AnythingMCP vs Composio: which MCP platform should you choose
How AnythingMCP and Composio differ on self-hosting, EU hosting, legacy systems, governance and pricing in 2026. A concrete decision framework, not marketing.
Composio and AnythingMCP both give AI agents ready-made tools for business systems over MCP. Both ship large catalogs. They differ on who they are built for, where they run, and what kind of systems they reach.
Composio is a developer platform: you build an agent or an AI product and call Composio's SDK and hosted MCP endpoints from your code. AnythingMCP is a gateway for a company's own AI use: employees connect Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot to one endpoint, and admins decide what each role may do.
TL;DR
- Pick Composio if you are building an AI product or agent framework, want polished Python and TypeScript SDKs, and your systems are mostly US SaaS. Its catalog of 1,500+ toolkits is the bigger one for SaaS apps.
- Pick AnythingMCP if you need to self-host without an enterprise contract, want EU hosting in Frankfurt, have legacy systems (SOAP, on-prem databases, OData, SAP), or want a company brain on top of the tools: AI skills, a knowledge graph, company memory, File Search over your file servers and Code Mode.
Side by side
| AnythingMCP | Composio | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Companies connecting their AI clients | Developers building agents and AI products |
| Self-hosted | ✅ Free Community edition (Docker), or Enterprise | Enterprise arrangement only (Helm) |
| Managed cloud region | Frankfurt, EU, with a DPA | Not stated publicly |
| Open source | ✅ Whole gateway, AGPL-3.0 | SDKs and CLI under MIT; hosted platform closed |
| Ready catalog | 713 connectors, 12,000+ tools (SAP, DATEV, weclapp, Personio, DHL, Shopify…) | 1,500+ toolkits, SaaS-heavy |
| Any REST/OpenAPI API without code | ✅ Import a spec, Postman collection or cURL | Custom tools in code |
| SOAP / WSDL | ✅ One tool per operation | ❌ |
| OData (SAP Gateway, Dynamics) | ✅ V2 and V4 | ❌ |
| Databases | ✅ PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, SQLite, MongoDB | Via app toolkits |
| MCP-to-MCP bridge | ✅ | Not a focus |
| Roles and per-tool permissions | ✅ Every edition | ✅ Roles and per-session tool scoping |
| Per-tool rate limits per role | ✅ Per user, per minute and hour | Not documented |
| Audit log of every call | ✅ Input, output, duration | ✅ Tool-call tracing and audit logging |
| AI skills, learned from real calls | ✅ | ❌ |
| Knowledge graph of your systems | ✅ | ❌ |
| Company memory across AI clients | ✅ Enterprise | ❌ |
| File Search over SFTP, WebDAV, S3, NAS | ✅ | ❌ |
| Code Mode (one program, many tool calls) | ✅ Isolated runner | ❌ |
| SSO / SCIM | ✅ Enterprise (OIDC: Entra ID, Google, Okta, Auth0 and others) | ✅ Enterprise (SAML and OIDC) |
| Compliance | GDPR, EU hosting, DPA online | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 |
| Pricing | Community free; Cloud €19 or €49/month flat (VAT incl.); Enterprise quoted | Free tier; $29/month Pro with 100K calls, then per call; Enterprise custom |
Composio facts from composio.dev/pricing and composio.dev/enterprise, November 2026.
Where Composio wins
- SaaS catalog size. 1,500+ toolkits. If your agent needs the long tail of US SaaS tools, Composio covers more of them.
- Developer SDKs. Well-liked Python and TypeScript SDKs, with adapters for the common agent frameworks. If you embed tool calling in your own product, that is a natural fit.
- Multi-tenant auth for your users. Composio is built for apps where each of your customers connects their own accounts.
- Certifications. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022, which some procurement teams ask for by name.
- A generous free tier for development: 100K tool calls a month on Hobby.
Where AnythingMCP wins
1. Self-hosting without a sales call
AnythingMCP is one Docker Compose stack. The free Community edition runs on your server for any use, including commercial use, up to 3 active users. Enterprise adds unlimited users, SSO and SCIM, on your own servers or a dedicated instance. Composio offers self-hosting as an Enterprise arrangement.
2. Legacy systems work
SOAP/WSDL services, OData services from SAP Gateway or Dynamics, and direct database connections (including SAP HANA) become MCP tools without code. Most companies' important data sits in exactly those systems. See Legacy systems.
3. A company brain, not just a tool list
AnythingMCP adds what an agent needs to get things right inside one company:
- AI skills: procedures written by hand or learned from real tool calls and fixed errors, approved by an admin.
- Knowledge graph: how your systems relate, so the agent links a customer in one system to their orders in another.
- Company memory (Enterprise): facts saved in Claude are found again in Copilot or ChatGPT.
- File Search and File Share: search PDFs, Excel, Word and Outlook files on SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, S3 or a NAS, with page-level answers.
- Code Mode: the model writes one short program that calls many tools in an isolated runner with no network and no secrets.
More on Enterprise.
4. Governance per role
Roles decide which tools each person sees. Per-tool rate limits cap calls per minute and per hour for each user, so one runaway agent cannot overload an ERP. Every call lands in the audit log.
5. Flat, EU pricing
Cloud Starter costs €19 a month and Team €49 a month, VAT included, with no per-call fee. AnythingMCP Cloud runs in Frankfurt and the DPA can be accepted online. See pricing.
Decision framework
Answer these in order. The first "yes" decides:
- Are you building an AI product for your own customers? Composio fits better.
- Do you need self-hosting, EU hosting or a DPA from an EU company? AnythingMCP.
- Do you need SOAP, OData, SAP or on-prem databases? AnythingMCP.
- Should employees use Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot with skills, memory and file search on top? AnythingMCP.
- Is your stack almost all US SaaS and you only need tools? Composio is a good choice.
Hybrid setup
They can work together. AnythingMCP's MCP-to-MCP bridge can serve a Composio MCP endpoint next to your SAP and database connectors, behind one sign-in, one set of roles and one audit log.
FAQ
Is Composio open source? Its SDKs and CLI are on GitHub under the MIT licence. The hosted platform that runs the tools is not. AnythingMCP's whole gateway is open source under AGPL-3.0.
Can I self-host Composio? Composio offers self-hosted and private VPC deployments as Enterprise arrangements. AnythingMCP's Community edition is free to self-host with Docker.
Which has more integrations? Composio states 1,500+ toolkits. AnythingMCP has 713 ready connectors with 12,000+ tools, and turns any REST, SOAP, GraphQL, OData or SQL system into tools without code.
Does AnythingMCP work with Claude and ChatGPT? Yes. It is listed in the Claude Directory and the ChatGPT app directory, and works with Copilot Studio, Gemini and Cursor.
Try AnythingMCP
git clone https://github.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp.git
cd anythingmcp && ./setup.sh
Or start the Cloud free trial: 7 days, hosted in Frankfurt.