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Browser MCP clients get an x402 permission through OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, and headless agents can get a key through the device flow (RFC 8628). Keys from an earlier generation are rejected by the Router with 403 BCK.ROUTER.0008.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan $0 with up to 20 agents and 10 payment plans and Discord support. Premium $250 a month (100 agents, 50 plans, 5 seats, dashboards). Enterprise $500 a month (unlimited agents and plans). Merchants pay 1% on stablecoin rails and 2% on card rails, taken from settlement, plus card processing at cost. Buyers pay nothing on Nevermined merchants; the Router adds 2% on top when paying external x402 or MPP services (https://nevermined.ai/pricing).", "priceSummary": "1% fee", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "partial", "evidence": "Seller paywalls answer 402 and verify a Nevermined x402 access token in the payment-signature header, settled against a plan rather than a raw onchain transfer. The Router pays standard x402 services on Base in USDC (https://nevermined.ai/docs/products/catalog/router/rails-x402).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 12, "popularity": { "githubStars": 17, "npmWeekly": 468, "pypiWeekly": 4372, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://nevermined.ai/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://nevermined.ai/docs/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.github.nevermined-io/catalog", "capabilities": [ "payments.x402", "payments.card", "payments.stablecoin", "payments.metering", "payments.checkout" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "mcp", "llms-txt", "x402", "stablecoin", "typescript", "python", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 70.8, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 142, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 89, "payments": 65, "reliability": 72, "schema": 80, "security": 63, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Fees published without a login, 1% on stablecoins, 2% on cards and 2% for the Router. The x402 paywall settles Nevermined plan tokens, so generic x402 clients need its SDK or API to pay.", "bestFor": "Builders who want to charge agents per call or by plan, with fiat and stablecoin rails and caps on the buyer side, and for agents that need one budget across x402 and MPP services. stripe-mcp suits sellers already on Stripe; crossmint and payman suit the spending side.", "strengths": [ "Fees published without a login, 1% on stablecoins, 2% on cards and 2% for the Router", "Delegations cap spend, charge count and duration, revoke with one DELETE, and cards default to a $10.00 ceiling", "Errors carry a stable `BCK.*` code, a remediation hint, a docs link and a `retryable` flag", "TypeScript and Python SDKs released five and three times since mid-August, and the Catalog MCP server is in the official registry", "Claims SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and PCI SAQ-D, with reports on request under NDA" ], "weaknesses": [ "The x402 paywall settles Nevermined plan tokens, so generic x402 clients need its SDK or API to pay", "The first API key needs a person to sign in, and the preferred flow hands the key back in a URL query string", "No published rate limits or SLA", "Privacy policy undated, still cites Privacy Shield, and names only two Google subprocessors", "`pay_service` moves money with no per-call confirmation" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `quote_service` before `pay_service`; quotes cost nothing", "Ask the person to open the `setup_delegation` URL once; you can't mint the first key or budget yourself", "Branch on the error `code` and retry only when `retryable` is true", "Create a small, short delegation per task; cards stop at $10.00 across delegations unless the owner raises it", "Use `sandbox:` keys and mcp.sandbox.nevermined.app until the flow works" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 70.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 89, "payments": 65, "reliability": 72, "schema": 80, "security": 63, "transparency": 37 }, "provenanceScore": 65 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.live.nevermined.app/api/v1/delegation/create -H \"Authorization: Bearer $NVM_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"provider\":\"erc4337\",\"currency\":\"usdc\",\"spendingLimitCents\":500,\"durationSecs\":604800}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http nevermined https://mcp.live.nevermined.app/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "nevermined": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${NVM_API_KEY}" }, "url": "https://mcp.live.nevermined.app/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/payments.x402", "tool": "https://letme.dev/nevermined" }, "area": "payments", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Stablecoin settlement", "unit": "pct", "usd": 1, "note": "taken from merchant settlement" }, { "item": "Card settlement", "unit": "pct", "usd": 2, "note": "plus processor fees" }, { "item": "Router fee", "unit": "pct", "usd": 2, "note": "added on top of external x402 and MPP payments" }, { "item": "Premium plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 250 }, { "item": "Enterprise plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 500 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Nevermined AG", "domain": "nevermined.ai", "domainRegistered": "2018-06-14", "domainNote": "The API, app and MCP server run on nevermined.app (registered 2022-09-15); nevermined.io redirects to nevermined.ai. Nevermined AG is in Zug, Switzerland.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://nevermined.ai/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://nevermined.ai/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.nevermined.ai", "changelog": "https://github.com/nevermined-io/payments/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "score": 65 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nevermined.json", "live": { "slug": "nevermined", "probe": { "target": "https://api.live.nevermined.app", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T01:37:59.966693438Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 1113, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 1139, "p95ms24h": 2002, "samples24h": 250, "samples30d": 2453, "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": 17, "ok": 17 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.nevermined.ai", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T00:50:51.879096833Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "nevermined-io/payments", "version": "v1.13.0", "released": "2026-09-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:08:13.920350595Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.nevermined-io/catalog", "version": "1.64.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T02:57:46.004536428Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@nevermined-io/payments", "version": "1.13.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:08:12.764884282Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "payments-py", "version": "1.18.0", "released": "2026-09-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:08:13.732814657Z" } ], "githubStars": 16, "npmWeekly": 575, "pypiWeekly": 5474, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://nevermined.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:39:16.881829395Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://nevermined.ai/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:02:28.169335421Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "nevermined.ai", "registered": "2018-06-14", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/nevermined.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:08:47.476525716Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://nevermined.ai/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:42:30.077303949Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-02T15:22:33.813943463Z", "fingerprint": "45e5aff69c79" }, { "url": "https://nevermined.ai/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:42:25.864654386Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "7f7e042de325" }, { "url": "https://nevermined.ai/legal/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:42:28.16778788Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6742c17c79ba" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T01:37:59.966693438Z" } }, "answer": "Nevermined API + MCP scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Orb's 66.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Orb leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "orb", "name": "Orb", "vendor": "Orb, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.withorb.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "payment-platforms", "summary": "Orb is a hosted billing platform for usage-based, seat-based and hybrid pricing. It ingests usage events, computes metrics, and runs plans, subscriptions, prepaid credits and invoices through a REST API with SDKs in six languages.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orb.json", "repo": "https://github.com/orbcorp/orb-python", "license": "Proprietary service under Orb's Platform Terms and Conditions. The SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.withorb.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "orb-billing" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "orb-billing" }, { "registry": "go", "name": "github.com/orbcorp/orb-go" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "The API takes an API key as a Bearer token. A person creates it in the Orb web app under organisation settings, in test mode or live mode, after Orb's sales team has opened the account. No self-serve sign-up, OAuth flow or programmatic key API was found. Keys can be revoked, which is irreversible, and no scope list was found in the docs.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public prices. Core, Advanced and Enterprise all show custom pricing, based on billings and ingested events, with a platform fee on the upper two tiers, and each starts with a sales contact. The terms describe a 30-day free trial that Orb may grant, and test mode works as a sandbox once an account exists. No free tier was found (https://www.withorb.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI description, the docs index or the pricing page. Orb can charge a Stripe Shared Payment Token granted by a buyer's agent, through the merchant's Stripe account and on request (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 5, "npmWeekly": 184768, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.withorb.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.withorb.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.withorb.com/api-reference/orb-openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "payments.metering", "payments.card" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "sales-led", "enterprise", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "python", "typescript", "go", "java", "kotlin", "ruby", "status-page", "soc2", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-09", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 289, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 84, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 5, "reliability": 77, "schema": 88, "security": 55, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Orb suits a company that bills on usage and wants one API for events, plans, credits and invoices. It publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 file, numeric rate limits, idempotency keys and a dry-run header. Every plan is priced on request and access starts with sales. No scope list for API keys or public sub-processor list was found.", "bestFor": "A software or AI company that bills on usage and needs event metering, plan versioning, prepaid credits, invoicing and revenue reporting behind one API, with Stripe or Adyen collecting the money.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.1 description with 147 operations and 79 webhook events, plus llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page", "`Idempotency-Key` on every POST and PATCH for 48 hours, with `Idempotent-Replayed` and `Transient-Error` response headers", "A `Dry-Run: True` header validates most write requests and returns the would-be result without saving it", "Rate limits are published per category for live, test and trial accounts, from 10 analytics queries a second to 100 reads a second in live mode", "SDKs for Python, TypeScript and Go were each released on 9 October 2026, with 30 Python releases since 11 July" ], "weaknesses": [ "All three plans (Core, Advanced, Enterprise) show custom pricing only, and the pricing page sends new customers to sales", "No list of API key scopes or a read-only key was found. Keys are created in the web app and revocation is irreversible", "Audit logs are in private preview and limited to the Enterprise plan", "The DPA and SOC reports sit behind an access request, and no public sub-processor list or hosting region was found", "The SDK changelog shows the ingestion `debug` parameter removed on 12 September 2026 while the reliability page still refers to it, and the product changelog has no entry" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `https://api.withorb.com/v1` with `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. A person creates the key in the Orb web app under organisation settings, in test mode or live mode", "Send an `Idempotency-Key` of at most 64 characters on every POST and PATCH. A 409 means the first request is still running or the body changed", "Add `Dry-Run: True` to check a write first, and confirm `Orb-Dry-Run: true` in the response. Ingest, amend and deprecate event calls ignore it and run for real", "Do not send `Idempotency-Key` with `Dry-Run`. Orb returns a validation error", "Page with `limit` (default 20, maximum 100) and pass `next_cursor` back as `cursor` while `has_more` is true", "Back off exponentially on 429. Test mode allows 5 writes a second and 2,000 ingested events a minute" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 66.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 84, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 5, "reliability": 77, "schema": 88, "security": 55, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 84 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install orb-billing", "http": "curl --request POST \\\n --url https://api.withorb.com/v1/subscriptions \\\n --header 'Dry-Run: True' \\\n --header 'Accept: application/json' \\\n --header 'Authorization: Bearer \u003cTOKEN\u003e' \\\n --header 'Content-Type: application/json'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/payments.metering", "tool": "https://letme.dev/orb" }, "area": "payments", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Orb, Inc.", "domain": "withorb.com", "domainRegistered": "2019-10-12", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.withorb.com/terms", "privacy": "https://www.withorb.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.withorb.com", "changelog": "https://changelog.withorb.com", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The website terms of use (effective 21 April 2025) give Orb, Inc., 2261 Market Street #5171, San Francisco, CA 94114. The trust centre and the API description's contact block also name Orb, Inc.", "The Platform Terms and Conditions at /terms govern the Orb Platform and Orb API to the extent an Order Form refers to them, under California law. No version date was read on the page.", "The privacy policy was last updated on 7 May 2025 and covers data collected through the website and the product, including end customers' names and billing addresses.", "The API answers at api.withorb.com and the web app at app.withorb.com, both on the vendor's domain.", "www.withorb.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. The security page gives security@withorb.com and a written disclosure scope.", "RDAP for withorb.com gives a registration date of 2019-10-12 and Squarespace Domains II LLC as registrar.", "The DPA is available on request by email or through the trust centre at security.withorb.com, and was not read." ], "score": 84 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb.json", "live": { "slug": "orb", "probe": { "target": "https://api.withorb.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T01:38:01.612632632Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 403, "lastMs": 252, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 258, "p95ms24h": 369, "samples24h": 102, "samples30d": 102, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 17, "ok": 17 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.withorb.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T01:34:02.855150172Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "orbcorp/orb-python", "version": "v4.83.0", "released": "2026-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:11:19.948988838Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "orb-billing", "version": "6.27.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:11:19.103890585Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "orb-billing", "version": "4.83.0", "released": "2026-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:11:18.985061165Z" } ], "githubStars": 5, "npmWeekly": 184768, "pypiWeekly": 334816, "pages": [ { "url": "https://changelog.withorb.com", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:33:43.924244658Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2f5e7d2a385a" }, { "url": "https://www.withorb.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:55:42.770953537Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a352af138f81" }, { "url": "https://www.withorb.com/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:55:45.239973302Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1516bbe57809" }, { "url": "https://www.withorb.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:55:47.191671669Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "4e15ade75c2a" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T01:38:01.612632632Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Nevermined", "b": "Orb, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.live.nevermined.app", "b": "https://api.withorb.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "payer tooling only", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "Proprietary service under Orb's Platform Terms and Conditions. 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Orb leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Nevermined API + MCP or Orb?" }, { "answer": "Nevermined API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Orb needs an API key.", "question": "Do Nevermined API + MCP and Orb need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. 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"name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "nevermined": 80, "orb": 88, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "orb", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "nevermined": 74, "orb": 84, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "nevermined", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "nevermined": 63, "orb": 55, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 60, "edge": "nevermined", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "nevermined": 65, "orb": 5, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "nevermined", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "nevermined": 89, "orb": 82, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 14, "edge": "orb", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "nevermined": 51, "orb": 65, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Nevermined API + MCP scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Orb's 66.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Orb leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do usage billing.", "verdicts": { "nevermined": "Fees published without a login, 1% on stablecoins, 2% on cards and 2% for the Router. The x402 paywall settles Nevermined plan tokens, so generic x402 clients need its SDK or API to pay.", "orb": "Orb suits a company that bills on usage and wants one API for events, plans, credits and invoices. It publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 file, numeric rate limits, idempotency keys and a dry-run header. Every plan is priced on request and access starts with sales. No scope list for API keys or public sub-processor list was found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nevermined-vs-orb", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nevermined-vs-orb.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nevermined-vs-orb.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nevermined-vs-orb.min.md" }, "markdown": "Nevermined API + MCP scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Orb's 66.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Orb leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do usage billing.\n\n- Nevermined API + MCP: grade BB, 70.8/100, rank #142 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nevermined.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nevermined.json\n- Orb: grade B, 66.5/100, rank #289 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orb.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/orb.json\n- Best payment and monetisation platforms for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/payment-platforms/index.md\n- All 76 platforms comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/payment-platforms/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Nevermined API + MCP (BB)\n\nGood for: Builders who want to charge agents per call or by plan, with fiat and stablecoin rails and caps on the buyer side, and for agents that need one budget across x402 and MPP services. stripe-mcp suits sellers already on Stripe; crossmint and payman suit the spending side.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 63 against 55\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 65 against 5\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 89 against 82\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: The x402 paywall settles Nevermined plan tokens, so generic x402 clients need its SDK or API to pay\n\n### Orb (B)\n\nGood for: A software or AI company that bills on usage and needs event metering, plan versioning, prepaid credits, invoicing and revenue reporting behind one API, with Stripe or Adyen collecting the money.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 77 against 72\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 80\n- Agent ergonomics, 84 against 74\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 51\n\nWatch for: All three plans (Core, Advanced, Enterprise) show custom pricing only, and the pricing page sends new customers to sales\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Nevermined API + MCP | Orb | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 72 | 77 | Orb +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 88 | Orb +8 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 84 | Orb +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 55 | Nevermined API + MCP +8 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 65 | 5 | Nevermined API + MCP +60 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 89 | 82 | Nevermined API + MCP +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 65 | Orb +14 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **70.8 · BB** | **66.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Nevermined API + MCP | Orb |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Nevermined | Orb, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.live.nevermined.app` | `https://api.withorb.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | payer tooling only | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under Orb's Platform Terms and Conditions. The SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 12 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.nevermined-io/catalog` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-09 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2024-11-13 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-05-07 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 17 stars, 468 npm/wk, 4.4k PyPI/wk | 5 stars, 185k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Nevermined API + MCP.** Fees published without a login, 1% on stablecoins, 2% on cards and 2% for the Router. The x402 paywall settles Nevermined plan tokens, so generic x402 clients need its SDK or API to pay.\n\n**Orb.** Orb suits a company that bills on usage and wants one API for events, plans, credits and invoices. It publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 file, numeric rate limits, idempotency keys and a dry-run header. Every plan is priced on request and access starts with sales. No scope list for API keys or public sub-processor list was found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Nevermined API + MCP\n\n1. Call `quote_service` before `pay_service`; quotes cost nothing\n2. Ask the person to open the `setup_delegation` URL once; you can't mint the first key or budget yourself\n3. Branch on the error `code` and retry only when `retryable` is true\n4. Create a small, short delegation per task; cards stop at $10.00 across delegations unless the owner raises it\n5. Use `sandbox:` keys and mcp.sandbox.nevermined.app until the flow works\n\n### Orb\n\n1. Call `https://api.withorb.com/v1` with `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. A person creates the key in the Orb web app under organisation settings, in test mode or live mode\n2. Send an `Idempotency-Key` of at most 64 characters on every POST and PATCH. A 409 means the first request is still running or the body changed\n3. Add `Dry-Run: True` to check a write first, and confirm `Orb-Dry-Run: true` in the response. Ingest, amend and deprecate event calls ignore it and run for real\n4. Do not send `Idempotency-Key` with `Dry-Run`. Orb returns a validation error\n5. Page with `limit` (default 20, maximum 100) and pass `next_cursor` back as `cursor` while `has_more` is true\n6. Back off exponentially on 429. Test mode allows 5 writes a second and 2,000 ingested events a minute\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Nevermined API + MCP or Orb?\n\nNevermined API + MCP scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Orb's 66.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Orb leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Nevermined API + MCP and Orb need an API key?\n\nNevermined API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Orb needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Nevermined API + MCP and Orb without installing anything?\n\nYes. Nevermined API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.live.nevermined.app and Orb at https://api.withorb.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nevermined-vs-orb.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nevermined-vs-orb.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"nevermined\", \"b\": \"orb\"}`. 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