# Gumloop vs Node-RED (slim)

> Gumloop and Node-RED score within a point of each other for workflow automation, 61.6 and 61 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Gumloop and Node-RED score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61.6 (C) and 61 (C). Node-RED leads on reliability, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do workflow automation.

- Gumloop: C 61.6, rank #463 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gumloop.min.md
- Node-RED: C 61, rank #486 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/node-red.min.md
- Gumloop, good for A team that wants hosted agents with connectors, approvals and triggers, driven or configured by an outside agent through the API or MCP server. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 83 against 41; Agent ergonomics, 66 against 44. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Node-RED, good for Owners who want event-driven flows on their own machine or device, with a large library of community nodes, and an agent that deploys or edits flows as JSON. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 82; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Transparency & trust, 65 against 57. Also Open source.

| Category | Gumloop | Node-RED |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 82 | 90 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 41 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 66 | 44 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 50 | 51 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 77 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Gumloop | Node-RED |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | AgentHub Inc. | OpenJS Foundation |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.gumloop.com/api/v1` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Gumloop's terms of service. The Python SDK and CLI repository and the npm package are Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | yes |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 188 npm/wk, 2.9k PyPI/wk | 24k stars, 55k npm/wk |