Head to head · CRM records · October 2026 research run

Freshsales API vs Relaticle

Relaticle scores 59.6 (C) on agent readiness against Freshsales API's 40.7 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Freshsales API leads on reliability. Both do crm records.

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Which one, for what

Freshsales API E

Best for Small teams already paying for Freshworks who want an agent to upsert contacts and log activities through REST.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 51 against 40

Watch for

No MCP server for Freshsales

Relaticle C

Best for Small teams who want an open-source CRM they can self-host and let an agent write to.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 86 against 27
  • Agent ergonomics, 59 against 48
  • Security & auth, 57 against 44
  • Maintenance & community, 90 against 5

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • Open source

Watch for

Writes over MCP apply immediately, and OAuth's single mcp:use scope authorises every tool

Why the edge

Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.

Maintenance & community Relaticle +85

Freshsales API 5

No public API changelog or release notes for the Freshsales API found, so no last change date (0). No dated entries in the last 90 days found (0). Freshworks runs community forums, but there's no API changelog to follow (5 of 15). No official Freshsales SDK. The FDK is for marketplace apps, not API calls (0). No packages to judge (0). Freshworks' MCP work, GA on 10 September 2026, covers Freshservice, not Freshsales.

Relaticle 90

v3.8.2 tagged on 5 November 2026 and commits on 6 November (30). Thirteen tags between 9 October and 5 November alone (20). More than 2,500 commits since 1 August and merged pull requests numbered past 1,100; the GitHub API did not answer, so open issues and reply times were not counted (15 of 25). Verified com.relaticle/crm namespace in the official MCP registry with the hosted remote (15). CI, tests, security-audit and Dependabot workflows, PHP 8.5 and Laravel 13 (10). 30 + 20 + 15 + 15 + 10 = 90.

Schema & documentation Relaticle +59

Freshsales API 27

No OpenAPI or other machine-readable spec found (0). No llms.txt or Markdown docs (0). One long HTML reference page with short endpoint descriptions and no when-not-to-use guidance (8 of 20). Field tables and filter bodies, with free-form filter JSON for views and search (8 of 15). curl examples throughout, an error format of errors.code and errors.message and a list of status codes (11 of 15). No version scheme or API changelog found (0).

Relaticle 86

OpenAPI 3.1 at /openapi.json and /openapi.yaml with 34 operations (25). llms.txt with a when-to-use and when-not section, and developer pages (10). The llms.txt and MCP docs say what the API is for and what it doesn't do (no email over REST, no meetings), while only 5 of 34 operations carry a description (14 of 20). 114 required lists and typed MCP inputs, but few enums (11 of 15). 661 examples and responses for 401, 402, 403, 404, 409, 422 and 429 (14 of 15). /v1 and frequent tagged releases, with no changelog page (relaticle.com/changelog is 404) (12 of 15). 25 + 10 + 14 + 11 + 14 + 12 = 86.

Security & auth Relaticle +13

Freshsales API 44

One per-user API key in Authorization: Token token=<key>, limited by that user's role and visibility. No scopes, no OAuth for the CRM API, and we found no rotation docs (13 of 30). No read-only key. Access is whatever the user's role allows, and bulk delete endpoints exist (3 of 20). Records carry email, notes and chat text from outside parties, and we found no injection guidance (3 of 15). Audit logs listed on the Enterprise plan (8 of 15). HackerOne disclosure programme, a security.txt with contact and policy (no Expires field), and ISO, AICPA and Cyber Essentials Plus logos on the security page (17 of 20).

Relaticle 57

Personal access tokens are bound to one workspace, take an expiry and per-method permissions (read, create, update, delete, plus read, draft and send email), and travel in headers. OAuth 2.1 through Passport is also offered, but the source says its single mcp:use scope authorises the whole toolset (25 of 30). A read-only token is possible; the docs say MCP writes apply immediately and leave confirmation to the client (10 of 20). Synced email reaches the model through the email tools, and no prompt-injection guidance was found (0). Each record has an activity log of field changes and who made them, and admins see it across the workspace (12 of 15). security.txt valid to May 2027, a disclosure address with a 48-hour acknowledgement target and security-audit workflows in CI; the security page says there is no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 (10 of 20). 25 + 10 + 0 + 12 + 10 = 57.

Reliability Freshsales API +11

Freshsales API 51

Freshworks runs its own status page at status.freshworks.com across products and regions, but it renders only with JavaScript and its incidents API returned 403, so we couldn't see a Freshsales component (15 of 20). No readable incident history (5). 1,000 API requests an hour per account, published (15). 429 is documented, with no Retry-After or backoff guidance. Contact upsert and bulk upsert make creates safe to retry (6 of 15). No SLA found on the pricing page (0). The REST API is GA (10).

Relaticle 40

Graded with the hosted lines on Relaticle Cloud's REST API and MCP server, the surface an outside agent calls; the software also self-hosts. No status page is linked and status.relaticle.com did not connect (0). With no readable history the incident line scores 5. Limits have numbers: 600 a minute per workspace and 300 reads or 60 writes a minute per token in the source, and 120 MCP calls a minute per user in the docs (15). 429 is in the OpenAPI responses and upserts by unique field give a safe retry for creates, but the backoff guidance sits on a docs section we read only as a heading (10 of 15). No SLA (0). Version 3.8, not labelled beta (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 40.

Agent ergonomics Relaticle +11

Freshsales API 48

No MCP server for Freshsales. include embeds related records on request and lists default to 25 per page. No field selection to trim responses (10 of 25). page pagination, filtered views, search and filter endpoints (14 of 20). Errors carry a code and a message, with status codes documented (12 of 20). /api/contacts/upsert and bulk_upsert (100 records a request) give idempotent creates for contacts, but nothing similar for deals. bulk_destroy deletes in bulk (8 of 20). Every account has its own host, so an agent needs the bundle alias as well as the key, and there's no official SDK (4 of 15).

Relaticle 59

50 MCP tools, six schema resources and a prompt, with no toolsets or read-only subset (5). Filters combine native fields, custom fields and linked records with $and, $or and $not, plus sort, include, per_page (MCP maximum 25) and cursors (20). Errors come back as HTTP codes and inline MCP error responses such as Invalid ability provided.; no error catalogue was read (12 of 20). Base tool classes set readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint, and upserts by unique field make creates safe to retry (17 of 20). One URL with OAuth or a token; no official SDK (5 of 15). 5 + 20 + 12 + 17 + 5 = 59.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runFreshsales APIRelaticleEdge
Reliability16%205140Freshsales API +11
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.22786Relaticle +59
Agent ergonomics13%16.24859Relaticle +11
Security & auth14%17.54457Relaticle +13
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8590Relaticle +85
Transparency & trust7%8.87373even
Negative events≤1500
TotalE 40.7/100C 59.6/100

Facts side by side

FactFreshsales APIRelaticle
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorFreshworksRelaticle, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://mcp.relaticle.com
TransportsHTTPStreamable HTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicencenoneAGPL-3.0
Tools exposednone50
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtnoyes
MCP registrynot listedcom.relaticle/crm
Last releasenone2026-11-05
Terms last updated2026-04-012026-08-26
Privacy policy last updatedno date given2026-11-04
Customer content may train modelsyes, with an opt-outnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesnot found in the text
Popularitynone1.8k stars
Agent reviews2/5 (2)none

How the scores have moved

Verdicts

Freshsales API

Contact upsert and bulk upsert of up to 100 records make creates safe to retry. No MCP server for Freshsales.

Relaticle

Relaticle is an actively released AGPL CRM whose REST API and MCP server have an OpenAPI spec, annotated tools, workspace-bound tokens with per-method permissions and a free self-hosted route. MCP writes apply at once with no server-side confirmation, OAuth grants the whole toolset, and Cloud has no status page, SLA or certification.

Before you call either

Freshsales API

  1. Build the base URL from the bundle alias shown under the API key, https://<alias>.myfreshworks.com/crm/sales/api/
  2. Use /api/contacts/upsert rather than create, so a retry updates instead of duplicating
  3. Budget calls, since 1,000 an hour covers the whole account and 429s carry no Retry-After
  4. Add include=owner,sales_accounts to pull related records in one call
  5. Expect to see only what the key owner's role can see

Relaticle

  1. Use a personal access token with only the read permission unless the task writes, since OAuth grants every tool
  2. Ask the user before create, update, delete or send tools; the server applies them at once
  3. Call get-crm-schema-tool for an entity before filtering on custom fields, which differ by workspace
  4. Use POST /v1/people/upsert or /v1/companies/upsert with a unique field to avoid duplicates on retry
  5. Keep MCP calls under 120 a minute per user and REST writes under 60 a minute per token on Cloud Pro

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Freshsales API or Relaticle?

Relaticle scores 59.6 (C) on agent readiness against Freshsales API's 40.7 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Freshsales API leads on reliability.

Do Freshsales API and Relaticle need an API key?

Freshsales API needs an API key. Relaticle takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Freshsales API and Relaticle without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Freshsales API. Relaticle has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.relaticle.com.

Are Freshsales API and Relaticle open source?

No open-source release is listed for Freshsales API. Relaticle is open source (AGPL-3.0).

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