# Hygraph vs Kontent.ai

> Kontent.ai scores 70.5 (BB) to Hygraph's 69.3 (B) for content management. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-09

Kontent.ai scores 70.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Hygraph's 69.3 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Hygraph leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do content management.

- Hygraph: grade B, 69.3/100, rank #191 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hygraph.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hygraph.json
- Kontent.ai: grade BB, 70.5/100, rank #153 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kontent-ai.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kontent-ai.json
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## Which one, for what

### Hygraph (B)

Good for: Teams on Hygraph who want an agent to create, localise and publish entries, upload assets or change schema, with delete and unpublish kept out of reach on MCP.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 89 against 82
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 20

Watch for: GraphQL error bodies carry a message and a `requestId` with no machine-readable code, and only asset transformation 429 responses are documented with `Retry-After`

### Kontent.ai (BB)

Good for: A company already on Kontent.ai, or evaluating it on a trial, that wants an agent to draft, localise, move through workflow and publish structured content with a permission-limited key and an audit trail.

Ahead on:
- Security & auth, 81 against 63
- Maintenance & community, 83 against 74
- Transparency & trust, 75 against 60

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- Runs on your own machine

Watch for: No price is published. The pricing page shows sliders for seats, content types and items and a form that requests a quote


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Hygraph | Kontent.ai | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 89 | 82 | Hygraph +7 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 74 | Hygraph +4 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 71 | Hygraph +1 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 81 | Kontent.ai +18 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 20 | Hygraph +15 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 83 | Kontent.ai +9 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 75 | Kontent.ai +15 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **69.3 · B** | **70.5 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Hygraph | Kontent.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Hygraph GmbH | Kontent CZ s.r.o. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp` | `https://manage.kontent.ai/v2` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Hygraph GmbH's Terms of Service. The `@hygraph/management-sdk` package is MIT | Proprietary service under the Kontent.ai Terms of Service. The management SDKs for JavaScript and .NET and the MCP server on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 17 | 54 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.kontent-ai/mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-09-11 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-06-02 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 52 stars, 8.6k npm/wk | 8.4k npm/wk |

## Verdicts

**Hygraph.** Tokens are limited by model, stage, locale and action, the GraphQL schema is typed and introspectable, and a hosted MCP server rejects delete and unpublish operations. Error bodies carry a message without a machine code, there are no idempotency keys, audit logs are Enterprise only, and no data processing agreement, sub-processor list or security.txt was found.

**Kontent.ai.** Management API keys take per-area permissions, environment limits and an expiry from one minute to two years, and changes made with a key are named in the audit log. Rate limits and Retry-After are documented. No price is published, and no OpenAPI file was found. Access starts with a 30-day trial that a person opens in a browser.

## Before you call either

### Hygraph

1. Send the Permanent Auth Token as `Authorization: Bearer <token>` to `https://<region>.hygraph.com/v2/<projectId>/<environment>`. Read the schema by introspection first, because every type is generated from the project's models
2. Mutations write to DRAFT. Call `publish<Model>` with `to: [PUBLISHED]` as a separate mutation, and pass `locales` to write or publish a localisation
3. Stay under the plan's limit for uncached requests (5 a second on Hobby, 25 on Growth) and its concurrent mutations (5 and 10). Back off exponentially on 429
4. Upload an asset with `createAsset`, then POST the file to the returned pre-signed URL, or pass `uploadUrl` for a remote file. The asset stays `ASSET_CREATE_PENDING` until processed
5. Schema changes go to the Management API through `@hygraph/management-sdk` or the MCP tool `submit_batch_migration`. Version restore has no documented mutation, so read `<model>Version` and write the old values back

### Kontent.ai

1. Send `Authorization: Bearer <key>` to `https://manage.kontent.ai/v2/projects/{environment_id}/...`. The Management API must be switched on under Environment settings, General, Enabled APIs first
2. Ask for a Management API key with only the permissions the task needs. Read content alone gives a read-only key, and keys expire after six months by default
3. Stay under 10 requests a second and 400 a minute per environment, send requests one at a time, and wait the seconds in Retry-After on a 429
4. Page lists by passing the `continuation_token` from the response back in the `x-continuation` header
5. Create items with an `external_id` and write with the upsert PUT at `/items/external-id/{id}` so a retry after a lost response does not create a duplicate
6. With the MCP server, call `get-patch-guide` before any patch tool, and use a client that prompts on destructiveHint

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Hygraph or Kontent.ai?

Kontent.ai scores 70.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Hygraph's 69.3 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Hygraph leads on reliability and payments & pricing.

### Do Hygraph and Kontent.ai need an API key?

Hygraph takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Kontent.ai needs an API key.

### Can an agent call Hygraph and Kontent.ai without installing anything?

Yes. Hygraph has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp and Kontent.ai at https://manage.kontent.ai/v2.


## For agents

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

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