# 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by…

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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.

- 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
- WordPress: grade B, 64.8/100, rank #310 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wordpress.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/wordpress.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 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`

### WordPress (B)

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 | Hygraph | WordPress | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 89 | 78 | Hygraph +11 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 65 | Hygraph +13 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 74 | WordPress +2 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 62 | Hygraph +1 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 60 | WordPress +25 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 83 | WordPress +9 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 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

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

### WordPress

1. 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
2. Send the Application Password as Basic auth over HTTPS only. Core disables Application Passwords on plain HTTP outside a local environment
3. Upload a file with POST `/wp-json/wp/v2/media` first, then set `featured_media` or reference the returned URL in the post content
4. To roll back, GET `/wp/v2/posts/<id>/revisions/<rev>?context=edit` and POST its title and content to the post. There's no restore route
5. Pass `_fields=id,status,link,modified` on lists and read X-WP-TotalPages. `per_page` stops 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).


## For agents

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