# Amplitude (slim)

> Amplitude is a hosted product analytics platform that records user events and answers questions about funnels, retention, cohorts, experiments and feature flags. Agents reach it through an official remote MCP server, REST APIs and the amp command line.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amplitude.md (~8,150 tokens) · this version ~2,030 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amplitude.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amplitude
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-08

**B · 66.2/100 · rank #223 of 629 · #5 in Product analytics & experimentation · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: The remote MCP server covers queries, funnels, retention, experiments and flags under OAuth with PKCE, read and write scopes and per-project role actions, and the Free plan needs no card. No MCP rate limits or SLA were found, and status.amplitude.com records a critical outage of the UI, MCP and REST APIs on 13 July 2026.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Amplitude, Inc. · category: Product analytics & experimentation · legal entity: Amplitude, Inc. · provenance 93/100
- Endpoint: `https://mcp.amplitude.com/mcp` (HTTP, Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: Proprietary service under Amplitude's terms of service. The SDKs, the `amp` CLI and the MCP marketplace plugins on GitHub and npm are MIT
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- MCP server: Remote, streaming HTTP, OAuth 2.0 only. https://mcp.amplitude.com/mcp (US) and https://mcp.eu.amplitude.com/mcp (EU). 45 documented tools, with about 25 for ChatGPT
- MCP tool groups: Discovery and context (3), charts (4), dashboards (1), notebooks, comments and sharing (3), cohorts (1), users (1), experiments and flags (9), taxonomy (6), session replay (3), guides and surveys (2), opportunities (5), feedback (1), agent analytics (2), data warehouse (4)
- Progressive discovery: `?discovery=progressive` on either URL returns `get_amplitude_context`, `list_tool_categories`, `get_category_tools` and `describe_tool` first, and every tool stays callable
- REST APIs: HTTP V2 ingestion at api2.amplitude.com, Dashboard REST and Export at amplitude.com/api, Behavioural Cohorts, Taxonomy, Experiment Management at experiment.amplitude.com, Audit Logs and SCIM, each with EU hosts
- Developer API: https://developer-api.amplitude.com, OpenAPI 3.1.1, version 0.1.0, 32 paths for projects, taxonomy, saved charts, heatmaps, flags and destinations. Experiment paths are commented out as under construction
- Credentials: MCP by OAuth with PKCE and dynamic client registration. Developer API by device flow or personal access token with eight scopes. Older APIs by project API key and secret key, or an Experiment management key
- Access controls: Org-level MCP switch, role actions Use MCP (read) and Use MCP (write) per project, on by default. Read is in every role and write in Member, Manager and Admin
- Rate limits: Dashboard REST 5 concurrent and 108,000 cost an hour per project. User activity and search 10 concurrent and 360 an hour. Experiment Management 100 a second and 100,000 a day. HTTP V2 30 events a second per user or device. None found for MCP
- Errors and retries: Developer API answers RFC 9457 problem+json with `error_code`, `retryable` and `retry_after_seconds`, and takes `Idempotency-Key` and `dry_run` on some operations. HTTP V2 deduplicates on `insert_id` for 7 days
- Audit: Organisation audit log with 90 days of entries and an Audit Logs API. Its event list covers logins, roles, exports and deletions and doesn't name MCP tool calls
- Certifications: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 on trust.amplitude.com, HIPAA support, a private bug bounty with a Bugcrowd contact in security.txt
- Status: status.amplitude.com on Statuspage, 29 components including MCP, Management API and Data Reception
- Sub-processors: List updated 13 May 2026 with data centre locations in the US and EU. Hosting on AWS, with AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI and OpenAI for its AI products

- Scores: Reliability 60, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 72, Agent ergonomics 72, Security & auth 74, Payments & pricing 30, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 83, Transparency & trust 78 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Read with the hosted lines and scored on what an agent calls, the remote MCP server first and the REST APIs beside it. · Schema & documentation, The Developer API has an OpenAPI 3.1.1 document whose root file is public, but its referenced path files returned 404 and the bundled /v1/op… · Agent ergonomics, 45 tools is over the 30 line (5), with 10 added back for progressive discovery, which starts with four tools and loads schemas on demand, an… · Security & auth, The MCP server takes OAuth 2.0 with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, a revocation endpoint and `mcp:read` and `mcp:write` scopes, and… · Payments & pricing, Read with the hosted rubric. · Maintenance & community, @amplitude/developer-cli 0.4.0 on 2 October 2026, and the release notes add MCP taxonomy delete and restore on 12 September (30). · Transparency & trust, Closed service with terms effective 21 July 2026. The SDKs, CLI and marketplace plugins are MIT (15).
- Sources: 24, open questions: 8, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: analytics.query, analytics.funnels, analytics.experiments, analytics.flags, analytics.events
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amplitude.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/amplitude.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amplitude from a page on amplitude.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/amplitude/mcp-marketplace, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Connect to https://mcp.amplitude.com/mcp, or https://mcp.eu.amplitude.com/mcp for EU projects. The client must support streaming HTTP and OAuth, since API keys aren't accepted
2. Append `?discovery=progressive` to load tool schemas on demand, then call `get_amplitude_context` first to pick the project and read its AI context
3. Ask an admin for a role with only Use MCP (read) on the projects you need. Tools stay listed and fail at call time when the role lacks the action
4. Send events through the HTTP V2 API with an `insert_id` on each one. On 429, pause that user or device for 30 seconds before retrying
5. Budget Dashboard REST queries by cost (days times conditions times chart cost), within 108,000 an hour and 5 concurrent requests per project

## Connect

```bash
npm install -g @amplitude/developer-cli
```

```bash
curl --location --request GET 'https://amplitude.com/api/3/chart/:chart_id/csv' \
-u '{api_key}:{secret_key}'
```

```bash
claude mcp add -t http -s user Amplitude "https://mcp.amplitude.com/mcp"
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/amplitude

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