{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "navige", "name": "Navige", "vendor": "Navige Ltd", "vendorUrl": "https://navige.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "agent-observability", "summary": "Navige is a hosted gateway between AI agents and the model APIs and MCP tools they call. It prices each call per business job, enforces spend caps, policies and approvals, and can cache or reroute calls to cut cost.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/navige", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/navige.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/navige.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/navige.json", "repo": "https://github.com/SMJAI/trustloop-sdk", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Navige's Terms of Use (version 1.0, effective 13 October 2026) and Data Processing Agreement (version 1.2, effective 14 October 2026). The `navige` npm SDK and the `n8n-nodes-navige` node are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.navige.ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "navige" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "n8n-nodes-navige" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve. A person signs up at app.navige.ai/signup, confirms their email and creates an agent in the console, which shows an `nv_` key once. Each key names one agent in one organisation. Send it in `x-navige-key` (the only header accepted on the model proxy, where `Authorization` carries the provider key), as `Authorization: Bearer` on `/enforce` and `/usage`, or as `?api_key=` for MCP clients. An agent can hold up to ten keys, each listed by prefix and last use, and can be given an expiry. Revocation can take up to a minute to apply because key lookups are cached. The Terms forbid creating accounts by automation.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Watchtower is free with no card and no time limit, and records and prices every call, with the kill switch and spend caps, but changes no traffic. Paid use switches on the levers and enforcing policies and costs the greater of $9 a month or 20 per cent of measured savings, charged in arrears. Modelled savings are never billed. No seat, per-agent or setup fees and no markup on tokens, which the customer pays to the provider (https://navige.ai/pricing, checked 2026-10-17). The Terms leave exact prices, payment terms, taxes and refunds as TBD.", "priceSummary": "$9 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the pricing page, the Terms or the DPA. Paid plans are billed through Stripe (checked 2026-10-17).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 11, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://app.navige.ai/docs", "capabilities": [ "obs.gateway", "obs.traces", "hitl.approve", "hitl.audit", "guard.policy" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "mcp", "openai-compatible", "anthropic-compatible", "typescript", "closed-source", "status-page", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 42.8, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1012, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 51, "payments": 35, "reliability": 28, "schema": 42, "security": 53, "transparency": 50 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-17. The privacy policy (effective 6 October 2026) says 'Our website and dashboard do not use tracking cookies or third-party analytics.' The navige.ai home, pricing and about pages load Google Analytics (`gtag/js?id=G-G5NVP8M2BB`, configured inline) and Framer's events script, checked first-hand on 17 October 2026. Counted as a misleading claim (-2). The dashboard at app.navige.ai was not checked for analytics (https://app.navige.ai/legal/privacy, https://navige.ai/)." ], "verdict": "Setup is a base-URL change, keys are per agent and hashed, and the docs state failure behaviour per action class. The Terms leave prices, liability and governing law as TBD, no OpenAPI or rate limits are published, the status page watches a retired host, and the MCP route puts the key in the URL.", "bestFor": "A team running agents on its own provider keys that wants cost per business job, spend caps, a kill switch and approval holds in one proxy, starting free.", "strengths": [ "Joining is a base-URL change and one header. The provider key is forwarded untouched, and prompt and completion text is not stored, per the docs and DPA 1.2", "Failure defaults are documented per action class. Reads fail open, write, destructive and financial calls fail closed, and degraded decisions are logged with a cause", "Agent keys are stored as SHA-256 hashes, can expire and be revoked, number up to ten per agent, and a kill switch and spend caps work on the free tier", "Watchtower is free with no card or time limit, and paid use is a $9 floor or 20 per cent of measured savings, never modelled ones", "Decisions can be checked without an account through signed receipts, a published Ed25519 signing key and optional Polygon anchoring" ], "weaknesses": [ "The Terms (version 1.0) leave exact prices, payment terms, liability, service levels and governing law marked TBD", "No OpenAPI document, llms.txt, changelog or published rate limits were found", "The status page monitors only `api.trustloop.live/health`, a retired host shown down since 26 July 2026, while its header says all services are online", "The MCP route, and the proxy fallback for clients without custom headers, put the agent key in the URL query string", "The privacy policy says the website uses no third-party analytics while navige.ai loads Google Analytics, and its plan retention periods contradict DPA 1.2" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the Navige key in `x-navige-key` on the proxy. `Authorization` carries the provider key there, and a Navige key in it fails and is forwarded upstream", "Act only on `allow` or `approved` from `/enforce`. Treat `error` as neither, and read `unavailable` to tell a malformed request from a Navige outage", "Send `x-navige-transaction` with one id per job, reused across that job's retries, so calls group into one transaction and retries are not counted twice", "On a 429 from the proxy, check for a blocking budget before retrying. Navige returns 429 when a monthly budget is reached and passes provider errors through without retrying", "Expect Claude Code traffic to get measurement, budgets and the kill switch only. Context trimming, routing, the output ceiling and prompt caching are switched off for it" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 42.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 51, "payments": 35, "reliability": 28, "schema": 42, "security": 53, "transparency": 35 }, "provenanceScore": 65 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install navige", "http": "curl https://api.navige.ai/proxy/openai/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"x-navige-key: $NAVIGE_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\":\"gpt-5.1\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"ping\"}]}'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "navige": { "url": "https://api.navige.ai/mcp?api_key=nv_your_key_here" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/obs.gateway", "tool": "https://letme.dev/navige" }, "area": "developer", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Paid plan minimum", "unit": "month", "usd": 9, "note": "Charged when measured savings are under $45 in the month. Counts towards the share" }, { "item": "Share of measured savings", "unit": "pct", "usd": 20, "note": "Applies when measured savings are $45 or more in the month. Modelled savings are never billed" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Navige Ltd", "domain": "navige.ai", "domainRegistered": "2026-07-25", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://app.navige.ai/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://app.navige.ai/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.navige.ai", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "The Terms of Use (version 1.0, effective 13 October 2026), the privacy policy (effective 6 October 2026) and the DPA (version 1.2, effective 14 October 2026) name Navige Ltd, a United Kingdom company. The Terms leave governing law as TBD. The DPA chooses England and Wales.", "The privacy policy says its current version is at navige.ai/privacy. That path was not in the site map, and the policy read is at app.navige.ai/legal/privacy.", "The security page (app.navige.ai/legal/security) points reporters to /.well-known/security.txt. That path returned 404 on navige.ai, app.navige.ai and api.navige.ai on 17 October 2026.", "RDAP gives navige.ai a registration date of 25 July 2026. The earlier name's domain, trustloop.live, was registered on 27 January 2026 and redirects to navige.ai.", "No changelog was found. navige.ai/changelog and navige.ai/blog returned 404, though the footer lists a blog.", "The status page monitors the retired host api.trustloop.live, not api.navige.ai." ], "score": 65 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/navige.json", "live": { "slug": "navige", "probe": { "target": "https://api.navige.ai", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:31:00.156954046Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 178, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 203, "p95ms24h": 244, "samples24h": 27, "samples30d": 27, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 6, "ok": 6 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.navige.ai", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:51:24.417606599Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://navige.ai/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:06:30.690270454Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "77131c50c58c" }, { "url": "https://app.navige.ai/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:56:18.751833966Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "74f78f3a6a9a" }, { "url": "https://app.navige.ai/legal/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:56:20.942019182Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6ff5843b8337" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:31:00.156954046Z" } }, "answer": "Respan API + MCP scores 65.5 (B) on agent readiness against Navige's 42.8 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Navige leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "respan", "name": "Respan API + MCP", "vendor": "Respan (formerly Keywords AI)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.respan.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "agent-observability", "summary": "Hosted tracing, evals, prompt management and an LLM gateway to 250+ models, from the company formerly called Keywords AI.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/respan", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/respan.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/respan.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/respan.json", "repo": "https://github.com/respanai/respan", "license": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs only, platform closed source)", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.respan.ai/api", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "respan-tracing" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@respan/tracing" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API key as a Bearer token for the REST API and MCP. Keys carry Read, Write, Gateway and Admin scopes (new keys default to Read, Write and Gateway), can have an expiry and spend caps, and are bound to one project. The hosted MCP server also supports OAuth sign-in, or a JWT copied from mcp.respan.ai/login. A Respan-Enabled-Tools header limits which MCP tools a client sees.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 100,000 logs, 1,000 scores, 7-day retention, unlimited seats and 412 requests a minute on the gateway. Team $199 a month billed yearly with 5 seats ($15 per extra member), 10,000 scores, 30-day retention and 8,400 gateway requests a minute. Extra logs $8 per 100,000, extra scores $1 per 1,000, HIPAA add-on $249 a month. Enterprise is custom (https://www.respan.ai/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$199 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 support in docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 67, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 270, "pypiWeekly": 12515, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.respan.ai/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://www.respan.ai/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://respan.ai/docs/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "obs.traces", "obs.evals", "obs.prompts", "obs.gateway", "obs.datasets" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "closed-source", "webhooks", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 65.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 351, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 30, "reliability": 73, "schema": 89, "security": 66, "transparency": 57 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-07-30 and 2026-08-28. The changelog lists \"Closed an unauthorized live-event stream vulnerability\" and \"Patched some security vulnerabilities\" with no advisory, scope or statement on whether customer data was exposed. Fixed, but disclosed in one line each. -2 (https://www.respan.ai/docs/changelog/changelog)" ], "verdict": "API keys with Read, Write, Gateway and Admin scopes, expiry and spend caps, bound to one project. 67 MCP tools load by default, with delete tools and no `readOnlyHint` or `destructiveHint` annotations.", "bestFor": "Teams that want a gateway and tracing in one integration and an agent that can manage prompts, datasets and evaluators over MCP.", "strengths": [ "API keys with Read, Write, Gateway and Admin scopes, expiry and spend caps, bound to one project", "OpenAPI 3.1 spec, llms.txt and Markdown for every docs page", "`Respan-Enabled-Tools` header trims the MCP server's tool list server-side", "`list_logs` returns summary fields by default with pages of up to 50 rows", "Published overage prices ($8 per 100,000 logs) and per-plan gateway and ingestion limits" ], "weaknesses": [ "67 MCP tools load by default, with delete tools and no `readOnlyHint` or `destructiveHint` annotations", "A 13-hour 47-minute gateway incident on 26 September 2026, while the status bars show 100 per cent", "Security fixes on 30 July and 28 August 2026 disclosed only as one-line changelog entries", "Free plan keeps logs for 7 days", "No deprecation policy, and the legacy `/api/generate` endpoint was retired on 11 September 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Create a key with only the Read scope for agents that analyse logs. New keys get Read, Write and Gateway by default", "Set `Respan-Enabled-Tools` to a short list such as list_traces,get_trace_tree,list_logs. All 67 tools load otherwise", "Pass `filters` to `list_logs` rather than paging through everything. The default window is the last hour", "Call `list_organizations` first when results look empty over OAuth. Every tool acts on the active organisation only", "Append `.md` to any docs URL for clean Markdown" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 65.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 30, "reliability": 73, "schema": 89, "security": 66, "transparency": 47 }, "provenanceScore": 67 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.respan.ai/api/traces/list/ -H \"Authorization: Bearer $RESPAN_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"content-type: application/json\" -d '{}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http --header \"Authorization: Bearer $RESPAN_API_KEY\" respan https://mcp.respan.ai/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "respan": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${RESPAN_API_KEY}" }, "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.respan.ai/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/obs.traces", "tool": "https://letme.dev/respan" }, "area": "developer", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Team plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 199, "note": "billed yearly, 5 seats, 10,000 scores, 30-day retention" }, { "item": "Extra Team member", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 15 }, { "item": "HIPAA add-on", "unit": "month", "usd": 249 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Keywords AI Inc. (d/b/a Respan)", "domain": "respan.ai", "domainRegistered": "2026-01-13", "domainNote": "respan.ai shows a 2026-01-13 registration, matching the rename from Keywords AI (keywordsai.co).", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.respan.ai/legal/terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://www.respan.ai/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.respan.ai", "changelog": "https://www.respan.ai/docs/changelog/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "score": 67 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/respan.json", "live": { "slug": "respan", "probe": { "target": "https://api.respan.ai/api", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:31:05.273902714Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 268, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 267, "p95ms24h": 359, "samples24h": 253, "samples30d": 4438, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 6, "ok": 6 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.respan.ai", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:51:47.627502899Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@respan/tracing", "version": "1.6.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T02:14:28.10235387Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "respan-tracing", "version": "2.23.0", "released": "2026-10-16", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T02:14:27.993300496Z" } ], "githubStars": 48, "npmWeekly": 657, "pypiWeekly": 3760, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://respan.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T15:52:35.294045628Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.respan.ai/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T14:23:08.211267297Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "respan.ai", "registered": "2026-01-13", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/respan.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:20:51.669471463Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.respan.ai/docs/changelog/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:19:39.183382489Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-15T22:13:21.946190633Z", "fingerprint": "a38bbfcd3d8a" }, { "url": "https://www.respan.ai/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:19:45.375823585Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-15T22:13:28.238889421Z", "fingerprint": "339ea22bb888" }, { "url": "https://www.respan.ai/legal/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:19:42.200851031Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-15T22:13:24.969650072Z", "fingerprint": "fa5ef1fd4915" }, { "url": "https://www.respan.ai/legal/terms-of-use", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:19:43.409360654Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-15T22:13:26.219885609Z", "fingerprint": "cd8f7ca40dd9" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:31:05.273902714Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Navige Ltd", "b": "Respan (formerly Keywords AI)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.navige.ai", "b": "https://api.respan.ai/api", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary hosted service under Navige's Terms of Use (version 1.0, effective 13 October 2026) and Data Processing Agreement (version 1.2, effective 14 October 2026). 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Navige has a hosted endpoint at https://api.navige.ai and Respan API + MCP at https://api.respan.ai/api.", "question": "Can an agent call Navige and Respan API + MCP without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "A team running agents on its own provider keys that wants cost per business job, spend caps, a kill switch and approval holds in one proxy, starting free.", "slug": "navige", "watchFor": "The Terms (version 1.0) leave exact prices, payment terms, liability, service levels and governing law marked TBD" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 73 against 28", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 42", "Agent ergonomics, 66 against 61", "Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 53", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 51", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 57 against 50" ], "also": [ "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.5 against 2.0 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "Teams that want a 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Navige leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do obs gateway.\n\n- Navige: grade E, 42.8/100, rank #1012 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/navige.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/navige.json\n- Respan API + MCP: grade B, 65.5/100, rank #351 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/respan.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/respan.json\n- Best agent tracing, monitoring and evaluation tools: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-observability/index.md\n- All 136 evals comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-observability/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Navige (E)\n\nGood for: A team running agents on its own provider keys that wants cost per business job, spend caps, a kill switch and approval holds in one proxy, starting free.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: The Terms (version 1.0) leave exact prices, payment terms, liability, service levels and governing law marked TBD\n\n### Respan API + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that want a gateway and tracing in one integration and an agent that can manage prompts, datasets and evaluators over MCP.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 73 against 28\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 42\n- Agent ergonomics, 66 against 61\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 53\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 51\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 57 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.5 against 2.0 out of 5\n\nWatch for: 67 MCP tools load by default, with delete tools and no `readOnlyHint` or `destructiveHint` annotations\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Navige | Respan API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 28 | 73 | Respan API + MCP +45 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 42 | 89 | Respan API + MCP +47 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 61 | 66 | Respan API + MCP +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 53 | 66 | Respan API + MCP +13 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 30 | Navige +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 85 | Respan API + MCP +34 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 57 | Respan API + MCP +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **42.8 · E** | **65.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Navige | Respan API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Navige Ltd | Respan (formerly Keywords AI) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.navige.ai` | `https://api.respan.ai/api` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Navige's Terms of Use (version 1.0, effective 13 October 2026) and Data Processing Agreement (version 1.2, effective 14 October 2026). The `navige` npm SDK and the `n8n-nodes-navige` node are MIT | Apache-2.0 (SDKs only, platform closed source) |\n| Tools exposed | none | 67 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Terms last updated | | 2026-02-25 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | | 2026-02-25 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n| Popularity | 11 npm/wk | 270 npm/wk, 13k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Navige.** Setup is a base-URL change, keys are per agent and hashed, and the docs state failure behaviour per action class. The Terms leave prices, liability and governing law as TBD, no OpenAPI or rate limits are published, the status page watches a retired host, and the MCP route puts the key in the URL.\n\n**Respan API + MCP.** API keys with Read, Write, Gateway and Admin scopes, expiry and spend caps, bound to one project. 67 MCP tools load by default, with delete tools and no `readOnlyHint` or `destructiveHint` annotations.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Navige\n\n1. Send the Navige key in `x-navige-key` on the proxy. `Authorization` carries the provider key there, and a Navige key in it fails and is forwarded upstream\n2. Act only on `allow` or `approved` from `/enforce`. Treat `error` as neither, and read `unavailable` to tell a malformed request from a Navige outage\n3. Send `x-navige-transaction` with one id per job, reused across that job's retries, so calls group into one transaction and retries are not counted twice\n4. On a 429 from the proxy, check for a blocking budget before retrying. Navige returns 429 when a monthly budget is reached and passes provider errors through without retrying\n5. Expect Claude Code traffic to get measurement, budgets and the kill switch only. Context trimming, routing, the output ceiling and prompt caching are switched off for it\n\n### Respan API + MCP\n\n1. Create a key with only the Read scope for agents that analyse logs. New keys get Read, Write and Gateway by default\n2. Set `Respan-Enabled-Tools` to a short list such as list_traces,get_trace_tree,list_logs. All 67 tools load otherwise\n3. Pass `filters` to `list_logs` rather than paging through everything. The default window is the last hour\n4. Call `list_organizations` first when results look empty over OAuth. Every tool acts on the active organisation only\n5. Append `.md` to any docs URL for clean Markdown\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Navige or Respan API + MCP?\n\nRespan API + MCP scores 65.5 (B) on agent readiness against Navige's 42.8 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Navige leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Navige and Respan API + MCP need an API key?\n\nNavige needs an API key. Respan API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Navige and Respan API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. Navige has a hosted endpoint at https://api.navige.ai and Respan API + MCP at https://api.respan.ai/api.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/navige-vs-respan.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/navige-vs-respan.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"navige\", \"b\": \"respan\"}`. 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