# Keycard vs Vercel Connect (slim)

> Vercel Connect scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against Keycard's 56.2 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do auth oauth. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Vercel Connect scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against Keycard's 56.2 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do auth oauth.

- Keycard: C 56.2, rank #572 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/keycard.min.md
- Vercel Connect: B 68.8, rank #195 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-connect.min.md
- Keycard, good for A security-minded team building agents that need their own identities, policy on every delegation and an audit trail per hop, and that is comfortable on an Early Access product. Also No incidents deducted, where Vercel Connect loses 3 points for them.
- Vercel Connect, good for Teams already deploying on Vercel whose agents need user or app tokens for Slack, GitHub, Microsoft, Linear, Snowflake or an MCP server without storing provider secrets. Ahead on Reliability, 63 against 35; Schema & documentation, 84 against 61; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 60; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Transparency & trust, 77 against 44.

| Category | Keycard | Vercel Connect |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 63 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 61 | 84 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 60 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 86 | 83 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 44 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Keycard | Vercel Connect |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Keycard Labs | Vercel Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.keycard.ai` | `https://api.vercel.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Licence | MIT (SDKs), Apache-2.0 (keycard-python API client), platform closed, BYOC or on-prem on Enterprise | Proprietary service under Vercel's Terms of Service and the Vercel Connect product terms. The `@vercel/connect` SDK and the Vercel CLI are Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-09-22 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-06-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-06-01 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 1 stars, 52 npm/wk | 16k stars, 738k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |