{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "kognitos", "name": "Kognitos", "vendor": "Kognitos, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.kognitos.com/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "workflow-automation", "summary": "Kognitos is a hosted platform that runs finance and banking procedures written in plain English, through an app, a REST API and a hosted MCP server. AI Employees and Context Graphs entered customer preview on 21 October 2026.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kognitos", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kognitos.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kognitos.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kognitos.json", "repo": "https://github.com/kognitos/openapi", "license": "Proprietary service under Kognitos's Terms of Service (published 19 November 2025, California law, courts in Santa Clara). The OpenAPI file, the Node.js SDK and the coding-agent plugin repositories are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.us-1.kognitos.com/api/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@kognitos/node" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "REST API calls take a Personal Access Token as a bearer token. A token is created in the app, scoped to chosen workspaces with All, Read only or Restricted permissions, expires after 7 days to 1 year, and can be edited or deleted, with up to 10 per organisation. The hosted MCP server at https://mcp.us-1.kognitos.com/ accepts OAuth 2.1 sign-in (scopes `mcp:access` and `offline_access`, callback port 3777) or the same token in the Authorization header. No credential for Context Graphs over REST or MCP is documented.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Contact sales for paid use. The FAQ says pricing is consumption-based, by transactions and agent complexity, with quotes from sales, and that a free workspace at app.us-1.kognitos.com lets anyone sign up, build and run automations. No card step appears in the onboarding guide. No price list was found, and kognitos.com/pricing returns 404. AI Employees and Context Graphs are in preview for existing customers, with no price published (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the OpenAPI file, the MCP docs, the FAQ or the terms (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 19, "popularity": { "githubStars": 0, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.kognitos.com/guides/api-reference/api-reference", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.kognitos.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kognitos/openapi/main/latest/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "automation.workflows", "automation.apps", "docs.extract", "agent.tools" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "closed-source", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "sales-led", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "typescript", "audit-log", "soc2", "enterprise", "preview-parts" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 57, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 708, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 53, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 20, "reliability": 58, "schema": 71, "security": 74, "transparency": 67 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Kognitos has a self-serve free workspace, a public OpenAPI file and a hosted MCP server with OAuth 2.1 and scoped, expiring tokens. The 21 October AI Employees and Context Graphs are in preview for existing customers only, and their REST and MCP access isn't documented, so an outside agent can reach the automation platform but not the new parts.", "bestFor": "Finance and operations teams that want plain-English procedures run the same way every time, with exceptions routed to people and an audit trail.", "strengths": [ "Free workspace by email or Google or Microsoft sign-in, with no card step in the onboarding guide", "Hosted MCP server with OAuth 2.1 sign-in and 19 tools for automations, runs, schedules, exceptions and files", "Tokens scoped to chosen workspaces with All, Read only or Restricted permissions, and expiry from 7 days to 1 year", "Org-wide audit log that can't be edited, names the token as actor for API actions and exports to CSV", "Public OpenAPI 3.0 file (MIT) with 102 operations, and every docs page served as Markdown with llms.txt" ], "weaknesses": [ "AI Employees and Context Graphs are a preview for existing customers, with no public docs for their REST or MCP access", "No price list. Paid use is quoted by sales on consumption", "No numeric rate limit and no retry guidance found. 429 is listed with no Retry-After or backoff guidance", "The docs' Release Notes section is empty, and the OpenAPI file was last released on 14 April 2026", "The trust portal is behind a bot check, so compliance reports and sub-processors couldn't be read" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan on Context Graph or AI Employee calls. Neither the MCP tool list nor the OpenAPI file has them, and both are customer preview only", "Call `GET /me/organizations` and then list workspaces first, since nearly every path needs `organization_id` and `workspace_id`", "Invoke with `stage: AUTOMATION_STAGE_PUBLISHED` for production and `AUTOMATION_STAGE_DRAFT` to test, then poll the run until it leaves `pending` or `running`", "Treat a `waiting` run as a question for a person. Answer it through the exception tools or ask the owner, rather than retrying", "Use OAuth with callback port 3777 for the MCP server. Another port can fail with a callback URL mismatch" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 57 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 53, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 20, "reliability": 58, "schema": 71, "security": 74, "transparency": 47 }, "provenanceScore": 86, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-21", "maintenance": "2026-10-21", "payments": "2026-10-21", "reliability": "2026-10-21", "schema": "2026-10-21", "security": "2026-10-21", "transparency": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -H \"Authorization: Bearer $KOGNITOS_API_KEY\" \"https://app.us-1.kognitos.com/api/v1/me/organizations\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http --callback-port 3777 kognitos https://mcp.us-1.kognitos.com/", "config": { "mcpServers": { "kognitos": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${KOGNITOS_API_KEY}" }, "url": "https://mcp.us-1.kognitos.com/" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/automation.workflows", "tool": "https://letme.dev/kognitos" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Kognitos, Inc.", "domain": "kognitos.com", "domainRegistered": "2020-05-19", "domainNote": "RDAP for kognitos.com gives a registration date of 2020-05-19.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.kognitos.com/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.kognitos.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://status.kognitos.com/", "changelog": "https://github.com/kognitos/openapi/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (Published Date 19 November 2025) govern the service under service orders or by use, under California law with courts in Santa Clara. Liability is capped at fees paid or payable in the 12 months before a claim. No arbitration clause or limit on automated access was found.", "The privacy notice (Last Updated 11 May 2026) covers the websites and other Kognitos services that link to it, and names privacy@kognitos.com.", "kognitos.com/terms-of-service/ redirects to /terms/ and /privacy-policy/ to /privacy/.", "https://www.kognitos.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. trust.kognitos.com answers with a Cloudflare challenge.", "No product changelog was found. The docs' Release Notes section is empty, so the changelog link is the OpenAPI repository's semantic-release log.", "robots.txt on www.kognitos.com disallows /apis/ for all crawlers, and that path wasn't fetched." ], "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kognitos.json", "live": { "slug": "kognitos", "probe": { "target": "https://app.us-1.kognitos.com/api/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-21T23:21:48.485364661Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 303, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 303, "p95ms24h": 387, "samples24h": 19, "samples30d": 19, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 19, "ok": 19 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.kognitos.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-21T23:23:16.345647364Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-21T23:23:16.345647364Z" } }, "answer": "Kognitos scores 57 (C) on agent readiness against n8n API + MCP's 53.1 (D), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. n8n API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "n8n", "name": "n8n API + MCP", "vendor": "n8n", "vendorUrl": "https://n8n.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "workflow-automation", "summary": "Workflow builder you can run on n8n Cloud or self-host.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/n8n", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/n8n.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/n8n.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/n8n.json", "repo": "https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n", "license": "Sustainable Use License (fair-code, source-available)", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "n8n" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "REST API takes an instance API key in the `X-N8N-API-KEY` header. Key scopes only on Enterprise. The instance MCP server at https://\u003cinstance\u003e/mcp-server/http takes OAuth (per-client grants you can revoke) or a bearer MCP token.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Community Edition is free to self-host with unlimited executions. Cloud Starter €20 a month billed yearly (2,500 executions, 5 concurrent, 7-day execution logs), Pro €50 (10,000 executions, up to 50 concurrent, 30-day logs), Enterprise custom (200+ concurrent, 365 days of insights). Business €667 a month billed yearly (40,000 executions) is self-hosted only for now, with a Cloud waitlist, and extra 300,000 executions cost €4,000. Annual billing saves 17 per cent. The Cloud trial gives 1,000 executions with no card, but the API isn't available during it. An execution is one workflow run, whatever the step count (https://n8n.io/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 support in docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 54, "popularity": { "githubStars": 206359, "npmWeekly": 112869, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.n8n.io/connect/n8n-api/", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.n8n.io/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.n8n.io/connect/n8n-api/api-reference", "capabilities": [ "automation.workflows", "automation.apps", "automation.code", "automation.webhooks", "agent.tools" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "self-hosted", "local", "freemium", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "typescript", "webhooks", "enterprise", "source-available" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53.1, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 826, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 18, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 30, "reliability": 40, "schema": 92, "security": 70, "transparency": 80 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -12, "negativeNotes": [ "CVE-2025-68613 (GHSA-v98v-ff95-f3cp), code execution through workflow expressions for any authenticated user, published to NVD on 19 December 2025 (GitHub's advisory is dated 22 December) and added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on 11 March 2026 as exploited in the wild. Patched and documented (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v98v-ff95-f3cp, https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2025-68613, https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?keywordSearch=n8n\u0026hasKev).", "CVE-2026-21858 (GHSA-v4pr-fm98-w9pg), unauthenticated file access through improper webhook handling, rated critical, published 7 January 2026, and CVE-2026-27493 (GHSA-75g8-rv7v-32f7), unauthenticated expression evaluation through the Form node, published 25 February 2026. Both patched (https://github.com/advisories?query=n8n+severity%3Acritical).", "24 critical advisories for the n8n package published between 8 December 2025 and 14 May 2026, counted on 2 October 2026 with the GitHub Advisory Database query cited here, most of them sandbox escapes or remote code execution, and high-severity batches still landing on 22 July, 10 September and 16 September 2026, including credential decryption without an ownership check (GHSA-9rhv-fhr8-7q5r). All handled in public with fixes, which is why this isn't the full -15 (https://github.com/advisories?query=type%3Areviewed+ecosystem%3Anpm+affects%3An8n+severity%3Acritical+published%3A2025-12-01..2026-05-31, https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/security/advisories)." ], "verdict": "OpenAPI 3.0 spec with 208 operations, and Markdown docs plus llms.txt. 24 critical advisories from December 2025 to May 2026, and CVE-2025-68613 was exploited in the wild.", "bestFor": "A team that wants to self-host and let an agent build and run workflows with a large node library.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0 spec with 208 operations, and Markdown docs plus llms.txt", "MCP OAuth grants split into scopes such as `workflow:read` and `workflow:execute`, revocable per client", "Priced per workflow run whatever the step count, and free to self-host with the API on", "n8n@2.42.2 on 1 October 2026 and 134 tags in 90 days, with the 1.x line still patched", "Valid security.txt, a disclosure policy, and advisories published with CVEs" ], "weaknesses": [ "24 critical advisories from December 2025 to May 2026, and CVE-2025-68613 was exploited in the wild", "No published API rate limit, 429 guidance or uptime SLA", "API key scopes only on Enterprise, and no API during the Cloud trial", "Sustainable Use License, not OSI open source, and self-hosted telemetry on by default", "54 MCP tools in the full set, heavy for a context window unless the grant is narrowed" ], "agentNotes": [ "Check the instance version before trusting it. Anything older than the September 2026 patch releases carries published high-severity flaws", "Ask for only the OAuth scopes the job needs. `workflow:read` plus `workflow:execute` keeps the builder and delete tools out of the tool list", "Call `get_workflow_details` with `detailLevel` set to execution before `execute_workflow`, which returns an execution ID and doesn't wait", "Follow `nextCursor` until it's null when paging workflows or executions", "On Cloud trial accounts `/api/v1` won't answer. Use the MCP server or a paid plan" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 30, "reliability": 40, "schema": 92, "security": 70, "transparency": 68 }, "provenanceScore": 92, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-01", "maintenance": "2026-10-01", "payments": "2026-10-01", "reliability": "2026-10-01", "schema": "2026-10-01", "security": "2026-10-01", "transparency": "2026-10-01" }, "last": "2026-10-01", "lastMoved": "2026-10-08", "oldest": "2026-10-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://$N8N_HOST/api/v1/workflows?active=true\" -H \"X-N8N-API-KEY: $N8N_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http n8n https://$N8N_HOST/mcp-server/http", "config": { "mcpServers": { "n8n": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${N8N_MCP_TOKEN}" }, "url": "https://${N8N_HOST}/mcp-server/http" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/automation.workflows", "tool": "https://letme.dev/n8n" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "n8n GmbH", "domain": "n8n.io", "domainRegistered": "2018-12-01", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://n8n.io/legal/", "privacy": "https://n8n.io/legal/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://status.n8n.cloud", "changelog": "https://docs.n8n.io/changelog/release-notes", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-30", "score": 92 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/n8n.json", "live": { "slug": "n8n", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.n8n.cloud", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-21T22:25:59.523778718Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "n8n-io/n8n", "version": "n8n@2.44.4", "released": "2026-10-19", "seenAt": "2026-10-21T06:11:56.097514384Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "n8n", "version": "2.44.4", "seenAt": "2026-10-21T06:11:55.824452329Z" } ], "githubStars": 208171, "npmWeekly": 84770, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://n8n.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-12-31T22:59:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-21T15:58:09.604684713Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.n8n.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-21T14:34:33.769274268Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "n8n.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T13:42:42.113454431Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.n8n.io/changelog/release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-21T00:47:07.132317233Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-19T23:56:56.849777285Z", "fingerprint": "1c711b023169" }, { "url": "https://n8n.io/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": 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"medium", "published": "2026-10-14T09:44:47Z" }, { "ghsa": "GHSA-8vrr-mgc5-jg55", "severity": "medium", "published": "2026-10-14T09:44:07Z" }, { "ghsa": "GHSA-crfj-5wv6-8v86", "severity": "medium", "published": "2026-10-14T09:44:00Z" }, { "ghsa": "GHSA-8crx-5h96-q72q", "severity": "medium", "published": "2026-10-14T09:43:53Z" }, { "ghsa": "GHSA-v9cx-v88r-42vw", "severity": "medium", "published": "2026-10-14T09:43:43Z" }, { "ghsa": "GHSA-pcr3-v5vr-qppf", "severity": "medium", "published": "2026-10-14T09:43:37Z" }, { "ghsa": "GHSA-cwm2-vhf5-27q9", "severity": "medium", "published": "2026-10-14T09:43:30Z" }, { "ghsa": "GHSA-3c3p-5959-3ghr", "severity": "medium", "published": "2026-10-14T09:43:23Z" }, { "ghsa": "GHSA-43v8-hjhm-chjp", "severity": "medium", "published": "2026-10-14T09:43:15Z" }, { "ghsa": "GHSA-65mv-v8rp-54wc", "severity": "medium", "published": "2026-10-14T09:43:00Z" }, { "ghsa": "GHSA-qmvv-q3c9-wpp7", "severity": "medium", "published": "2026-10-14T09:37:00Z" }, { "ghsa": 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"maintenance", "kognitos": 45, "n8n": 80, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 13, "edge": "n8n", "key": "transparency", "kognitos": 67, "n8n": 80, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Kognitos scores 57 (C) on agent readiness against n8n API + MCP's 53.1 (D), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. n8n API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. 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Both do workflow automation.\n\n- Kognitos: grade C, 57/100, rank #708 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kognitos.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kognitos.json\n- n8n API + MCP: grade D, 53.1/100, rank #826 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/n8n.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/n8n.json\n- Best workflow automation platforms with APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/workflow-automation/index.md\n- All 170 workflows comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/workflow-automation/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Kognitos (C)\n\nGood for: Finance and operations teams that want plain-English procedures run the same way every time, with exceptions routed to people and an audit trail.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 58 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.3 against 2.5 out of 5\n- No incidents deducted, where n8n API + MCP loses 12 points for them\n\nWatch for: AI Employees and Context Graphs are a preview for existing customers, with no public docs for their REST or MCP access\n\n### n8n API + MCP (D)\n\nGood for: A team that wants to self-host and let an agent build and run workflows with a large node library.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 92 against 71\n- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 53\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 45\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 67\n\nWatch for: 24 critical advisories from December 2025 to May 2026, and CVE-2025-68613 was exploited in the wild\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Kognitos | n8n API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 58 | 40 | Kognitos +18 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 71 | 92 | n8n API + MCP +21 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 53 | 75 | n8n API + MCP +22 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 70 | Kognitos +4 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | n8n API + MCP +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 80 | n8n API + MCP +35 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 67 | 80 | n8n API + MCP +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -12 | |\n| **Total** | | **57 · C** | **53.1 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Kognitos | n8n API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Kognitos, Inc. | n8n |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.us-1.kognitos.com/api/v1` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Kognitos's Terms of Service (published 19 November 2025, California law, courts in Santa Clara). The OpenAPI file, the Node.js SDK and the coding-agent plugin repositories are MIT | Sustainable Use License (fair-code, source-available) |\n| Tools exposed | 19 | 54 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-21 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Terms last updated | | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | | 2026-09-28 |\n| Customer content may train models | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 0 stars | 206k stars, 113k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Kognitos.** Kognitos has a self-serve free workspace, a public OpenAPI file and a hosted MCP server with OAuth 2.1 and scoped, expiring tokens. The 21 October AI Employees and Context Graphs are in preview for existing customers only, and their REST and MCP access isn't documented, so an outside agent can reach the automation platform but not the new parts.\n\n**n8n API + MCP.** OpenAPI 3.0 spec with 208 operations, and Markdown docs plus llms.txt. 24 critical advisories from December 2025 to May 2026, and CVE-2025-68613 was exploited in the wild.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Kognitos\n\n1. Don't plan on Context Graph or AI Employee calls. Neither the MCP tool list nor the OpenAPI file has them, and both are customer preview only\n2. Call `GET /me/organizations` and then list workspaces first, since nearly every path needs `organization_id` and `workspace_id`\n3. Invoke with `stage: AUTOMATION_STAGE_PUBLISHED` for production and `AUTOMATION_STAGE_DRAFT` to test, then poll the run until it leaves `pending` or `running`\n4. Treat a `waiting` run as a question for a person. Answer it through the exception tools or ask the owner, rather than retrying\n5. Use OAuth with callback port 3777 for the MCP server. Another port can fail with a callback URL mismatch\n\n### n8n API + MCP\n\n1. Check the instance version before trusting it. Anything older than the September 2026 patch releases carries published high-severity flaws\n2. Ask for only the OAuth scopes the job needs. `workflow:read` plus `workflow:execute` keeps the builder and delete tools out of the tool list\n3. Call `get_workflow_details` with `detailLevel` set to execution before `execute_workflow`, which returns an execution ID and doesn't wait\n4. Follow `nextCursor` until it's null when paging workflows or executions\n5. On Cloud trial accounts `/api/v1` won't answer. Use the MCP server or a paid plan\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Kognitos or n8n API + MCP?\n\nKognitos scores 57 (C) on agent readiness against n8n API + MCP's 53.1 (D), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. n8n API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Kognitos and n8n API + MCP need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Kognitos and n8n API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nKognitos has a hosted endpoint at https://app.us-1.kognitos.com/api/v1. No hosted endpoint is listed for n8n API + MCP.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kognitos-vs-n8n.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kognitos-vs-n8n.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"kognitos\", \"b\": \"n8n\"}`. 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