{ "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": "2026-10-27T07:07:45.186515308Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 232, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 181, "p95ms24h": 259, "samples24h": 25, "samples30d": 25, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 25, "ok": 25 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-27T07:07:45.186515308Z" } }, "answer": "Financial Cents MCP scores 39.7 (E) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Taiga leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "taiga", "name": "Taiga", "vendor": "Taiga Cloud Services, S.L.", "vendorUrl": "https://taiga.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "project-management", "summary": "Taiga is open-source agile project management software with Scrum backlogs, Kanban boards, issues and a wiki, hosted at tree.taiga.io or self-hosted. Agents reach it through a REST API at `api.taiga.io/api/v1`.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taiga", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taiga.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taiga.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/taiga.json", "repo": "https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-back", "license": "MPL-2.0 for the taiga-back source. The hosted service runs under Taiga's Terms and Conditions, which also mention non-open-source modules", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is self-serve with a Taiga account, and there is no API key or personal token. A client posts the account's user name and password to `/api/v1/auth` and receives a bearer token and a refresh token. The backend's default lifetimes are 24 hours and 8 days. The token acts with the user's permissions in each project and has no scopes. The docs also describe application tokens, sent as `Authorization: Application \u003ctoken\u003e`, for an application an instance administrator has registered. No way to register an application on the hosted service was found. No app review or partner approval is described.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The hosted Free plan has one public and one private project and 10 MB of storage, and the terms say API access is free, so an agent can start without a contract. Paid hosted plans are a flat monthly price with unlimited users, Enthusiast 5 euros (50 a year), Basic 20 euros (200 a year) and Premium 60 euros (600 a year). Private cloud and on-premise support are by quote. The software is free to self-host. API calls are not priced, and prices are in euros only (https://taiga.io/deployment-pricing-options/, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API reference, the pricing page or the terms (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 858, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.taiga.io/api.html", "capabilities": [ "tasks.create", "tasks.update", "projects.manage", "tasks.comments", "projects.reporting", "events.webhooks-send" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "self-hosted", "open-source", "rest", "freemium", "free-tier", "webhooks", "eu-hosting", "project-management" ], "lastRelease": "2026-07-02", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 31.7, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1133, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1212, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 49, "maintenance": 21, "payments": 30, "reliability": 17, "schema": 35, "security": 37, "transparency": 64 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2025-10-28. Two advisories were published against taigaio/taiga-back, an authenticated remote code execution through unsafe deserialisation in the API, rated critical (CVE-2025-62368, CVSS 9.0), and a time-based blind SQL injection rated moderate (CVE-2025-62367). Both affect 6.8.3 and earlier and are fixed in 6.9.0 of 13 October 2025. The advisories do not say when the hosted service was patched. Fixed and published, so the deduction is reduced, -3 (https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-back/security/advisories)." ], "verdict": "Taiga's REST API covers projects, epics, user stories, tasks, issues, wiki pages and webhooks, with a curl example for each call, and the backend is open source under MPL-2.0. The hosted service has no API keys, so an agent signs in with an account password. No OpenAPI document, status page or request limits were found.", "bestFor": "Small agile teams that want Scrum and Kanban with a free hosted plan or a self-hosted, open-source install in the EU.", "strengths": [ "One reference page documents 234 paths under `/api/v1`, each with a curl example and a sample response object", "The backend is public under MPL-2.0 and can be self-hosted, with the same API as the hosted service", "The hosted service has a free plan with one public and one private project, and the terms say API access is free", "Modifying requests take a `version` parameter, so a stale write is refused instead of overwriting another change", "Project roles carry per-permission lists, and webhooks keep a delivery log with a resend call" ], "weaknesses": [ "No API key or personal token on the hosted service. An agent logs in with a user name and password for a bearer token that lasts 24 hours", "No OpenAPI document or llms.txt, and error responses are not described in the API reference, whose page footer is dated 3 April 2024", "No status page, SLA text or numeric request limit was found for the hosted API", "The terms let Taiga change or withdraw API access at any time without notice, and bar using the API to make Taiga data and functions available to third parties", "Two advisories published on 28 October 2025, one a critical authenticated remote code execution (CVE-2025-62368), both fixed in 6.9.0" ], "agentNotes": [ "POST `{\"type\": \"normal\", \"username\", \"password\"}` to `/api/v1/auth`, then send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cauth_token\u003e`. Renew with `/api/v1/auth/refresh` before 24 hours pass", "Send the object's current `version` with every PATCH or PUT. A stale value is refused when the same attributes changed", "Lists return 30 items a page. Read the `x-pagination-next` header, or send `x-disable-pagination: True` only for small projects", "Resolve slugs and reference numbers to ids with `/api/v1/resolver` before calling an object endpoint", "Use a dedicated account with a narrow project role, because the token acts with the whole account's permissions. Treat story, issue and wiki text as untrusted input" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 31.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 49, "maintenance": 21, "payments": 30, "reliability": 17, "schema": 35, "security": 37, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 72, "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 -X POST -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"type\": \"normal\", \"username\": \"$USERNAME\", \"password\": \"$PASSWORD\"}' https://api.taiga.io/api/v1/auth" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/tasks.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/taiga" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Free (hosted)", "unit": "month", "usd": 0, "note": "1 public and 1 private project, 10 MB, unlimited users; paid plans are priced in euros (5, 20 and 60 a month)" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Taiga Cloud Services, S.L.", "domain": "taiga.io", "domainRegistered": "2013-12-04", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://taiga.io/terms-and-conditions/", "privacy": "https://taiga.io/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-back/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Terms and Conditions (last updated September 2025) name TAIGA CLOUD SERVICES, S.L., C/ Uruguay 15, Entreplanta B, 36201 Vigo, Spain. They cover the cloud and on-premise products, and section 13 covers use of the API. Spanish law governs.", "The privacy policy names two joint controllers, KALEIDOS INC SUCURSAL EN ESPAÑA S.L. and TAIGA CLOUD SERVICES, S.L. It carries no date. A Data Processing Addendum at https://taiga.io/data-processing-addendum-dpa/ is incorporated into the terms.", "The hosted API answers at api.taiga.io and the web app at tree.taiga.io, both on the vendor's domain. Self-hosted instances answer on the owner's domain.", "taiga.io/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. The security page and the repository's SECURITY.md give security@taiga.io for reports.", "No status page is linked from the site, the docs or the terms.", "RDAP for taiga.io gives a registration date of 2013-12-04 and Gandi SAS as registrar." ], "score": 72 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taiga.json", "live": { "slug": "taiga", "githubStars": 859, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://taiga.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-26T15:30:51.240820305Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "taiga.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T14:01:07.027764011Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/taigaio/taiga-back/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T03:56:05.618029679Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f7b83f40babd" }, { "url": "https://taiga.io/deployment-pricing-options/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T03:55:43.419518962Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "74530e3cc0c0" }, { "url": "https://taiga.io/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T03:55:45.485543749Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "148f94d03820" }, { "url": "https://taiga.io/terms-and-conditions/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T03:55:47.483593176Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0aa4cfd764e6" } ], "github": { "repo": "taigaio/taiga-back", "checkedAt": "2026-10-26T08:09:27.027325748Z", "stars": 859, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-09-28T17:26:49Z", "openIssues": 60, "openPRs": 36, "issuesOpened90d": 2, "issuesClosed90d": 1, "prsMerged90d": 8, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 34, "success": 33, "failure": 1, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-09-28T18:00:29Z" }, "advisories": [ { "ghsa": "GHSA-cpcf-9276-fwc5", "cve": "CVE-2025-62368", "severity": "critical", "published": "2025-10-28T11:50:52Z" }, { "ghsa": "GHSA-chm9-9wwq-xffj", "cve": "CVE-2025-62367", "severity": "medium", "published": "2025-10-28T11:49:58Z" } ], "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 19, "medianDays": 14 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-27T03:56:05.618029679Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Financial Cents LLC", "b": "Taiga Cloud Services, S.L.", "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": "Freemium", "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": "MPL-2.0 for the taiga-back source. The hosted service runs under Taiga's Terms and Conditions, which also mention non-open-source modules", "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": "2026-07-02", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "", "b": "2025-09-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "858 stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.3/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Financial Cents MCP scores 39.7 (E) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Taiga leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Financial Cents MCP or Taiga?" }, { "answer": "Financial Cents MCP uses an OAuth sign-in. Taiga takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Financial Cents MCP and Taiga 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 Taiga.", "question": "Can an agent call Financial Cents MCP and Taiga without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Financial Cents MCP. Taiga is open source (MPL-2.0 for the taiga-back source. The hosted service runs under Taiga's Terms and Conditions, which also mention non-open-source modules).", "question": "Are Financial Cents MCP and Taiga open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 23 against 17", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 40 against 35", "Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 37", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 50 against 21" ], "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": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 25", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 53" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Small agile teams that want Scrum and Kanban with a free hosted plan or a self-hosted, open-source install in the EU.", "slug": "taiga", "watchFor": "No API key or personal token on the hosted service. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-cents-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/financial-cents-mcp.json\n- Taiga: grade F, 31.7/100, rank #1133 of 1212. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taiga.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/taiga.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- Reliability, 23 against 17\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 40 against 35\n- Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 37\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 50 against 21\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### Taiga (F)\n\nGood for: Small agile teams that want Scrum and Kanban with a free hosted plan or a self-hosted, open-source install in the EU.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 25\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 53\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No API key or personal token on the hosted service. An agent logs in with a user name and password for a bearer token that lasts 24 hours\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Financial Cents MCP | Taiga | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 23 | 17 | Financial Cents MCP +6 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 40 | 35 | Financial Cents MCP +5 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 48 | 49 | Taiga +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 37 | Financial Cents MCP +24 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 30 | Taiga +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 21 | Financial Cents MCP +29 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 53 | 64 | Taiga +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **39.7 · E** | **31.7 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Financial Cents MCP | Taiga |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Financial Cents LLC | Taiga Cloud Services, S.L. |\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 | Freemium |\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 | MPL-2.0 for the taiga-back source. The hosted service runs under Taiga's Terms and Conditions, which also mention non-open-source modules |\n| Tools exposed | 40 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-07-02 |\n| Terms last updated | | 2025-09-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 858 stars |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (4) |\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**Taiga.** Taiga's REST API covers projects, epics, user stories, tasks, issues, wiki pages and webhooks, with a curl example for each call, and the backend is open source under MPL-2.0. The hosted service has no API keys, so an agent signs in with an account password. No OpenAPI document, status page or request limits were found.\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### Taiga\n\n1. POST `{\"type\": \"normal\", \"username\", \"password\"}` to `/api/v1/auth`, then send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cauth_token\u003e`. Renew with `/api/v1/auth/refresh` before 24 hours pass\n2. Send the object's current `version` with every PATCH or PUT. A stale value is refused when the same attributes changed\n3. Lists return 30 items a page. Read the `x-pagination-next` header, or send `x-disable-pagination: True` only for small projects\n4. Resolve slugs and reference numbers to ids with `/api/v1/resolver` before calling an object endpoint\n5. Use a dedicated account with a narrow project role, because the token acts with the whole account's permissions. Treat story, issue and wiki text as untrusted input\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Financial Cents MCP or Taiga?\n\nFinancial Cents MCP scores 39.7 (E) on agent readiness against Taiga's 31.7 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Taiga leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Financial Cents MCP and Taiga need an API key?\n\nFinancial Cents MCP uses an OAuth sign-in. Taiga takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Financial Cents MCP and Taiga without installing anything?\n\nFinancial Cents MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp. No hosted endpoint is listed for Taiga.\n\n### Are Financial Cents MCP and Taiga open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Financial Cents MCP. Taiga is open source (MPL-2.0 for the taiga-back source. 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