{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "pipedrive", "name": "Pipedrive API + MCP", "vendor": "Pipedrive", "vendorUrl": "https://www.pipedrive.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "crm", "summary": "REST API (v1 and a faster v2) and a hosted MCP server for Pipedrive, the pipeline CRM.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedrive", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedrive.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedrive.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipedrive.json", "repo": "https://github.com/pipedrive/client-nodejs", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "pipedrive" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Personal API token in the x-api-token header (older docs show it as an api_token query parameter, which puts it in logs); one active token per user per company. OAuth 2.0 with scopes for marketplace apps. The MCP server at https://mcp.pipedrive.ai/mcp is OAuth only, through oauth.pipedrive.com, with scopes for deals, contacts, leads, activities, products and search.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No free plan, a 14-day trial with no card. Lite $14, Growth $39, Premium $59 and Ultimate $79 a seat a month billed yearly ($24, $49, $79 and $99 billed monthly per the 30 September check). API and MCP on every plan. Each company gets a daily API budget of 30,000 tokens times a plan multiplier (Lite 1 up to Ultimate 7) times seats; extra token packs are sold from $100 a month (https://www.pipedrive.com/en/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$24 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No payments. Access follows the Pipedrive subscription and its daily API token budget.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 234, "npmWeekly": 71835, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.pipedrive.com/docs/api/v1", "llmsTxt": "https://pipedrive.readme.io/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developers.pipedrive.com/docs/api/v1/openapi-v2.yaml", "capabilities": [ "crm.records", "crm.pipeline", "crm.activities", "crm.search", "crm.webhooks" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "webhooks", "closed-source", "typescript", "no-card" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.5, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 459, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 30, "reliability": 53, "schema": 80, "security": 53, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Hosted MCP server on every plan, with actions recorded in the change log. MCP tool list not published, and the server is labelled beta.", "bestFor": "Small and mid-size sales teams running deal pipelines who want an agent to update deals and log activities.", "strengths": [ "Hosted MCP server on every plan, with actions recorded in the change log", "Detailed rate-limit docs with token costs per call type and remaining-budget headers", "Official Node (33.7.0, 8 September 2026) and PHP SDKs", "ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and SOC 2 Type 2", "Dated deprecations announced months ahead" ], "weaknesses": [ "MCP tool list not published, and the server is labelled beta", "Four incidents over an hour in September 2026, and no status component for API v2 or MCP", "Personal API tokens carry full user rights and can travel as a query parameter", "Daily token budget is shared by the whole company", "No security.txt and no retention period after account closure" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use v2 endpoints, which cost fewer tokens than v1", "Read `x-daily-requests-left` before a bulk run, since a search costs 40 tokens", "Send the token in the `x-api-token` header, never as `api_token` in the URL", "Keep under 10 search requests per 2 seconds on every plan", "Ask the user to load all Pipedrive tools in the client if an expected tool is missing" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "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 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 30, "reliability": 53, "schema": 80, "security": 53, "transparency": 66 }, "provenanceScore": 85 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2/deals?limit=5\" -H \"x-api-token: $PIPEDRIVE_API_TOKEN\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http pipedrive https://mcp.pipedrive.ai/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "pipedrive": { "url": "https://mcp.pipedrive.ai/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/crm.records", "tool": "https://letme.dev/pipedrive" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Lite", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 24, "note": "billed monthly; API on every plan" }, { "item": "Growth", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 49, "note": "billed monthly" }, { "item": "Premium", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 79, "note": "billed monthly" }, { "item": "Ultimate", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 99, "note": "billed monthly" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Pipedrive Inc.", "domain": "pipedrive.com", "domainRegistered": "2010-07-07", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.pipedrive.com/en/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.pipedrive.com/en/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.pipedrive.com", "changelog": "https://developers.pipedrive.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "US customers contract with Pipedrive Inc., EU customers with Pipedrive OÜ (Tallinn), UK customers with Pipedrive UK.", "The MCP server is on pipedrive.ai, a separate domain from the REST API." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedrive.json", "live": { "slug": "pipedrive", "probe": { "target": "https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:37.144904531Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 48, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 64, "p95ms24h": 145, "samples24h": 259, "samples30d": 2311, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "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": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 125, "ok": 125 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.pipedrive.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T07:58:25.996377189Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "pipedrive/client-nodejs", "version": "v17.5.3", "released": "2022-10-31", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:25:19.139321305Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "pipedrive", "version": "33.7.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:25:18.312213637Z" } ], "githubStars": 234, "npmWeekly": 76713, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://pipedrive.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:33.754939622Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://pipedrive.readme.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:45.514780864Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "pipedrive.com", "registered": "2010-07-07", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/pipedrive.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:04:19.697173935Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.pipedrive.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:56.207853411Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "eac46f3a71fb" }, { "url": "https://www.pipedrive.com/en/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 403, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:29:38.446785051Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:13:18.148487171Z", "fingerprint": "e3c8425fa6fb" }, { "url": "https://www.pipedrive.com/en/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:29:40.500289764Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-05T16:04:00.327074718Z", "fingerprint": "d4901911b458" }, { "url": "https://www.pipedrive.com/en/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:29:42.616107855Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-05T16:04:02.367863056Z", "fingerprint": "a40a8d43f57c" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:37.144904531Z" } }, "answer": "Pipedrive API + MCP scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Salesflare's 48.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Salesflare leads on reliability.", "b": { "slug": "salesflare", "name": "Salesflare", "vendor": "Salesflare BVBA", "vendorUrl": "https://salesflare.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "crm", "summary": "Salesflare is a sales CRM for small B2B teams that fills in contacts, companies and activity from email and calendars. Agents reach it through a REST API at `api.salesflare.com` and a hosted MCP server with OAuth.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salesflare", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salesflare.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salesflare.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/salesflare.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Salesflare's Terms of Service", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.salesflare.com", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The REST API takes an API key as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. A user creates keys in Settings, API keys, including on a trial account. No scopes, expiry or read-only key type are documented. The MCP server at `https://mcp.salesflare.com/mcp` uses OAuth authorisation code with PKCE (S256) and dynamic client registration at `api.salesflare.com/oidc/register`, with `openid` and `offline_access` as the only scopes. Access is self-serve.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No free plan. A 30-day trial needs no card and allows API keys. Three plans a user a month, Growth $29, Pro $49 and Enterprise $99 billed annually, or $39, $64 and $124 billed monthly, with a five-user minimum on Enterprise. API and MCP access carry no separate charge, and no API tier was found on the pricing page (https://salesflare.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "$29 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the OpenAPI file, the MCP OAuth metadata or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://api.salesflare.com/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://salesflare.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.salesflare.com/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "crm.records", "crm.pipeline", "crm.activities", "crm.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "oauth", "api-key", "no-card", "status-page", "eu-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 48.5, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 721, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 49, "maintenance": 25, "payments": 30, "reliability": 63, "schema": 57, "security": 44, "transparency": 58 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The REST API has a public Swagger 2.0 file covering 71 operations, with typed filters on every list call and a 30-day trial that needs no card. No rate limit numbers, API changelog, SDK or audit log were found in the reviewed documentation, and API keys carry no documented scopes.", "bestFor": "Small B2B sales teams on Salesflare who want an agent to read and update accounts, contacts, opportunities and tasks through REST or the hosted MCP server.", "strengths": [ "Public Swagger 2.0 file at `api.salesflare.com/openapi.json` with 71 operations across accounts, contacts, opportunities, tasks, pipelines, notes, meetings, calls, tags and workflows", "List calls take `limit`, `offset`, `search`, `order_by`, typed field filters and a `q` rule builder with 33 operators", "Hosted MCP server at `https://mcp.salesflare.com/mcp` with OAuth authorisation code, PKCE (S256) and dynamic client registration", "30-day trial with no card, and an API key can be created on a trial account per the disclosure programme page", "No incident on status.salesflare.com in the 90 days to 9 October 2026. The last notice is dated 17 June 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "No rate limit numbers found. The API introduction lists 429 among its status codes with no limit, Retry-After or backoff guidance", "47 of 71 operations document only a `default` response typed as a string, and the file has no examples or error schema", "API keys have no documented scopes, read-only type or expiry, and the OAuth metadata lists only `openid` and `offline_access`", "No API changelog, version history, deprecation dates or official SDK found", "The privacy policy is hosted by Iubenda on a path its robots.txt disallows, so we could not read it, and the DPA is supplied on request" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI key\u003e` to `https://api.salesflare.com`. A person creates the key in Settings, API keys", "Set `limit` on every list call. The default is 10 on `/accounts` and 20 on `/contacts` and `/tasks`, and no maximum is documented", "Pass `update_if_exists=true` when creating an account, or `force=false` when creating a contact, so a retried call does not duplicate a record", "Write custom fields as `custom__fieldname`, and add `\"_dirty\": \"true\"` to each object in an array sent with PUT, per the help centre", "Expect a JSON body with `statusCode`, `error` and `message` on failure, and back off on 429 because no limit is published" ], "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": 48.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 49, "maintenance": 25, "payments": 30, "reliability": 63, "schema": 57, "security": 44, "transparency": 40 }, "provenanceScore": 75 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.salesflare.com/me \\\n --header \"Authorization: Bearer $SALESFLARE_API_KEY\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/crm.records", "tool": "https://letme.dev/salesflare" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Growth (API and MCP included)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 29, "note": "billed annually; $39 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Pro (first plan with user permissions)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 49, "note": "billed annually; $64 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Enterprise (five-user minimum)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 99, "note": "billed annually; $124 billed monthly" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Salesflare BVBA", "domain": "salesflare.com", "domainRegistered": "2014-05-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://salesflare.com/terms", "privacy": "https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/81768705", "statusPage": "https://status.salesflare.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service name the provider as Salesflare BVBA, Rijnkaai 37 box 4, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium, and are governed by Belgian law with the courts of Antwerp. The page carries no date.", "salesflare.com/privacy holds only a link to the policy on Iubenda. That host's robots.txt disallows `/privacy-policy/`, so we did not read it and a reader that keeps to robots.txt cannot either.", "The REST API answers at api.salesflare.com and the MCP server at mcp.salesflare.com, with OAuth at api.salesflare.com/oidc.", "salesflare.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The disclosure programme at salesflare.com/vdp asks for reports at security@salesflare.com.", "No API changelog or product update log was found. The blog's announcements archive holds one post, from 2016.", "The DPA is requested through a form, with a sample PDF dated 2018 linked from the help centre, which we did not read.", "RDAP for salesflare.com gives a registration date of 2014-05-17." ], "score": 75 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salesflare.json", "live": { "slug": "salesflare", "probe": { "target": "https://api.salesflare.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:39.438703696Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 44, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 49, "p95ms24h": 95, "samples24h": 44, "samples30d": 44, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 44, "ok": 44 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.salesflare.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T07:58:30.317497091Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:39.438703696Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Pipedrive", "b": "Salesflare BVBA", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2", "b": "https://api.salesflare.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service under Salesflare's Terms of Service", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-08", "b": "2026-10-08", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-09-16", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-07-02", "b": "couldn't be read", "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": "234 stars, 72k npm/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Pipedrive API + MCP scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Salesflare's 48.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Salesflare leads on reliability.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Pipedrive API + MCP or Salesflare?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Pipedrive API + MCP and Salesflare need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Pipedrive API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2 and Salesflare at https://api.salesflare.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Pipedrive API + MCP and Salesflare without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 57", "Agent ergonomics, 61 against 49", "Security \u0026 auth, 53 against 44", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 25", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 58" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Small and mid-size sales teams running deal pipelines who want an agent to update deals and log activities.", "slug": "pipedrive", "watchFor": "MCP tool list not published, and the server is labelled beta" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 63 against 53" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Small B2B sales teams on Salesflare who want an agent to read and update accounts, contacts, opportunities and tasks through REST or the hosted MCP server.", "slug": "salesflare", "watchFor": "No rate limit numbers found. The API introduction lists 429 among its status codes with no limit, Retry-After or backoff guidance" } ], "job": { "capability": "crm.records", "name": "Crm records" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-pipedrive.json", "title": "Affinity vs Pipedrive API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-pipedrive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-salesflare.json", "title": "Affinity vs Salesflare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/affinity-vs-salesflare" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/attio-vs-pipedrive.json", "title": "Attio API + MCP vs Pipedrive API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/attio-vs-pipedrive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/attio-vs-salesflare.json", "title": "Attio API + MCP vs Salesflare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/attio-vs-salesflare" }, { "json": 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No rate limit numbers, API changelog, SDK or audit log were found in the reviewed documentation, and API keys carry no documented scopes." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipedrive-vs-salesflare", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipedrive-vs-salesflare.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipedrive-vs-salesflare.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipedrive-vs-salesflare.min.md" }, "markdown": "Pipedrive API + MCP scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Salesflare's 48.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Salesflare leads on reliability. Both do crm records.\n\n- Pipedrive API + MCP: grade C, 60.5/100, rank #459 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedrive.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipedrive.json\n- Salesflare: grade D, 48.5/100, rank #721 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salesflare.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/salesflare.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Pipedrive API + MCP (C)\n\nGood for: Small and mid-size sales teams running deal pipelines who want an agent to update deals and log activities.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 57\n- Agent ergonomics, 61 against 49\n- Security \u0026 auth, 53 against 44\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 25\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 58\n\nWatch for: MCP tool list not published, and the server is labelled beta\n\n### Salesflare (D)\n\nGood for: Small B2B sales teams on Salesflare who want an agent to read and update accounts, contacts, opportunities and tasks through REST or the hosted MCP server.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 63 against 53\n\nWatch for: No rate limit numbers found. The API introduction lists 429 among its status codes with no limit, Retry-After or backoff guidance\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Pipedrive API + MCP | Salesflare | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 53 | 63 | Salesflare +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 57 | Pipedrive API + MCP +23 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 61 | 49 | Pipedrive API + MCP +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 53 | 44 | Pipedrive API + MCP +9 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 25 | Pipedrive API + MCP +58 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 58 | Pipedrive API + MCP +18 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.5 · C** | **48.5 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Pipedrive API + MCP | Salesflare |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Pipedrive | Salesflare BVBA |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2` | `https://api.salesflare.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Salesflare's Terms of Service |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-08 | 2026-10-08 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-16 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-02 | couldn't be read |\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| Popularity | 234 stars, 72k npm/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Pipedrive API + MCP.** Hosted MCP server on every plan, with actions recorded in the change log. MCP tool list not published, and the server is labelled beta.\n\n**Salesflare.** The REST API has a public Swagger 2.0 file covering 71 operations, with typed filters on every list call and a 30-day trial that needs no card. No rate limit numbers, API changelog, SDK or audit log were found in the reviewed documentation, and API keys carry no documented scopes.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Pipedrive API + MCP\n\n1. Use v2 endpoints, which cost fewer tokens than v1\n2. Read `x-daily-requests-left` before a bulk run, since a search costs 40 tokens\n3. Send the token in the `x-api-token` header, never as `api_token` in the URL\n4. Keep under 10 search requests per 2 seconds on every plan\n5. Ask the user to load all Pipedrive tools in the client if an expected tool is missing\n\n### Salesflare\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI key\u003e` to `https://api.salesflare.com`. A person creates the key in Settings, API keys\n2. Set `limit` on every list call. The default is 10 on `/accounts` and 20 on `/contacts` and `/tasks`, and no maximum is documented\n3. Pass `update_if_exists=true` when creating an account, or `force=false` when creating a contact, so a retried call does not duplicate a record\n4. Write custom fields as `custom__fieldname`, and add `\"_dirty\": \"true\"` to each object in an array sent with PUT, per the help centre\n5. Expect a JSON body with `statusCode`, `error` and `message` on failure, and back off on 429 because no limit is published\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Pipedrive API + MCP or Salesflare?\n\nPipedrive API + MCP scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Salesflare's 48.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Salesflare leads on reliability.\n\n### Do Pipedrive API + MCP and Salesflare need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Pipedrive API + MCP and Salesflare without installing anything?\n\nYes. Pipedrive API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2 and Salesflare at https://api.salesflare.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipedrive-vs-salesflare.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipedrive-vs-salesflare.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"pipedrive\", \"b\": \"salesflare\"}`. 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