# Monid vs Smithery (slim)

> Monid scores 63.3 (B) to Smithery's 50.7 (D) for tool access for agents. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Monid scores 63.3 (B) on agent readiness against Smithery's 50.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Smithery leads on reliability. Both do tool access for agents. Monid accepts x402. Smithery doesn't.

- Monid: B 63.3, rank #449 of 1201 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/monid.min.md
- Smithery: D 50.7, rank #897 of 1201 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smithery.min.md
- Monid, good for An agent that needs occasional paid data or media calls (search, scraping, social, enrichment, maps, generative media) from many providers without a key and plan for each, picked at run time by need and price from one capped balance, or paid per run by x402. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 71 against 65; Security & auth, 62 against 50; Payments & pricing, 85 against 10; Maintenance & community, 64 against 43. Also An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; Free to start without a card.
- 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 53.

| Category | Monid | Smithery |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 53 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 62 | 50 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 85 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 64 | 43 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 49 | 46 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Monid | Smithery |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Monid, Inc. | Smithery (Arcade.dev) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.monid.ai/v1` | `https://api.smithery.ai` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP, HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | yes | no |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Monid, Inc.'s terms of service (last updated 16 October 2026). The connector framework at github.com/monid-ai/monid is MIT-licensed, and the `@monid-ai/cli` package is MIT per its package.json and npm record, with no LICENSE file in its repository. The ranking, billing, REST API and MCP server are not in either repository | 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 |
| Last release | 2026-10-21 | 2026-07-20 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2025-06-20 |
| Popularity | 1.3k npm/wk | 840 stars, 2.7k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | none |