Mintive vs Speakeasy
Last updated: October 19, 2026.
Choose Mintive when you want to govern the MCP servers and AI clients your teams already use, with Virtual MCPs per role on your directory groups, Mint Guard screening, SIEM export, an LLM gateway (early access) and Agent Monitor for Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Cursor, Codex and GitHub Copilot. Choose Speakeasy when generating and hosting MCP servers from your own OpenAPI documents or TypeScript functions is central, with an AI control plane around them.
Speakeasy's MCP products were previously branded Gram, and its open-source platform repository keeps that name.
Govern existing servers and clients vs build and host your own
Mintive sits between your organization's AI clients and the MCP servers they already use, whether vendor-hosted remote MCPs or hosted connectors you run in Mintive's managed infrastructure, so admins approve servers in an internal registry and package tools into Virtual MCPs per team. See core concepts. Speakeasy generates MCP servers from OpenAPI 3.0 and 3.1 documents or TypeScript functions, hosts them serverless, and adds an MCP gateway, registry, guardrails and observability around them.
Mintive and Speakeasy side by side
| Mintive | Speakeasy | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Dedicated MCP gateway, plus LLM gateway and Agent Monitor | AI control plane: MCP gateway, MCP server builder and hosting, runtime security, usage and spend observability |
| Deployment | Managed cloud service in the US or EU; Private Networks reach internal services through a Helm or Docker agent (Enterprise); on-premise or self-hosted by arrangement | Managed SaaS; its site also states a self-hosted or own-VPC option |
| License | Paid plans (mintive.com/pricing) | Platform repository is AGPL-3.0 |
| Client authentication | OAuth 2.0 with PKCE and dynamic client registration on every Virtual MCP; API keys, M2M tokens or workload identity federation (on request) for agents | OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration; agent identities with short-lived tokens; API keys on hosted servers |
| SSO and SCIM | SSO and SCIM with Okta, Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, OneLogin, JumpCloud, Auth0, PingFederate and other SAML/OIDC providers | SAML 2.0 or OIDC SSO and SCIM with group-to-role mappings, by plan |
| Per-user credentials to tools | Per-user OAuth with automatic refresh, shared service credentials, or cross app access; user identity forwarding to MCP servers | Per-user OAuth tokens stored encrypted and refreshed; shared service credentials; user-supplied API keys; Okta Enterprise Managed Auth |
| Access is granted to | A Virtual MCP per role with curated tools, for users, directory groups and agent identities (RBAC); per-tool enable and disable and approval | Roles with grants and blocks down to a server, toolset or tool, for people, roles and agents |
| Audit and export | Tool calls, prompts and access changes over OTLP, Splunk HEC or batched files to S3 (SIEM export); usage through the Admin API and Admin MCP | Per-tool-call audit log and admin audit feed; OpenTelemetry export to Datadog, Splunk, Grafana or any OTLP collector |
| Prompt injection and sensitive data | Mint Guard (enabled on request), Mintive's managed guardrail, screens tool arguments and results out of the box; plus rules and middleware that block or mask, with PII and DLP templates | Guardrail policies with detectors for secrets, PII and financial data, LLM-judged policies, prompt-injection detection, PII redaction |
| LLM routing and budgets | LLM gateway (early access): budgets per group and per user, allowed models per group | Not a model proxy; tracks tokens and spend; per-person budgets in preview |
| Connectors and registry | Pre-vetted catalog, hosted connectors from container images, the hosted CLI or private npm packages, remote MCPs, custom registry; tool change alerts | Generates and hosts MCP servers from OpenAPI or TypeScript; fronts remote servers; registry and catalog |
| Compliance stated | SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA, with a BAA available (details) | SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001; GDPR and CCPA; BAA available |
| Pricing | Plans on mintive.com/pricing; Mint Guard and ZDR are on the Enterprise plan | Enterprise plan, contact sales; usage counted in tool calls |
Identity and per-user auth
Both connect to your IdP for SSO and SCIM and store per-user OAuth tokens for upstream services. In Mintive, SSO covers the OAuth flow a client runs when it connects to a Virtual MCP, so your IdP's MFA and conditional access apply, and connectors can also use a shared service credential or cross app access. Mintive can forward the user's identity to MCP servers. See authentication models. Speakeasy acts as the OAuth client to upstream services, supports shared service-account credentials and user-supplied API keys, and gives backend agents their own identities with short-lived tokens.
Audit and guardrails
Mintive streams tool calls, prompts and access changes to your SIEM over OTLP or Splunk HEC, or as batched files to S3, and Mint Guard (enabled on request) screens the arguments and results of every tool call for prompt injection, credentials and secrets, PII and harmful content, alongside rules and middleware that block or mask, with PII and DLP templates. See SIEM export and Mint Guard. Speakeasy logs every tool call with an admin audit feed, exports over OpenTelemetry, and applies guardrail policies that flag or block.
Model traffic and coding agents
Mintive's LLM gateway (early access) routes model traffic to OpenAI, Anthropic, Fireworks and Amazon Bedrock with budgets per group and per user, and allowed-model lists per group, and Agent Monitor captures file reads, commands, MCP tool calls and prompts from Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Cursor, Codex and GitHub Copilot. Speakeasy does not proxy model traffic and integrates with an existing LiteLLM proxy, tracking token use and spend.
FAQ
What is Speakeasy Gram?
Gram was the earlier name for Speakeasy's MCP products. Speakeasy now describes them as an AI control plane with an MCP gateway and hosted MCP servers, and the open-source platform repository is still named gram.
Can Mintive govern MCP servers built with Speakeasy?
Yes. Mintive connects to remote MCP servers by URL, so a hosted MCP server can be added to the Mintive registry and included in the Virtual MCPs for the roles that need it. See add a remote MCP.
Does Mintive route LLM traffic?
Yes. The Mintive LLM gateway (early access) connects to OpenAI, Anthropic, Fireworks and Amazon Bedrock and assigns spend budgets to groups, teams and individual users, and allowed-model lists to groups and teams, using the same users and groups as the MCP gateway.
Does Mintive monitor coding agents?
Yes. Agent Monitor uses hooks in Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Cursor, Codex and GitHub Copilot to capture file reads, commands, MCP tool calls and prompts before they run, with rules that can block risky actions.
How is pricing different?
Mintive plans are listed on mintive.com/pricing, with Mint Guard and zero data retention on the Enterprise plan. Speakeasy lists a tailored Enterprise plan through its sales team, with usage counted in tool calls.
Related
- MCP gateway comparison: 13 gateways side by side
- Add a remote MCP: connect vendor-hosted MCP servers
- Gateway customization: your organization's MCP registry
Sources
Speakeasy facts on this page come from Speakeasy's public documentation and pricing pages, checked on October 19, 2026.