# Paid vs PayPal MCP server (slim)

> PayPal scores 56.3 (C) to Paid's 55.1 (C) for checkout. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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PayPal MCP server scores 56.3 (C) on agent readiness against Paid's 55.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Paid leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do checkout.

- Paid: C 55.1, rank #669 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paid.min.md
- PayPal MCP server: C 56.3, rank #635 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paypal-mcp-server.min.md
- Paid, good for A team selling an AI agent that needs usage metering, credit balances, cost and margin tracking and invoicing in one service, with Stripe as the payment rail. Ahead on Security & auth, 65 against 48; Maintenance & community, 77 against 64. Also Free to start without a card.
- PayPal MCP server, good for A merchant already on PayPal who wants an assistant to draft and send invoices, look up orders and transactions, and manage subscriptions and disputes. Ahead on Reliability, 52 against 35; Schema & documentation, 70 against 64; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Transparency & trust, 78 against 51. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Paid | PayPal MCP server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 52 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 64 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 66 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 48 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 77 | 64 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 51 | 78 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Paid | PayPal MCP server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Agent Paid Limited | PayPal |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.agentpaid.io/api/v2` | `https://mcp.paypal.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | stdio, SSE (legacy), Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for checkout | not published | $0.49 per transaction |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Paid's Master Subscription Agreement. The Node and Python SDKs on GitHub are MIT | Apache-2.0 for the local server and the agent toolkit. The hosted server is a closed service under the PayPal Developer Agreement |
| Tools exposed | none | 28 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.paypal/paypal-mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-09-15 | 2026-09-01 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2024-11-18 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-09-28 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 24k npm/wk | 995 npm/wk, 107 PyPI/wk |