Head to head · Cms content · October 2026 research run
Hygraph vs WordPress
Hygraph scores 69.3 (B) on agent readiness against WordPress's 64.8 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. WordPress leads on payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do cms content.
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 78
- Schema & documentation, 78 against 65
Also in its favour
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Free to start without a card
- No incidents deducted, where WordPress loses 5 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
Good for Sites that already run WordPress, where an agent drafts posts and uploads media under a Contributor or Author account and a person publishes.
Ahead on
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 35
- Maintenance & community, 83 against 74
- Transparency & trust, 68 against 60
Also in its favour
- Runs on your own machine
- Open source
Watch for
Application Passwords have no scopes or expiry. Each one carries every capability of its user
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Hygraph | WordPress | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 89 | 78 | Hygraph +11 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 78 | 65 | Hygraph +13 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 72 | 74 | WordPress +2 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 63 | 62 | Hygraph +1 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 35 | 60 | WordPress +25 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 74 | 83 | WordPress +9 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 60 | 68 | WordPress +8 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -5 | |
| Total | 69.3 · B | 64.8 · B |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Hygraph | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Hygraph GmbH | WordPress.org (open-source project) |
| Hosted endpoint | https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Hygraph GmbH's Terms of Service. The @hygraph/management-sdk package is MIT | GPL-2.0-or-later. The MCP Adapter plugin is GPL-2.0-or-later too |
| Tools exposed | 17 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no date given |
| 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 | yes | |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |
| Popularity | 52 stars, 8.6k npm/wk | 21k stars |
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.
WordPress
The REST API is part of core, and a post created without a status is saved as a draft with revisions kept on the owner's server. Application Passwords carry no scopes, so limits come only from the user's role. Revisions can be read and deleted but not restored over REST, and a critical flaw was fixed on 22 September 2026.
Before you call either
Hygraph
- Send the Permanent Auth Token as
Authorization: Bearer <token>tohttps://<region>.hygraph.com/v2/<projectId>/<environment>. Read the schema by introspection first, because every type is generated from the project's models - Mutations write to DRAFT. Call
publish<Model>withto: [PUBLISHED]as a separate mutation, and passlocalesto write or publish a localisation - 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
- Upload an asset with
createAsset, then POST the file to the returned pre-signed URL, or passuploadUrlfor a remote file. The asset staysASSET_CREATE_PENDINGuntil processed - Schema changes go to the Management API through
@hygraph/management-sdkor the MCP toolsubmit_batch_migration. Version restore has no documented mutation, so read<model>Versionand write the old values back
WordPress
- Ask the owner for a dedicated user with the lowest role that fits. A Contributor can draft and edit its own posts but can't publish them
- Send the Application Password as Basic auth over HTTPS only. Core disables Application Passwords on plain HTTP outside a local environment
- Upload a file with POST
/wp-json/wp/v2/mediafirst, then setfeatured_mediaor reference the returned URL in the post content - To roll back, GET
/wp/v2/posts/<id>/revisions/<rev>?context=editand POST its title and content to the post. There's no restore route - Pass
_fields=id,status,link,modifiedon lists and read X-WP-TotalPages.per_pagestops at 100
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Hygraph or WordPress?
Hygraph scores 69.3 (B) on agent readiness against WordPress's 64.8 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. WordPress leads on payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.
Do Hygraph and WordPress need an API key?
Hygraph takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. WordPress needs an API key.
Can an agent call Hygraph and WordPress without installing anything?
Hygraph has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp. WordPress runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed.
Are Hygraph and WordPress open source?
No open-source release is listed for Hygraph. WordPress is open source (GPL-2.0-or-later. The MCP Adapter plugin is GPL-2.0-or-later too).
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