# Hygraph vs Webflow

> Webflow and Hygraph score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 69.4 (B) and 69.3 (B). Hygraph leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do cms content. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Webflow and Hygraph score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 69.4 (B) and 69.3 (B). Hygraph leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do cms content.

- Hygraph: grade B, 69.3/100, rank #182 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hygraph.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hygraph.json
- Webflow: grade B, 69.4/100, rank #179 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/webflow.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/webflow.json

## 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 79
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 30

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card
- No incidents deducted, where Webflow loses 3 points for them

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`

### Webflow (B)

Good for: Teams whose website already runs on Webflow and who want an agent to draft, update and publish CMS items, fix metadata or manage assets.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 87 against 78
- Security & auth, 74 against 63
- Maintenance & community, 80 against 74
- Transparency & trust, 81 against 60

Watch for: The MCP server documents 34 tools (27 data, 3 Designer session, 4 utility), each with several actions, and a granted tool grants all its actions


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Hygraph | Webflow | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 89 | 79 | Hygraph +10 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 87 | Webflow +9 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 72 | even |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 74 | Webflow +11 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 30 | Hygraph +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 80 | Webflow +6 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 81 | Webflow +21 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **69.3 · B** | **69.4 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Hygraph | Webflow |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Hygraph GmbH | Webflow, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp` | `https://api.webflow.com/v2` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Hygraph GmbH's Terms of Service. The `@hygraph/management-sdk` package is MIT | Proprietary service under Webflow's Terms of Service. The OpenAPI spec, the JavaScript and Python SDKs and the open-source MCP server on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 17 | 34 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.webflow/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2023-11-15 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-03-17 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 52 stars, 8.6k npm/wk | 85k npm/wk, 121k PyPI/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.

**Webflow.** The Data API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 140 operations, scoped OAuth and site tokens, and CMS items that stay drafts until a separate publish call. The MCP server loads 34 multi-action tools and can't create new localised CMS items. The free plan holds 50 CMS items, and the activity log needs the $2,500 Team plan.

## 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

### Webflow

1. Send the token as `Authorization: Bearer` to https://api.webflow.com/v2. Ask for `cms:read` and `cms:write` only, plus `sites:write` if the task publishes
2. Create or update items first, then call Publish Items or Publish Site. An item with `isDraft` true and a `lastPublished` date is live with unpublished changes
3. Stay under 60 requests a minute on Starter and Basic and 120 on Premium, read X-RateLimit-Remaining, and wait for Retry-After on 429
4. Page item lists with `limit` (maximum 100) and `offset`, and filter with `filter[<fieldSlug>][<operator>]`, up to 10 terms
5. Upload an asset in two steps (create the asset with a file hash, then POST the bytes to the presigned URL). Write localised content with the item's `cmsLocaleId`

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Hygraph or Webflow?

Webflow and Hygraph score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 69.4 (B) and 69.3 (B). Hygraph leads on reliability and payments & pricing.

### Do Hygraph and Webflow need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Hygraph and Webflow without installing anything?

Yes. Hygraph has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp and Webflow at https://api.webflow.com/v2.


## For agents

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

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