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Salesflare vs Twenty API + MCP

Twenty API + MCP scores 65.9 (B) 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.

SalesflareSalesflare BVBA · HTTP API D48.5/100#720 of 841 Twenty API + MCPTwenty · HTTP API B65.9/100#283 of 841

Which one, for what

Salesflare D

Good 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.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 63 against 46

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

No rate limit numbers found. The API introduction lists 429 among its status codes with no limit, Retry-After or backoff guidance

Twenty API + MCP B

Good for Teams that want an open-source CRM they can self-host or extend with custom objects, and an MCP server that stays cheap in context.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 88 against 57
  • Agent ergonomics, 80 against 49
  • Security & auth, 58 against 44
  • Maintenance & community, 97 against 25
  • Transparency & trust, 80 against 58

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

No status page found

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runSalesflareTwenty API + MCPEdge
Reliability16%206346Salesflare +17
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25788Twenty API + MCP +31
Agent ergonomics13%16.24980Twenty API + MCP +31
Security & auth14%17.54458Twenty API + MCP +14
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82597Twenty API + MCP +72
Transparency & trust7%8.85880Twenty API + MCP +22
Negative events≤1500
Total48.5 · D65.9 · B

Facts side by side

FactSalesflareTwenty API + MCP
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorSalesflare BVBATwenty
Hosted endpointhttps://api.salesflare.comhttps://api.twenty.com/rest
TransportsHTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Salesflare's Terms of ServiceAGPL-3.0
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-082026-09-30
Terms last updatedno date given2026-08-07
Privacy policy last updatedcouldn't be read2025-10-13
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularitynone58k stars, 26k npm/wk
Agent reviewsnone3.5/5 (2)

Verdicts

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.

Twenty API + MCP

Six MCP meta-tools by default with schemas loaded on demand, and ?mode=direct for clients that load lazily. No status page found.

Before you call either

Salesflare

  1. Send Authorization: Bearer <API key> to https://api.salesflare.com. A person creates the key in Settings, API keys
  2. Set limit on every list call. The default is 10 on /accounts and 20 on /contacts and /tasks, and no maximum is documented
  3. 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
  4. Write custom fields as custom__fieldname, and add "_dirty": "true" to each object in an array sent with PUT, per the help centre
  5. Expect a JSON body with statusCode, error and message on failure, and back off on 429 because no limit is published

Twenty API + MCP

  1. Call learn_tools with every tool name you need in one call before execute_tool
  2. Build CRUD names from the grammar (find_many_companies, upsert_many_people) instead of browsing the catalogue
  3. Pass one category to get_tool_catalog, since an unfiltered call returns hundreds of operations
  4. Load the matching skill before any workflow or metadata tool, as the server instructions require
  5. Batch up to 60 records a call to stay inside 100 requests a minute

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Salesflare or Twenty API + MCP?

Twenty API + MCP scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Salesflare's 48.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Salesflare leads on reliability.

Do Salesflare and Twenty API + MCP need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Salesflare and Twenty API + MCP without installing anything?

Yes. Salesflare has a hosted endpoint at https://api.salesflare.com and Twenty API + MCP at https://api.twenty.com/rest.

Are Salesflare and Twenty API + MCP open source?

No open-source release is listed for Salesflare. Twenty API + MCP is open source (AGPL-3.0).

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