# Kite Agent Passport vs Openfort

> Openfort scores 70.1 (BB) to Kite Agent Passport's 51.5 (D) for onchain wallets. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-10

Openfort scores 70.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Kite Agent Passport's 51.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Kite Agent Passport leads on security & auth. Both do onchain wallets.

- Kite Agent Passport: grade D, 51.5/100, rank #755 of 961. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kite-agent-passport.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kite-agent-passport.json
- Openfort: grade BB, 70.1/100, rank #163 of 961. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openfort.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openfort.json
- Best agent wallets and spending controls: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-wallets/index.md
- All 30 wallets comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-wallets/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Kite Agent Passport (D)

Good for: Coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex that need to pay x402 or MPP services within budgets a person approves by passkey.

Ahead on:
- Security & auth, 72 against 65

Watch for: A person signs up by email, clicks a verification link and creates a passkey in a browser before any agent can spend

### Openfort (BB)

Good for: A team that wants server-held wallets for agents on EVM chains and Solana with enclave signing, a free start and a CLI an agent can drive.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 88 against 35
- Schema & documentation, 89 against 64
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 35
- Maintenance & community, 87 against 71
- Transparency & trust, 69 against 56

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Runs on your own machine

Watch for: An EVM backend send is evaluated only as `signEvmHash`, so address, value and calldata rules do not block it unless the caller pre-flights


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Kite Agent Passport | Openfort | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 88 | Openfort +53 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 64 | 89 | Openfort +25 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 65 | Kite Agent Passport +3 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 72 | 65 | Kite Agent Passport +7 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 60 | Openfort +25 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 87 | Openfort +16 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 69 | Openfort +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | -5 | |
| **Total** | | **51.5 · D** | **70.1 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Kite Agent Passport | Openfort |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Kite AI | Openfort (Alamas Labs Inc.) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.openfort.io` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | payer tooling only | payer tooling only |
| Licence | Closed service under terms from Datalego Inc. dated 29 April 2026. The Passport Skills repository is MIT. The kpass CLI is distributed as binaries and its source repository is private. | Proprietary service under the Openfort Developer Terms of Service. The Node SDK and OpenSigner are MIT. The CLI repository and package state no licence |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-28 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-01-16 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-09-04 |
| 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 |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | none | 10 stars, 7.6k npm/wk |

## Verdicts

**Kite Agent Passport.** Spending sessions with per-transaction and total caps, a lifetime and passkey approval are enforced by the service, with step-up checks and an audit log. A person must sign up by email and create a passkey before an agent can pay. No published fee rate, OpenAPI file or Passport status page was found.

**Openfort.** Backend wallets sign inside a GCP Confidential Space enclave, secret keys carry 26 scopes, and rate limits, errors and prices are published. On EVM, a backend send reaches the policy engine only as a hash, so address and value rules bind only when the caller runs the pre-flight check first.

## Before you call either

### Kite Agent Passport

1. Run `kpass` with `--output json --no-interactive` and branch on the exit code and `error_code`. Exit 6 is a session policy breach, so request a new session rather than logging in again
2. Pass `--idempotency-key` on every `kpass session execute` so a retry after a timeout does not pay twice
3. Ask the person for a session with a small per-transaction cap and a short `--ttl`, and confirm the merchant URL before executing
4. Use `kpass sandbox` test mode and the faucet to try a payment flow without real funds. Scoped cards are not available in sandbox
5. Check the kite-passport skill's trigger rules before installing it, since it directs the agent to paid services ahead of free tools

### Openfort

1. Call `policies.evaluate` with operation `signEvmTransaction` before every EVM backend send. The send itself is checked only as `signEvmHash`
2. Keep the signing policy and the gas sponsorship policy separate. Linking a signing policy to a fee sponsorship stops it working as a guardrail
3. Pass a fee sponsorship on EVM sends. Without one the transaction stays pending with no error
4. Give an agent a secret key without `accounts:export`, and limit the CLI MCP server to the tools it needs
5. On a 5xx after a write, read the resource before retrying. On a 429, wait the full `Retry-After`

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Kite Agent Passport or Openfort?

Openfort scores 70.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Kite Agent Passport's 51.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Kite Agent Passport leads on security & auth.

### Can an agent call Kite Agent Passport and Openfort without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Kite Agent Passport. Openfort has a hosted endpoint at https://api.openfort.io.


## For agents

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

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