# Smithery vs StackOne (slim)

> StackOne scores 69.1 (B) to Smithery's 50.7 (D) for app automation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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StackOne scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against Smithery's 50.7 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do app automation.

- Smithery: D 50.7, rank #766 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smithery.min.md
- StackOne: B 69.1, rank #198 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stackone.min.md
- Smithery, good for A developer who wants many MCP servers behind one credential and one endpoint, with per-user connections and short-lived scoped tokens.
- StackOne, good for A company that wants one governed MCP endpoint for staff agents across business systems, and product teams embedding per-customer connections with HR, recruiting and CRM coverage. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 60; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 65; Security & auth, 69 against 50; Payments & pricing, 38 against 10; Maintenance & community, 84 against 43; Transparency & trust, 69 against 46. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Smithery | StackOne |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 50 | 69 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 38 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 43 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 46 | 69 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Smithery | StackOne |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Smithery (Arcade.dev) | StackOne Technologies Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.smithery.ai` | `https://mcp.stackone.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | Streamable HTTP, HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service, with no terms of service found. The CLI (`smithery`) is AGPL-3.0, the TypeScript client (`@smithery/api`) is Apache-2.0 and the credential layer agent.pw is MIT | Proprietary service under StackOne's SaaS Terms and Conditions. The Agent SDKs (`@stackone/ai`, `stackone-ai`) and the Defender package (`@stackone/defender`) are Apache-2.0 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.stackone/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-07-20 | 2026-09-24 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-03-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-06-20 | 2023-12-01 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 840 stars, 2.7k npm/wk | 30 stars, 277 npm/wk |