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Bump vs Unkey

Unkey scores higher on the AgentReady, 56/100 against 52/100. They differ on 10 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Bump. Bump.sh is a platform for API documentation and MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that automatically generates docs and production-ready MCP servers from OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and Arazzo specifications.

Unkey. Unkey is a developer platform for modern APIs that unifies infrastructure, allowing developers to deploy APIs instantly, route traffic through global gateways, and understand usage in one place.

Where Bump is ahead

Bump passes mcp discoverable, and Unkey does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds adopt: mcp integration available. Unkey misses it.

And on operate, retry behavior documented. Unkey misses it.

Where Unkey is ahead

Unkey passes clear canonical domain and llms.txt published, and Bump does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds understand: pricing understandable and limits / constraints documented. Bump misses those.

And on adopt, self-service signup, free trial or free allowance and fast time to first request. Bump misses those.

What neither does

Both fail llms-full.txt / full agent docs, openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.

Score, pillar by pillar

The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.

Discover. Both sit at 80/100 here. Bump misses clear canonical domain, llms.txt published, llms-full.txt / full agent docs; Unkey misses llms-full.txt / full agent docs, mcp discoverable.

Understand is whether an agent can read the docs and work out how the API behaves before calling it. Unkey leads 54 to 38. Bump misses openapi / spec quality, pricing understandable, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; Unkey misses openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented.

Adopt. Unkey leads 55 to 45. Bump misses self-service signup, no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance, fast time to first request; Unkey misses no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, mcp integration available.

Operate. Bump leads 44 to 35. Bump misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified; Unkey misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified.

Pricing

Bump does not publish a machine-readable starting price. Unkey starts at $5/mo and has a free tier.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

Unkey clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Bump and Unkey. Alternatives to each: Bump, Unkey.

An agent can fetch this as data: POST /v1/compare {"slugs": ["bump", "unkey"]}