# Honcho vs Tokenrip (slim)

> Honcho scores 64.1 (B) to Tokenrip's 59.6 (C) for agent memory. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Honcho scores 64.1 (B) on agent readiness against Tokenrip's 59.6 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Tokenrip leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do agent memory. Honcho accepts x402. Tokenrip doesn't.

- Honcho: B 64.1, rank #414 of 1197 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honcho.min.md
- Tokenrip: C 59.6, rank #608 of 1197 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tokenrip.min.md
- Honcho, good for Products that model the people in a conversation and want to ask questions about them, and for agents that must pay their own way. Ahead on Reliability, 50 against 27; Payments & pricing, 80 against 50; Transparency & trust, 67 against 56. Also An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; Open source.
- Tokenrip, good for Small teams, or one person with several agents in different tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Grok), who want one place for shared files, tasks, decisions and handoffs with a person approving outside actions. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 70 against 65; Security & auth, 69 against 48. Also Free to start without a card; Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.8 against 3.0 out of 5.

| Category | Honcho | Tokenrip |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 27 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 48 | 69 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 80 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 73 | 70 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 67 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Honcho | Tokenrip |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Plastic Labs | Quintel, LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.honcho.dev/v3` | `https://api.tokenrip.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | Streamable HTTP, HTTP |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | yes, from $0.001/call | no |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | Proprietary hosted service under Tokenrip's terms of service (Quintel, LLC, Texas law). The `rip` CLI and library `@tokenrip/cli` is MIT-licensed on GitHub |
| Tools exposed | none | 99 |
| MCP registry | `io.github.plastic-labs/honcho` | `io.github.silostack/tokenrip` |
| Last release | 2026-09-24 | 2026-10-21 |
| Terms last updated | no date given |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-04-24 |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| 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 | yes |  |
| Popularity | 7.4k stars, 18k npm/wk | 5 stars, 401 npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3.8/5 (4) |