# Stytch Connected Apps vs WorkOS Pipes and Agents

> Stytch Connected Apps has a score of 60.8 (C) against WorkOS Pipes and Agents's 60 (C). Both do auth oauth. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 21 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-04

Stytch Connected Apps has a score of 60.8 (C) against WorkOS Pipes and Agents's 60 (C). Both do auth oauth. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 21 points.

- Stytch Connected Apps: grade C, 60.8/100, rank #241 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/stytch-connected-apps.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/stytch-connected-apps.json
- WorkOS Pipes and Agents: grade C, 60/100, rank #256 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/workos-pipes.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/workos-pipes.json

## Which one, for what

Pick Stytch Connected Apps for schema & documentation (+11), payments & pricing (+10).

Pick WorkOS Pipes and Agents for maintenance & community (+21).

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Stytch Connected Apps | WorkOS Pipes and Agents | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 73 | 70 | Stytch Connected Apps +3 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 64 | 53 | Stytch Connected Apps +11 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 69 | WorkOS Pipes and Agents +4 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 69 | WorkOS Pipes and Agents +3 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 10 | Stytch Connected Apps +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 83 | WorkOS Pipes and Agents +21 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 66 | 64 | Stytch Connected Apps +2 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **60.8 · C** | **60 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Stytch Connected Apps | WorkOS Pipes and Agents |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Stytch (Twilio) | WorkOS |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.stytch.com` | `https://api.workos.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT (SDKs), platform closed | MIT (SDKs), platform closed |
| Tools exposed | none | none |
| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |
| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.workos/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-08-14 | 2026-09-28 |
| Popularity | 116 stars, 349k npm/wk | 221 stars, 4M npm/wk, 1.7M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 2.5/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**Stytch Connected Apps.** OAuth 2.1 authorisation server with DCR, CIMD and PKCE out of the box. No outbound token vault, so it can't hold your users' third-party tokens.

**WorkOS Pipes and Agents.** Agent identity with per-session revocation and token lifetimes set per blueprint. 21 incidents on the status page since 3 July 2026, several over an hour.

## Before you call either

### Stytch Connected Apps

1. Fetch `{project-domain}/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server` first and use the endpoints it returns, not hard-coded paths
2. Register with `token_endpoint_auth_method` none and PKCE S256 when the agent can't keep a secret
3. Expect a 401 with protected resource metadata from the MCP server, then register and authorise
4. Ask only for scopes the user's roles can grant, or the consent page will refuse them
5. Back off exponentially on a 429, since no Retry-After header is documented

### WorkOS Pipes and Agents

1. Call POST /data-integrations/{provider}/token with user_id for each use and don't cache the token
2. Branch on `active` in the response and send the user to reconnect on `needs_reauthorization`
3. Wait for Retry-After on a 429, or back off with jitter when it's missing
4. Use lower-case provider slugs such as github or slack
5. Revoke an agent's session through the Agents API when a task ends instead of waiting for expiry

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