# Kite Agent Passport vs Agent Vault by Self (slim)

> Agent Vault by Self scores 52.4 (D) to Kite Agent Passport's 51.4 (D) for wallet spend limits. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Agent Vault by Self scores 52.4 (D) on agent readiness against Kite Agent Passport's 51.4 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Kite Agent Passport leads on payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do wallet spend limits.

- Kite Agent Passport: D 51.4, rank #845 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kite-agent-passport.min.md
- Agent Vault by Self: D 52.4, rank #823 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/self-agent-vault.min.md
- Kite Agent Passport, 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 Payments & pricing, 35 against 30; Maintenance & community, 71 against 48; Transparency & trust, 54 against 47.
- Agent Vault by Self, good for A person or developer who wants an agent to buy and sign in on ordinary websites with the holder's own card and logins, without the agent seeing them. Ahead on Reliability, 40 against 35; Schema & documentation, 76 against 64. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Kite Agent Passport | Agent Vault by Self |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 40 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 64 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 68 | 66 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 72 | 76 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 71 | 48 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 54 | 47 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Kite Agent Passport | Agent Vault by Self |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | MCP server |
| Vendor | Kite AI | SocialConnect Labs, Inc. (Self Labs) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.agentvault.io/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | payer tooling only | no |
| 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 hosted service. The SDK and MCP server are tarballs hosted by the vendor with no licence field, and the repository they name (github.com/selfxyz/agent-vault) is not public. The checkout recipe registry, selfxyz/agent-checkout-skill, is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 30 |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-17 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-04-29 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-29 |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| 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 | not found in the text |  |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |