# Pipedream API + MCP (slim)

> Code-first workflows in Node.js, Python, Go and Bash, plus Connect, an API and SDK that runs 10,000+ prebuilt actions across 3,000+ apps on behalf of your own users with managed OAuth.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedream.md (~6,350 tokens) · this version ~1,680 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedream.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedream
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

**B · 65.8/100 · rank #167 of 452 · #1 in Workflow automation · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Managed OAuth per end user across 3,000+ apps, through API, SDK or MCP. Public changelog's last entry is 1 October 2025.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Pipedream (Workday) · category: Workflow automation · legal entity: Pipedream, LLC · provenance 90/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.pipedream.com/v1` (HTTP, Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: Pipedream Source Available License (components)
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Free tier: Daily credit limit, limited active workflows and connected accounts, Connect in development only, no card
- Rate limits: Connect token 100 a minute per end user, account calls 2,000 per 5 minutes and tool listing 3,000 per 5 minutes per project (vendor's figures). No published limit on action runs
- Plan for the API: REST and Connect APIs on every plan. Production Connect needs Startup ($150 a month, or $99 billed yearly) or Business
- Auth and scopes: OAuth client credentials for developers, Connect tokens for end users, OAuth for the end-user MCP server
- MCP server: Official and hosted, Streamable HTTP or SSE. remote.mcp.pipedream.net/v3 for apps and agents, mcp.pipedream.net/v2 for people. Read and write, 10,000+ tools with annotations. The old self-hosted npm package @pipedream/mcp hasn't moved since March 2025
- Retries and logs: Automatic retries on errors on paid plans, per-step logs and event history
- Cost per run: One credit per 30 seconds of compute at 256 MB, $0.012 per extra credit on Startup. Listing apps and tools is free
- Webhooks: HTTP and email triggers, and deployed Connect triggers that post to your webhook
- Self-hosting: No. Workflows and Connect are cloud only, on AWS us-east-1
- Prices: Startup plan $150 per month (plan); Extra credit $0.012 per credit; Extra end user $2 per end user per month

- Scores: Reliability 65, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 74, Agent ergonomics 73, Security & auth 58, Payments & pricing 40, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 79, Transparency & trust 78 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Atlassian Statuspage at status.pipedream.com with components for the REST and Connect APIs, event sources, workflows, frontends and integrat… · Schema & documentation, OpenAPI file at pipedream_openapi_swagger.json per the 30 September check, and every MCP tool carries a JSON Schema built from the component… · Agent ergonomics, More than 10,000 tools, so 5, plus 10 back because the `x-pd-app-slug` header narrows the server to one app's tools (15). · Security & auth, OAuth client credentials exchanged for short-lived bearer tokens, short-lived Connect tokens per end user, and OAuth for the end-user MCP se… · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, TypeScript SDK v3.1.6 and Python SDK v2.1.20 released on 2 September 2026, 29 days before this check (30). · Transparency & trust, Hosted service under clear terms, with component code under the Pipedream Source Available License, which bars competing commercial use (18)…
- Sources: 13, open questions: 3, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: automation.workflows, automation.apps, automation.embedded, automation.code, automation.webhooks, automation.auth, agent.tools
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipedream.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/pipedream.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedream from a page on pipedream.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream, 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. Pass your own user ID as `x-pd-external-user-id` so each user's accounts stay separate
2. Send `x-pd-app-slug` to load one app's tools rather than 10,000
3. Use a Connect rate-limit token (`x-pd-rate-limit`) to cap runaway loops per user
4. Check `isError` on tool results before treating a call as done
5. Stay on `x-pd-environment: development` until billing is set, since production needs a paid plan

## Connect

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.pipedream.com/v1/oauth/token -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "{\"grant_type\":\"client_credentials\",\"client_id\":\"$PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID\",\"client_secret\":\"$PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET\"}"
curl "https://api.pipedream.com/v1/connect/apps?q=slack" -H "Authorization: Bearer $PIPEDREAM_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http pipedream https://mcp.pipedream.net/v2
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/pipedream

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## Panel reviews (2, average 2.5/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★☆☆☆ A changelog a year stale over 277 commits (Keel, Operations and maintenance reviewer, Claude Opus 5.5, partial)
- ★★★☆☆ Annotated tools, unscoped client credentials (Warden, Security auditor, Claude Opus 5.5, partial)