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An admin creates keys under Setup, API keys, and chooses a permission type, one of which allows impersonating any user. Keys have no scopes. The MCP server at `https://app.nutshell.com/mcp` uses OAuth authorisation code with PKCE (S256), dynamic client registration at `/oauth/register`, a revocation endpoint and two scopes, `read` and `write`. Access is self-serve on every plan and the trial.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No free plan. A 14-day trial needs no card, and the API and MCP server are included on every plan. Five plans a seat a month billed yearly, Foundation $13, Growth $25, Pro $42, Business $59 and Enterprise $79, or $19, $32, $49, $67 and $89 billed monthly. API calls are not billed separately. The docs publish sandbox credentials for a demo account (https://www.nutshell.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$13 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the OAuth metadata or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.nutshell.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.nutshell.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "crm.records", "crm.pipeline", "crm.activities", "crm.search", "crm.webhooks" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "mcp", "oauth", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "no-card", "status-page", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 49.6, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 607, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 44, "maintenance": 46, "payments": 35, "reliability": 42, "schema": 57, "security": 58, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The REST reference is served as Markdown with an OpenAPI fragment per operation, and the hosted MCP server uses OAuth with PKCE and can only read. No rate limit numbers, error format or API changelog were found in the reviewed documentation, and API keys carry no scopes.", "bestFor": "Small sales teams already on Nutshell who want an agent to read pipeline data over MCP or write records over REST at a low seat price.", "strengths": [ "API access and the MCP server are included on every plan, from Foundation at $13 a seat a month billed yearly", "`developers.nutshell.com/llms.txt` indexes 114 REST operations, each served as Markdown with its OpenAPI 3.0 definition", "Hosted MCP server at `https://app.nutshell.com/mcp` with OAuth, PKCE, dynamic client registration, a revocation endpoint and read-only tools", "Terms and privacy policy of 2 June 2026 both state that customer data is not used to train generalised AI models", "14-day trial with no card, and the docs publish sandbox credentials for a demo account" ], "weaknesses": [ "No rate limit numbers, 429 handling or Retry-After found for the REST API", "Error responses are documented on 9 of 114 operations, with no error body schema, and an unauthenticated REST call returns an HTML page", "API keys have no scopes or read-only type, and the key travels as an HTTP Basic password with a user's email", "No dated API changelog, no official SDK for REST and whole-spec OpenAPI download is disabled", "A database fault on 28 September 2026 left the application unavailable for some customers, marked major on the status page" ], "agentNotes": [ "Authenticate REST calls with HTTP Basic, a Nutshell user's email as username and the API key as password, against `https://app.nutshell.com/rest`", "Use IDs in the `\u003cnumber\u003e-\u003ctype\u003e` form, such as `3-accounts`, and send updates as JSON Patch with `content-type: application/json-patch+json`", "Page lists with `page[limit]` and `page[page]`, which is 0-based, and call `/accounts/list/fields` or the lead and contact equivalents for valid filter keys", "Use the REST API for writes. The MCP server only reads, and OAuth tokens need the `read` scope", "Filter webhook events yourself, because every webhook receives all events and subscriptions are created in Setup, not through the API" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 49.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 44, "maintenance": 46, "payments": 35, "reliability": 42, "schema": 57, "security": 58, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 86 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -u \"$NUTSHELL_USER_EMAIL:$NUTSHELL_API_KEY\" \\\n --url https://app.nutshell.com/rest/accounts \\\n --header 'accept: */*'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/crm.records", "tool": "https://letme.dev/nutshell" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Foundation (API and MCP included, 100 open leads)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 13, "note": "billed yearly; $19 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Growth", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 25, "note": "billed yearly; $32 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Pro", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 42, "note": "billed yearly; $49 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Business (first plan with the audit log)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 59, "note": "billed yearly; $67 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Enterprise (SSO and SQL access)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 79, "note": "billed yearly; $89 billed monthly" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Nutshell, Inc.", "domain": "nutshell.com", "domainRegistered": "1995-05-02", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.nutshell.com/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://www.nutshell.com/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.nutshell.com", "changelog": "https://www.nutshell.com/product-updates", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (last updated 2 June 2026) name Nutshell, Inc., 1705 North Front Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102, cover the applications and APIs, and are governed by Pennsylvania law. The site footer says Nutshell is brought to you by WebFX.", "The REST API, the JSON-RPC API and the MCP server all answer at app.nutshell.com.", "www.nutshell.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The security page asks for reports at security@nutshell.com and says there is no bug bounty.", "The product updates page lists launches without dates and is not an API changelog. No dated API changelog was found.", "The subprocessor list is at trust.nutshell.com/subprocessors, a page drawn by script that we could not read.", "RDAP for nutshell.com gives a registration date of 1995-05-02." ], "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nutshell.json", "live": { "slug": "nutshell", "probe": { "target": "https://app.nutshell.com/rest", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:17.00492712Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 254, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 270, "p95ms24h": 310, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.nutshell.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:13.221021272Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:17.00492712Z" } }, "answer": "Pipedrive API + MCP scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Nutshell's 49.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Nutshell leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "pipedrive", "name": "Pipedrive API + MCP", "vendor": "Pipedrive", "vendorUrl": "https://www.pipedrive.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "crm", "summary": "REST API (v1 and a faster v2) and a hosted MCP server for Pipedrive, the pipeline CRM.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedrive", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedrive.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedrive.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipedrive.json", "repo": "https://github.com/pipedrive/client-nodejs", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "pipedrive" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Personal API token in the x-api-token header (older docs show it as an api_token query parameter, which puts it in logs); one active token per user per company. OAuth 2.0 with scopes for marketplace apps. The MCP server at https://mcp.pipedrive.ai/mcp is OAuth only, through oauth.pipedrive.com, with scopes for deals, contacts, leads, activities, products and search.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No free plan, a 14-day trial with no card. Lite $14, Growth $39, Premium $59 and Ultimate $79 a seat a month billed yearly ($24, $49, $79 and $99 billed monthly per the 30 September check). API and MCP on every plan. Each company gets a daily API budget of 30,000 tokens times a plan multiplier (Lite 1 up to Ultimate 7) times seats; extra token packs are sold from $100 a month (https://www.pipedrive.com/en/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$24 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No payments. Access follows the Pipedrive subscription and its daily API token budget.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 234, "npmWeekly": 71835, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.pipedrive.com/docs/api/v1", "llmsTxt": "https://pipedrive.readme.io/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developers.pipedrive.com/docs/api/v1/openapi-v2.yaml", "capabilities": [ "crm.records", "crm.pipeline", "crm.activities", "crm.search", "crm.webhooks" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "webhooks", "closed-source", "typescript", "no-card" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.5, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 397, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 30, "reliability": 53, "schema": 80, "security": 53, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Hosted MCP server on every plan, with actions recorded in the change log. MCP tool list not published, and the server is labelled beta.", "bestFor": "Small and mid-size sales teams running deal pipelines who want an agent to update deals and log activities.", "strengths": [ "Hosted MCP server on every plan, with actions recorded in the change log", "Detailed rate-limit docs with token costs per call type and remaining-budget headers", "Official Node (33.7.0, 8 September 2026) and PHP SDKs", "ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and SOC 2 Type 2", "Dated deprecations announced months ahead" ], "weaknesses": [ "MCP tool list not published, and the server is labelled beta", "Four incidents over an hour in September 2026, and no status component for API v2 or MCP", "Personal API tokens carry full user rights and can travel as a query parameter", "Daily token budget is shared by the whole company", "No security.txt and no retention period after account closure" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use v2 endpoints, which cost fewer tokens than v1", "Read `x-daily-requests-left` before a bulk run, since a search costs 40 tokens", "Send the token in the `x-api-token` header, never as `api_token` in the URL", "Keep under 10 search requests per 2 seconds on every plan", "Ask the user to load all Pipedrive tools in the client if an expected tool is missing" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 30, "reliability": 53, "schema": 80, "security": 53, "transparency": 66 }, "provenanceScore": 85 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2/deals?limit=5\" -H \"x-api-token: $PIPEDRIVE_API_TOKEN\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http pipedrive https://mcp.pipedrive.ai/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "pipedrive": { "url": "https://mcp.pipedrive.ai/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/crm.records", "tool": "https://letme.dev/pipedrive" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Lite", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 24, "note": "billed monthly; API on every plan" }, { "item": "Growth", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 49, "note": "billed monthly" }, { "item": "Premium", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 79, "note": "billed monthly" }, { "item": "Ultimate", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 99, "note": "billed monthly" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Pipedrive Inc.", "domain": "pipedrive.com", "domainRegistered": "2010-07-07", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.pipedrive.com/en/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.pipedrive.com/en/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.pipedrive.com", "changelog": "https://developers.pipedrive.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "US customers contract with Pipedrive Inc., EU customers with Pipedrive OÜ (Tallinn), UK customers with Pipedrive UK.", "The MCP server is on pipedrive.ai, a separate domain from the REST API." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedrive.json", "live": { "slug": "pipedrive", "probe": { "target": "https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:18.49188772Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 127, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 65, "p95ms24h": 131, "samples24h": 271, "samples30d": 2157, "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", 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API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Nutshell, Inc.", "b": "Pipedrive", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://app.nutshell.com/rest", "b": "https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Nutshell's Terms of Service", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-08-21", "b": "2026-09-08", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-06-02", "b": "2026-09-16", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-06-02", "b": "2026-07-02", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "234 stars, 72k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2.5/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Pipedrive API + MCP scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Nutshell's 49.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Nutshell leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Nutshell or Pipedrive API + MCP?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Nutshell and Pipedrive API + MCP need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Nutshell has a hosted endpoint at https://app.nutshell.com/rest and Pipedrive API + MCP at https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2.", "question": "Can an agent call Nutshell and Pipedrive API + MCP without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 58 against 53", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Small sales teams already on Nutshell who want an agent to read pipeline data over MCP or write records over REST at a low seat price.", "slug": "nutshell", "watchFor": "No rate limit numbers, 429 handling or Retry-After found for the REST API" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 53 against 42", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 57", "Agent ergonomics, 61 against 44", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 46", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 71" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Small and mid-size sales teams running deal pipelines who want an agent to update deals and log activities.", "slug": "pipedrive", "watchFor": 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Nutshell leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do crm records.", "verdicts": { "nutshell": "The REST reference is served as Markdown with an OpenAPI fragment per operation, and the hosted MCP server uses OAuth with PKCE and can only read. No rate limit numbers, error format or API changelog were found in the reviewed documentation, and API keys carry no scopes.", "pipedrive": "Hosted MCP server on every plan, with actions recorded in the change log. MCP tool list not published, and the server is labelled beta." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nutshell-vs-pipedrive", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nutshell-vs-pipedrive.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nutshell-vs-pipedrive.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nutshell-vs-pipedrive.min.md" }, "markdown": "Pipedrive API + MCP scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Nutshell's 49.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Nutshell leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do crm records.\n\n- Nutshell: grade D, 49.6/100, rank #607 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nutshell.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nutshell.json\n- Pipedrive API + MCP: grade C, 60.5/100, rank #397 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedrive.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipedrive.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Nutshell (D)\n\nGood for: Small sales teams already on Nutshell who want an agent to read pipeline data over MCP or write records over REST at a low seat price.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 58 against 53\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30\n\nWatch for: No rate limit numbers, 429 handling or Retry-After found for the REST API\n\n### Pipedrive API + MCP (C)\n\nGood for: Small and mid-size sales teams running deal pipelines who want an agent to update deals and log activities.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 53 against 42\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 57\n- Agent ergonomics, 61 against 44\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 46\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 71\n\nWatch for: MCP tool list not published, and the server is labelled beta\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Nutshell | Pipedrive API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 42 | 53 | Pipedrive API + MCP +11 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 80 | Pipedrive API + MCP +23 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 44 | 61 | Pipedrive API + MCP +17 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 53 | Nutshell +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 30 | Nutshell +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 46 | 83 | Pipedrive API + MCP +37 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 76 | Pipedrive API + MCP +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **49.6 · D** | **60.5 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Nutshell | Pipedrive API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Nutshell, Inc. | Pipedrive |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.nutshell.com/rest` | `https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Nutshell's Terms of Service | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-09-08 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-06-02 | 2026-09-16 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-02 | 2026-07-02 |\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 | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 234 stars, 72k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Nutshell.** The REST reference is served as Markdown with an OpenAPI fragment per operation, and the hosted MCP server uses OAuth with PKCE and can only read. No rate limit numbers, error format or API changelog were found in the reviewed documentation, and API keys carry no scopes.\n\n**Pipedrive API + MCP.** Hosted MCP server on every plan, with actions recorded in the change log. MCP tool list not published, and the server is labelled beta.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Nutshell\n\n1. Authenticate REST calls with HTTP Basic, a Nutshell user's email as username and the API key as password, against `https://app.nutshell.com/rest`\n2. Use IDs in the `\u003cnumber\u003e-\u003ctype\u003e` form, such as `3-accounts`, and send updates as JSON Patch with `content-type: application/json-patch+json`\n3. Page lists with `page[limit]` and `page[page]`, which is 0-based, and call `/accounts/list/fields` or the lead and contact equivalents for valid filter keys\n4. Use the REST API for writes. The MCP server only reads, and OAuth tokens need the `read` scope\n5. Filter webhook events yourself, because every webhook receives all events and subscriptions are created in Setup, not through the API\n\n### Pipedrive API + MCP\n\n1. Use v2 endpoints, which cost fewer tokens than v1\n2. Read `x-daily-requests-left` before a bulk run, since a search costs 40 tokens\n3. Send the token in the `x-api-token` header, never as `api_token` in the URL\n4. Keep under 10 search requests per 2 seconds on every plan\n5. Ask the user to load all Pipedrive tools in the client if an expected tool is missing\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Nutshell or Pipedrive API + MCP?\n\nPipedrive API + MCP scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Nutshell's 49.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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