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Stream vs SuperTokens

SuperTokens scores higher on the AgentReady, 54/100 against 43/100. 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

Stream. Stream provides APIs and SDKs for building in-app chat, activity feeds, video, audio, and moderation.

SuperTokens. Open source user authentication platform that helps developers build fast, maintain control, and reduce costs.

Where Stream is ahead

Stream passes limits / constraints documented, and SuperTokens does not. That is understand, whether an agent can read the docs and work out how the API behaves before calling it.

It also holds adopt: agent-compatible signup flow. SuperTokens misses it.

And on operate, observable execution. SuperTokens misses it.

Where SuperTokens is ahead

SuperTokens passes search discoverable, llms-full.txt / full agent docs and mcp discoverable, and Stream 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. Stream misses it.

And on adopt, no mandatory sales call, free trial or free allowance and mcp integration available. Stream misses those.

What neither does

Both fail structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, self-service signup, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, 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 is whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists. SuperTokens leads 100 to 67. Stream misses search discoverable, llms-full.txt / full agent docs, mcp discoverable; SuperTokens misses nothing.

Understand. Both sit at 31/100 here. Stream misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, pricing understandable, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented; SuperTokens misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented.

Adopt. SuperTokens leads 60 to 40. Stream misses self-service signup, no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance, fast time to first request, mcp integration available; SuperTokens misses self-service signup, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request.

Operate. Stream leads 35 to 24. Stream misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified; SuperTokens misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, observable execution, agent compatibility verified.

Pricing

Stream does not publish a machine-readable starting price. SuperTokens starts at $0.02/MAU and has a free tier.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

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

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