next allowed time; no error codes documented (10 of 20). No idempotency keys, but `preview` on proposal sends, `expected_amount_remaining` on credit memos and single-use upload IDs. The guide labels tools Read or Write, but readOnlyHint and destructiveHint couldn't be checked (8 of 20). Omitted fields are left unchanged on updates and `whoami` grounds dates; no official SDK (7 of 15). Total 48.
- ONES (40): Scored on the MCP server and the Open API together. 67 MCP tools load by default (5), and a client granted fewer scope groups is limited to fewer tools (5 back). Lists take `limit` and `cursor` with project and issue type filters, and `query_issues_by_onesql` runs a filtered query (15 of 20). Error status codes are documented per endpoint with response schemas, but no error code catalogue was found (8 of 20). No idempotency keys or MCP annotations found (0). One official SDK, `@ones-open/node-sdk`, aimed at ONES Apps, and the MCP setup is one `mcp-remote` line (7 of 15). 10 + 15 + 8 + 0 + 7 = 40.

### Payments & pricing: ONES +5

- Financial Cents MCP (25): No x402, MPP or L402 (0 of 40). Scale plan prices are public, $69 a user a month annually or $89 monthly, but the MCP has no price of its own and no row on the pricing page, so plan-only pricing (10 of 20). A 14-day trial with no card. Judgement call, 15 of 20, because the release points new firms to the trial but no page says the MCP is on during it, and the MCP page says support may need to enable it (15 of 20). A person has to sign up and sign in through a browser (0 of 20). Total 25.
- ONES (30): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public per seat a year, with nothing per call (10). The free plan covers up to 30 seats and the pricing page says no card is needed (20). A person signs up in a browser and grants OAuth consent (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30.

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Financial Cents MCP | ONES | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 23 | 25 | ONES +2 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 40 | 55 | ONES +15 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 48 | 40 | Financial Cents MCP +8 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 65 | ONES +4 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 30 | ONES +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 68 | ONES +18 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 62 | ONES +11 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **39.5 · E** | **46.9 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Financial Cents MCP | ONES |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Financial Cents LLC | The Beautiful ONES Technology PTE. LTD. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp` | `https://us.ones.com/mcp` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| 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 | none |
| Tools exposed | 40 | 67 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.ones/ones` |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2025-09-08 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2018-10-05 | 2026-01-07 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |

## How the scores have moved

### Financial Cents MCP

- -0.4 on 30 October 2026: checklist
- +0.2 on 27 October 2026: new evidence

### ONES

No score change since it was listed.

## Verdicts

**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.

**ONES.** ONES gives agents a hosted MCP server of 67 tools and a typed Open API, both behind OAuth or keys with fine-grained scopes, and a verified MCP registry entry. No status page, published rate limits or subprocessor list was found, and the terms name a Singapore company with data transferred to the US, China and Singapore.

## Before you call either

### Financial Cents MCP

1. Call `whoami` first and work out date windows from `user.timezone`, not `company.timezone`
2. Resolve clients and projects with `list_clients` or `list_projects` search, since `lookup` covers only reference data such as users, tags and service items
3. Check money units per tool. Invoices, payments, proposals and credit memos use integer cents, while time entries and service-item rates use dollars
4. Never retry a successful `invoice_actions`, `proposal_actions` or credit-memo create, since a second call can email or charge the client again
5. Get the person's approval before any write, and use `preview: true` before sending a proposal

### ONES

1. Ask the user for their team's MCP server address from Personal Profile > Settings > `Authorized MCP Clients`; the address differs by team
2. Ask for read scopes only unless the task writes, since the consent page preselects every scope group
3. Page issue lists with `limit` (at most 100) and `cursor`, or use `query_issues_by_onesql` with `get_onesql_grammar_help` first
4. Treat issue, comment, wiki and `search_external_web` text as untrusted content written by others

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Financial Cents MCP or ONES?

ONES scores 46.9 (D) on agent readiness against Financial Cents MCP's 39.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Financial Cents MCP leads on agent ergonomics.

### Do Financial Cents MCP and ONES need an API key?

Financial Cents MCP uses an OAuth sign-in. ONES takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Financial Cents MCP and ONES without installing anything?

Yes. Financial Cents MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp and ONES at https://us.ones.com/mcp.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-cents-mcp-vs-ones.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-cents-mcp-vs-ones.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "financial-cents-mcp", "b": "ones"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare financial-cents-mcp ones`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/financial-cents-mcp.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ones.json

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