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Verified integrations

Connections to other tracked products — hover a chip for the verbatim evidence quote behind it.

By theme — the product's score on each story themeBy theme

Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticnessevidence →

How well agents can access and operate the product

41.9/100

Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depthevidence →

How much of the product can run unattended

14.4/100

Billing invoicing — stories about billing invoicing in this arenaBilling invoicingevidence →

Stories about billing invoicing in this arena

30.0/100

Checkout acceptance — stories about checkout acceptance in this arenaCheckout acceptanceevidence →

Stories about checkout acceptance in this arena

5.5/100

Compliance security — stories about compliance security in this arenaCompliance securityevidence →

Stories about compliance security in this arena

n/a

Dev experience — day-to-day developer experience — setup friction, docs, debugging, iteration speedDev experienceevidence →

Day-to-day developer experience — setup friction, docs, debugging, iteration speed

7.2/100

Disputes fraud — stories about disputes fraud in this arenaDisputes fraudevidence →

Stories about disputes fraud in this arena

0.0/100

Global currency tax — stories about global currency tax in this arenaGlobal currency taxevidence →

Stories about global currency tax in this arena

0.0/100

Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpennessevidence →

Open source, data portability, and self-hosting stories

10.8/100

Payouts reconciliation — stories about payouts reconciliation in this arenaPayouts reconciliationevidence →

Stories about payouts reconciliation in this arena

n/a

Platform marketplace — stories about platform marketplace in this arenaPlatform marketplaceevidence →

Stories about platform marketplace in this arena

0.0/100

Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy postureevidence →

Data-handling and privacy stories

0.0/100

Story verdicts — every judged story with its evidenceStory verdicts

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Sorted by importance (agentic first) (high → low) · 54/54 stories · click a row’s chevron for the rationale and evidence

Connect an agent via an official MCP server G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3full8/10T

Drive the product through a documented public API G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3full8/10T

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3n/a0/10

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3n/auntestednone yet

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10T

Use an official CLI G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10T

Build against official SDKs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full7/10T

Subscribe to events via webhooks G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial6/10C

Operate the product with natural-language commands G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial5/10T

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial5/10T

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent) G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2n/auntestednone yet

Set up automations that run autonomously in the background G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2n/auntestednone yet

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production data G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness1none0/10

Set up recurring subscription billing with plans, trials, upgrades, and proration G

Subscriptions

developerBilling invoicing — stories about billing invoicing in this arenaBilling invoicing3full8/10X

Have an agent provision a new product, price, and payment link via the API in a single session G

Ai billing ops

ai-native userBilling invoicing — stories about billing invoicing in this arenaBilling invoicing3partial5/10T

Accept an online card payment within a day of signing up C

Card acceptance

founderCheckout acceptance — stories about checkout acceptance in this arenaCheckout acceptance3partial4/10X

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth3partial4/10C

Build and test the entire payment flow in a sandbox or test mode that mirrors production, with test cards for every scenario including declines and disputes C

Sandbox fidelity

developerDev experience — day-to-day developer experience — setup friction, docs, debugging, iteration speedDev experience3none0/10

Export all of my data in open formats and leave G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3none0/10

Have an agent monitor failed payments via API and webhooks and drive retries and dunning outreach G

Ai billing ops

ai-native userBilling invoicing — stories about billing invoicing in this arenaBilling invoicing3none0/10

Rely on signed webhook deliveries with automatic retries, event logs, and replay to keep my system consistent with payment state G

Integration reliability

developerDev experience — day-to-day developer experience — setup friction, docs, debugging, iteration speedDev experience3none0/10

Self-host the core product G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3none0/10

Calculate and collect the correct sales tax, VAT, or GST on every transaction automatically C

Tax

finance-ops userGlobal currency tax — stories about global currency tax in this arenaGlobal currency tax3n/auntestednone yet

Embed customizable payment components directly in my own site or app instead of redirecting to a hosted page C

Checkout surfaces

developerCheckout acceptance — stories about checkout acceptance in this arenaCheckout acceptance3noneuntestednone yet

Have an agent handle a dispute end-to-end, retrieving it, assembling evidence, and submitting the response via the API C

Ai disputes

ai-native userDisputes fraud — stories about disputes fraud in this arenaDisputes fraud3n/auntestednone yet

Have an agent pull payout and balance-transaction data via the API and reconcile each bank deposit to its underlying charges C

Ai reconciliation

ai-native userPayouts reconciliation — stories about payouts reconciliation in this arenaPayouts reconciliation3n/auntestednone yet

Issue full or partial refunds from both the dashboard and the API C

Refunds

finance-ops userDisputes fraud — stories about disputes fraud in this arenaDisputes fraud3noneuntestednone yet

Prevent my data from being used to train AI models G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture3n/auntestednone yet

Reconcile settlements to bank deposits with itemized reports covering fees, refunds, and chargebacks C

Reconciliation

finance-ops userPayouts reconciliation — stories about payouts reconciliation in this arenaPayouts reconciliation3n/auntestednone yet

Redirect customers to a vendor-hosted, conversion-optimized checkout page without building my own payment UI C

Checkout surfaces

developerCheckout acceptance — stories about checkout acceptance in this arenaCheckout acceptance3noneuntestednone yet

Respond to a chargeback with structured evidence and track the dispute lifecycle to resolution C

Disputes

finance-ops userDisputes fraud — stories about disputes fraud in this arenaDisputes fraud3n/auntestednone yet

Screen transactions with machine-learning fraud scores and write custom block, review, and allow rules C

Fraud prevention

finance-ops userDisputes fraud — stories about disputes fraud in this arenaDisputes fraud3n/auntestednone yet

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2partial6/10T

Integrate a working payment flow from the docs alone in under a day, with copy-paste examples in my language C

Onboarding dx

developerDev experience — day-to-day developer experience — setup friction, docs, debugging, iteration speedDev experience2partial6/10X

Read the product's source under an open license G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2partial3/10T

Charge customers in their local currencies and settle to my bank in mine with transparent FX handling C

Multi currency

founderGlobal currency tax — stories about global currency tax in this arenaGlobal currency tax2none0/10

Create a shareable payment link from the dashboard with no code and start selling immediately C

No code selling

founderCheckout acceptance — stories about checkout acceptance in this arenaCheckout acceptance2none0/10

Offer digital wallets and local payment methods (Apple Pay, Google Pay, bank redirects, BNPL) from the same integration C

Payment methods

founderCheckout acceptance — stories about checkout acceptance in this arenaCheckout acceptance2none0/10

Perform bulk operations across many items at once G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2none0/10

Automatically retry failed subscription payments with smart dunning and recovery emails C

Subscriptions

finance-ops userBilling invoicing — stories about billing invoicing in this arenaBilling invoicing2noneuntestednone yet

Build a marketplace or platform that onboards sellers, splits payments between parties, and pays out to each seller C

Marketplace

developerPlatform marketplace — stories about platform marketplace in this arenaPlatform marketplace2noneuntestednone yet

Choose where my data is stored (region/residency) G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2noneuntestednone yet

Control data retention and deletion G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2n/auntestednone yet

Control the payout schedule and see exactly which charges, fees, and refunds make up each payout C

Payouts

finance-ops userPayouts reconciliation — stories about payouts reconciliation in this arenaPayouts reconciliation2n/auntestednone yet

Keep my systems out of most of PCI DSS scope because card data is tokenized and never touches my servers C

Pci compliance

developerCompliance security — stories about compliance security in this arenaCompliance security2n/auntestednone yet

Opt out of telemetry and usage tracking G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2noneuntestednone yet

Safely retry any API request using idempotency keys so network failures never create duplicate charges C

Integration reliability

developerDev experience — day-to-day developer experience — setup friction, docs, debugging, iteration speedDev experience2noneuntestednone yet

Schedule recurring jobs or workflows G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2n/auntestednone yet

Send hosted invoices with online payment and automatic reminders C

Invoicing

finance-ops userBilling invoicing — stories about billing invoicing in this arenaBilling invoicing2n/auntestednone yet

Version, review, and roll back my automations G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth1n/auntestednone yet

Opportunities — the stories that would move this product's scores, from its own judged verdictsOpportunitiestop 8 of 31 stories with headroom

What would move Autumn’s scores — derived from its own judged verdicts, biggest headroom first. Each line quotes what the judge found missing; shipping it (or evidencing it publicly) is the fix.

  1. Billing invoicing — stories about billing invoicing in this arenaHave an agent monitor failed payments via API and webhooks and drive retries and dunning outreach

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Evidence shows Autumn webhooks fire only on plan changes (new subscriptions, upgrades, downgrades) and covers usage/credit tracking, but there is no mention of failed-payment events, retry logic, or dunning outreach workflows anywhere in the docs, changelog, or community threads.

  2. Checkout acceptance — stories about checkout acceptance in this arenaEmbed customizable payment components directly in my own site or app instead of redirecting to a hosted page

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Autumn's evidence describes a billing/metering/entitlements API, CLI, and MCP integration built on top of Stripe, but nothing in the pack mentions embeddable payment/checkout UI components as an alternative to hosted checkout pages—attach/billing calls appear to route through Stripe's own flows.

  3. Checkout acceptance — stories about checkout acceptance in this arenaRedirect customers to a vendor-hosted, conversion-optimized checkout page without building my own payment UI

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    The evidence pack covers Autumn's metering, entitlements, CLI, MCP, and plan-attach APIs, but nowhere describes a vendor-hosted, conversion-optimized checkout page that a developer can redirect customers to; 'attach' only documents subscription state changes, not a hosted checkout flow.

  4. Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesExport all of my data in open formats and leave

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Missing: a documented full data-export or account-portability feature, open-format bulk export of customer/usage records, evidence of data portability upon offboarding.

  5. Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesSelf-host the core product

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Missing: self-host deployment docs, infrastructure/Docker setup instructions, confirmation of a self-hostable server component.

  6. Disputes fraud — stories about disputes fraud in this arenaIssue full or partial refunds from both the dashboard and the API

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    No evidence pack items mention refunds at all—no dashboard refund UI, no refund API endpoint, or partial-refund logic; docs cover checks, tracking, attach/subscriptions, credit systems, and CLI/MCP but never refunds.

  7. Dev experience — day-to-day developer experience — setup friction, docs, debugging, iteration speedBuild and test the entire payment flow in a sandbox or test mode that mirrors production, with test cards for every scenario including declines and disputes

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    No evidence in the pack mentions a sandbox/test mode, test cards, or simulated decline/dispute scenarios; Autumn's docs cover CLI, config, gating, webhooks, and MCP but nothing about a testing environment mirroring production payment flows.

  8. Dev experience — day-to-day developer experience — setup friction, docs, debugging, iteration speedRely on signed webhook deliveries with automatic retries, event logs, and replay to keep my system consistent with payment state

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Docs mention webhooks are fired for plan changes, but there is no evidence of signed payloads, automatic retries, event logs, or replay functionality for webhook deliveries; the evidence pack shows only a single event type description with no delivery guarantees.

Showing the top 8 of 31 — every none/partial verdict in the story verdicts table is headroom.

Think a verdict is wrong? Every verdicts-table row has a Flag link — see the methodology.

Coverage map — which docs area, API section, or community source covers which judged storiesCoverage map7 surfaces · 15 covered stories

Where the cited evidence behind each covered verdict came from — the same citations the verdicts table shows, no extra judging.

Probe proofs — replayable recordings from the probe harnessProbe proofs

Replayable recordings from our probe harness — see the Prove-It protocol to submit one.

$curl -s https://docs.useautumn.com/documentation/mcp.md | head -8reproduced
$ curl -s https://docs.useautumn.com/documentation/mcp.md | head -8
> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.useautumn.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# MCP Server

> Connect Autumn's MCP server to AI assistants for billing actions, plan management, and request-log investigations.
$curl -s https://docs.useautumn.com/llms.txt | head -6reproduced
$ curl -s https://docs.useautumn.com/llms.txt | head -6
# Autumn

- [Welcome to Autumn](https://docs.useautumn.com/welcome.md): Drop-in, open-source control layer for AI and SaaS monetization.
- [How It Works](https://docs.useautumn.com/documentation/concepts/overview.md): How features, plans, subscriptions and balances fit together
- [Plans](https://docs.useautumn.com/documentation/concepts/plans.md): Learn about plans in Autumn and how to create them
- [Features](https://docs.useautumn.com/documentation/concepts/features.md): Learn about features in Autumn and how to create them
$curl -si -X POST https://mcp.useautumn.com/mcp -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '<jsonrpc initialize>'reproduced
$ curl -si -X POST https://mcp.useautumn.com/mcp -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '<jsonrpc initialize>'
HTTP/2 401

content-type: application/json

content-length: 59

date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:14:50 GMT

www-authenticate: Bearer resource_metadata="https://mcp.useautumn.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp", scope="organisation:read customers:read customers:write features:read features:write plans:read plans:write rewards:read rewards:write balances:read balances:write billing:read billing:write analytics:read"

access-control-allow-headers: content-type, authorization, x-client-type, x-autumn-environment

access-control-allow-methods: GET, POST, OPTIONS

access-control-allow-origin: *

x-cache: Error from cloudfront

via: 1.1 9f134613c537a668ce2a318739330836.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)

x-amz-cf-pop: SFO53-P9

x-amz-cf-id: djVDvIvhE8lYFTmBzx5MraC5rCNJUGstY-ezASltYuC8lT-fei75IQ==

x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block

x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN

referrer-policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin

x-content-type-options: nosniff

strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000

{"error_description":"Missing Autumn API [redacted] bearer [redacted]"}

Claims vs evidence — vendor claims reconciled against independent verdictsClaims vs evidence

4 of 5 testable claims verified · 0 contradictedintegrity 80/100

13 distinct capability claims found in Autumn’s own claimed-docs/GitHub materials, reconciled against our judge’s independent verdicts.

4

Verified

1

Unverified

0

Contradicted

10

Undersold

Verified (7)
Unverified (1)
Undersold (10)
Claims outside our story set (5)

Real capability claims found in Autumn’s own materials, but no story in this arena’s taxonomy covers them yet — that’s feedback on the taxonomy, not a mark against the product.

  • Credit-based systems let multiple actions draw down a single shared credit balance at different costs

    source ↗
  • Supports pay-per-use pricing that bills customers based on actual feature consumption at period end

    source ↗
  • Usage alerts can be configured with a 'basis' defining what counts as 100% (balance, included grants, recurring grants, or usage limit)

    source ↗
  • Catalog plans can reuse an existing Stripe product/price catalog instead of creating new Stripe objects

    source ↗
  • Can atomically check and reserve balance in a single API call to safely handle concurrent usage events

    source ↗
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Business model

free-tiersubscriptionusage-basedenterprise-customopen-source

Free to $8K monthly billing volume; Pro $375/mo to $50K volume with 20M API requests included then $5 per 1M; custom Scale tier. Stripe fees separate.

pricing ↗

Score trend

How this product’s scores have moved as evidence and verdicts are re-derived — a point per change, not per day.

PA Scoretracked since Sep 10 '26 — no movement recorded yet
Agent-readytracked since Sep 10 '26 — no movement recorded yet

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Agent surface uptime MCP up · llms.txt up (tracking since Sep 11 '26)