# Grafana MCP Server vs incident.io API (slim)

> Grafana scores 74.5 (BB) to incident.io's 68.9 (B) for incidents. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Grafana MCP Server scores 74.5 (BB) on agent readiness against incident.io API's 68.9 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. incident.io API leads on schema & documentation. Both do incidents.

- Grafana MCP Server: BB 74.5, rank #70 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grafana-mcp-server.min.md
- incident.io API: B 68.9, rank #204 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/incident-io.min.md
- Grafana MCP Server, good for Teams on Grafana, self-managed or Cloud, that want an agent to read dashboards and query Prometheus, Loki, Tempo and Pyroscope, and to work with alert rules, incidents and OnCall. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 60 against 10; Maintenance & community, 95 against 83. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- incident.io API, good for Agents that declare and update incidents, page people, read on-call schedules and post status page incidents in an organisation that already pays for incident.io. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 88 against 81. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Grafana MCP Server | incident.io API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 91 | 90 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 64 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 95 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 76 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Grafana MCP Server | incident.io API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Grafana Labs | Pineapple Technology Ltd. (incident.io) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.incident.io/mcp` |
| Transports | stdio, SSE (legacy), Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| Price for incidents | free | $19 per seat per month |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under incident.io's Terms and Conditions. The SDKs, the `inc` CLI and the skills plugin on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 119 | none |
| MCP registry | `io.github.grafana/mcp-grafana` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-08-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-10 | 2024-02-15 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 3.5k stars, 152k PyPI/wk | 1.3k npm/wk |