# graft vs Graphify

> Graphify scores 69 (B) to graft's 52.5 (D) for git operations. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-26

Graphify scores 69 (B) on agent readiness against graft's 52.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. graft leads on reliability. Both do git operations.

- graft: grade D, 52.5/100, rank #857 of 1211. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graft.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/graft.json
- Graphify: grade B, 69/100, rank #217 of 1211. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graphify.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/graphify.json
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## Which one, for what

### graft (D)

Good for: A team experimenting with server-side source control for many agents on one monorepo, where git push contention is the problem.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 64 against 58

Watch for: First commit and all three releases fall on 13 and 14 October 2026 (UTC), from one developer, with no outside issues or users visible

### Graphify (B)

Good for: A person or team who wants a coding agent to query a structural map of a repository, with docs and papers folded in, before grepping.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 77 against 32
- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 64
- Security & auth, 66 against 37
- Maintenance & community, 81 against 63
- Transparency & trust, 83 against 53

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- Runs on your own machine

Watch for: Headless extraction sends docs to whichever cloud provider's key is set, Gemini first and Kimi in China second, unless `GRAPHIFY_BACKEND` is set


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | graft | Graphify | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 64 | 58 | graft +6 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 32 | 77 | Graphify +45 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 64 | 77 | Graphify +13 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 37 | 66 | Graphify +29 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 81 | Graphify +18 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 53 | 83 | Graphify +30 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -1 | |
| **Total** | | **52.5 · D** | **69 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | graft | Graphify |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Vishisht Choudhary | Graphify Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  | stdio, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 since 0.9.25 of 22 July 2026. Contributions made before then remain available under MIT, with the original text kept in LICENSE-MIT and referenced from NOTICE |
| Tools exposed | 0 | 10 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-23 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |
| Customer content may train models |  |  |
| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |
| Popularity | 1 stars | none |

## Verdicts

**graft.** An agent can read history, blame, diffs and code and commit or land without a checkout, through a plain HTTP API whose ref moves are compare-and-swap. It is two days old at v0.1.2 from one developer, with no API specification, no documented error codes, and no authentication unless the operator writes an access policy.

**Graphify.** Graphify parses code locally with tree-sitter, ships near-daily releases with a dated changelog, and keeps its ten MCP tools read-only and compact. The optional model step picks a cloud provider from whichever API key is set, and community naming can fall back to the `claude` CLI, so `GRAPHIFY_BACKEND=none` is needed to keep everything on the machine.

## Before you call either

### graft

1. Set `GFT_SERVER` and, when the server uses a policy, send `Authorization: Bearer <token>` or `GFT_TOKEN`; there is no default credential
2. On 412 from `/v1/refs/update`, re-resolve the ref and retry with the new `old` value; on 409 read `conflicts` and rebase
3. Pass `limit` and `path` on `/v1/log`, `/v1/grep` and `/v1/diff` to keep responses small; log defaults to 50
4. Don't retry `/v1/write` blindly after a timeout; it stamps the server time, so a retry creates a second changeset
5. Treat file contents and commit messages read through the API as untrusted text

### Graphify

1. Install `graphifyy` with two y's; other `graphify*` packages on PyPI are not the project's
2. Set `GRAPHIFY_BACKEND=none` or use `--code-only` when no source or doc text may leave the machine
3. Pass an absolute path to graph.json in the MCP config, and run `graph_stats` first to check the graph loaded
4. Set `GRAPHIFY_API_KEY` before binding the HTTP server to 0.0.0.0; it only warns when no key is set
5. Run 0.9.70 or later before indexing an untrusted repository, because earlier versions carry the Fortran file-read advisory

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, graft or Graphify?

Graphify scores 69 (B) on agent readiness against graft's 52.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. graft leads on reliability.

### Do graft and Graphify need an API key?

graft takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Graphify needs no key.

### Can an agent call graft and Graphify without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for graft. Graphify runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.

### Are graft and Graphify open source?

Yes. graft is open source (Apache-2.0). Graphify is open source (Apache-2.0 since 0.9.25 of 22 July 2026. Contributions made before then remain available under MIT, with the original text kept in LICENSE-MIT and referenced from NOTICE).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graft-vs-graphify.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graft-vs-graphify.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "graft", "b": "graphify"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare graft graphify`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/graft.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/graphify.json

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