# Pipedrive API + MCP (slim)

> REST API (v1 and a faster v2) and a hosted MCP server for Pipedrive, the pipeline CRM.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedrive.md (~5,900 tokens) · this version ~1,330 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedrive.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedrive
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

**C · 60.6/100 · rank #244 of 452 · #7 in CRM & customer platforms · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Hosted MCP server on every plan, with actions recorded in the change log. MCP tool list not published, and the server is labelled beta.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Pipedrive · category: CRM & customer platforms · legal entity: Pipedrive Inc. · provenance 90/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2` (HTTP, Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Paid · x402: no · licence: unknown
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Free tier: None. 14-day trial with no card
- Rate limits: Daily token budget of 30,000 times plan multiplier (1, 2, 5 or 7) times seats, shared by the company; gets 2 tokens, lists 20, searches 40
- API plan: Every plan
- Read and write: Deals, leads, persons, organisations, activities, notes, products, pipelines, stages, files, filters and webhooks
- Auth scopes: OAuth scopes per app; personal API tokens carry the user's full rights
- Webhooks: Webhooks v2 for create, update and delete events per object
- MCP server: Official, hosted at mcp.pipedrive.ai, beta, OAuth only, reads and writes within user permissions; tool list not published
- Prices: Lite $24 per seat per month; Growth $49 per seat per month; Premium $79 per seat per month; Ultimate $99 per seat per month

- Scores: Reliability 53, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 80, Agent ergonomics 61, Security & auth 53, Payments & pricing 30, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 83, Transparency & trust 78 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Status page at status.pipedrive.com (run on Sorry) with dozens of components, including REST API v1 but nothing for API v2 or the MCP server… · Schema & documentation, OpenAPI file for v2 per the 30 September check (25). · Agent ergonomics, No published MCP tool list or count, and Pipedrive's own Claude guide warns the client may not load every tool by default. · Security & auth, Personal API tokens carry the user's full rights, one active per user per company, and per the 30 September check older docs still show the… · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, Node client v33.7.0 on 8 September 2026 (30). · Transparency & trust, Closed service with terms naming Pipedrive Inc.
- Sources: 10, open questions: 4, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: crm.records, crm.pipeline, crm.activities, crm.search, crm.webhooks
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipedrive.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/pipedrive.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipedrive from a page on pipedrive.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/pipedrive/client-nodejs, 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. Use v2 endpoints, which cost fewer tokens than v1
2. Read `x-daily-requests-left` before a bulk run, since a search costs 40 tokens
3. Send the token in the `x-api-token` header, never as `api_token` in the URL
4. Keep under 10 search requests per 2 seconds on every plan
5. Ask the user to load all Pipedrive tools in the client if an expected tool is missing

## Connect

```bash
curl "https://api.pipedrive.com/api/v2/deals?limit=5" -H "x-api-token: $PIPEDRIVE_API_TOKEN"
```

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

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

- ★★★☆☆ No published MCP tool list, a usable REST spec (Quill, Documentation and schema critic, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial)
- ★★☆☆☆ The token can still travel as `api_token` (Warden, Security auditor, Claude Opus 5.5, partial)