# Agentik vs Orthogonal

Orthogonal adds x402 and B2B data. Agentik adds your ad accounts and spending caps.

Agentik wrote this comparison from Orthogonal's public pages (orthogonal.com), read on 10 October 2026. Agentik is not affiliated with Orthogonal. Corrections: info@agentik.cc.

## Which one fits

- Choose Orthogonal if your agent should pay per call in stablecoins over x402 or MPP, needs a wide choice of company, contact and intent data, or needs its own inbox and phone number.
- Choose Agentik if your agent works on your own ad and analytics accounts, needs ad research with an analysis of each ad, or runs on keys with hard spending caps.

## Side by side

Read on 10 October 2026. "Not published" means the pages we read say nothing about it, not that Orthogonal lacks it. Agentik's column comes from its catalog of 10 October 2026 and its pricing.

### Billing

| | Agentik | Orthogonal |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | A prepaid balance; each call at the provider’s price. No plan | Prepaid credits, bought by card and used across providers. No subscription; Enterprise on request |
| To start free | $5 of credit for eligible new accounts, for 14 days, for low-cost calls | $10 of free credits on its pricing page ($5 in its docs); $1 when an agent signs up |
| Fees | 0% markup on tool calls. Top-ups carry 5.5%, minimum $0.80, added on top; none on a first top-up of $10 or less | A 5% processing fee on credit purchases: $25 of credits costs $26.25 |
| Agent pays per call over x402 | No. Card only, by design | Yes. x402 (USDC or OUSD on Base) and MPP, beside card credits |

### What your agent can use

| | Agentik | Orthogonal |
|---|---|---|
| Catalog, as published | 2,287 tools that run today, from 52 providers (catalog of 10 October 2026) | 60+ providers and 1,000+ API endpoints |
| SEO and search data | Yes. DataForSEO, SEMScraper and Exa | Yes. Google results through Serper and SearchAPI |
| Web search and page reading | Yes. Firecrawl, Exa and 8 more | Yes. 12 web search and 15 scraping APIs, such as Tavily, Linkup and Olostep |
| Social media data | Yes. 980 tools from TikHub, ScrapeCreators and 2 more | Yes. Scrape Creators across 22+ platforms, creator analytics and LinkedIn data |
| Ad libraries | Yes. Adspy.sh, ScrapeCreators, TikHub and DataForSEO | Yes. Active ads on Meta, LinkedIn and Google |
| People, companies and emails | Yes. Icypeas, Leadsforge and 3 more | Yes. 27 enrichment APIs, such as Apollo, People Data Labs, ContactOut and RocketReach |
| Image, video and audio generation | Yes. 200 models from fal.ai | Yes. Image, video and speech models through OpenRouter, ElevenLabs and Gemini |
| Your ad and analytics accounts | Yes. 650 tools on your own ad and analytics accounts, connected once per workspace | Not published |
| Actions in your own apps (mail, chat, CRM) | No. No mail, chat or CRM actions | Partly. Inboxes and phone numbers for the agent (AgentMail, AgentPhone) |

### How your agent connects

| | Agentik | Orthogonal |
|---|---|---|
| Remote MCP server | Yes. One server, OAuth or API key | Yes. One server, with OAuth |
| Setup for Claude and ChatGPT | Yes. Guides for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex | Partly. Guides for Claude and Cursor, and a skill file for coding agents |
| REST API | Yes. REST API and OpenAPI | Yes. REST API, TypeScript SDK and CLI, with the catalog as OpenAPI |
| Bring your own provider keys | No. Agentik holds the provider accounts | Not published |
| Open source | No. Hosted service | Partly. Its CLI is open source; the service is hosted |

### Control

| | Agentik | Orthogonal |
|---|---|---|
| Price shown before each call | Yes. Each tool’s price, and the most a call can reserve | Yes. Each endpoint’s price, and a free quote for calls priced by request |
| Spending caps | Yes. Hourly, daily, lifetime and per-tool caps per key | Not published |
| A record of every call | Yes. Price, latency and status of every call | Yes. Usage history, with the cost of each call |
| Team workspace | Yes. Invite teammates | Not published |

## Where Orthogonal is the better choice

- **Pay per call in stablecoins.** Agents can pay each call over x402 (USDC or OUSD on Base) or MPP (on Tempo) instead of using credits. Agentik takes cards only.
- **A wide choice of company and contact data.** 27 enrichment APIs, such as Apollo, People Data Labs, ContactOut, RocketReach and Findymail, plus funding, hiring and intent signals from providers such as PredictLeads and Signalbase.
- **Email and phone for the agent.** AgentMail gives an agent its own inboxes, and AgentPhone a real phone number for calls and messages.
- **Up to $10 of free credit.** Its pricing page gives new users $10 of free credits; its docs say $5.

## Where Agentik is different

- **Your own ad and analytics accounts.** 650 tools read and change your ad accounts, Google Analytics and Search Console, connected once per workspace. Changes are previewed first and applied only when confirmed.
- **Ad research with an analysis of each ad.** Adspy’s 17 tools search Meta and Google ads and analyse each one, from the same balance as every other tool.
- **Caps on each key.** Keys can carry hourly, daily, lifetime or per-tool spending caps. A capped key cannot run a tool billed at actual cost.

### More tools from the same providers

| Provider | Agentik | Orthogonal |
|---|---|---|
| ScrapeCreators | 189 | 107 |
| Leadsforge | 27 | 27 |
| Icypeas | 26 | 7 |
| Exa | 16 | 4 |
| Serper | 2 | 12 |
| Tavily | 1 | 6 |
| CoinGecko | 1 | 1 |

Each one counts endpoints its own way: a higher number is more of a provider's API, not a better tool.

## Using both

Both are remote MCP servers that bill per call, so one agent can use both: Orthogonal for company and contact data or stablecoin payments, Agentik for your ad accounts, ad research and capped keys.

## Questions

### Does Orthogonal or Agentik add a fee?

Orthogonal adds a 5% processing fee to credit purchases, so $25 of credits costs $26.25. Agentik bills each call at the provider’s price with 0% markup, and its top-ups carry 5.5%, minimum $0.80.

### Can my agent pay with stablecoins?

With Orthogonal, yes, over x402 (USDC or OUSD on Base) or MPP. Agentik is card only, by design.

### Which one works on my own ad accounts?

Agentik does, with 650 tools that read and change your ad accounts, Google Analytics and Search Console, connected once per workspace; changes apply only once you confirm them. The Orthogonal pages we read do not describe connecting your own ad accounts.

### Can I use Orthogonal and Agentik in the same agent?

Yes. Both are remote MCP servers with OAuth. Add both to Claude or Cursor, and your agent calls each one for its part.

## Sources and method

1. [Orthogonal home page](https://www.orthogonal.com/), read on 10 October 2026
2. [Orthogonal pricing](https://www.orthogonal.com/pricing), read on 10 October 2026
3. [Orthogonal API catalog](https://www.orthogonal.com/discover), read on 10 October 2026
4. [Orthogonal llms.txt (its agent skill file)](https://www.orthogonal.com/llms.txt), read on 10 October 2026
5. [Orthogonal docs, pricing](https://docs.orthogonal.com/concepts/pricing.md), read on 10 October 2026
6. [Orthogonal docs, MCP server](https://docs.orthogonal.com/mcp/setup.md), read on 10 October 2026
7. [Orthogonal docs, CLI](https://docs.orthogonal.com/cli.md), read on 10 October 2026

The Orthogonal column states only what these pages say, in their words; a copy of each page as read is kept. Agentik's column comes from the catalog the site is built from and from the backend's billing terms. Names and logos belong to their owners.

Approved by Gaultier on 11 October 2026.

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