Composio vs Smithery

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Composio

🔴Developer

AI Agents

Tool-calling infrastructure for AI agents — 1,000+ pre-built integrations with managed OAuth, exposed natively as MCP servers.

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Free (up to 20,000 tool calls/month)
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Smithery

🟡Low Code

AI Agents

Smithery is the registry and hosted runtime for Model Context Protocol servers — discover, install and run MCP servers for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf and more.

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Feature Comparison

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FeatureComposioSmithery
CategoryAI AgentsAI Agents
Pricing Plans51 tiers78 tiers
Starting PriceFree (up to 20,000 tool calls/month)
Key Features
  • • 1,000+ app connections for AI agents
  • • OAuth-based access so agents do not need raw passwords
  • • MCP Gateway and CLI positioning
  • • Searchable registry of thousands of MCP servers with install counts and reviews
  • • One-line install for Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, OpenClaw and VS Code
  • • Hosted streamable HTTP runtime for remote MCP servers

Composio - Pros & Cons

Pros

  • ✓Saves weeks of work — 1,000+ integrations is the largest agent tool catalog available
  • ✓OAuth + per-user credential isolation handles multi-tenant complexity
  • ✓MCP-native: same catalog works in Claude Desktop and Cursor with zero code
  • ✓Framework-agnostic SDKs (Python, JS, Go) work with every major agent framework
  • ✓Free tier (20,000 tool calls/month) is generous for prototyping and small apps
  • ✓Active GitHub presence with rapid integration additions

Cons

  • ✗Pricing scales with tool calls — heavy users can see large bills
  • ✗Sending all tool calls through Composio adds latency vs direct API calls
  • ✗Some integrations have feature gaps vs the full vendor API
  • ✗Centralizes a critical dependency — Composio outage affects all your agents

Smithery - Pros & Cons

Pros

  • ✓Install commands genuinely work first-try across Claude, Cursor and Windsurf.
  • ✓Schema-driven configuration prevents the most common MCP setup errors.
  • ✓Hosted runtime removes ops burden and unlocks cloud and browser-based clients.

Cons

  • ✗Hosted runtime cold starts can be slow on rarely-used long-tail servers.
  • ✗Some catalog entries in the long tail are unmaintained or abandoned.
  • ✗Monetization for free OSS server authors is still an evolving story.

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🔒 Security & Compliance Comparison

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Security FeatureComposioSmithery
SOC2✅ Yes—
GDPR——
HIPAA——
SSO——
Self-Hosted🔀 Hybrid—
On-Prem✅ Yes—
RBAC——
Audit Log——
Open Source✅ Yes—
API Key Auth✅ Yes—
Encryption at Rest——
Encryption in Transit——
Data Residency——
Data Retention——
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