# GrowthBook vs Pendo (slim)

> GrowthBook scores 70.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Pendo's 48.2 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do analytics query. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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GrowthBook scores 70.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Pendo's 48.2 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do analytics query.

- GrowthBook: BB 70.1, rank #142 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/growthbook.min.md
- Pendo: D 48.2, rank #625 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pendo.min.md
- GrowthBook, good for Teams that want flags and experiments analysed against their own warehouse, with an open-source core and a self-hosted option. Ahead on Reliability, 86 against 45; Schema & documentation, 76 against 59; Agent ergonomics, 76 against 41; Security & auth, 68 against 58; Payments & pricing, 40 against 5; Maintenance & community, 89 against 70; Transparency & trust, 74 against 69. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card; Open source.
- Pendo, good for Teams already paying for Pendo who want an agent to answer questions on usage, funnels, retention, guides and feedback, or to draft segments and journeys. Also No incidents deducted, where GrowthBook loses 3 points for them.

| Category | GrowthBook | Pendo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 86 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 59 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 76 | 41 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 5 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 89 | 70 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 69 |

| Fact (where they differ) | GrowthBook | Pendo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | GrowthBook, Inc. | Pendo.io, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.growthbook.io/mcp` | `https://app.pendo.io/mcp/v0/shttp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | MIT for the core and for the MCP server. Three enterprise directories in the main repository are under GrowthBook's enterprise licence. GrowthBook Cloud is a hosted service under the Customer Agreement | Proprietary service under the Pendo Software Services Agreement. The Claude Code plugin repository on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 4 | 93 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `io.github.growthbook/growthbook-mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-06-19 | 2022-08-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-08 | 2024-11-04 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 8.5k stars, 1.3M npm/wk, 433k PyPI/wk | 1 stars |