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The current OpenAPI spec names it `Splunk-AO-API-Key` and older Galileo docs `Galileo-API-Key`. The API also issues a JWT from `/login/api_key` that expires after 24 hours and accepts HTTP Basic with a username and password. The MCP server takes the same API key header. New SaaS accounts on Splunk Observability Cloud use `https://app.{realm}.observability.splunkcloud.com/ao/api/` and Splunk's own authentication. Self-hosted deployments use their own api.* host.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 5,000 traces a month, unlimited users and unlimited custom evals. Pro $100 a month billed yearly with 50,000 traces, then priced by trace volume with no published rate. Enterprise is custom with unlimited traces, custom rate limits and hosted, VPC or on-prem deployment. The pricing page doesn't mention Splunk, but the docs say customers onboarded after 2026-08-07 should use the Splunk docs (https://galileo.ai/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$100 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 support in docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 1431, "pypiWeekly": 6160, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.galileo.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.galileo.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.galileo.ai/public/v2/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "obs.traces", "obs.evals", "obs.prompts", "obs.datasets" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "closed-source", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 47.7, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 630, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 74, "payments": 20, "reliability": 18, "schema": 79, "security": 33, "transparency": 53 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 184 paths and 244 operations. No status page, no published rate limits and no SLA.", "bestFor": "Existing Galileo customers and teams already on Splunk Observability Cloud who want eval metrics and guardrails next to their infrastructure monitoring.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 184 paths and 244 operations", "Error catalogue of 111 entries with HTTP status, fix and a retriable flag", "Free plan with 5,000 traces a month and unlimited users", "TypeScript SDK released three times in September 2026, most recently 2.3.2 on 1 October", "Enterprise deployment in your VPC or on-prem" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, no published rate limits and no SLA", "Split between Galileo and Splunk since 7 August 2026, with two doc sites, two API hosts and no timeline for the old ones", "MCP server in preview with 8 tools, only `Get Signals` reads production data", "No security page, trust portal, security.txt or certification claim found, and the privacy policy dates from November 2024", "Python SDK quiet since 30 July and its CHANGELOG.md stuck at v0.10.0" ], "agentNotes": [ "Check which side the account lives on first. Pre-August Galileo accounts use api.galileo.ai, Splunk SaaS accounts use app.{realm}.observability.splunkcloud.com/ao/api/", "Send the key as `Splunk-AO-API-Key`. The current spec no longer lists `Galileo-API-Key`", "Page list endpoints with `limit` and `starting_token`", "Use the error catalogue's retriable flag to decide whether to retry. 429s carry no documented `Retry-After`", "Use the REST API to read traces. The MCP server mostly creates datasets and prompts" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 47.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 74, "payments": 20, "reliability": 18, "schema": 79, "security": 33, "transparency": 36 }, "provenanceScore": 70 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.galileo.ai/v2/current_user -H \"Galileo-API-Key: $GALILEO_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http --header \"Galileo-API-Key: $GALILEO_API_KEY\" galileo https://api.galileo.ai/mcp/http/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "galileo": { "headers": { "Accept": "text/event-stream", "Galileo-API-Key": "${GALILEO_API_KEY}" }, "type": "http", "url": "https://api.galileo.ai/mcp/http/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/obs.traces", "tool": "https://letme.dev/galileo" }, "alsoIn": [ "guardrails" ], "area": "developer", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 100, "note": "billed yearly, 50,000 traces a month" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Galileo Technologies, Inc.", "domain": "galileo.ai", "domainRegistered": "2020-05-05", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://galileo.ai/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://galileo.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.galileo.ai/release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "Now owned by Cisco and sold as Splunk Agent Observability; the terms still name Galileo Technologies, Inc." ], "score": 70 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/galileo.json", "live": { "slug": "galileo", "probe": { "target": "https://api.galileo.ai/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:22.757901656Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 163, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 99.63, "p50ms24h": 176, "p95ms24h": 3661, "samples24h": 270, "samples30d": 2164, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 270 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 269 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 246, "ok": 246 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "rungalileo/galileo-python", "version": "v2.6.0", "released": "2026-07-30", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:12:32.696390152Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "galileo", "version": "2.3.2", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:12:29.885592902Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "galileo", "version": "2.6.0", "released": "2026-07-30", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:12:29.69084129Z" } ], "githubStars": 22, "npmWeekly": 1810, "pypiWeekly": 10795, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://galileo.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:53.13373625Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.galileo.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:27.119491228Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "galileo.ai", "registered": "2020-05-05", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/galileo.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:06:13.135112782Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.galileo.ai/release-notes", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:46.154876239Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0771d4784c19" }, { "url": "https://galileo.ai/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:33.767051104Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:06:20.342963869Z", "fingerprint": "bf2bb1ef2d5a" }, { "url": "https://galileo.ai/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:36.732980863Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0a4347a8061e" }, { "url": "https://galileo.ai/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:37.941115969Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "fe70a53f84a7" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:22.757901656Z" } }, "answer": "Prefactor scores 65.6 (B) on agent readiness against Galileo API + MCP's 47.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Galileo API + MCP leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "prefactor", "name": "Prefactor", "vendor": "Prefactor Pty Ltd", "vendorUrl": "https://prefactor.tech", "kind": "http-api", "category": "agent-observability", "summary": "Prefactor is a hosted service that records AI agent runs as spans, classifies each run's data risk and stores quality evaluations. Agents and scripts reach it through an HTTP and WebSocket API, TypeScript and Python SDKs and a CLI.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prefactor", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prefactor.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prefactor.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/prefactor.json", "repo": "https://github.com/prefactordev/typescript-sdk", "license": "Proprietary hosted service. The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the CLI are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.prefactorai.com/api/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@prefactor/core" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@prefactor/cli" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "prefactor-core" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve. A person signs in at app.prefactorai.com and creates an API token, sent as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e`. Account tokens reach every agent in the account. Deployment tokens are bound to one agent in one environment. The OpenAPI document adds a `role` of `read_only` or `full_access` (the default) and an `expires_at` that defaults to two years. Tokens can be suspended, reactivated and revoked. `POST /api_token` mints tokens with an existing token.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free Dev plan with 5,000 spans a month, up to 3 agents and 7-day retention, no card required, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. Startup is $49 a month ($499 a year) with 15,000 spans, then $0.0025 a span. Scaleup is $199 a month ($2,000 a year) with 100,000 spans, then $2.50 per 1,000 spans monthly or $2.00 on the annual plan. Enterprise, from 4 million spans a month, is by quote. A span is one LLM call, tool call, message turn or custom step. Seats are unlimited on every plan (https://prefactor.tech/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$49 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 3, "npmWeekly": 19, "pypiWeekly": 28, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.prefactor.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.prefactor.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://app.prefactorai.com/api/v1/openapi", "capabilities": [ "obs.traces", "obs.evals" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "llms-txt", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "closed-source", "enterprise", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-13", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 65.6, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 253, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 88, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 40, "reliability": 78, "schema": 80, "security": 56, "transparency": 42 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-08. The pricing page lists 'Hold, approve or block in real time' and PII detection on every plan, and the security page lists manual approval workflows and fine-grained RBAC. The vendor's own docs say crossing a risk threshold does not block or terminate a run, that Prefactor does not detect sensitive data, and that accounts have no role-based permissions. The OpenAPI and OpenRPC documents have no approval operation. Counted as a misleading claim (-3). The docs may lag the product, since the API has hosted judge operations they do not describe (https://prefactor.tech/pricing, https://prefactor.tech/security, https://docs.prefactor.ai/llms-full.txt)." ], "verdict": "The public OpenAPI document lists 157 operations, each accepting an idempotency key, and tokens can be read-only or bound to one agent deployment. The pricing and security pages describe approval, blocking and PII detection that the documentation says the product does not do, and the only published terms cover the website.", "bestFor": "A team that wants an auditable record of agent runs with declared data-risk labels, quality payloads from its own evaluations and a remote stop signal.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0 document with 157 operations and an OpenRPC document with 159 WebSocket methods, both fetched without a login", "Every write accepts an `idempotency_key`, and `POST /bulk` can be retried whole because a reused key fails only its own item", "Tokens are scoped to the account or to one agent deployment, carry a `read_only` or `full_access` role and an expiry, and can be suspended or revoked", "A 429 response carries `Retry-After` and `retry_after_ms`, and both SDKs retry with exponential backoff and jitter", "The free Dev plan includes 5,000 spans a month with no card, and the overage price per span is published" ], "weaknesses": [ "The pricing page lists hold, approve or block and PII detection on every plan, while the docs say a risk threshold blocks nothing and that Prefactor does not detect sensitive data", "No approval operation exists in the OpenAPI or OpenRPC documents. The documented control is a cooperative terminate signal the agent's own code must obey", "The published terms of service cover the website. No service agreement, DPA, sub-processor list or SLA text was found", "Rate limits are described by scope with no numbers", "No security.txt and no certification held. The security page says SOC 2 Type II is in progress" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send requests to `https://app.prefactorai.com/api/v1` with `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e`. The API host is not on the `prefactor.tech` or `prefactor.ai` domains", "Ask for a deployment-scoped token, or an account token created with `role` set to `read_only`, since the default role is `full_access` with a two-year expiry", "Pass `redacted: true` on span list and detail queries, because the API returns marked sensitive values unless asked otherwise", "On 429 wait for `retry_after_ms`. Limits use one-minute windows and the SDKs' default retries ignore the server's hint", "Treat terminate as a request. Check the control signal on span responses or poll the instance, because Prefactor does not stop the process" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 65.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 88, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 40, "reliability": 78, "schema": 80, "security": 56, "transparency": 34 }, "provenanceScore": 50 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @prefactor/core", "http": "curl https://app.prefactorai.com/api/v1/agent \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $PREFACTOR_API_TOKEN\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/obs.traces", "tool": "https://letme.dev/prefactor" }, "area": "developer", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Startup plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "15,000 spans included, 3-month retention" }, { "item": "Scaleup plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 199, "note": "100,000 spans included, 12-month retention" }, { "item": "Span beyond the Startup allowance", "unit": "record", "usd": 0.0025 }, { "item": "Span beyond the Scaleup allowance", "unit": "record", "usd": 0.0025, "note": "$2.50 per 1,000 on monthly billing, $2.00 on annual" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Prefactor Pty Ltd", "domain": "prefactor.tech", "domainRegistered": "2024-10-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://prefactor.tech/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.prefactor.ai", "changelog": "https://prefactor.tech/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "prefactor.tech/llms.txt names Prefactor Pty Ltd, founded 2024, headquartered in Australia. The legal documents name the same entity and New South Wales law.", "`terms` is left out. The only published terms (last updated 17 March 2026) govern use of the website at prefactor.tech and are a generated website template. No service agreement, API terms or DPA was found on the site or in its sitemap.", "The privacy policy and terms pages are drawn by script from GetTerms. We read them from the feed the pages load (gettermscdn.com) and could render only the regional sections of the privacy policy, not its main body.", "The API answers at app.prefactorai.com, a third domain of the vendor's registered on 18 December 2025. The site is on prefactor.tech and the docs on docs.prefactor.ai.", "RDAP gives prefactor.tech a registration date of 16 October 2024 and an expiry of 16 October 2026, eight days after this check.", "prefactor.tech, app.prefactorai.com and docs.prefactor.ai each return 404 for /.well-known/security.txt. The security page asks for reports by email and promises an acknowledgement within 24 hours.", "status.prefactor.ai is an UptimeRobot page. We found no link to it on the site or docs pages we read." ], "score": 50 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prefactor.json", "live": { "slug": "prefactor", "probe": { "target": "https://app.prefactorai.com/api/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:31.287886279Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 182, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 343, "p95ms24h": 431, "samples24h": 28, "samples30d": 28, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 28, "ok": 28 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.prefactor.ai", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:39:04.756104641Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:31.287886279Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Galileo (now Splunk Agent Observability, Cisco)", "b": "Prefactor Pty Ltd", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.galileo.ai/v2", "b": "https://app.prefactorai.com/api/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs only, platform closed source)", "b": "Proprietary hosted service. The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the CLI are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "8", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-09-13", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2024-11-01", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "1.4k npm/wk, 6.2k PyPI/wk", "b": "3 stars, 19 npm/wk, 28 PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Prefactor scores 65.6 (B) on agent readiness against Galileo API + MCP's 47.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Galileo API + MCP leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Galileo API + MCP or Prefactor?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Galileo API + MCP and Prefactor need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Galileo API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.galileo.ai/v2 and Prefactor at https://app.prefactorai.com/api/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Galileo API + MCP and Prefactor without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Transparency \u0026 trust, 53 against 42" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Prefactor loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Existing Galileo customers and teams already on Splunk Observability Cloud who want eval metrics and guardrails next to their infrastructure monitoring.", "slug": "galileo", "watchFor": "No status page, no published rate limits and no SLA" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 78 against 18", "Agent ergonomics, 88 against 73", "Security \u0026 auth, 56 against 33", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 74" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "A team that wants an auditable record of agent runs with declared data-risk labels, quality payloads from 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Galileo API + MCP leads on transparency \u0026 trust. Both do obs traces.", "verdicts": { "galileo": "OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 184 paths and 244 operations. No status page, no published rate limits and no SLA.", "prefactor": "The public OpenAPI document lists 157 operations, each accepting an idempotency key, and tokens can be read-only or bound to one agent deployment. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/galileo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/galileo.json\n- Prefactor: grade B, 65.6/100, rank #253 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prefactor.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/prefactor.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Galileo API + MCP (D)\n\nGood for: Existing Galileo customers and teams already on Splunk Observability Cloud who want eval metrics and guardrails next to their infrastructure monitoring.\n\nAhead on:\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 53 against 42\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Prefactor loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No status page, no published rate limits and no SLA\n\n### Prefactor (B)\n\nGood for: A team that wants an auditable record of agent runs with declared data-risk labels, quality payloads from its own evaluations and a remote stop signal.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 78 against 18\n- Agent ergonomics, 88 against 73\n- Security \u0026 auth, 56 against 33\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 74\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: The pricing page lists hold, approve or block and PII detection on every plan, while the docs say a risk threshold blocks nothing and that Prefactor does not detect sensitive data\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Galileo API + MCP | Prefactor | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 18 | 78 | Prefactor +60 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 80 | Prefactor +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 88 | Prefactor +15 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 33 | 56 | Prefactor +23 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | Prefactor +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 82 | Prefactor +8 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 53 | 42 | Galileo API + MCP +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **47.7 · D** | **65.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Galileo API + MCP | Prefactor |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Galileo (now Splunk Agent Observability, Cisco) | Prefactor Pty Ltd |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.galileo.ai/v2` | `https://app.prefactorai.com/api/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs only, platform closed source) | Proprietary hosted service. The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the CLI are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 8 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-13 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-11-01 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | |\n| Popularity | 1.4k npm/wk, 6.2k PyPI/wk | 3 stars, 19 npm/wk, 28 PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Galileo API + MCP.** OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 184 paths and 244 operations. No status page, no published rate limits and no SLA.\n\n**Prefactor.** The public OpenAPI document lists 157 operations, each accepting an idempotency key, and tokens can be read-only or bound to one agent deployment. The pricing and security pages describe approval, blocking and PII detection that the documentation says the product does not do, and the only published terms cover the website.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Galileo API + MCP\n\n1. Check which side the account lives on first. Pre-August Galileo accounts use api.galileo.ai, Splunk SaaS accounts use app.{realm}.observability.splunkcloud.com/ao/api/\n2. Send the key as `Splunk-AO-API-Key`. The current spec no longer lists `Galileo-API-Key`\n3. Page list endpoints with `limit` and `starting_token`\n4. Use the error catalogue's retriable flag to decide whether to retry. 429s carry no documented `Retry-After`\n5. Use the REST API to read traces. The MCP server mostly creates datasets and prompts\n\n### Prefactor\n\n1. Send requests to `https://app.prefactorai.com/api/v1` with `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e`. The API host is not on the `prefactor.tech` or `prefactor.ai` domains\n2. Ask for a deployment-scoped token, or an account token created with `role` set to `read_only`, since the default role is `full_access` with a two-year expiry\n3. Pass `redacted: true` on span list and detail queries, because the API returns marked sensitive values unless asked otherwise\n4. On 429 wait for `retry_after_ms`. Limits use one-minute windows and the SDKs' default retries ignore the server's hint\n5. Treat terminate as a request. Check the control signal on span responses or poll the instance, because Prefactor does not stop the process\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Galileo API + MCP or Prefactor?\n\nPrefactor scores 65.6 (B) on agent readiness against Galileo API + MCP's 47.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Galileo API + MCP leads on transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Galileo API + MCP and Prefactor need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Galileo API + MCP and Prefactor without installing anything?\n\nYes. Galileo API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.galileo.ai/v2 and Prefactor at https://app.prefactorai.com/api/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/galileo-vs-prefactor.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/galileo-vs-prefactor.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"galileo\", \"b\": \"prefactor\"}`. 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