# One vs Smithery (slim)

> One scores 66.6 (B) to Smithery's 50.7 (D) for app automation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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One scores 66.6 (B) on agent readiness against Smithery's 50.7 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do app automation.

- One: B 66.6, rank #282 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/one.min.md
- Smithery: D 50.7, rank #766 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smithery.min.md
- One, good for A person or small team that wants one MCP entry with a small tool footprint across many SaaS accounts, with access set per connection and a free plan. Ahead on Reliability, 82 against 60; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 65; Security & auth, 69 against 50; Payments & pricing, 30 against 10; Maintenance & community, 86 against 43; Transparency & trust, 63 against 46. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Smithery, good for A developer who wants many MCP servers behind one credential and one endpoint, with per-user connections and short-lived scoped tokens.

| Category | One | Smithery |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 82 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 69 | 50 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 86 | 43 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 46 |

| Fact (where they differ) | One | Smithery |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | One Systems, Inc. | Smithery (Arcade.dev) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.withone.ai/mcp` | `https://api.smithery.ai` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under One's Terms of Service. The local MCP server package `@withone/mcp` is MIT. The CLI package `@withone/cli` has no licence field or licence file. The knowledge base is under the One Knowledge Commons Licence v1.0, which is not an OSI licence | Proprietary hosted service, with no terms of service found. The CLI (`smithery`) is AGPL-3.0, the TypeScript client (`@smithery/api`) is Apache-2.0 and the credential layer agent.pw is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 3 | none |
| MCP registry | `ai.withone/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-07-20 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-06 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-22 | 2025-06-20 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 11 stars, 681 npm/wk | 840 stars, 2.7k npm/wk |