# Hygraph vs Strapi (slim)

> Hygraph scores 69.3 (B) on agent readiness against Strapi's 65.7 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Strapi leads on payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do cms content. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Hygraph scores 69.3 (B) on agent readiness against Strapi's 65.7 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Strapi leads on payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do cms content.

- Hygraph: B 69.3, rank #182 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hygraph.min.md
- Strapi: B 65.7, rank #285 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strapi.min.md
- Hygraph, 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; Agent ergonomics, 72 against 65. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where Strapi loses 6 points for them.
- Strapi, good for Teams that want to own their CMS and let an agent draft, localise and publish entries under a narrow token. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 50 against 35; Maintenance & community, 87 against 74; Transparency & trust, 72 against 60. Also Open source.

| Category | Hygraph | Strapi |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 89 | 82 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 74 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 60 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Hygraph | Strapi |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Hygraph GmbH | Strapi, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Hygraph GmbH's Terms of Service. The `@hygraph/management-sdk` package is MIT | MIT for the Community Edition. Code under ee/ directories is under Strapi's Enterprise Edition licence, and Strapi Cloud is a paid service under its own terms |
| Tools exposed | 17 | none |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-10-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2023-03-01 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 52 stars, 8.6k npm/wk | 73k stars, 259k npm/wk |