{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "pennylane", "name": "Pennylane", "vendor": "Pennylane SAS", "vendorUrl": "https://www.pennylane.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "accounting", "summary": "Pennylane is a French accounting and invoicing platform for companies and accounting firms. Its Company and Firm REST APIs cover invoices, supplier invoices, ledger entries, transactions and exports. A hosted read-only MCP server exposes the same books to AI assistants.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pennylane", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pennylane.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pennylane.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pennylane.json", "dns": "pennylane.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "Proprietary service under Pennylane's API agreement and customer terms", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.pennylane.com/api/external/v2", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Bearer token on every call. Companies generate a Company API token under Settings, Connectivity, Developers, which needs the Essentiel plan or above and an admin role. Each token is tied to one company, is read only or read and write, expires after 1, 6 or 12 months or never, and can be deleted. Firms generate Firm API tokens. Integration partners use the OAuth 2.0 authorisation code grant after the Partnerships team issues a client ID and secret, with 24-hour access tokens and rotating 90-day refresh tokens. The MCP server uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration, and the user signs in through a browser.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "API and MCP access for companies needs the Essentiel plan or above, listed at 24 euros a month before VAT for one user on the pricing tab for sole traders and single-shareholder companies. Premium is 79 euros. Each plan has a 15-day trial with no commitment, and a sandbox can be created inside an account. Whether the trial needs a card and the prices for other company types were not established. Accounting firms get the MCP at no extra cost (https://www.pennylane.com/fr/tarifs, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the MCP docs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 31, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://pennylane.readme.io/docs/api-overview", "llmsTxt": "https://pennylane.readme.io/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "accounting.ledger", "accounting.invoices", "accounting.bills", "accounting.reports" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "oauth", "openapi", "mcp", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 307, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 20, "reliability": 82, "schema": 85, "security": 68, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The v2 API has per-resource read and write scopes, an OpenAPI definition on every reference page, llms.txt and a dated changelog with eight entries since August. Access needs a paid Essentiel plan or partner approval, creation endpoints aren't idempotent, and the API agreement lets Pennylane change or revoke the API without notice.", "bestFor": "An agent working on the books of French companies or an accounting firm's client portfolio, with French chart of accounts, FEC export, Factur-X e-invoicing and VAT returns.", "strengths": [ "Scopes split each resource into `:readonly` and `:all`, for company tokens, firm tokens and OAuth apps", "Hosted MCP server at `https://mcp.pennylane.com/mcp` with 31 read-only tools, OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration", "OpenAPI 3.0.1 definitions on each reference page, an llms.txt index and Markdown twins of every docs page", "The 2026 breaking changes ran in three phases over 24 weeks with an opt-in header, ending 1 July 2026", "ISO 27001 certificate published, EU hosting on AWS in Ireland, and a dated sub-processor list with 30 days' notice of additions" ], "weaknesses": [ "The API agreement allows changes, suspension or revocation with or without notice and supplies the API as is", "The Reseller API, a partner API absent from the public API overview and reference, was removed on 29 October 2026 with notice in the changelog only that day", "Creation endpoints do not enforce idempotency, except supplier invoice imports", "API and MCP access for companies starts at the Essentiel plan, and OAuth apps need approval from the Partnerships team", "No official SDK was found, and the MCP server is not in the official MCP registry", "No security.txt, bug bounty or published disclosure policy was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `GET https://app.pennylane.com/api/external/v2/me` first to confirm the token, user and company context", "Stay under 25 requests per 5 seconds per token and wait for the `retry-after` value on a 429", "Do not retry a create after a timeout without checking first. Only supplier invoice imports are deduplicated", "Handle `public_file_url: null` on a new customer invoice and fetch the invoice again until the PDF URL is set", "Send `filter` and `sort` again with every `cursor`. The cursor stores position only", "Send amounts as strings such as \"120.00\", and ask for `:readonly` scopes when the task only reads", "Use the MCP server for reads only. It cannot create, edit or delete, and firm connections need `company_id`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 20, "reliability": 82, "schema": 85, "security": 68, "transparency": 71 }, "provenanceScore": 81, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-01", "maintenance": "2026-11-01", "payments": "2026-11-01", "reliability": "2026-11-01", "schema": "2026-11-01", "security": "2026-11-01", "transparency": "2026-11-01" }, "last": "2026-11-01", "lastMoved": "2026-11-01", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://app.pennylane.com/api/external/v2/me \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $PENNYLANE_API_TOKEN\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http pennylane https://mcp.pennylane.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "pennylane": { "url": "https://mcp.pennylane.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/accounting.ledger", "tool": "https://letme.dev/pennylane" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Pennylane SAS", "domain": "pennylane.com", "domainRegistered": "1998-09-23", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://pennylane.readme.io/page/api-contract-terms", "privacy": "https://www.pennylane.com/fr/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.pennylane.com", "changelog": "https://pennylane.readme.io/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The legal notice (updated 8 September 2026) names Pennylane, a société par actions simplifiée, SIREN 880 265 921 RCS Paris, 2-4 rue Jules Lefebvre, 75009 Paris. Pennylane GmbH sells the product in Germany.", "The API agreement (API Contract terms, last updated January 2024) governs API use and is cited by clause 26.9 of the customer terms. It gives a registered office in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, which differs from the Paris address in the customer terms and legal notice.", "The customer terms for companies (version of 16 December 2025) are a PDF linked from https://www.pennylane.com/fr/conditions-generales, with the data processing agreement and the SLA as annexes.", "The privacy policy (updated 30 January 2026) covers processing where Pennylane is controller. Processing as processor is governed by the data processing agreement annexed to the customer terms.", "www.pennylane.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "The API answers on app.pennylane.com and the MCP server on mcp.pennylane.com. The API docs are hosted on pennylane.readme.io.", "RDAP for pennylane.com gives a registration date of 1998-09-23." ], "score": 81 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pennylane.json", "live": { "slug": "pennylane", "probe": { "target": "https://app.pennylane.com/api/external/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:46.437621019Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 164, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 99.99, "p50ms24h": 122, "p95ms24h": 331, "samples24h": 239, "samples30d": 7205, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-29", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 249, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-11-03", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 246, "ok": 246 }, { "date": "2026-11-05", "probes": 185, "ok": 185 }, { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 241, "ok": 241 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 187, "ok": 187 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.pennylane.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T18:21:53.239435939Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://pennylane.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:29.263071466Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://pennylane.readme.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:33:36.704629158Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "pennylane.com", "registered": "1998-09-23", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/pennylane.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:24:40.052112636Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://pennylane.readme.io/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:16:17.560576766Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-05T12:39:05.218470827Z", "fingerprint": "d39f4363c451" }, { "url": "https://www.pennylane.com/fr/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:32:46.227044244Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2e89b0e31f0b" }, { "url": "https://pennylane.readme.io/page/api-contract-terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:16:20.093006815Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-03T07:55:41.256456969Z", "fingerprint": "d37409dd4187" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.pennylane.com/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:46:46.736342384Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:46:46.736342384Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:21:53.239435939Z" } }, "answer": "Pennylane scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against Puzzle API and MCP's 46.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Puzzle API and MCP leads on security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "puzzle", "name": "Puzzle API and MCP", "vendor": "Puzzle Financial Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://puzzle.io/api-mcp", "kind": "mcp", "category": "accounting", "summary": "Puzzle is AI-native accounting software for startups and small businesses, with a real-time general ledger. Its hosted MCP server connects Claude, ChatGPT and other clients to a company's books, and a partner REST API reaches ledgers, bills, invoices and reports.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/puzzle", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/puzzle.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/puzzle.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/puzzle.json", "dns": "puzzle.grade.anchorterminal.com", "transports": [ "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.puzzle.io/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "For MCP, the user signs in with a Puzzle account through OAuth and chooses which companies the connection covers. It is read-only by default, with read-write as an opt-in beta where each change needs confirmation, and the user needs Full or Partial access to each company with AI turned on. The API uses the OAuth 2.0 authorisation code flow with refresh tokens and per-resource scopes (read:company and write scopes for bills, invoices, journals, vendors and more), with client ID, secret and connection key issued by email to api@puzzle.io. A sandbox runs at staging.southparkdata.com.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Puzzle plans are $30 (Starter), $72 (Core), $120 (Complete) and $360 (Scale) a month, two months free yearly, with \"Try for free\" on each. Accounting services start at $171 a month with Core. MCP access comes with a Puzzle subscription; API access is by request with no published price.", "priceSummary": "$30 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the MCP page, API docs or pricing page (checked 2026-11-06).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://puzzle-api.readme.io/docs/welcome", "llmsTxt": "https://puzzle-api.readme.io/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.puzzle/puzzle", "capabilities": [ "accounting.ledger", "accounting.invoices", "accounting.bills", "accounting.reports" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "paid", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "oauth", "mcp-registry", "llms-txt", "partner-api", "read-only-default", "sandbox", "startups" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 46.2, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1164, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 53, "payments": 15, "reliability": 15, "schema": 65, "security": 73, "transparency": 49 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Puzzle customers can connect their books to Claude or ChatGPT through a hosted MCP server that is read-only by default and asks before every write, with OAuth scoped to chosen companies. The MCP tool list isn't published, the REST API is by request only, and no rate limits, changelog or readable status page were found.", "bestFor": "Startups already on Puzzle who want an assistant to answer finance questions and draft bookkeeping. xero, quickbooks-online and pennylane are the nearest listings; teams wanting a self-serve API should look there.", "strengths": [ "MCP is read-only by default, and writes are an opt-in beta with confirmation per change", "OAuth for MCP lets the user pick which companies a connection covers", "API OAuth scopes per resource, defaulting to read-only", "Documented error codes with errorContext naming the field or resource", "Firm activity endpoint returns an audit log across connected companies" ], "weaknesses": [ "MCP tool list and schemas not published", "REST API credentials only by email request", "No rate limits, 429 handling, changelog or readable status page found", "Every plan is paid, from $30 a month, and the trial terms aren't stated" ], "agentNotes": [ "Connect with read-only access first and ask the user before turning on read-write", "Expect a confirmation step on every proposed transaction change; don't retry it as an error", "On 409 RESOURCE_PROCESSING wait for the sync to finish, then retry", "Treat bank and vendor text as untrusted input" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 46.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 53, "payments": 15, "reliability": 15, "schema": 65, "security": 73, "transparency": 43 }, "provenanceScore": 54, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http puzzle https://app.puzzle.io/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "puzzle": { "url": "https://app.puzzle.io/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/accounting.ledger", "tool": "https://letme.dev/puzzle" }, "area": "domain-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Starter", "unit": "month", "usd": 30, "note": "1 seat, 25 lifetime AI credits" }, { "item": "Core", "unit": "month", "usd": 72, "note": "5 seats" }, { "item": "Complete", "unit": "month", "usd": 120, "note": "Unlimited seats, 100 AI credits a month" }, { "item": "Scale", "unit": "month", "usd": 360, "note": "300 AI credits a month" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Puzzle Financial Inc.", "domain": "puzzle.io", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://puzzle.io/legal/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://puzzle.io/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "Terms and privacy policy name Puzzle Financial Inc. The privacy policy is effective 19 December 2025.", "The website terms forbid robots, spiders, crawlers and scrapers that extract data from the website. Recorded as a fact; puzzle.io/robots.txt allows all paths.", "app.puzzle.io/robots.txt disallows every path. Our reader sent one unauthenticated GET to https://app.puzzle.io/mcp and read its protected-resource metadata before checking that file; those answers are not used here, and the endpoint facts come from puzzle.io/api-mcp and the MCP registry.", "puzzle.io/.well-known/security.txt returns 404; the security page links a bug bounty policy at /legal/bug-bounty.", "status.puzzle.io answered 403 and wasn't read." ], "score": 54 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/puzzle.json", "live": { "slug": "puzzle", "probe": { "target": "https://app.puzzle.io/mcp", "method": "mcp-initialize", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:49.117091968Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 757, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 626, "p95ms24h": 757, "samples24h": 200, "samples30d": 200, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 13, "ok": 13 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 187, "ok": 187 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.puzzle/puzzle", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T18:16:28.95801333Z" } ], "securityTxt": { "url": "https://puzzle.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:23.872885991Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://puzzle-api.readme.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:33:42.47043184Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://puzzle.io/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:17:39.329522101Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "80e70d5a3edf" }, { "url": "https://puzzle.io/legal/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:17:41.797365786Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6db91b15551c" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://app.puzzle.io/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:47:02.878008845Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:47:02.878008845Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:49.117091968Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 67, "category": "reliability", "leads": "pennylane", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Graded on the hosted lines. Atlassian Statuspage at status.pennylane.com with seven components, one of them the API on app.pennylane.com (20). The history feed, read on 1 November 2026, lists three incidents since 3 August, document uploads from mobile devices for about three hours on 27 August, slowdowns for 50 minutes on 14 September and instability with errors for 37 minutes on 25 September. Each hit one function or some requests, so all count as minor, and nothing has been posted since 25 September. The 20 July disruption, with seven minutes of unavailability, left the window (20). 25 requests per 5 seconds per token (15). 429 carries `retry-after` and every response carries rate limit headers. The error guide's safe-retry table says to retry 429, 500 and 503 and not 400 to 422, and warns that creation endpoints such as `/customer_invoices` and `/ledger_entries` don't enforce idempotency, so a repeated request can create duplicates. That is safe-retry guidance with no key, 12 of 15, as e2b and scalekit-agentkit. The customer terms commit to 99.9 per cent for app.pennylane.com with credits, while the API agreement supplies the API as is with no warranty, so half credit (5). v2 is described as the official stable version (10). 20+20+15+12+5+10 = 82.", "b": "Hosted reading. status.puzzle.io exists but answered 403 to our reader, so no status page or history could be read (0, then 5 for no readable history). No rate limits found in the API docs (0). The errors page documents 409 RESOURCE_PROCESSING with retry later and 500 with retry, but no 429 or idempotency guidance (5). No SLA (0). MCP read access is live, write access is a beta, and the API docs say the API is under development (5). 0 + 5 + 0 + 5 + 0 + 5 = 15." }, "scores": { "a": 82, "b": 15 } }, { "by": 27, "category": "transparency", "leads": "pennylane", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service. The API agreement of January 2024 and the customer terms of 16 December 2025 are public and name the entity and French law. The API agreement lets Pennylane change or revoke access without notice and takes an exclusive licence over integrations, and its registered office differs from the one in the customer terms (13). Privacy policy of 30 January 2026, a data processing agreement annexed to the terms, deletion 30 days after termination, EU hosting and a commitment not to train AI models on customer data. The privacy policy allows providers outside the EU while the sub-processor list shows none (24). The 2026 breaking changes had dated phases over 24 weeks and v1 had an end date, but no standing deprecation policy was found and the agreement reserves changes without notice (14). Sub-processor list with locations, dated 16 December 2025, with update notices 30 days ahead (20).", "b": "Closed service with published terms naming Puzzle Financial Inc. (15). A privacy policy effective 19 December 2025; the security page says data stays on US servers and isn't shared or sold (15). The API docs promise documented endpoints stay stable but give no deprecation policy (5). Sub-processors not found, though the server location is stated (8). 15 + 15 + 5 + 8 = 43." }, "scores": { "a": 76, "b": 49 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "schema", "leads": "pennylane", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Each reference page carries an OpenAPI 3.0.1 definition for its operation, readable through the Markdown twin. One downloadable file for the whole API was not located, and the MCP tool schemas need a signed-in session, so we did not read them (23). llms.txt indexes the guides and 185 reference pages (1 November 2026), and every page has a Markdown twin (10). Descriptions state purpose, the scopes required and side effects, such as a finalised invoice no longer being editable, and guides compare importing with creating an invoice (14). Typed parameters with minimum and maximum values and enums on the page read, though `filter` is a JSON array passed as a string (11). Examples in the definitions and an error guide covering nine status codes with fixes (12). Versioned as v2 with a dated changelog and RSS feed (15). Based on one reference page read in full.", "b": "The API reference on ReadMe is generated from an OpenAPI file, though we didn't download the file itself; the MCP tool schemas aren't published (18). llms.txt and Markdown pages on puzzle-api.readme.io (10). Endpoint descriptions name the required scope and explain defaults such as cash basis (14). Typed parameters with documented limits, such as companies capped at 100 a page (11). An error table with HTTP codes and errorContext shapes, and example requests (12). No changelog or version scheme found (0). 18 + 10 + 14 + 11 + 12 + 0 = 65." }, "scores": { "a": 85, "b": 65 } }, { "by": 12, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "pennylane", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Newest changelog entry 29 October 2026 (30). Eight dated entries since 3 August, on 15 and 30 September, 14 October, 22 October (two), 27 October and 29 October (two) (20). Closed service with a dated changelog, an RSS feed, a public roadmap, support by chat or account manager for customers and Zendesk for partners, and a community forum we did not read (10). No official SDK was found, and a search of the official MCP registry for pennylane on 1 November 2026 returned no server (0). No package to assess. The docs are current, with changelog entries through 29 October 2026 (5). 30+20+10+0+5 = 65.", "b": "The MCP registry entry was published on 5 October 2026, 32 days before this check, and Puzzle's MCP post is dated 26 October (20). No release log, so changes in the 90 days can't be counted beyond the registry entry and the MCP launch (5). A help centre and support contact, but no public changelog or issue tracker (8). io.puzzle/puzzle sits under a domain-verified namespace in the official registry (15). No SDK or package to judge (5). 20 + 5 + 8 + 15 + 5 = 53." }, "scores": { "a": 65, "b": 53 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "pennylane", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "The REST API is the main surface. Responses are sized with `limit` from 1 to 100, default 20, and filters, with no field selection found. The MCP server lists 31 tools, each data type switched on by its own scope (15). Cursor pagination, a `filter` parameter with operators and `sort` on list endpoints (20). Errors return `error`, `message` and `details` naming the field and rule, with a table of which codes to retry (17). No idempotency keys. The docs say creation endpoints do not enforce idempotency except supplier invoice imports, and a duplicate file returns 409. The MCP server is read only, and its annotations were not read (7). Sensible defaults, but no official SDK was found. The reference shows generated samples in six languages (7).", "b": "MCP tool count and sizes unpublished, so context cost can't be read (10 of 25). API list endpoints page with count and after or limit, and filter by date and status (16). Error codes and errorContext name the field or resource at fault (17). No idempotency keys found; the MCP server asks for confirmation before writes (8). No official SDKs; few required parameters on reads (5). 10 + 16 + 17 + 8 + 5 = 56." }, "scores": { "a": 66, "b": 56 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "security", "leads": "puzzle", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "OAuth 2.0 authorisation code with 24-hour access tokens and rotating refresh tokens for partners, company and firm tokens with chosen scopes, expiry and deletion, and OAuth 2.1 with PKCE on the MCP server. No documented option to send a token in a URL (30). Every resource has a `:readonly` scope, tokens can be read only and the MCP server cannot write. No confirmation step for irreversible calls such as finalising an invoice (16). The API returns invoice and supplier text written by other parties. The MCP docs warn that data goes to the AI vendor and that answers can be wrong, with no prompt-injection guidance (4). The token list shows last use, and changelog endpoints and the `get_changelog` tool list record changes over four weeks. No per-call log for the operator was found (6). ISO 27001 with a 2026 certificate published, an annual third-party penetration test in the customer terms, a security white paper and an incident response plan. No security.txt, bug bounty or disclosure policy was found (12).", "b": "OAuth for MCP with a per-company choice and read-only default, and OAuth 2.0 with granular scopes on the API, defaulting to read-only scopes (28). Read-only by default, writes an opt-in beta with confirmation for each change (18). Bank descriptions and vendor names are third-party text, and no prompt-injection guidance was found (3). Every API request is logged per the docs, and a firm activity endpoint returns an audit log (12). A SOC 2 claim in the API docs and a bug bounty policy page; no security.txt (12). 28 + 18 + 3 + 12 + 12 = 73." }, "scores": { "a": 68, "b": 73 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "MCP server", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Pennylane SAS", "b": "Puzzle Financial Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://app.pennylane.com/api/external/v2", "b": "https://app.puzzle.io/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "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 Pennylane's API agreement and customer terms", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "31", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.puzzle/puzzle", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-29", "b": "2026-10-05", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2023-06-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2025-12-19", "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": "yes", "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": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "2.8/5 (4)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Pennylane scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against Puzzle API and MCP's 46.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Puzzle API and MCP leads on security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Pennylane or Puzzle API and MCP?" }, { "answer": "Pennylane takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Puzzle API and MCP uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Pennylane and Puzzle API and MCP need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Pennylane has a hosted endpoint at https://app.pennylane.com/api/external/v2 and Puzzle API and MCP at https://app.puzzle.io/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call Pennylane and Puzzle API and MCP without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 82 against 15", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 65", "Agent ergonomics, 66 against 56", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 15", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 65 against 53", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 49" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent working on the books of French companies or an accounting firm's client portfolio, with French chart of accounts, FEC export, Factur-X e-invoicing and VAT returns.", "slug": "pennylane", "watchFor": "The API agreement allows changes, suspension or revocation with or without notice and supplies the API as is" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 73 against 68" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Startups already on Puzzle who want an assistant to answer finance questions and draft bookkeeping. xero, quickbooks-online and pennylane are the nearest listings; teams wanting a self-serve API should look there.", "slug": "puzzle", "watchFor": "MCP tool list and schemas not published" } ], "history": { "pennylane": [ { "causes": [ "time" ], "date": "2026-11-01", "delta": 1.4, "from": 66.3, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 67.7, "toGrade": "B" } ], "puzzle": null }, "job": { "capability": "accounting.ledger", "name": "Accounting ledgers" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-pennylane.json", "title": "Apideck Accounting API + MCP vs Pennylane", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-pennylane" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-puzzle.json", "title": "Apideck Accounting API + MCP vs Puzzle API and MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-puzzle" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freshbooks-vs-puzzle.json", "title": "FreshBooks API vs Puzzle API and MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freshbooks-vs-puzzle" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/merge-accounting-vs-pennylane.json", "title": "Merge Accounting API vs Pennylane", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/merge-accounting-vs-pennylane" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/merge-accounting-vs-puzzle.json", "title": "Merge Accounting API vs Puzzle API and MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/merge-accounting-vs-puzzle" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/odoo-vs-pennylane.json", "title": "Odoo External API vs Pennylane", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/odoo-vs-pennylane" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/odoo-vs-puzzle.json", "title": "Odoo External API vs Puzzle API and MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/odoo-vs-puzzle" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pennylane-vs-quickbooks-online.json", "title": "Pennylane vs QuickBooks Online API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pennylane-vs-quickbooks-online" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pennylane-vs-rotki-mcp.json", "title": "Pennylane vs rotki MCP server", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pennylane-vs-rotki-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pennylane-vs-rutter.json", "title": "Pennylane vs Rutter Accounting API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pennylane-vs-rutter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pennylane-vs-xero.json", "title": "Pennylane vs Xero API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pennylane-vs-xero" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pennylane-vs-zoho-books.json", "title": "Pennylane vs Zoho Books", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pennylane-vs-zoho-books" }, { "json": 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"json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-pennylane.json", "title": "Invoice Ninja API vs Pennylane", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-pennylane" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-puzzle.json", "title": "Invoice Ninja API vs Puzzle API and MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-puzzle" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 67, "edge": "pennylane", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "pennylane": 82, "puzzle": 15, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "pennylane", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "pennylane": 85, "puzzle": 65, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "pennylane", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "pennylane": 66, "puzzle": 56, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "puzzle", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "pennylane": 68, "puzzle": 73, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "pennylane", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "pennylane": 20, "puzzle": 15, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "pennylane", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "pennylane": 65, "puzzle": 53, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 27, "edge": "pennylane", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "pennylane": 76, "puzzle": 49, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Pennylane scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against Puzzle API and MCP's 46.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Puzzle API and MCP leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do accounting ledgers.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "pennylane": "The v2 API has per-resource read and write scopes, an OpenAPI definition on every reference page, llms.txt and a dated changelog with eight entries since August. Access needs a paid Essentiel plan or partner approval, creation endpoints aren't idempotent, and the API agreement lets Pennylane change or revoke the API without notice.", "puzzle": "Puzzle customers can connect their books to Claude or ChatGPT through a hosted MCP server that is read-only by default and asks before every write, with OAuth scoped to chosen companies. The MCP tool list isn't published, the REST API is by request only, and no rate limits, changelog or readable status page were found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pennylane-vs-puzzle", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pennylane-vs-puzzle.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pennylane-vs-puzzle.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pennylane-vs-puzzle.min.md" }, "markdown": "Pennylane scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against Puzzle API and MCP's 46.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Puzzle API and MCP leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do accounting ledgers.\n\n- Pennylane: grade B, 67.7/100, rank #307 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pennylane.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pennylane.json\n- Puzzle API and MCP: grade D, 46.2/100, rank #1164 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/puzzle.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/puzzle.json\n- Best accounting and invoicing APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/accounting/index.md\n- All 90 accounting comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/accounting/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Pennylane (B)\n\nGood for: An agent working on the books of French companies or an accounting firm's client portfolio, with French chart of accounts, FEC export, Factur-X e-invoicing and VAT returns.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 82 against 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 65\n- Agent ergonomics, 66 against 56\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 15\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 65 against 53\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 49\n\nWatch for: The API agreement allows changes, suspension or revocation with or without notice and supplies the API as is\n\n### Puzzle API and MCP (D)\n\nGood for: Startups already on Puzzle who want an assistant to answer finance questions and draft bookkeeping. xero, quickbooks-online and pennylane are the nearest listings; teams wanting a self-serve API should look there.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 73 against 68\n\nWatch for: MCP tool list and schemas not published\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Pennylane +67\n\n- Pennylane (82): Graded on the hosted lines. Atlassian Statuspage at status.pennylane.com with seven components, one of them the API on app.pennylane.com (20). The history feed, read on 1 November 2026, lists three incidents since 3 August, document uploads from mobile devices for about three hours on 27 August, slowdowns for 50 minutes on 14 September and instability with errors for 37 minutes on 25 September. Each hit one function or some requests, so all count as minor, and nothing has been posted since 25 September. The 20 July disruption, with seven minutes of unavailability, left the window (20). 25 requests per 5 seconds per token (15). 429 carries `retry-after` and every response carries rate limit headers. The error guide's safe-retry table says to retry 429, 500 and 503 and not 400 to 422, and warns that creation endpoints such as `/customer_invoices` and `/ledger_entries` don't enforce idempotency, so a repeated request can create duplicates. That is safe-retry guidance with no key, 12 of 15, as e2b and scalekit-agentkit. The customer terms commit to 99.9 per cent for app.pennylane.com with credits, while the API agreement supplies the API as is with no warranty, so half credit (5). v2 is described as the official stable version (10). 20+20+15+12+5+10 = 82.\n- Puzzle API and MCP (15): Hosted reading. status.puzzle.io exists but answered 403 to our reader, so no status page or history could be read (0, then 5 for no readable history). No rate limits found in the API docs (0). The errors page documents 409 RESOURCE_PROCESSING with retry later and 500 with retry, but no 429 or idempotency guidance (5). No SLA (0). MCP read access is live, write access is a beta, and the API docs say the API is under development (5). 0 + 5 + 0 + 5 + 0 + 5 = 15.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Pennylane +27\n\n- Pennylane (76): Closed service. The API agreement of January 2024 and the customer terms of 16 December 2025 are public and name the entity and French law. The API agreement lets Pennylane change or revoke access without notice and takes an exclusive licence over integrations, and its registered office differs from the one in the customer terms (13). Privacy policy of 30 January 2026, a data processing agreement annexed to the terms, deletion 30 days after termination, EU hosting and a commitment not to train AI models on customer data. The privacy policy allows providers outside the EU while the sub-processor list shows none (24). The 2026 breaking changes had dated phases over 24 weeks and v1 had an end date, but no standing deprecation policy was found and the agreement reserves changes without notice (14). Sub-processor list with locations, dated 16 December 2025, with update notices 30 days ahead (20).\n- Puzzle API and MCP (49): Closed service with published terms naming Puzzle Financial Inc. (15). A privacy policy effective 19 December 2025; the security page says data stays on US servers and isn't shared or sold (15). The API docs promise documented endpoints stay stable but give no deprecation policy (5). Sub-processors not found, though the server location is stated (8). 15 + 15 + 5 + 8 = 43.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Pennylane +20\n\n- Pennylane (85): Each reference page carries an OpenAPI 3.0.1 definition for its operation, readable through the Markdown twin. One downloadable file for the whole API was not located, and the MCP tool schemas need a signed-in session, so we did not read them (23). llms.txt indexes the guides and 185 reference pages (1 November 2026), and every page has a Markdown twin (10). Descriptions state purpose, the scopes required and side effects, such as a finalised invoice no longer being editable, and guides compare importing with creating an invoice (14). Typed parameters with minimum and maximum values and enums on the page read, though `filter` is a JSON array passed as a string (11). Examples in the definitions and an error guide covering nine status codes with fixes (12). Versioned as v2 with a dated changelog and RSS feed (15). Based on one reference page read in full.\n- Puzzle API and MCP (65): The API reference on ReadMe is generated from an OpenAPI file, though we didn't download the file itself; the MCP tool schemas aren't published (18). llms.txt and Markdown pages on puzzle-api.readme.io (10). Endpoint descriptions name the required scope and explain defaults such as cash basis (14). Typed parameters with documented limits, such as companies capped at 100 a page (11). An error table with HTTP codes and errorContext shapes, and example requests (12). No changelog or version scheme found (0). 18 + 10 + 14 + 11 + 12 + 0 = 65.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Pennylane +12\n\n- Pennylane (65): Newest changelog entry 29 October 2026 (30). Eight dated entries since 3 August, on 15 and 30 September, 14 October, 22 October (two), 27 October and 29 October (two) (20). Closed service with a dated changelog, an RSS feed, a public roadmap, support by chat or account manager for customers and Zendesk for partners, and a community forum we did not read (10). No official SDK was found, and a search of the official MCP registry for pennylane on 1 November 2026 returned no server (0). No package to assess. The docs are current, with changelog entries through 29 October 2026 (5). 30+20+10+0+5 = 65.\n- Puzzle API and MCP (53): The MCP registry entry was published on 5 October 2026, 32 days before this check, and Puzzle's MCP post is dated 26 October (20). No release log, so changes in the 90 days can't be counted beyond the registry entry and the MCP launch (5). A help centre and support contact, but no public changelog or issue tracker (8). io.puzzle/puzzle sits under a domain-verified namespace in the official registry (15). No SDK or package to judge (5). 20 + 5 + 8 + 15 + 5 = 53.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Pennylane +10\n\n- Pennylane (66): The REST API is the main surface. Responses are sized with `limit` from 1 to 100, default 20, and filters, with no field selection found. The MCP server lists 31 tools, each data type switched on by its own scope (15). Cursor pagination, a `filter` parameter with operators and `sort` on list endpoints (20). Errors return `error`, `message` and `details` naming the field and rule, with a table of which codes to retry (17). No idempotency keys. The docs say creation endpoints do not enforce idempotency except supplier invoice imports, and a duplicate file returns 409. The MCP server is read only, and its annotations were not read (7). Sensible defaults, but no official SDK was found. The reference shows generated samples in six languages (7).\n- Puzzle API and MCP (56): MCP tool count and sizes unpublished, so context cost can't be read (10 of 25). API list endpoints page with count and after or limit, and filter by date and status (16). Error codes and errorContext name the field or resource at fault (17). No idempotency keys found; the MCP server asks for confirmation before writes (8). No official SDKs; few required parameters on reads (5). 10 + 16 + 17 + 8 + 5 = 56.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Puzzle API and MCP +5\n\n- Pennylane (68): OAuth 2.0 authorisation code with 24-hour access tokens and rotating refresh tokens for partners, company and firm tokens with chosen scopes, expiry and deletion, and OAuth 2.1 with PKCE on the MCP server. No documented option to send a token in a URL (30). Every resource has a `:readonly` scope, tokens can be read only and the MCP server cannot write. No confirmation step for irreversible calls such as finalising an invoice (16). The API returns invoice and supplier text written by other parties. The MCP docs warn that data goes to the AI vendor and that answers can be wrong, with no prompt-injection guidance (4). The token list shows last use, and changelog endpoints and the `get_changelog` tool list record changes over four weeks. No per-call log for the operator was found (6). ISO 27001 with a 2026 certificate published, an annual third-party penetration test in the customer terms, a security white paper and an incident response plan. No security.txt, bug bounty or disclosure policy was found (12).\n- Puzzle API and MCP (73): OAuth for MCP with a per-company choice and read-only default, and OAuth 2.0 with granular scopes on the API, defaulting to read-only scopes (28). Read-only by default, writes an opt-in beta with confirmation for each change (18). Bank descriptions and vendor names are third-party text, and no prompt-injection guidance was found (3). Every API request is logged per the docs, and a firm activity endpoint returns an audit log (12). A SOC 2 claim in the API docs and a bug bounty policy page; no security.txt (12). 28 + 18 + 3 + 12 + 12 = 73.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Pennylane | Puzzle API and MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 82 | 15 | Pennylane +67 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 65 | Pennylane +20 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 56 | Pennylane +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 73 | Puzzle API and MCP +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 15 | Pennylane +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 53 | Pennylane +12 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 49 | Pennylane +27 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.7 · B** | **46.2 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Pennylane | Puzzle API and MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |\n| Vendor | Pennylane SAS | Puzzle Financial Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.pennylane.com/api/external/v2` | `https://app.puzzle.io/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP | Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Pennylane's API agreement and customer terms | none |\n| Tools exposed | 31 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.puzzle/puzzle` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-29 | 2026-10-05 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2023-06-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-12-19 |\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 | yes |\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 | not found in the text | yes |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Pennylane\n\n- +1.4 on 1 November 2026: time\n\n### Puzzle API and MCP\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Pennylane.** The v2 API has per-resource read and write scopes, an OpenAPI definition on every reference page, llms.txt and a dated changelog with eight entries since August. Access needs a paid Essentiel plan or partner approval, creation endpoints aren't idempotent, and the API agreement lets Pennylane change or revoke the API without notice.\n\n**Puzzle API and MCP.** Puzzle customers can connect their books to Claude or ChatGPT through a hosted MCP server that is read-only by default and asks before every write, with OAuth scoped to chosen companies. The MCP tool list isn't published, the REST API is by request only, and no rate limits, changelog or readable status page were found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Pennylane\n\n1. Call `GET https://app.pennylane.com/api/external/v2/me` first to confirm the token, user and company context\n2. Stay under 25 requests per 5 seconds per token and wait for the `retry-after` value on a 429\n3. Do not retry a create after a timeout without checking first. Only supplier invoice imports are deduplicated\n4. Handle `public_file_url: null` on a new customer invoice and fetch the invoice again until the PDF URL is set\n5. Send `filter` and `sort` again with every `cursor`. The cursor stores position only\n6. Send amounts as strings such as \"120.00\", and ask for `:readonly` scopes when the task only reads\n7. Use the MCP server for reads only. It cannot create, edit or delete, and firm connections need `company_id`\n\n### Puzzle API and MCP\n\n1. Connect with read-only access first and ask the user before turning on read-write\n2. Expect a confirmation step on every proposed transaction change; don't retry it as an error\n3. On 409 RESOURCE_PROCESSING wait for the sync to finish, then retry\n4. Treat bank and vendor text as untrusted input\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Pennylane or Puzzle API and MCP?\n\nPennylane scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against Puzzle API and MCP's 46.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Puzzle API and MCP leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Pennylane and Puzzle API and MCP need an API key?\n\nPennylane takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Puzzle API and MCP uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Pennylane and Puzzle API and MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. Pennylane has a hosted endpoint at https://app.pennylane.com/api/external/v2 and Puzzle API and MCP at https://app.puzzle.io/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pennylane-vs-puzzle.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pennylane-vs-puzzle.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"pennylane\", \"b\": \"puzzle\"}`. 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