Agentik vs Smithery

What Agentik and Smithery publish, feature by feature, read on 10 October 2026. Each sign says Yes, Partly, No or Not published.

	Agentik	Smithery
Billing
How you pay	A prepaid balance; each call at the provider’s price. No plan	A free Hobby plan, then Pay as you go at $10 a month, used as credit for requests (RPCs)4
To start free	$5 of credit for eligible new accounts, for 14 days, for low-cost calls	50,000 requests (RPCs) a month and 3 namespaces on the free Hobby plan4
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	$0.10 per 1,000 RPCs past the $10 credit. Some servers bill for their own service41
Agent pays per call over x402	No. Card only, by design	Not published
What your agent can use
Catalog, as published	2,287 tools that run today, from 52 providers (catalog of 10 October 2026)	A public registry of 25,987+ MCP servers, published by their makers12
SEO and search data	Yes. DataForSEO, SEMScraper and Exa	Not published
Web search and page reading	Yes. Firecrawl, Exa and 8 more	Yes. Exa, Tavily, Parallel and Keenable search servers, among others1
Social media data	Yes. 980 tools from TikHub, ScrapeCreators and 2 more	Not published
Ad libraries	Yes. Adspy.sh, ScrapeCreators, TikHub and DataForSEO	Not published
People, companies and emails	Yes. Icypeas, Leadsforge and 3 more	Partly. Third-party servers, such as DevMatch for developers and Exa for LinkedIn profiles12
Image, video and audio generation	Yes. 200 models from fal.ai	Not published
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	Yes. Business tools such as Notion, through your own sign-in21
How your agent connects
Remote MCP server	Yes. One server, OAuth or API key	Yes. One MCP endpoint per namespace, bundling your connections3
Setup for Claude and ChatGPT	Yes. Guides for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex	Yes. Claude.ai, ChatGPT and Cursor through the same endpoint3
REST API	Yes. REST API and OpenAPI	Yes. A REST API for connections and tool calls32
Bring your own provider keys	No. Agentik holds the provider accounts	Yes. Some servers need your own API keys, stored encrypted and write-only3
Open source	No. Hosted service	Partly. Its credential vault, agent.pw, is open source; the registry is hosted15
Control
Price shown before each call	Yes. Each tool’s price, and the most a call can reserve	Partly. A published rate of $0.10 per 1,000 RPCs4
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	Not published
Team workspace	Yes. Invite teammates	Yes. Organizations, with team API keys2

“Not published” means the pages we read say nothing about it, not that Smithery lacks it. Agentik’s column comes from its catalog of 10 October 2026 and its pricing.

• Thousands of servers in one registrySmithery lists 25,987+ MCP servers, from web search and documentation to databases and business tools, and connects your agent to any of them.12
• Publish your own serverServer makers publish once to reach AI agents, with built-in auth and data on how their tools are used.1
• Sign-in handled for each serviceSmithery runs OAuth flows with its own OAuth apps for popular integrations, injects credentials and retries, and keeps credentials in agent.pw, an open-source vault.13
• A free plan to startThe Hobby plan includes 50,000 RPCs a month and managed OAuth at no cost.4

• No account at each providerFor public data and AI models, Agentik holds the provider accounts: your agent uses 2,287 tools from 52 providers with one balance, no key or plan at any of them.
• One catalog, one billAgentik bills each call from one prepaid balance at the provider’s price, with 0% markup on tool calls. On a registry, a server can need its own API key or carry its own plan.31
• A price before every callYour agent reads each tool’s price and quotes the call before it runs. Most tools reserve a guaranteed maximum; tools billed at actual cost say so.
• Caps on each keyKeys can carry hourly, daily, lifetime or per-tool spending caps. A capped key cannot run a tool billed at actual cost.
• Ad research with an analysis of each adAdspy’s 17 tools search Meta and Google ads and analyse each one, from the same balance as every other tool.

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