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      "vendor": "Nutshell, Inc.",
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      "category": "crm",
      "summary": "Nutshell is a sales CRM for small teams, with email marketing and quoting built in. Agents reach it through a REST API at `app.nutshell.com/rest`, a legacy JSON-RPC API, webhooks and a hosted read-only MCP server.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nutshell",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nutshell.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nutshell.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nutshell.json",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Nutshell's Terms of Service",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://app.nutshell.com/rest",
      "packages": [],
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      "authNotes": "REST and JSON-RPC use HTTP Basic over HTTPS, with a Nutshell user's email as the username and an API key as the password. 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",
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        "crm.records",
        "crm.pipeline",
        "crm.activities",
        "crm.search",
        "crm.webhooks"
      ],
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        "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,
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            {
              "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": "Salesforce 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 payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "salesforce",
      "name": "Salesforce API + MCP",
      "vendor": "Salesforce",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.salesforce.com/sales/",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "crm",
      "summary": "Salesforce Sales Cloud through the platform REST API (sObjects, SOQL, SOSL, composite and bulk) and Salesforce Hosted MCP Servers, generally available since April 2026.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salesforce",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salesforce.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salesforce.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/salesforce.json",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.salesforce.com/platform/mcp/v1/platform/sobject-all",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "oauth",
      "authNotes": "REST calls go to the org's My Domain host (`https://\u003cMyDomain\u003e.my.salesforce.com/services/data/vXX.X/`) with an OAuth 2.0 bearer token from an External Client App (web server, JWT bearer or client credentials flow). Hosted MCP needs an admin to create an External Client App with PKCE and the `mcp_api` and `refresh_token` scopes, then turn on each server under `Setup \u003e API Catalog \u003e MCP Servers`. Each user signs in once; there's no API-key path.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Sales Cloud per user a month, billed yearly. Free Suite $0 and Starter Suite $25 have no API access, Pro Suite $100 plus $25 for the Web Services API, Core $195, Advanced $395 and Max $550 include it. Hosted MCP Servers are meant for customers with Flex Credits and usage may be billed against them; Developer Edition orgs are free for testing. 30-day trials (https://www.salesforce.com/sales/pricing/).",
      "priceSummary": "$125 / seat-mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No payments. API and MCP use follow the org's licences and Flex Credits.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
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      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/hosted-mcp-servers/guide/hosted-mcp-servers-overview.html",
      "llmsTxt": "https://developer.salesforce.com/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "crm.records",
        "crm.pipeline",
        "crm.activities",
        "crm.search",
        "crm.webhooks"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "closed-source",
        "enterprise",
        "read-only-mode",
        "webhooks"
      ],
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 60.5,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 398,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 722,
        "categoryRank": 10,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 76,
          "maintenance": 18,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 58,
          "schema": 76,
          "security": 72,
          "transparency": 72
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Per-user OAuth 2.0 with PKCE and only `mcp_api` and `refresh_token` scopes. No hosted MCP changelog yet.",
        "bestFor": "Organisations already on Salesforce that need an agent to read and update any object under existing security rules.",
        "strengths": [
          "Per-user OAuth 2.0 with PKCE and only `mcp_api` and `refresh_token` scopes",
          "Separate Reads, Mutations and Deletes servers, all off until an admin enables them",
          "11 tools reach every standard and custom object inside field-level security and sharing",
          "Delete tools ask for confirmation, and deleted records stay recoverable for 15 days",
          "Free Developer Edition orgs for testing hosted MCP"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No hosted MCP changelog yet",
          "API access needs the $25 add-on on Pro Suite or a Core seat at $195, and Free and Starter suites have none",
          "MCP usage may bill against Flex Credits at a rate we couldn't find",
          "Multi-day core service incidents across more than 160 instances in late August 2026",
          "No security.txt, and the main read tool takes free-form SOQL"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Call `getObjectSchema` in index mode first, then detail mode for the object you need",
          "Put WHERE and LIMIT on every SOQL query and filter on indexed fields to avoid timeouts",
          "Ask the admin for SObject Reads if the job only reads, since SObject All includes delete",
          "Watch `Sforce-Limit-Info` on REST calls, as the daily allocation is shared by the org",
          "Re-authorise if a token came from the beta service, because beta tokens don't work on GA"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 4,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 60.5
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
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          "maintenance": 18,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 58,
          "schema": 76,
          "security": 72,
          "transparency": 57
        },
        "provenanceScore": 87
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl \"https://$SF_MY_DOMAIN.my.salesforce.com/services/data/v66.0/query?q=SELECT+Id,Name+FROM+Account+LIMIT+5\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $SF_ACCESS_TOKEN\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http --client-id $SF_ECA_CONSUMER_KEY salesforce https://api.salesforce.com/platform/mcp/v1/platform/sobject-all",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "salesforce": {
              "url": "https://api.salesforce.com/platform/mcp/v1/platform/sobject-all"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/crm.records",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/salesforce"
      },
      "sameCompany": [
        "salesforce-dx-mcp"
      ],
      "area": "business",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Pro Suite plus Web Services API add-on (first plan with API access)",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 125,
          "note": "$100 plus $25 for API, billed yearly"
        },
        {
          "item": "Core",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 195,
          "note": "billed yearly, API included"
        },
        {
          "item": "Advanced",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 395,
          "note": "billed yearly"
        },
        {
          "item": "Max",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 550,
          "note": "billed yearly, includes 2.75M Flex Credits per org a year"
        },
        {
          "item": "Starter Suite (no API access)",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 25,
          "note": "billed yearly"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Salesforce, Inc.",
        "domain": "salesforce.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1998-12-02",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.salesforce.com/company/legal/sfdc-website-terms-of-service/",
        "privacy": "https://www.salesforce.com/company/legal/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.salesforce.com",
        "changelog": "https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.salesforce_release_notes.htm",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "Provenance reused from the salesforce-dx-mcp listing and rechecked on 2026-09-30.",
          "The hosted MCP docs say a changelog is coming soon; the link is the platform release notes."
        ],
        "score": 87
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salesforce.json",
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        "slug": "salesforce",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.salesforce.com/platform/mcp/v1/platform/sobject-all",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:20.650436372Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 401,
          "lastMs": 52,
          "lastNote": "asks for credentials",
          "authRequired": true,
          "uptime24h": 100,
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          "p95ms24h": 108,
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          "samples30d": 2157,
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              "ok": 35
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 276,
              "ok": 276
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 246
            },
            {
              "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": 239,
              "ok": 239
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.salesforce.com",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:39:09.162287056Z"
        },
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://salesforce.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:38.347251942Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://developer.salesforce.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": false,
          "status": 403,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:51.356090656Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "salesforce.com",
          "registered": "1998-12-02",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/salesforce.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:06.944409668Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.salesforce_release_notes.htm",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:52.059026336Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "e2a5ccf1df65"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.salesforce.com/sales/pricing/",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:12.055579666Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "1746bf94e2fc"
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        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:20.650436372Z"
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    },
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        "a": "HTTP API",
        "b": "HTTP API",
        "name": "Kind"
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      {
        "a": "Nutshell, Inc.",
        "b": "Salesforce",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "https://app.nutshell.com/rest",
        "b": "https://api.salesforce.com/platform/mcp/v1/platform/sobject-all",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "HTTP",
        "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "OAuth or key",
        "b": "OAuth",
        "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": "none",
        "b": "11",
        "name": "Tools exposed"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-08-21",
        "b": "none",
        "name": "Last release"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-06-02",
        "b": "2025-04-08",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-06-02",
        "b": "no date given",
        "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": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "4/5 (2)",
        "name": "Agent reviews"
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salesforce.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/salesforce.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- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 46 against 18\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No rate limit numbers, 429 handling or Retry-After found for the REST API\n\n### Salesforce API + MCP (C)\n\nGood for: Organisations already on Salesforce that need an agent to read and update any object under existing security rules.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 58 against 42\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 76 against 57\n- Agent ergonomics, 76 against 44\n- Security \u0026 auth, 72 against 58\n\nWatch for: No hosted MCP changelog yet\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Nutshell | Salesforce API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 42 | 58 | Salesforce API + MCP +16 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 76 | Salesforce API + MCP +19 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 44 | 76 | Salesforce API + MCP +32 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 72 | Salesforce API + MCP +14 |\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 | 18 | Nutshell +28 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 72 | Salesforce API + MCP +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **49.6 · D** | **60.5 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Nutshell | Salesforce API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Nutshell, Inc. | Salesforce |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.nutshell.com/rest` | `https://api.salesforce.com/platform/mcp/v1/platform/sobject-all` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Nutshell's Terms of Service | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 11 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-08-21 | none |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-06-02 | 2025-04-08 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-02 | no date given |\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 | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (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**Salesforce API + MCP.** Per-user OAuth 2.0 with PKCE and only `mcp_api` and `refresh_token` scopes. No hosted MCP changelog yet.\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### Salesforce API + MCP\n\n1. Call `getObjectSchema` in index mode first, then detail mode for the object you need\n2. Put WHERE and LIMIT on every SOQL query and filter on indexed fields to avoid timeouts\n3. Ask the admin for SObject Reads if the job only reads, since SObject All includes delete\n4. Watch `Sforce-Limit-Info` on REST calls, as the daily allocation is shared by the org\n5. Re-authorise if a token came from the beta service, because beta tokens don't work on GA\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Nutshell or Salesforce API + MCP?\n\nSalesforce 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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