{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "ntop", "name": "nTop", "vendor": "nTopology Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.ntop.com", "kind": "sdk", "category": "cad", "summary": "nTop is nTopology's computational design software for implicit geometry, lattices and simulation-driven parts. nTop Automate runs a notebook headlessly from the ntopcl command line with JSON in and out under a paid licence; a beta Python package reads implicit bodies.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ntop", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ntop.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ntop.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ntop.json", "dns": "ntop.grade.anchorterminal.com", "transports": [ "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://docs.ntop.com/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A licence, not an API key. ntopcl runs on a machine with nTop installed and signs in with cloud licence credentials (`ntopcl --username \u003cemail\u003e --password \u003cpassword\u003e`), a FlexNet floating licence server (`ntopcl --license PORT@HOSTNAME`) or a local .lic file. nTop Automate is a separate licence from the desktop seat, checked in the user dashboard at app.ntop.com. The nTop Core Python package is downloaded from app.ntop.com/addons behind the same login. The hosted docs MCP server at docs.ntop.com/mcp documents no authentication.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No price is published. Licences are per-user subscriptions sold through nTop, with cloud, cloud floating, on-premises FlexNet and local options, and nTop Automate licensed separately; the EULA of February 2026 limits use to one person at a time and bars servers and distributed systems unless the order form allows them. Educational licences exist; no trial terms were found on the pages read.", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 anywhere in the nTop docs, the Automate articles, the EULA or the MCP server article (checked 2026-11-03). The software is licensed, not metered.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 2, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.ntop.com/lessons/intro-to-ntop-automate/what-you-will-need", "capabilities": [ "cad.generate", "cad.export", "cad.simulate" ], "tags": [ "local", "official", "closed-source", "paid", "sales-led", "cli", "python", "beta", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "read-only-mode", "enterprise", "no-status-page" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 40.2, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1214, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1349, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 0, "reliability": 38, "schema": 61, "security": 26, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "An agent on a licensed Windows machine can run any nTop notebook headlessly through ntopcl with JSON in and out, and the beta Python package reads the resulting implicit bodies. Nothing is callable without a paid per-user licence, no price is public, the EULA bars servers without an order form, and licence credentials go on the command line.", "bestFor": "An engineering team that already runs nTop and wants an agent to drive design-of-experiments loops over a notebook or read exported implicit bodies in Python.", "strengths": [ "ntopcl runs a whole notebook headlessly with a JSON input file and a JSON output file, and writes both templates from the notebook with `-t`", "The nTop Core Python package has a typed, NumPy-native API with builtin exceptions for field evaluation, meshing, slicing and voxelising implicit bodies", "A hosted MCP server over the docs with shell-style search (rg, head, cat) lets an agent read nTop's documentation without a licence", "Docs are served as Markdown with a .md suffix, and robots.txt on docs.ntop.com allows AI readers", "Release notes per version and a knowledge base of Automate articles on debugging, logging and design-of-experiments loops in Python" ], "weaknesses": [ "Every geometry call needs nTop installed on Windows with a paid Automate licence; the Core package is beta, behind a login and not on PyPI", "No published price, trial terms, status page, security.txt, bug bounty or public issue tracker", "The EULA counts servers and distributed systems as unauthorised devices unless the order form allows them, which rules out most agent hosts", "ntopcl signs in with a username and password on the command line, with no scoped or revocable token", "Release notes carry no dates and support.ntop.com answers 403 to readers" ], "agentNotes": [ "Only plan to call nTop from a Windows machine where nTop is installed and an Automate licence is signed in; there is no hosted geometry API, and running on a server needs an order form", "Run `ntopcl -t \u003cnotebook.ntop\u003e` first to get the input and output JSON templates, fill the inputs, then run the notebook with the input and output file paths; the Python helper ntopcl.py wraps the three calls", "Keep licence credentials out of prompts and logs: pass `--license PORT@HOSTNAME` for a floating server or a local .lic file rather than a username and password where the owner has one", "Treat the nTop Core package as beta; pin the version, since breaking changes may land between any two versions, and work in metres", "Use the docs MCP server (search first, then rg or head on the returned path with .mdx) to answer nTop questions; it reads only documentation and caps output at 30 KB" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 40.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 45, "payments": 0, "reliability": 38, "schema": 61, "security": 26, "transparency": 37 }, "provenanceScore": 64, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-03", "maintenance": "2026-11-03", "payments": "2026-11-03", "reliability": "2026-11-03", "schema": "2026-11-03", "security": "2026-11-03", "transparency": "2026-11-03" }, "last": "2026-11-03", "oldest": "2026-11-03", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "ntopcl -t my-notebook.ntop", "config": { "mcpServers": { "ntop-docs": { "url": "https://docs.ntop.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/cad.generate", "tool": "https://letme.dev/ntop" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "nTopology Inc.", "domain": "ntop.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.ntop.com/eula/", "privacy": "https://www.ntop.com/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.ntop.com/Product-Documentation/ntop/release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "nTopology Inc., a Delaware corporation, is named in the EULA, the terms of use and the privacy policy, all last updated February 2026, under New York law with JAMS arbitration.", "Section 13(b) of the terms of use forbids accessing the site through bots, scripts or scraping. Recorded as a fact. ntop.com/robots.txt disallows nothing; docs.ntop.com/robots.txt disallows only /cdn-cgi/ and /_next/ and carries Content-Signal ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes.", "support.ntop.com (Zendesk) answered 403 to every request, so the audit's lead article was read from its mirror on docs.ntop.com.", "www.ntop.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404. status.ntop.com has no DNS record.", "The EULA is listed as the terms because it governs the software an agent would run; the website terms of use are at https://www.ntop.com/terms-of-use/." ], "score": 64 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ntop.json", "live": { "slug": "ntop", "probe": { "target": "https://docs.ntop.com/mcp", "method": "mcp-initialize", "lastAt": "2026-11-04T20:05:15.163470813Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 354, "lastNote": "initialize answered", "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 262, "p95ms24h": 461, "samples24h": 48, "samples30d": 48, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 48, "ok": 48 } ] }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://ntop.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T15:53:29.976435108Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-04T20:05:15.163470813Z" } }, "answer": "Onshape scores 55.7 (C) on agent readiness against nTop's 40.2 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. nTop leads on agent ergonomics.", "b": { "slug": "onshape", "name": "Onshape", "vendor": "PTC", "vendorUrl": "https://www.onshape.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "cad", "summary": "Onshape is PTC's cloud CAD platform. Its REST API reads and changes documents, Part Studios, assemblies and drawings with API keys or OAuth 2.0, and the FeatureScript MCP Server in Onshape Labs lets an assistant write FeatureScript into a document.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/onshape", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/onshape.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/onshape.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/onshape.json", "dns": "onshape.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/onshape-public/go-client", "transports": [ "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://fs-mcp.labs.onshape.app/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API keys (an access key and a secret) created under My Account \u003e Developer, at most two active per individual account, scoped to permissions and revocable; each request carries a Date header, a 16-character On-Nonce and an HMAC-SHA256 signature in the Authorization header. OAuth 2.0 authorisation code for apps, with 60-minute access tokens and refresh tokens tied to the user's grant; App Store apps must use OAuth. The FeatureScript MCP Server is authorised in a browser after subscribing to it in the App Store. Keys work only on the stack where they were created.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan at $0 for non-commercial use with every document public; Standard $1,500 and Professional $2,500 per user per year, billed annually; Enterprise by quote. API calls are capped per year by plan, at 2,500 per user on Free, Standard and EDU Student, 5,000 per user on Professional, 10,000 per full user on Enterprise, with 402 Payment Required once spent and more calls sold by sales. Only 2xx and 3xx responses from keys and private OAuth apps count. A Professional trial of up to six months needs no card.", "priceSummary": "$125 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the API limits page or the terms (checked 2026-11-03). Onshape's 402 response means the annual API call quota is spent, not a machine payment challenge.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 0, "popularity": { "githubStars": 13, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://onshape-public.github.io/docs/", "openapi": "https://cad.onshape.com/glassworks/explorer", "capabilities": [ "cad.edit", "cad.generate", "cad.export" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "freemium", "free-tier", "api-key", "oauth", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "beta", "status-page", "soc2", "webhooks", "go", "typescript", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.7, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 820, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1349, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 46, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 22, "reliability": 60, "schema": 63, "security": 63, "transparency": 60 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Scoped API keys, OAuth 2.0 and versioned release notes every three weeks give an agent a stable REST surface over documents, parts, assemblies and drawings, and the Labs MCP server writes FeatureScript. Each request needs an HMAC signature and nonce, annual call quotas end in 402, per-endpoint limits are unpublished, and robots.txt closes the OpenAPI explorer's host to readers.", "bestFor": "Agents that read or change existing cloud CAD documents, run configurations, pull BOMs and drawings, or write FeatureScript for a team already on Onshape.", "strengths": [ "API keys scoped to permissions and revocable, and OAuth 2.0 with 60-minute access tokens and refresh tokens tied to the user's grant", "Versioned API (v17) with dated release notes every three weeks, deprecations marked and an x-deprecated response header", "Official FeatureScript MCP Server over Streamable HTTP, added to Claude Code with one command after an App Store subscription", "Statuspage with regional components and a 90-day record of short degradations, none a full outage", "Free plan for non-commercial use and a Professional trial of up to six months with no card" ], "weaknesses": [ "Every API key request must be signed with HMAC-SHA256 over the method, nonce, date, content type, path and query, and 307 redirects need a fresh signature", "Annual API call quotas (2,500 per user on Free and Standard) answer 402 when spent; per-endpoint rate limits are unpublished and 429 carries no documented header", "The Glassworks explorer and OpenAPI document are on cad.onshape.com, which robots.txt closes, and no llms.txt exists", "The MCP server is an early-access Labs feature with no public tool list, and AI agents are listed as coming soon", "The API agreement that governs programmatic use is on the developer portal and was not read; the privacy policy is PTC's" ], "agentNotes": [ "Sign every API key request with a Date header within 5 minutes, a unique 16-character On-Nonce and `Authorization: On \u003cAccessKey\u003e:HmacSHA256:\u003csignature\u003e`; prefer OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens and refresh on 401", "Count calls against the plan's annual quota (2,500 per user on Free) and treat 402 as quota exhausted, not a payment request; 4xx and 5xx responses do not count", "Put the API version in the path (api/v17) and pin it, since unversioned calls use v0 and unknown versions fall back to the newest", "On 429 back off and reduce redundant calls; no Retry-After or numeric limit is published, and imports and exports were the component most often delayed in the 90-day record", "For FeatureScript work, subscribe to the FeatureScript MCP Server in the App Store first, then `claude mcp add --transport http onshape https://fs-mcp.labs.onshape.app/mcp` and authorise in the browser; use `/mcp` to re-authenticate" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 55.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 46, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 22, "reliability": 60, "schema": 63, "security": 63, "transparency": 53 }, "provenanceScore": 66, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-03", "maintenance": "2026-11-03", "payments": "2026-11-03", "reliability": "2026-11-03", "schema": "2026-11-03", "security": "2026-11-03", "transparency": "2026-11-03" }, "last": "2026-11-03", "oldest": "2026-11-03", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -u \"$ONSHAPE_ACCESS_KEY:$ONSHAPE_SECRET_KEY\" https://cad.onshape.com/api/v17/documents?limit=20", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http onshape https://fs-mcp.labs.onshape.app/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "onshape": { "url": "https://fs-mcp.labs.onshape.app/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/cad.edit", "tool": "https://letme.dev/onshape" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Standard plan", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 125, "note": "$1,500 per user per year, billed annually; 2,500 API calls per user per year" }, { "item": "Professional plan", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 208.33, "note": "$2,500 per user per year, billed annually; 5,000 API calls per user per year" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "PTC Inc.", "domain": "onshape.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.onshape.com/en/legal/terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://www.ptc.com/en/documents/policies/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.onshape.com/", "changelog": "https://onshape-public.github.io/docs/changelog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "PTC Inc., acting through its Onshape business unit, is named in the Onshape Product Terms of Use effective 15 July 2020, under Massachusetts law.", "Section 4(b)(ix) of the terms forbids any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Service, and section 1 puts API use under a separate API agreement on the developer portal, which was not read. Recorded as facts.", "www.onshape.com/robots.txt disallows many marketing paths (enterprise, landing pages, the free product pages); the legal, pricing, blog and tech-tip pages read are not among them. cad.onshape.com/robots.txt disallows everything except /help and /FsDoc, and www.ptc.com/robots.txt answered 403, so the privacy policy at the URL above was not read.", "www.onshape.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404.", "The MCP endpoint is on labs.onshape.app, an Onshape domain; the API is on cad.onshape.com." ], "score": 66 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/onshape.json", "live": { "slug": "onshape", "probe": { "target": "https://fs-mcp.labs.onshape.app/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-04T20:05:16.083387015Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 746, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 605, "p95ms24h": 746, "samples24h": 48, "samples30d": 48, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 48, "ok": 48 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.onshape.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T20:05:31.236609903Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://onshape.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T15:54:18.491201234Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-04T20:05:16.083387015Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 37, "category": "security", "leads": "onshape", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Licence credentials rather than tokens, since ntopcl signs in with a username and password on the command line or a FlexNet server address, with no scoped, revocable or expiring key (8 of 30). The Run Command block has Prompt per File, Prompt per Block and Disallow All settings, which is the only approval control found; the docs MCP server is read-only (10 of 20). The docs server returns nTop's own documentation and ntopcl returns geometry, so little untrusted content reaches the model; no guidance was found (8 of 15). No audit log or per-call record found (0 of 15). No security.txt (404), disclosure policy, bug bounty, certification or advisories found on ntop.com or docs.ntop.com (0 of 20). 8 + 10 + 8 + 0 + 0 = 26.", "b": "API keys scoped to permissions, revocable, two per individual account, with a signed request scheme; OAuth 2.0 authorisation code with 60-minute access tokens and refresh tokens revoked with the user's grant; no key expiry documented (26 of 30). Permission scopes allow read-only keys; no confirmation step before destructive calls and no approval gate on the MCP server beyond the App Store subscription (12 of 20). The MCP server reads FeatureScript errors and geometry from the document and no prompt-injection guidance was found (5 of 15). API usage counts are visible under Developer settings per company or user; no per-call audit log was found (6 of 15). SOC 2 Type 2 audited annually, AES-256 and TLS 1.2 with HSTS, paid researcher testing and security@onshape.com, but no security.txt (404), no public bug bounty and no advisories page (14 of 20). 26 + 12 + 5 + 6 + 14 = 63." }, "scores": { "a": 26, "b": 63 } }, { "by": 34, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "onshape", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Read for closed software with a docs site. The newest release notes are for nTop 6.3, undated; the docs sitemap last modified the 6.1 page on 21 September 2026 and the Core package page on 19 October 2026, so a change within 90 days is likely but no release date was read (20 of 30). Four versions (6.0 to 6.3) are documented and the 6.0 and 6.1 pages changed in September, but without dates we can't count three releases in 90 days (12 of 20). support@ntop.com, a community site that renders only a loading screen, and a feedback tool on the docs server; no public issues or reply times (8 of 25). No entry in the official MCP registry for the docs server, and the only SDK is a beta Python package behind a login (5 of 15). No CI, package index or dependency data to read (0 of 10). 20 + 12 + 8 + 5 + 0 = 45.", "b": "Read for a closed service. API release notes rel-1.223 dated 30 October 2026 (30). Six dated releases from 17 July to 30 October, three weeks apart (20). A public changelog, forum.onshape.com and api-support@onshape.com; response times were not tested (12 of 15). No Onshape-owned server in the official MCP registry, where the only match is io.github.gpambrozio/onshape; the official Go client was pushed on 31 October 2026 and the TypeScript clients in June and September 2025 (12 of 15). The Go client is generated and its CI was not read; the multi-language onshape-clients repository is archived (5 of 10). 30 + 20 + 12 + 12 + 5 = 79." }, "scores": { "a": 45, "b": 79 } }, { "by": 22, "category": "reliability", "leads": "onshape", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Read with the local-software lines, since ntopcl and the Core package run on the owner's machine. ntopcl ships inside the nTop Windows installer and the Core package states Python 3.10 or later on Windows and Linux, but both come from app.ntop.com behind a login, not a public package index (12 of 20). No public CI or test suite (0). No public issue tracker; the knowledge base has articles on debugging Automate errors and the 6.3 notes record ntopcl rejecting duplicate input names, which is all the crash record we could read (8 of 25). Release notes per version call out behaviour changes such as unique block names in 6.3, and the Core package warns that breaking changes may land between any two versions, with no semver statement (8 of 15). nTop 6.x is a released product; nTop Core is beta (10 of 15). 12 + 0 + 8 + 8 + 10 = 38.", "b": "Read with the hosted lines on cad.onshape.com. Atlassian Statuspage at status.onshape.com with regional CAD service components and history feeds (20). The feed holds 18 incidents from 15 August to 30 October 2026, all degraded performance, delayed imports and exports or partial signup blocks, the longest 2 hours 42 minutes of export degradation on 15 September and imports, exports and notifications not working for 1 hour 42 minutes on 11 September; no full outage of the CAD service (18 of 30). Annual API call quotas are published per plan with numbers, while per-endpoint rate limits are said to vary by endpoint with no figure (8 of 15). 429 is documented without a header or backoff timing, 402 marks a spent quota, and no idempotency guidance was found (6 of 15). The terms promise commercially reasonable efforts and no SLA (0). The REST API is generally available; the FeatureScript MCP Server is an early-access Labs feature (8 of 10). 20 + 18 + 8 + 6 + 0 + 8 = 60." }, "scores": { "a": 38, "b": 60 } }, { "by": 22, "category": "payments", "leads": "onshape", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "Read with the paid-software rule, since nothing an agent would run is free. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). No price is published anywhere we read; licences are quoted by sales (0). No free tier or trial terms found; educational licences exist for students (0). A person buys a per-user licence, signs in at app.ntop.com and installs nTop; nothing is obtainable by an agent alone (0). 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0.", "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public per user per year, with no per-call price; extra API calls are sold by sales at an unpublished rate (10). The Free plan costs nothing for non-commercial use with public documents and a Professional trial needs no card; whether the Free plan asks for a card was not stated (12 of 20). A person signs up in a browser and creates the key or OAuth app (0). 0 + 10 + 12 + 0 = 22." }, "scores": { "a": 0, "b": 22 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "ntop", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "A command line with one notebook and two JSON files, a Python package with one class, and a docs MCP server with two tools, so almost nothing to load before work starts (20 of 25). Outputs are files whose size follows the notebook, mesh and voxel outputs are sized by feature_size and spacing, and the docs server caps each answer at 30 KB with rg and head for narrowing (12 of 20). Core raises builtin exceptions with messages; ntopcl's errors are described in knowledge-base articles rather than a reference (10 of 20). Running a notebook again with the same inputs produces the same outputs, and the SAVE flag controls whether inputs are written back; no annotations on the docs tools were published (10 of 20). The three-function ntopcl.py helper keeps defaults few, but every run needs a licence argument or signed-in session and only Python is covered (8 of 15). 20 + 12 + 10 + 10 + 8 = 60.", "b": "Document and element endpoints take ids and the list endpoints take limit and offset, with no field selection documented in what we read; the MCP server's tool count is unknown (12 of 25). Pagination and filters on document lists, and revisions page (a paging loop was fixed in rel-1.219) (14 of 20). HTTP codes with 401, 402 and 429 meanings; the error body shape was on the unread response codes page (10 of 20). No idempotency keys; POSTs create microversions on every edit; no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint published for the MCP tools (2 of 20). Every API key request needs a Date header, a nonce and an HMAC-SHA256 signature, and 307 redirects need a new signature; official Go and TypeScript clients handle it (8 of 15). 12 + 14 + 10 + 2 + 8 = 46." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 46 } }, { "by": 9, "category": "transparency", "leads": "onshape", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed software under an EULA last updated February 2026 that names nTopology Inc. and New York law (15). The privacy policy of February 2026 names the controller and US hosting, keeps data as long as needed with no periods, names no subprocessors, and the EULA says usage data is collected to run and improve the products; the statements agree but say little (12 of 30). No deprecation policy; the Core package says only that breaking changes may occur (4 of 20). The EULA discloses usage data collection and the licensing page says the desktop connects to the cloud for analytics, with no opt-out found (6 of 20). 15 + 12 + 4 + 6 = 37.", "b": "Closed service with clear terms of 15 July 2020 naming PTC Inc. and Massachusetts law (15). The privacy policy has moved to ptc.com, which our reader could not fetch; the data disclosures page names subprocessors (AWS, Salesforce, SendGrid, Zendesk, Vanilla Forums, Crownpeak, Thought Industries, Stripe, Zuora) without retention periods, and neither the terms nor the disclosures say whether customer content trains AI (12 of 30). Deprecations are marked in dated release notes and flagged with an x-deprecated header, but no notice period is stated (12 of 20). 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Both do cad generate.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "ntop": "An agent on a licensed Windows machine can run any nTop notebook headlessly through ntopcl with JSON in and out, and the beta Python package reads the resulting implicit bodies. Nothing is callable without a paid per-user licence, no price is public, the EULA bars servers without an order form, and licence credentials go on the command line.", "onshape": "Scoped API keys, OAuth 2.0 and versioned release notes every three weeks give an agent a stable REST surface over documents, parts, assemblies and drawings, and the Labs MCP server writes FeatureScript. Each request needs an HMAC signature and nonce, annual call quotas end in 402, per-endpoint limits are unpublished, and robots.txt closes the OpenAPI explorer's host to readers." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ntop-vs-onshape", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ntop-vs-onshape.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ntop-vs-onshape.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ntop-vs-onshape.min.md" }, "markdown": "Onshape scores 55.7 (C) on agent readiness against nTop's 40.2 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. nTop leads on agent ergonomics. Both do cad generate.\n\n- nTop: grade E, 40.2/100, rank #1214 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ntop.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ntop.json\n- Onshape: grade C, 55.7/100, rank #820 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/onshape.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/onshape.json\n- Best CAD, simulation and fabrication APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/cad/index.md\n- All 15 cad comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cad/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### nTop (E)\n\nGood for: An engineering team that already runs nTop and wants an agent to drive design-of-experiments loops over a notebook or read exported implicit bodies in Python.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 60 against 46\n\nWatch for: Every geometry call needs nTop installed on Windows with a paid Automate licence; the Core package is beta, behind a login and not on PyPI\n\n### Onshape (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that read or change existing cloud CAD documents, run configurations, pull BOMs and drawings, or write FeatureScript for a team already on Onshape.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 60 against 38\n- Security \u0026 auth, 63 against 26\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 22 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 45\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 60 against 51\n\nWatch for: Every API key request must be signed with HMAC-SHA256 over the method, nonce, date, content type, path and query, and 307 redirects need a fresh signature\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Onshape +37\n\n- nTop (26): Licence credentials rather than tokens, since ntopcl signs in with a username and password on the command line or a FlexNet server address, with no scoped, revocable or expiring key (8 of 30). The Run Command block has Prompt per File, Prompt per Block and Disallow All settings, which is the only approval control found; the docs MCP server is read-only (10 of 20). The docs server returns nTop's own documentation and ntopcl returns geometry, so little untrusted content reaches the model; no guidance was found (8 of 15). No audit log or per-call record found (0 of 15). No security.txt (404), disclosure policy, bug bounty, certification or advisories found on ntop.com or docs.ntop.com (0 of 20). 8 + 10 + 8 + 0 + 0 = 26.\n- Onshape (63): API keys scoped to permissions, revocable, two per individual account, with a signed request scheme; OAuth 2.0 authorisation code with 60-minute access tokens and refresh tokens revoked with the user's grant; no key expiry documented (26 of 30). Permission scopes allow read-only keys; no confirmation step before destructive calls and no approval gate on the MCP server beyond the App Store subscription (12 of 20). The MCP server reads FeatureScript errors and geometry from the document and no prompt-injection guidance was found (5 of 15). API usage counts are visible under Developer settings per company or user; no per-call audit log was found (6 of 15). SOC 2 Type 2 audited annually, AES-256 and TLS 1.2 with HSTS, paid researcher testing and security@onshape.com, but no security.txt (404), no public bug bounty and no advisories page (14 of 20). 26 + 12 + 5 + 6 + 14 = 63.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Onshape +34\n\n- nTop (45): Read for closed software with a docs site. The newest release notes are for nTop 6.3, undated; the docs sitemap last modified the 6.1 page on 21 September 2026 and the Core package page on 19 October 2026, so a change within 90 days is likely but no release date was read (20 of 30). Four versions (6.0 to 6.3) are documented and the 6.0 and 6.1 pages changed in September, but without dates we can't count three releases in 90 days (12 of 20). support@ntop.com, a community site that renders only a loading screen, and a feedback tool on the docs server; no public issues or reply times (8 of 25). No entry in the official MCP registry for the docs server, and the only SDK is a beta Python package behind a login (5 of 15). No CI, package index or dependency data to read (0 of 10). 20 + 12 + 8 + 5 + 0 = 45.\n- Onshape (79): Read for a closed service. API release notes rel-1.223 dated 30 October 2026 (30). Six dated releases from 17 July to 30 October, three weeks apart (20). A public changelog, forum.onshape.com and api-support@onshape.com; response times were not tested (12 of 15). No Onshape-owned server in the official MCP registry, where the only match is io.github.gpambrozio/onshape; the official Go client was pushed on 31 October 2026 and the TypeScript clients in June and September 2025 (12 of 15). The Go client is generated and its CI was not read; the multi-language onshape-clients repository is archived (5 of 10). 30 + 20 + 12 + 12 + 5 = 79.\n\n### Reliability: Onshape +22\n\n- nTop (38): Read with the local-software lines, since ntopcl and the Core package run on the owner's machine. ntopcl ships inside the nTop Windows installer and the Core package states Python 3.10 or later on Windows and Linux, but both come from app.ntop.com behind a login, not a public package index (12 of 20). No public CI or test suite (0). No public issue tracker; the knowledge base has articles on debugging Automate errors and the 6.3 notes record ntopcl rejecting duplicate input names, which is all the crash record we could read (8 of 25). Release notes per version call out behaviour changes such as unique block names in 6.3, and the Core package warns that breaking changes may land between any two versions, with no semver statement (8 of 15). nTop 6.x is a released product; nTop Core is beta (10 of 15). 12 + 0 + 8 + 8 + 10 = 38.\n- Onshape (60): Read with the hosted lines on cad.onshape.com. Atlassian Statuspage at status.onshape.com with regional CAD service components and history feeds (20). The feed holds 18 incidents from 15 August to 30 October 2026, all degraded performance, delayed imports and exports or partial signup blocks, the longest 2 hours 42 minutes of export degradation on 15 September and imports, exports and notifications not working for 1 hour 42 minutes on 11 September; no full outage of the CAD service (18 of 30). Annual API call quotas are published per plan with numbers, while per-endpoint rate limits are said to vary by endpoint with no figure (8 of 15). 429 is documented without a header or backoff timing, 402 marks a spent quota, and no idempotency guidance was found (6 of 15). The terms promise commercially reasonable efforts and no SLA (0). The REST API is generally available; the FeatureScript MCP Server is an early-access Labs feature (8 of 10). 20 + 18 + 8 + 6 + 0 + 8 = 60.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Onshape +22\n\n- nTop (0): Read with the paid-software rule, since nothing an agent would run is free. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). No price is published anywhere we read; licences are quoted by sales (0). No free tier or trial terms found; educational licences exist for students (0). A person buys a per-user licence, signs in at app.ntop.com and installs nTop; nothing is obtainable by an agent alone (0). 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0.\n- Onshape (22): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public per user per year, with no per-call price; extra API calls are sold by sales at an unpublished rate (10). The Free plan costs nothing for non-commercial use with public documents and a Professional trial needs no card; whether the Free plan asks for a card was not stated (12 of 20). A person signs up in a browser and creates the key or OAuth app (0). 0 + 10 + 12 + 0 = 22.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: nTop +14\n\n- nTop (60): A command line with one notebook and two JSON files, a Python package with one class, and a docs MCP server with two tools, so almost nothing to load before work starts (20 of 25). Outputs are files whose size follows the notebook, mesh and voxel outputs are sized by feature_size and spacing, and the docs server caps each answer at 30 KB with rg and head for narrowing (12 of 20). Core raises builtin exceptions with messages; ntopcl's errors are described in knowledge-base articles rather than a reference (10 of 20). Running a notebook again with the same inputs produces the same outputs, and the SAVE flag controls whether inputs are written back; no annotations on the docs tools were published (10 of 20). The three-function ntopcl.py helper keeps defaults few, but every run needs a licence argument or signed-in session and only Python is covered (8 of 15). 20 + 12 + 10 + 10 + 8 = 60.\n- Onshape (46): Document and element endpoints take ids and the list endpoints take limit and offset, with no field selection documented in what we read; the MCP server's tool count is unknown (12 of 25). Pagination and filters on document lists, and revisions page (a paging loop was fixed in rel-1.219) (14 of 20). HTTP codes with 401, 402 and 429 meanings; the error body shape was on the unread response codes page (10 of 20). No idempotency keys; POSTs create microversions on every edit; no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint published for the MCP tools (2 of 20). Every API key request needs a Date header, a nonce and an HMAC-SHA256 signature, and 307 redirects need a new signature; official Go and TypeScript clients handle it (8 of 15). 12 + 14 + 10 + 2 + 8 = 46.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Onshape +9\n\n- nTop (51): Closed software under an EULA last updated February 2026 that names nTopology Inc. and New York law (15). The privacy policy of February 2026 names the controller and US hosting, keeps data as long as needed with no periods, names no subprocessors, and the EULA says usage data is collected to run and improve the products; the statements agree but say little (12 of 30). No deprecation policy; the Core package says only that breaking changes may occur (4 of 20). The EULA discloses usage data collection and the licensing page says the desktop connects to the cloud for analytics, with no opt-out found (6 of 20). 15 + 12 + 4 + 6 = 37.\n- Onshape (60): Closed service with clear terms of 15 July 2020 naming PTC Inc. and Massachusetts law (15). The privacy policy has moved to ptc.com, which our reader could not fetch; the data disclosures page names subprocessors (AWS, Salesforce, SendGrid, Zendesk, Vanilla Forums, Crownpeak, Thought Industries, Stripe, Zuora) without retention periods, and neither the terms nor the disclosures say whether customer content trains AI (12 of 30). Deprecations are marked in dated release notes and flagged with an x-deprecated header, but no notice period is stated (12 of 20). Subprocessors are named and the status page lists hosting regions by continent; no formal data location statement was read (14 of 20). 15 + 12 + 12 + 14 = 53.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | nTop | Onshape | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 38 | 60 | Onshape +22 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 61 | 63 | Onshape +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 46 | nTop +14 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 26 | 63 | Onshape +37 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 22 | Onshape +22 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 79 | Onshape +34 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 60 | Onshape +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **40.2 · E** | **55.7 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | nTop | Onshape |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | nTopology Inc. | PTC |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://docs.ntop.com/mcp` | `https://fs-mcp.labs.onshape.app/mcp` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP | Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Tools exposed | 2 | 0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | none | 2026-10-30 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-02-01 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-02-01 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 13 stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**nTop.** An agent on a licensed Windows machine can run any nTop notebook headlessly through ntopcl with JSON in and out, and the beta Python package reads the resulting implicit bodies. Nothing is callable without a paid per-user licence, no price is public, the EULA bars servers without an order form, and licence credentials go on the command line.\n\n**Onshape.** Scoped API keys, OAuth 2.0 and versioned release notes every three weeks give an agent a stable REST surface over documents, parts, assemblies and drawings, and the Labs MCP server writes FeatureScript. Each request needs an HMAC signature and nonce, annual call quotas end in 402, per-endpoint limits are unpublished, and robots.txt closes the OpenAPI explorer's host to readers.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### nTop\n\n1. Only plan to call nTop from a Windows machine where nTop is installed and an Automate licence is signed in; there is no hosted geometry API, and running on a server needs an order form\n2. Run `ntopcl -t \u003cnotebook.ntop\u003e` first to get the input and output JSON templates, fill the inputs, then run the notebook with the input and output file paths; the Python helper ntopcl.py wraps the three calls\n3. Keep licence credentials out of prompts and logs: pass `--license PORT@HOSTNAME` for a floating server or a local .lic file rather than a username and password where the owner has one\n4. Treat the nTop Core package as beta; pin the version, since breaking changes may land between any two versions, and work in metres\n5. Use the docs MCP server (search first, then rg or head on the returned path with .mdx) to answer nTop questions; it reads only documentation and caps output at 30 KB\n\n### Onshape\n\n1. Sign every API key request with a Date header within 5 minutes, a unique 16-character On-Nonce and `Authorization: On \u003cAccessKey\u003e:HmacSHA256:\u003csignature\u003e`; prefer OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens and refresh on 401\n2. Count calls against the plan's annual quota (2,500 per user on Free) and treat 402 as quota exhausted, not a payment request; 4xx and 5xx responses do not count\n3. Put the API version in the path (api/v17) and pin it, since unversioned calls use v0 and unknown versions fall back to the newest\n4. On 429 back off and reduce redundant calls; no Retry-After or numeric limit is published, and imports and exports were the component most often delayed in the 90-day record\n5. For FeatureScript work, subscribe to the FeatureScript MCP Server in the App Store first, then `claude mcp add --transport http onshape https://fs-mcp.labs.onshape.app/mcp` and authorise in the browser; use `/mcp` to re-authenticate\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, nTop or Onshape?\n\nOnshape scores 55.7 (C) on agent readiness against nTop's 40.2 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. nTop leads on agent ergonomics.\n\n### Can an agent call nTop and Onshape without installing anything?\n\nYes. nTop has a hosted endpoint at https://docs.ntop.com/mcp and Onshape at https://fs-mcp.labs.onshape.app/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ntop-vs-onshape.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ntop-vs-onshape.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"ntop\", \"b\": \"onshape\"}`. 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