# letme vs Smithery (slim)

> Smithery scores 50.7 (D) to letme's 36.4 (F) for tool access for agents. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Smithery scores 50.7 (D) on agent readiness against letme's 36.4 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. letme leads on payments & pricing. Both do tool access for agents.

- letme: F 36.4, rank #929 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/letme.min.md
- Smithery: D 50.7, rank #766 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smithery.min.md
- letme, good for An agent that knows the job but not the tool and wants one recommendation picked by a published rule, with the direct call details and fallbacks by not=. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 50 against 10. Also No key needed to call it.
- Smithery, good for A developer who wants many MCP servers behind one credential and one endpoint, with per-user connections and short-lived scoped tokens. Ahead on Reliability, 60 against 10; Schema & documentation, 76 against 68; Agent ergonomics, 65 against 54; Security & auth, 50 against 23; Maintenance & community, 43 against 35; Transparency & trust, 46 against 37.

| Category | letme | Smithery |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 10 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 68 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 54 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 23 | 50 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 35 | 43 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 37 | 46 |

| Fact (where they differ) | letme | Smithery |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Anchor Terminal | Smithery (Arcade.dev) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://letme.dev` | `https://api.smithery.ai` |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | Closed source, with no public repository found. The directory data it reads is CC BY 4.0. | Proprietary hosted service, with no terms of service found. The CLI (`smithery`) is AGPL-3.0, the TypeScript client (`@smithery/api`) is Apache-2.0 and the credential layer agent.pw is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 2 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-07-20 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2025-06-20 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read |  |
| Popularity | none | 840 stars, 2.7k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (6) | none |