# Paid vs Tempo (slim)

> Tempo scores 76.6 (BB) to Paid's 55.1 (C) for usage billing. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Tempo scores 76.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Paid's 55.1 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do usage billing.

- Paid: C 55.1, rank #669 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paid.min.md
- Tempo: BB 76.6, rank #27 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tempo.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. Also Free to start without a card.
- Tempo, good for Builders who want to settle MPP payments in stablecoins at fractions of a cent, or agents that need chain data and can pay per request without an account. Ahead on Reliability, 71 against 35; Schema & documentation, 88 against 64; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 70; Security & auth, 70 against 65; Payments & pricing, 80 against 30; Maintenance & community, 88 against 77; Transparency & trust, 63 against 51. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Open source.

| Category | Paid | Tempo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 71 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 64 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 70 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 80 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 77 | 88 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 51 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Paid | Tempo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Agent Paid Limited | Tempo |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.agentpaid.io/api/v2` | `https://api.tempo.xyz/v1` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Paid's Master Subscription Agreement. The Node and Python SDKs on GitHub are MIT | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 4 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-15 | 2026-09-24 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-07-31 |
| 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 | 24k npm/wk | 1k stars, 209k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.1/5 (8) |