# Financial Cents MCP vs Shortcut (slim)

> Shortcut scores 60.2 (C) to Financial Cents MCP's 39.7 (E) for issues and tasks. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Shortcut scores 60.2 (C) on agent readiness against Financial Cents MCP's 39.7 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Financial Cents MCP leads on security & auth. Both do issues and tasks.

- Financial Cents MCP: E 39.7, rank #1093 of 1212 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-cents-mcp.min.md
- Shortcut: C 60.2, rank #595 of 1212 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shortcut.min.md
- Financial Cents MCP, 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 Security & auth, 61 against 54.
- Shortcut, good for Software teams already on Shortcut that want an agent to search, create and update stories, epics, iterations and docs, and coding agents that pick up assigned stories. Ahead on Reliability, 64 against 23; Schema & documentation, 75 against 40; Agent ergonomics, 57 against 48; Payments & pricing, 30 against 25; Maintenance & community, 73 against 50; Transparency & trust, 73 against 53.

| Category | Financial Cents MCP | Shortcut |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 23 | 64 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 40 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 48 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 61 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 50 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 53 | 73 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Financial Cents MCP | Shortcut |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Financial Cents LLC | Shortcut Software Company |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp` | `https://api.app.shortcut.com` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| 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 service under Shortcut's terms of service. The JavaScript client and the archived MCP server on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 40 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-09-22 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2025-09-18 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2025-07-11 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 142 stars, 103k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (4) |