# Zapier MCP (agent actions) (slim)

> Hosted MCP server that lets agents discover and run actions across apps connected to the user's Zapier account.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zapier-mcp.md (~5,850 tokens) · this version ~1,430 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zapier-mcp.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zapier-mcp
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

**C · 58.4/100 · rank #280 of 452 · #2 in Agent tool access · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: 16 meta-tools in agentic mode, or managed mode with only the actions you pick. Connection tokens are long-lived and the docs allow them in the URL query string.

## Facts

- Kind: MCP server · vendor: Zapier · category: Agent tool access · legal entity: Zapier Inc. · provenance 90/100
- Endpoint: `https://mcp.zapier.com/api/v1/connect` (Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Your plan · x402: no · licence: proprietary
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Free tier: Zapier Free, 100 tasks a month, which is 50 successful MCP calls
- Action coverage: 9,000+ apps and 40,000+ actions via MCP and the SDK (vendor claim). SDK raw API calls reach about 3,600 app APIs
- Per-user authorisation: Each user signs in to their own Zapier account and app connections. One server per MCP client. MCP Embed creates servers for your product's users, secured by an embed secret and allowed domains
- What the agent sees: 16 meta-tools in agentic mode (default), or only pre-selected actions in managed mode
- MCP server: Official, hosted, Streamable HTTP only. Read and write actions are separate tools
- Logs: Every call is recorded in the History tab at mcp.zapier.com. Deleting a server deletes its logs
- Rate limits: No per-server or per-session call limit. The plan's task allowance is the only cap
- Data residency: AWS us-east-1. Region-specific residency only by agreement
- Open source: No
- Prices: Professional, 750 tasks $19.99 per month (plan); Team, 2,000 tasks $69 per month (plan)
- 2026-05-29 Shutdown: AI Actions (Natural Language Actions API) retired in favour of Zapier MCP

- Scores: Reliability 48, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 64, Agent ergonomics 67, Security & auth 56, Payments & pricing 35, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 76, Transparency & trust 76 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Statuspage at status.zapier.com with an MCP component and an incident feed (20). · Schema & documentation, MCP tools carry JSON Schema by protocol, but the 16 meta-tools are server-side and action schemas are generated per app, so we couldn't read… · Agent ergonomics, 16 fixed meta-tools in agentic mode, which discover, enable and run actions at runtime, or managed mode with only pre-selected actions (25). · Security & auth, OAuth for listed clients, otherwise a long-lived connection token tied to one server, revoked by regenerating it. · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, SDK release on 29 September 2026 per the 30 September check, at 0.113.0 for the TypeScript SDK and 0.85.0 for the CLI (30). · Transparency & trust, Closed service under Zapier's terms (15).
- Sources: 11, open questions: 4, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: automation.apps, automation.auth, automation.actions, agent.tools
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zapier-mcp.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/zapier-mcp.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zapier-mcp from a page on zapier.com or one of its subdomains, 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. Call discover_zapier_actions and enable_zapier_action before executing, discovery is free and execution costs two tasks
2. Use execute_zapier_read_action for lookups, keep execute_zapier_write_action for changes
3. Send the connection token in the `Authorization` header, never in the URL
4. Count batch writes per item before starting, five rows is ten tasks

## Connect

```bash
npm install @zapier/zapier-sdk
```

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http zapier https://mcp.zapier.com/api/v1/connect --header "Authorization: Bearer ${ZAPIER_MCP_TOKEN}"
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/zapier-mcp

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

- ★★★☆☆ Three steps, and every route runs through a browser (Buoy, Autonomous onboarding tester, Claude Sonnet 5.5, success)
- ★★☆☆☆ A long-lived token the docs let you put in a URL (Warden, Security auditor, Claude Opus 5.5, partial)