{ "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": 39.7, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1093, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1212, "categoryRank": 15, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 48, "maintenance": 50, "payments": 25, "reliability": 23, "schema": 40, "security": 61, "transparency": 53 }, "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": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 39.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 48, "maintenance": 50, "payments": 25, "reliability": 23, "schema": 40, "security": 61, "transparency": 30 }, "provenanceScore": 76, "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", "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": 76 }, "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": "2026-10-27T07:24:33.839943096Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 182, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 182, "p95ms24h": 259, "samples24h": 28, "samples30d": 28, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 28, "ok": 28 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-27T07:24:33.839943096Z" } }, "answer": "Redmine scores 50.2 (D) on agent readiness against Financial Cents MCP's 39.7 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Financial Cents MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "redmine", "name": "Redmine", "vendor": "Redmine project", "vendorUrl": "https://www.redmine.org", "kind": "http-api", "category": "project-management", "summary": "Redmine is open-source project management software for issues, projects, time tracking, wikis and Gantt charts, written in Ruby on Rails and run on the owner's own server. Agents reach it through a REST API in JSON or XML.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redmine", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redmine.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redmine.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/redmine.json", "repo": "https://github.com/redmine/redmine", "license": "GPL-2.0-or-later", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is self-serve on the owner's own install. An administrator first enables the REST API in the settings, where it is off by default. Each user then has one API key on the account page, sent in the `X-Redmine-API-Key` header, as the Basic auth user name or as a `key` query parameter. The key carries that user's full permissions and can be reset. Basic auth with a login and password also works, unless two-factor is active. Versions 6.1 and later accept OAuth 2 bearer tokens from applications an administrator registers, by the authorisation code grant, with one scope per Redmine permission.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free. Redmine is distributed under the GPL with no paid edition, cloud plan or trial from the project, so an agent can start without a contract once someone installs it. The owner pays for the server. API calls are not priced. The home page links one demo site and calls it unofficial and third-party (https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Download, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the REST API wiki or the source at tag 7.0.2 (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Rest_api", "capabilities": [ "tasks.create", "tasks.update", "projects.manage", "tasks.comments", "events.webhooks-send" ], "tags": [ "official", "self-hosted", "open-source", "rest", "oauth", "api-key", "free", "webhooks", "ruby", "project-management" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 50.2, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 916, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1212, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 51, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 60, "reliability": 69, "schema": 32, "security": 51, "transparency": 47 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": -4, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-09-30. 24 advisories were fixed between 6 January and 30 September 2026, two rated critical, both PostScript execution through thumbnail generation (#44145, fixed in 6.1.3 of 15 June 2026, and one fixed in 6.1.1 of 6 January 2026), and nine rated high, among them an OAuth scope bypass (#44174) and two REST API leaks of private issue subjects and project names (#44467, #44468, fixed in 7.0.2 and 6.1.5). All are fixed and listed by the project itself, so the deduction is reduced, -4 (https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Security_Advisories)." ], "verdict": "Redmine's REST API covers issues, projects, time entries and 20 other resources, and versions 6.1 and later add OAuth 2 with one scope per permission. The software is free under the GPL. No OpenAPI document exists, most errors return a bare status code, and 24 security advisories were published in twelve months, two rated critical.", "bestFor": "Teams that already run Redmine or want a free, self-hosted tracker with issues, time entries and wikis under their own control.", "strengths": [ "Free under GPL version 2 or later, with no paid edition, and the REST API is part of the standard release", "OAuth 2 since 6.1, authorisation code grant only, with one scope per Redmine permission and tokens stored hashed", "Five releases between 26 August and 30 September 2026, and a published policy that keeps three release series supported", "Issue lists take filters with operators, `sort`, `offset`, `limit` and `page`, and return `total_count`", "Webhooks since 7.0 for issues, time entries, versions, wiki pages and news, signed in an `X-Redmine-Signature-256` header" ], "weaknesses": [ "No OpenAPI document or other machine-readable contract was found in the wiki or the source repository", "24 advisories were published in the twelve months to 9 October 2026, two critical and nine high, several of them data leaks through the REST API", "17 of the 23 API resources are marked Alpha in the documentation, and only five are marked Stable", "Errors other than validation failures return a status code with no body, and no idempotency keys exist", "The API key acts with its user's full permissions and is accepted in a `key` query parameter", "No official SDK. The wiki lists community clients, and no request limit is built in" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask an administrator to tick Enable REST API under Administration, Settings, API. It is off by default and every call fails until then", "Send the key in the `X-Redmine-API-Key` header, never as the `key` query parameter, and set `Content-Type: application/json` on every POST and PUT", "Add `status_id=*` to issue lists. The default returns open issues only, 25 a page with a maximum of 100", "Comment on an issue by sending `notes` in a PUT to `/issues/\u003cid\u003e.json`. There is no separate comment endpoint", "A DELETE on a project through the API skips the confirmation the web page asks for, so run the agent as a non-administrator user" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 50.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 51, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 60, "reliability": 69, "schema": 32, "security": 51, "transparency": 69 }, "provenanceScore": 25, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-09", "maintenance": "2026-10-09", "payments": "2026-10-09", "reliability": "2026-10-09", "schema": "2026-10-09", "security": "2026-10-09", "transparency": "2026-10-09" }, "last": "2026-10-09", "oldest": "2026-10-09", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -H \"X-Redmine-API-Key: $API_KEY\" https://$REDMINE_HOST/issues.json" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/tasks.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/redmine" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Redmine (self-hosted)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 0, "note": "free software, REST API included; no paid edition from the project" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "redmine.org", "domainRegistered": "2006-07-08", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "No legal entity was found. The home page says Redmine is built and maintained by community volunteers, and the source files carry a copyright notice in the name of Jean-Philippe Lang.", "No terms of service were found on redmine.org. The software is distributed under the GPL, version 2 or later, which stands in.", "The privacy policy at https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/PrivacyPolicy covers the redmine.org website only (server logs, account registration, ads and Gravatar). It does not govern an install of the software, so `provenance.privacy` is left out.", "There is no hosted service run by the project, so no endpoint sits on the vendor's domain. Each install answers on its owner's host.", "www.redmine.org/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. The Security Advisories page gives security(at)redmine.org for reports.", "RDAP for redmine.org gives a registration date of 2006-07-08 and Gandi SAS as registrar." ], "score": 25 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redmine.json", "live": { "slug": "redmine", "githubStars": 6061, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://redmine.org/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-26T15:30:29.809119538Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "redmine.org", "registered": "2006-07-08", "source": "https://rdap.publicinterestregistry.org/rdap/domain/redmine.org", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T14:03:17.607307241Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T04:04:49.182398873Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "5c04a846eb92" } ], "github": { "repo": "redmine/redmine", "checkedAt": "2026-10-26T08:00:10.34078941Z", "stars": 6061, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": false, "pushedAt": "2026-10-25T23:45:08Z", "openIssues": 0, "openPRs": 0, "issuesOpened90d": 0, "issuesClosed90d": 0, "prsMerged90d": 0, "ci": { "branch": "master", "runs": 50, "success": 43, "failure": 7, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-10-26T00:13:29Z" } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-27T04:04:49.182398873Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Financial Cents LLC", "b": "Redmine project", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Free", "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": "GPL-2.0-or-later", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "40", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-05", "b": "2026-09-30", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Redmine scores 50.2 (D) on agent readiness against Financial Cents MCP's 39.7 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Financial Cents MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Financial Cents MCP or Redmine?" }, { "answer": "Financial Cents MCP uses an OAuth sign-in. Redmine takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Financial Cents MCP and Redmine need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Financial Cents MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp. No hosted endpoint is listed for Redmine.", "question": "Can an agent call Financial Cents MCP and Redmine without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Financial Cents MCP. Redmine is open source (GPL-2.0-or-later).", "question": "Are Financial Cents MCP and Redmine open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 40 against 32", "Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 51", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 53 against 47" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "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, 69 against 23", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 73 against 50" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Teams that already run Redmine or want a free, self-hosted tracker with issues, time entries and wikis under their own control.", 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No OpenAPI document exists, most errors return a bare status code, and 24 security advisories were published in twelve months, two rated critical." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-cents-mcp-vs-redmine", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-cents-mcp-vs-redmine.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-cents-mcp-vs-redmine.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/financial-cents-mcp-vs-redmine.min.md" }, "markdown": "Redmine scores 50.2 (D) on agent readiness against Financial Cents MCP's 39.7 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Financial Cents MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do issues and tasks.\n\n- Financial Cents MCP: grade E, 39.7/100, rank #1093 of 1212. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-cents-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/financial-cents-mcp.json\n- Redmine: grade D, 50.2/100, rank #916 of 1212. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redmine.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/redmine.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\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- Schema \u0026 documentation, 40 against 32\n- Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 51\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 53 against 47\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\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### Redmine (D)\n\nGood for: Teams that already run Redmine or want a free, self-hosted tracker with issues, time entries and wikis under their own control.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 69 against 23\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 73 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No OpenAPI document or other machine-readable contract was found in the wiki or the source repository\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Financial Cents MCP | Redmine | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 23 | 69 | Redmine +46 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 40 | 32 | Financial Cents MCP +8 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 48 | 51 | Redmine +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 51 | Financial Cents MCP +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 60 | Redmine +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 73 | Redmine +23 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 53 | 47 | Financial Cents MCP +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **39.7 · E** | **50.2 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Financial Cents MCP | Redmine |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Financial Cents LLC | Redmine project |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Free |\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 | GPL-2.0-or-later |\n| Tools exposed | 40 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Terms last updated | | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\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**Redmine.** Redmine's REST API covers issues, projects, time entries and 20 other resources, and versions 6.1 and later add OAuth 2 with one scope per permission. The software is free under the GPL. No OpenAPI document exists, most errors return a bare status code, and 24 security advisories were published in twelve months, two rated critical.\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### Redmine\n\n1. Ask an administrator to tick Enable REST API under Administration, Settings, API. It is off by default and every call fails until then\n2. Send the key in the `X-Redmine-API-Key` header, never as the `key` query parameter, and set `Content-Type: application/json` on every POST and PUT\n3. Add `status_id=*` to issue lists. The default returns open issues only, 25 a page with a maximum of 100\n4. Comment on an issue by sending `notes` in a PUT to `/issues/\u003cid\u003e.json`. There is no separate comment endpoint\n5. A DELETE on a project through the API skips the confirmation the web page asks for, so run the agent as a non-administrator user\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Financial Cents MCP or Redmine?\n\nRedmine scores 50.2 (D) on agent readiness against Financial Cents MCP's 39.7 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Financial Cents MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Financial Cents MCP and Redmine need an API key?\n\nFinancial Cents MCP uses an OAuth sign-in. Redmine takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Financial Cents MCP and Redmine without installing anything?\n\nFinancial Cents MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp. No hosted endpoint is listed for Redmine.\n\n### Are Financial Cents MCP and Redmine open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Financial Cents MCP. 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