# Finch vs PayFit (slim)

> Finch scores 71.6 (BB) to PayFit's 55.5 (C) for payroll records. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Finch scores 71.6 (BB) on agent readiness against PayFit's 55.5 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do payroll records.

- Finch: BB 71.6, rank #121 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/finch.min.md
- PayFit: C 55.5, rank #656 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/payfit.min.md
- Finch, good for An application that needs to read employees, pay runs and pay statements from whatever payroll or HR system an employer already uses, or to write benefit deductions back. Ahead on Reliability, 84 against 79; Schema & documentation, 87 against 78; Agent ergonomics, 71 against 51; Security & auth, 66 against 51; Payments & pricing, 30 against 10; Maintenance & community, 84 against 28. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine.
- PayFit, good for An agent working for an employer that already runs payroll on PayFit in France, the UK or Spain and needs employees, contracts, payslips, absences or the payroll journal.

| Category | Finch | PayFit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 84 | 79 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 51 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 66 | 51 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 84 | 28 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Finch | PayFit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Profound Platform Inc. (dba Finch) | PayFit SAS |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.tryfinch.com` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Finch's Master Service Agreement. The SDKs and the MCP server on GitHub are Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under PayFit's general terms of service |
| Tools exposed | 2 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-07-23 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-07 | 2026-06-15 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-06-15 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 16k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk | none |