{ "data": { "category": { "area": "everyday", "capabilities": [ "home.jobs", "home.quotes", "home.booking", "home.pros", "home.reviews" ], "description": "Marketplaces that match a household with cleaners, handypeople, builders and other local trades, take a job request, return quotes and book the work. Compared on whether an agent can post a job, receive quotes and book through an API, coverage by country and trade, and how payment and disputes are handled.", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/home-services.json", "name": "Home services \u0026 local trades", "slug": "home-services", "test": "In this run, public evidence against the published checklist. When the task suites run, one household job posted through each listing's partner API or sandbox, quotes collected and a booking made and cancelled. We check trade and area coverage, quote fields, booking and payment steps, and what access took.", "title": "Home service and local trades marketplaces for AI agents", "toolCount": 10, "tools": [ "taskrabbit", "checkatrade", "airtasker", "bark", "rated-people", "houzz", "angi", "trustatrader", "urban-company", "handy" ], "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/home-services" }, "faq": [ { "answer": "Taskrabbit Partner API has the highest benchmark score of the 10 ranked home service and local trades marketplaces, 44.3 (E). Checkatrade is second with 43.9 (E).", "question": "What are the highest-rated home service and local trades marketplaces for AI agents?" }, { "answer": "0 of the 10 ranked here grade BB or better, the bar for agent-ready on the Anchor benchmark.", "question": "How many home service and local trades marketplaces are agent-ready?" }, { "answer": "None of the ranked listings here accepts x402 for its main call yet.", "question": "Which home service and local trades marketplaces accept x402 payments?" }, { "answer": "By the Anchor benchmark score out of 100, a weighted mean of the scored categories minus deductions for negative events, from public evidence re-checked as vendors change. Listings cannot pay for a place. The latest assessment behind this page is from 14 October 2026.", "question": "How is this list ranked?" } ], "howToChoose": [ { "label": "Whether an agent can book", "detail": "Check whether a job can be posted, quoted and booked through an API, since many marketplaces take requests only through their own app or website." }, { "label": "Partner access", "detail": "Check whether the API is open to any developer or only to approved partners, because a partner agreement can be the longest step." }, { "label": "Coverage by trade and area", "detail": "Check which trades and postcodes or cities are covered, since a marketplace strong in one country may have no tradespeople in another." }, { "label": "Payment, vetting and disputes", "detail": "Check who takes payment, how tradespeople are vetted and how a dispute is raised, since the agent's user carries the risk of a job gone wrong." } ], "picks": [ { "also": { "name": "Checkatrade", "slug": "checkatrade", "why": "E, 43.9/100" }, "name": "Taskrabbit Partner API", "need": "Highest score overall", "slug": "taskrabbit", "why": "E, 44.3/100 on the benchmark" }, { "name": "Checkatrade", "need": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "slug": "checkatrade", "why": "75/100 on schema \u0026 documentation, against 67 for the overall leader" }, { "name": "Checkatrade", "need": "Agent ergonomics", "slug": "checkatrade", "why": "63/100 on agent ergonomics, against 46 for the overall leader" }, { "name": "Airtasker", "need": "Security \u0026 auth", "slug": "airtasker", "why": "45/100 on security \u0026 auth, against 39 for the overall leader" }, { "name": "Bark", "need": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "slug": "bark", "why": "54/100 on maintenance \u0026 community, against 35 for the overall leader" }, { "name": "Airtasker", "need": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "slug": "airtasker", "why": "60/100 on transparency \u0026 trust, against 57 for the overall leader" }, { "name": "Checkatrade", "need": "A hosted MCP endpoint", "slug": "checkatrade", "why": "remote MCP server, nothing to install" } ], "ranked": 10, "shortlist": [ { "bestFor": "A retailer or platform that wants to sell Taskrabbit assembly, mounting and similar fixed-price services in its own checkout, with Taskrabbit's approval.", "grade": "E", "name": "Taskrabbit Partner API", "position": 1, "price": "Paid", "score": 44.3, "slug": "taskrabbit", "strengths": [ "Full booking flow in 12 documented operations, from estimate and availability to bid, book, reschedule and cancel", "Each reference page embeds an OpenAPI 3.1 definition, and llms.txt indexes Markdown copies of all 51 pages", "Sandbox and production environments for every home services operation" ], "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taskrabbit", "verdict": "The Partner API covers the whole booking flow (estimate, availability, bid, book, reschedule, cancel) with OpenAPI 3.1 fragments on every reference page, llms.txt, a sandbox and signed webhooks. Access is the limit. Keys come from a partnership manager, prices are negotiated, no rate limits or SLA are published, and the docs still call the home services API coming soon.", "weaknesses": [ "No self-serve access. Credentials come from Taskrabbit after a reviewed request or from a partnership manager", "No public API price. Commercial terms are agreed per partner", "No rate limits, 429 guidance, SLA or changelog found in the developer hub" ], "where": "local", "x402": "no" }, { "bestFor": "UK homeowners finding vetted tradespeople and booking simple fixed-price jobs such as boiler servicing.", "grade": "E", "name": "Checkatrade", "position": 2, "price": "Free", "score": 43.9, "slug": "checkatrade", "strengths": [ "Keyless remote MCP server. `initialize` and `tools/list` answered with no account, key or card on 14 October 2026", "Both tools have typed input and output schemas with required fields, length limits and an enum for visit slots", "`findTradespeopleV1` is annotated read-only and returns ratings, review counts, badges, phone numbers and profile links" ], "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/checkatrade", "verdict": "A keyless MCP server from Checkatrade with two typed tools, one read-only search of vetted UK tradespeople and one fixed-price booking flow that stops at a payment link the person completes. No status page, rate limits, changelog or security contact was found, and checkatrade.com's terms and privacy pages refused our reader.", "weaknesses": [ "No status page, published rate limits, SLA or changelog found for the MCP server or the affiliate API", "No error responses are documented for the MCP tools", "Search returns at most 20 results with no page parameter, although the response reports `totalPages`" ], "where": "hosted", "x402": "no" }, { "bestFor": "Posting household and odd jobs (cleaning, removals, gardening, handyman work) in Australia, the UK, the US and other Airtasker markets, then hiring from bids.", "grade": "F", "name": "Airtasker", "position": 3, "price": "Free", "score": 36.8, "slug": "airtasker", "strengths": [ "OAuth through id.airtasker.com with PKCE, dynamic client registration and a revocation endpoint advertised in its metadata", "Three scopes, airtasker:read, airtasker:write and airtasker:payments, so hiring and paying can be withheld from an agent", "Seven tools cover the poster's path from posting a task to reading bids and hiring" ], "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtasker", "verdict": "Airtasker's hosted MCP server lets an agent browse, post a task, read Taskers' bids and hire, with OAuth scopes that keep payments separate from reading and writing. The tool schemas sit behind sign-in, Airtasker's setup article refused our reader, and no rate limits, changelog or MCP status component was found.", "weaknesses": [ "Tool input schemas, annotations and errors need a signed-in account and were not read", "Airtasker's MCP setup article and fee pages on support.airtasker.com answered with a bot check", "No rate limits, changelog or deprecation policy found, and the status page has no MCP component" ], "where": "hosted", "x402": "no" }, { "bestFor": "Customers who want quotes for local services across many categories, and professionals buying leads.", "grade": "F", "name": "Bark", "position": 4, "price": "Freemium", "score": 16.5, "slug": "bark", "strengths": [ "Free for customers, and professionals see leads free before paying to respond", "Customer app released 12 times between 30 June and 13 October 2026", "Terms and privacy notice are dated and name Bark.com Global Limited with its company number" ], "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark", "verdict": "Bark matches customers with local professionals across home, events, lessons and business services, free for customers, with professionals paying in credits to respond. There is no public API or MCP server that acts for a household. A Bark app on Zapier lets a professional's automations search requests, buy leads and send quotes.", "weaknesses": [ "No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call for a household", "No credit pack prices published, and a lead's credit cost depends on job value and demand", "The Zapier app's Purchase Bark action spends credits, with no documented confirmation step" ], "where": "local", "x402": "no" }, { "bestFor": "UK homeowners who want to post a job and hear back from several tradespeople.", "grade": "F", "name": "Rated People", "position": 5, "price": "Freemium", "score": 15.9, "slug": "rated-people", "strengths": [ "Posting a job is free for homeowners, per the home page", "Platform terms dated 17 September 2026 name Averton Ltd with its company number and registered office", "Three homeowner app releases between 11 August and 13 October 2026" ], "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rated-people", "verdict": "Rated People lets UK homeowners post a job free and hear from tradespeople, and since September 2026 it belongs to Checkatrade Group. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. Checkatrade's keyless MCP server is the nearest route, since Rated People jobs go to Checkatrade Group tradespeople.", "weaknesses": [ "No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call", "No status page, security.txt or disclosure policy found", "Tradesperson prices are given only as Checkatrade membership from £30 a month" ], "where": "local", "x402": "no" }, { "bestFor": "Homeowners researching design ideas and professionals themselves.", "grade": "F", "name": "Houzz", "position": 6, "price": "Freemium", "score": 13.1, "slug": "houzz", "strengths": [ "Three iOS releases between 13 August and 1 October 2026", "Terms and privacy policy published in full on houzz.com", "Houzz Pro gives professionals separate business software" ], "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/houzz", "verdict": "Houzz is a large design and remodelling platform for finding and reviewing professionals, with iOS releases every few weeks. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. houzz.com/api asks for a token with no public documentation, and the terms forbid robots, scraping and AI training on its content.", "weaknesses": [ "No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call", "The terms forbid robots, scraping and training AI on platform content", "No status page, security.txt or dated terms found" ], "where": "local", "x402": "no" }, { "bestFor": "US homeowners hiring tradespeople through a person.", "grade": "F", "name": "Angi (including HomeAdvisor, now Angi Leads)", "position": 7, "price": "Freemium", "score": 12.7, "slug": "angi", "strengths": [ "Terms, privacy policy and Book Now terms are versioned and dated in one legal centre", "The privacy policy of 15 July 2026 discloses that AI agents may handle calls and texts and that a person is available on request", "security.txt names a security contact, infosec@angi.com" ], "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/angi", "verdict": "Angi is a large US marketplace for hiring local tradespeople, and its legal centre publishes dated, versioned terms and a privacy policy that discloses AI-handled calls. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. The only integration sends leads to tradespeople's CRMs after Angi sets it up, and the terms forbid automated access.", "weaknesses": [ "No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call", "The terms of use forbid access by scraper, robot, spider or other automatic device", "No status page, SLA or changelog found" ], "where": "local", "x402": "no" }, { "bestFor": "UK homeowners who want to search vetted, reviewed traders and contact them directly.", "grade": "F", "name": "TrustATrader", "position": 8, "price": "Freemium", "score": 12.1, "slug": "trustatrader", "strengths": [ "Search and the TrustATrader Guarantee are free for homeowners", "Reviews under 3 stars go through a complaints process before publication, per skill.md", "llms.txt and skill.md describe the site, its processes and key URLs for agents" ], "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trustatrader", "verdict": "TrustATrader is a UK directory of vetted tradespeople with reviews checked before publication and a free guarantee for booked jobs. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. Its llms.txt and skill.md tell agents to send people to the website search.", "weaknesses": [ "No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call", "Website terms last updated 28 June 2021, and the privacy policy carries no date", "No tradesperson prices published" ], "where": "local", "x402": "no" }, { "bestFor": "People in Indian, Emirati, Singaporean and Saudi cities booking services at home through the app.", "grade": "F", "name": "Urban Company", "position": 9, "price": "Pay per use", "score": 11.8, "slug": "urban-company", "strengths": [ "25 iOS releases between 8 June and 13 October 2026", "Services in four countries, per the home page", "Legal entity and company number published on the partner site" ], "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/urban-company", "verdict": "Urban Company books cleaning, repairs, appliance servicing and beauty at home in India, the UAE, Singapore and Saudi Arabia, with app releases most weeks. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today, robots.txt prohibits crawling without permission, and its terms and privacy policy did not load for our reader.", "weaknesses": [ "No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call", "robots.txt prohibits crawling without express written permission", "Terms and privacy policy render only in a browser and could not be checked" ], "where": "local", "x402": "no" }, { "bestFor": "A person booking a cleaner or handyperson at a set time.", "grade": "F", "name": "Handy", "position": 10, "price": "Pay per use", "score": 10, "slug": "handy", "strengths": [ "Fixed-time booking for cleaning, handyman, assembly and mounting jobs", "Happiness Guarantee on services booked and paid through Handy", "Sites for the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom" ], "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/handy", "verdict": "Handy books cleaning, handyman and assembly jobs in the US, Canada and the UK, with a guarantee on jobs paid through Handy. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. Businesses can ask to partner with Handy, but no partner documentation is public, and the iOS app was last updated in October 2025.", "weaknesses": [ "No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call", "Handy.com iOS app last updated 13 October 2025", "The privacy policy on handy.com dates from 22 June 2023" ], "where": "local", "x402": "no" } ], "updated": "2026-10-14" }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/home-services/", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/home-services/index.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/home-services/index.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/home-services/index.min.md" }, "markdown": "All 10 ranked home service and local trades marketplaces on the Anchor benchmark, with a pick for each need and where each one falls short. Scores come from public evidence, re-checked as vendors change.\n\n- Ranked: 10 · agent-ready (BB or better): 0 · accept x402: 0 · hosted endpoints: 2\n- Full ranked table: https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/home-services.md\n- Head-to-head comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/home-services/index.md (43)\n- Methodology: https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/index.md\n\n## The shortlist\n\n| # | Tool | Grade | Score | Best for | Price | Where |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | [Taskrabbit Partner API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taskrabbit.md) | E | 44.3 | A retailer or platform that wants to sell Taskrabbit assembly, mounting and similar fixed-price services in its own checkout, with Taskrabbit's approval. | Paid | Local |\n| 2 | [Checkatrade](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/checkatrade.md) | E | 43.9 | UK homeowners finding vetted tradespeople and booking simple fixed-price jobs such as boiler servicing. | Free | Hosted |\n| 3 | [Airtasker](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtasker.md) | F | 36.8 | Posting household and odd jobs (cleaning, removals, gardening, handyman work) in Australia, the UK, the US and other Airtasker markets, then hiring from bids. | Free | Hosted |\n| 4 | [Bark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark.md) | F | 16.5 | Customers who want quotes for local services across many categories, and professionals buying leads. | Freemium | Local |\n| 5 | [Rated People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rated-people.md) | F | 15.9 | UK homeowners who want to post a job and hear back from several tradespeople. | Freemium | Local |\n| 6 | [Houzz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/houzz.md) | F | 13.1 | Homeowners researching design ideas and professionals themselves. | Freemium | Local |\n| 7 | [Angi (including HomeAdvisor, now Angi Leads)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/angi.md) | F | 12.7 | US homeowners hiring tradespeople through a person. | Freemium | Local |\n| 8 | [TrustATrader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trustatrader.md) | F | 12.1 | UK homeowners who want to search vetted, reviewed traders and contact them directly. | Freemium | Local |\n| 9 | [Urban Company](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/urban-company.md) | F | 11.8 | People in Indian, Emirati, Singaporean and Saudi cities booking services at home through the app. | Pay per use | Local |\n| 10 | [Handy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/handy.md) | F | 10 | A person booking a cleaner or handyperson at a set time. | Pay per use | Local |\n\n## Picks by need\n\n- Highest score overall: [Taskrabbit Partner API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taskrabbit.md), E, 44.3/100 on the benchmark. Also [Checkatrade](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/checkatrade.md), E, 43.9/100.\n- Schema \u0026 documentation: [Checkatrade](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/checkatrade.md), 75/100 on schema \u0026 documentation, against 67 for the overall leader.\n- Agent ergonomics: [Checkatrade](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/checkatrade.md), 63/100 on agent ergonomics, against 46 for the overall leader.\n- Security \u0026 auth: [Airtasker](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtasker.md), 45/100 on security \u0026 auth, against 39 for the overall leader.\n- Maintenance \u0026 community: [Bark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark.md), 54/100 on maintenance \u0026 community, against 35 for the overall leader.\n- Transparency \u0026 trust: [Airtasker](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtasker.md), 60/100 on transparency \u0026 trust, against 57 for the overall leader.\n- A hosted MCP endpoint: [Checkatrade](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/checkatrade.md), remote MCP server, nothing to install.\n\n## How to choose\n\n- Whether an agent can book: Check whether a job can be posted, quoted and booked through an API, since many marketplaces take requests only through their own app or website.\n- Partner access: Check whether the API is open to any developer or only to approved partners, because a partner agreement can be the longest step.\n- Coverage by trade and area: Check which trades and postcodes or cities are covered, since a marketplace strong in one country may have no tradespeople in another.\n- Payment, vetting and disputes: Check who takes payment, how tradespeople are vetted and how a dispute is raised, since the agent's user carries the risk of a job gone wrong.\n\n- How the benchmark tests this category: In this run, public evidence against the published checklist. When the task suites run, one household job posted through each listing's partner API or sandbox, quotes collected and a booking made and cancelled. We check trade and area coverage, quote fields, booking and payment steps, and what access took.\n\n## Each one in detail\n\n### 1. Taskrabbit Partner API, E 44.3/100\n\nTaskrabbit's Partner API lets approved partners, mostly retailers, estimate, schedule, book, reschedule and cancel fixed-price home services such as assembly and mounting, alongside the Dolly delivery API. Access is granted by Taskrabbit, not self-serve.\n\n- Verdict: The Partner API covers the whole booking flow (estimate, availability, bid, book, reschedule, cancel) with OpenAPI 3.1 fragments on every reference page, llms.txt, a sandbox and signed webhooks. Access is the limit. Keys come from a partnership manager, prices are negotiated, no rate limits or SLA are published, and the docs still call the home services API coming soon.\n- Best for: A retailer or platform that wants to sell Taskrabbit assembly, mounting and similar fixed-price services in its own checkout, with Taskrabbit's approval.\n- Strength: Full booking flow in 12 documented operations, from estimate and availability to bid, book, reschedule and cancel\n- Strength: Each reference page embeds an OpenAPI 3.1 definition, and llms.txt indexes Markdown copies of all 51 pages\n- Strength: Sandbox and production environments for every home services operation\n- Weakness: No self-serve access. Credentials come from Taskrabbit after a reviewed request or from a partnership manager\n- Weakness: No public API price. Commercial terms are agreed per partner\n- Weakness: No rate limits, 429 guidance, SLA or changelog found in the developer hub\n- Price: Paid · Auth: OAuth · x402: No · Where: Local\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taskrabbit.md\n\n### 2. Checkatrade, E 43.9/100\n\nUK marketplace of vetted tradespeople. Its keyless MCP server searches local trades by postcode and books fixed-price Express jobs, and a separate affiliate API lets approved partners send job requests to tradespeople.\n\n- Verdict: A keyless MCP server from Checkatrade with two typed tools, one read-only search of vetted UK tradespeople and one fixed-price booking flow that stops at a payment link the person completes. No status page, rate limits, changelog or security contact was found, and checkatrade.com's terms and privacy pages refused our reader.\n- Best for: UK homeowners finding vetted tradespeople and booking simple fixed-price jobs such as boiler servicing.\n- Strength: Keyless remote MCP server. `initialize` and `tools/list` answered with no account, key or card on 14 October 2026\n- Strength: Both tools have typed input and output schemas with required fields, length limits and an enum for visit slots\n- Strength: `findTradespeopleV1` is annotated read-only and returns ratings, review counts, badges, phone numbers and profile links\n- Weakness: No status page, published rate limits, SLA or changelog found for the MCP server or the affiliate API\n- Weakness: No error responses are documented for the MCP tools\n- Weakness: Search returns at most 20 results with no page parameter, although the response reports `totalPages`\n- Price: Free · Auth: None · x402: No · Where: Hosted\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/checkatrade.md\n- Against #1: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/checkatrade-vs-taskrabbit.md\n\n### 3. Airtasker, F 36.8/100\n\nAirtasker is a local services marketplace where people post tasks such as cleaning, removals and handyman work and hire a Tasker from the bids. Its hosted MCP server lets an agent browse, post, review bids and hire.\n\n- Verdict: Airtasker's hosted MCP server lets an agent browse, post a task, read Taskers' bids and hire, with OAuth scopes that keep payments separate from reading and writing. The tool schemas sit behind sign-in, Airtasker's setup article refused our reader, and no rate limits, changelog or MCP status component was found.\n- Best for: Posting household and odd jobs (cleaning, removals, gardening, handyman work) in Australia, the UK, the US and other Airtasker markets, then hiring from bids.\n- Strength: OAuth through id.airtasker.com with PKCE, dynamic client registration and a revocation endpoint advertised in its metadata\n- Strength: Three scopes, airtasker:read, airtasker:write and airtasker:payments, so hiring and paying can be withheld from an agent\n- Strength: Seven tools cover the poster's path from posting a task to reading bids and hiring\n- Weakness: Tool input schemas, annotations and errors need a signed-in account and were not read\n- Weakness: Airtasker's MCP setup article and fee pages on support.airtasker.com answered with a bot check\n- Weakness: No rate limits, changelog or deprecation policy found, and the status page has no MCP component\n- Price: Free · Auth: OAuth · x402: No · Where: Hosted\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtasker.md\n- Against #1: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtasker-vs-taskrabbit.md\n\n### 4. Bark, F 16.5/100\n\nBark is a services marketplace where customers describe a job and local professionals, from cleaners and gardeners to tutors and accountants, buy the lead with credits and send quotes. It runs on the web and in apps.\n\n- Verdict: Bark matches customers with local professionals across home, events, lessons and business services, free for customers, with professionals paying in credits to respond. There is no public API or MCP server that acts for a household. A Bark app on Zapier lets a professional's automations search requests, buy leads and send quotes.\n- Best for: Customers who want quotes for local services across many categories, and professionals buying leads.\n- Strength: Free for customers, and professionals see leads free before paying to respond\n- Strength: Customer app released 12 times between 30 June and 13 October 2026\n- Strength: Terms and privacy notice are dated and name Bark.com Global Limited with its company number\n- Weakness: No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call for a household\n- Weakness: No credit pack prices published, and a lead's credit cost depends on job value and demand\n- Weakness: The Zapier app's Purchase Bark action spends credits, with no documented confirmation step\n- Price: Freemium · Auth: OAuth or key · x402: No · Where: Local\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark.md\n- Against #1: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-taskrabbit.md\n\n### 5. Rated People, F 15.9/100\n\nRated People is a UK website and app where homeowners post a job free and are matched with tradespeople, who contact them to quote. It is part of Checkatrade Group.\n\n- Verdict: Rated People lets UK homeowners post a job free and hear from tradespeople, and since September 2026 it belongs to Checkatrade Group. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. Checkatrade's keyless MCP server is the nearest route, since Rated People jobs go to Checkatrade Group tradespeople.\n- Best for: UK homeowners who want to post a job and hear back from several tradespeople.\n- Strength: Posting a job is free for homeowners, per the home page\n- Strength: Platform terms dated 17 September 2026 name Averton Ltd with its company number and registered office\n- Strength: Three homeowner app releases between 11 August and 13 October 2026\n- Weakness: No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call\n- Weakness: No status page, security.txt or disclosure policy found\n- Weakness: Tradesperson prices are given only as Checkatrade membership from £30 a month\n- Price: Freemium · Auth: OAuth or key · x402: No · Where: Local\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rated-people.md\n- Against #1: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rated-people-vs-taskrabbit.md\n\n### 6. Houzz, F 13.1/100\n\nHouzz is a home design and remodelling platform where homeowners browse photos and find, review and contact architects, designers and builders. Houzz Pro is its business software for those professionals.\n\n- Verdict: Houzz is a large design and remodelling platform for finding and reviewing professionals, with iOS releases every few weeks. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. houzz.com/api asks for a token with no public documentation, and the terms forbid robots, scraping and AI training on its content.\n- Best for: Homeowners researching design ideas and professionals themselves.\n- Strength: Three iOS releases between 13 August and 1 October 2026\n- Strength: Terms and privacy policy published in full on houzz.com\n- Strength: Houzz Pro gives professionals separate business software\n- Weakness: No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call\n- Weakness: The terms forbid robots, scraping and training AI on platform content\n- Weakness: No status page, security.txt or dated terms found\n- Price: Freemium · Auth: OAuth or key · x402: No · Where: Local\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/houzz.md\n\n### 7. Angi (including HomeAdvisor, now Angi Leads), F 12.7/100\n\nAngi is a US marketplace where homeowners find, compare and hire local tradespeople and book some services directly. HomeAdvisor, Inc. now trades as Angi Leads under the same company, and both reach households through the Angi website and apps.\n\n- Verdict: Angi is a large US marketplace for hiring local tradespeople, and its legal centre publishes dated, versioned terms and a privacy policy that discloses AI-handled calls. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. The only integration sends leads to tradespeople's CRMs after Angi sets it up, and the terms forbid automated access.\n- Best for: US homeowners hiring tradespeople through a person.\n- Strength: Terms, privacy policy and Book Now terms are versioned and dated in one legal centre\n- Strength: The privacy policy of 15 July 2026 discloses that AI agents may handle calls and texts and that a person is available on request\n- Strength: security.txt names a security contact, infosec@angi.com\n- Weakness: No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call\n- Weakness: The terms of use forbid access by scraper, robot, spider or other automatic device\n- Weakness: No status page, SLA or changelog found\n- Price: Freemium · Auth: OAuth or key · x402: No · Where: Local\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/angi.md\n- Against #1: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/angi-vs-taskrabbit.md\n\n### 8. TrustATrader, F 12.1/100\n\nTrustATrader is a UK online directory of vetted local tradespeople, searchable by trade and location, with customer reviews, a complaints process and a free guarantee for homeowners. Tradespeople pay for membership.\n\n- Verdict: TrustATrader is a UK directory of vetted tradespeople with reviews checked before publication and a free guarantee for booked jobs. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. Its llms.txt and skill.md tell agents to send people to the website search.\n- Best for: UK homeowners who want to search vetted, reviewed traders and contact them directly.\n- Strength: Search and the TrustATrader Guarantee are free for homeowners\n- Strength: Reviews under 3 stars go through a complaints process before publication, per skill.md\n- Strength: llms.txt and skill.md describe the site, its processes and key URLs for agents\n- Weakness: No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call\n- Weakness: Website terms last updated 28 June 2021, and the privacy policy carries no date\n- Weakness: No tradesperson prices published\n- Price: Freemium · Auth: OAuth or key · x402: No · Where: Local\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trustatrader.md\n\n### 9. Urban Company, F 11.8/100\n\nUrban Company is a marketplace for booking home services such as cleaning, repairs, appliance servicing, painting and beauty at home, in cities in India, the UAE, Singapore and Saudi Arabia.\n\n- Verdict: Urban Company books cleaning, repairs, appliance servicing and beauty at home in India, the UAE, Singapore and Saudi Arabia, with app releases most weeks. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today, robots.txt prohibits crawling without permission, and its terms and privacy policy did not load for our reader.\n- Best for: People in Indian, Emirati, Singaporean and Saudi cities booking services at home through the app.\n- Strength: 25 iOS releases between 8 June and 13 October 2026\n- Strength: Services in four countries, per the home page\n- Strength: Legal entity and company number published on the partner site\n- Weakness: No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call\n- Weakness: robots.txt prohibits crawling without express written permission\n- Weakness: Terms and privacy policy render only in a browser and could not be checked\n- Price: Pay per use · Auth: OAuth or key · x402: No · Where: Local\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/urban-company.md\n- Against #1: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/taskrabbit-vs-urban-company.md\n\n### 10. Handy, F 10/100\n\nHandy is a marketplace for booking home cleaning, handyman, furniture assembly, TV mounting and similar services at a set time in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. It is part of Angi.\n\n- Verdict: Handy books cleaning, handyman and assembly jobs in the US, Canada and the UK, with a guarantee on jobs paid through Handy. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. Businesses can ask to partner with Handy, but no partner documentation is public, and the iOS app was last updated in October 2025.\n- Best for: A person booking a cleaner or handyperson at a set time.\n- Strength: Fixed-time booking for cleaning, handyman, assembly and mounting jobs\n- Strength: Happiness Guarantee on services booked and paid through Handy\n- Strength: Sites for the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom\n- Weakness: No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call\n- Weakness: Handy.com iOS app last updated 13 October 2025\n- Weakness: The privacy policy on handy.com dates from 22 June 2023\n- Price: Pay per use · Auth: OAuth or key · x402: No · Where: Local\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/handy.md\n- Against #1: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/handy-vs-taskrabbit.md\n\n## Head to head\n\n- [Checkatrade vs Taskrabbit Partner API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/checkatrade-vs-taskrabbit.md)\n- [Airtasker vs Taskrabbit Partner API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtasker-vs-taskrabbit.md)\n- [Bark vs Taskrabbit Partner API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-taskrabbit.md)\n- [Rated People vs Taskrabbit Partner API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rated-people-vs-taskrabbit.md)\n- [Airtasker vs Checkatrade](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtasker-vs-checkatrade.md)\n- [Bark vs Checkatrade](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-checkatrade.md)\n- [Checkatrade vs Rated People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/checkatrade-vs-rated-people.md)\n- [Airtasker vs Bark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtasker-vs-bark.md)\n- [Airtasker vs Rated People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtasker-vs-rated-people.md)\n- [Bark vs Rated People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-rated-people.md)\n\n## Questions\n\n### What are the highest-rated home service and local trades marketplaces for AI agents?\n\nTaskrabbit Partner API has the highest benchmark score of the 10 ranked home service and local trades marketplaces, 44.3 (E). Checkatrade is second with 43.9 (E).\n\n### How many home service and local trades marketplaces are agent-ready?\n\n0 of the 10 ranked here grade BB or better, the bar for agent-ready on the Anchor benchmark.\n\n### Which home service and local trades marketplaces accept x402 payments?\n\nNone of the ranked listings here accepts x402 for its main call yet.\n\n### How is this list ranked?\n\nBy the Anchor benchmark score out of 100, a weighted mean of the scored categories minus deductions for negative events, from public evidence re-checked as vendors change. Listings cannot pay for a place. The latest assessment behind this page is from 14 October 2026.\n\n## How this list is made\n\nThe order is the Anchor benchmark score, the same number as on each listing. Each listing is graded from public evidence against the benchmark checklist, and the picks are worked out from those grades, prices and facts. 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