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The Node.js and PHP SDKs are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://acuityscheduling.com/api/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "acuityscheduling" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. One account uses HTTP Basic authentication with the numeric User ID as username and the account API key as password, found under Integrations in the Acuity settings. Apps that connect other people's accounts register an OAuth2 client at https://acuityscheduling.com/oauth2/register and use the authorisation code grant, which has one scope, `api-v1`, and returns a Bearer token. `POST /oauth2/disconnect` disables a token. No app review step, token expiry or refresh token is described in the OAuth guide. Requests must come from a server, as cross-origin requests are refused.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "The pricing page lists \"Custom API and CSS\" on the Premium plan only, at $61 a month or $49 a month billed yearly. Starter is $20 ($16 yearly) and Standard $34 ($27 yearly), in USD before tax. Each plan has a 7-day trial with no card needed. We did not establish whether the trial includes API access. No free tier or sandbox was found, and API calls carry no separate charge. An Enterprise plan with additional APIs is sold through sales (https://acuityscheduling.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$61 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs or on the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 9182, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.acuityscheduling.com", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.acuityscheduling.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "calendar.read", "calendar.availability", "calendar.booking", "calendar.webhooks" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "paid", "trial", "rest", "oauth", "basic-auth", "webhooks", "llms-txt", "closed-source", "status-page", "hipaa", "nodejs", "php" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 42.4, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 678, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 44, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 30, "reliability": 58, "schema": 56, "security": 27, "transparency": 54 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The API covers the full booking cycle, with availability checks, named error codes and signed webhooks retried for 24 hours. API access is sold only on the Premium plan at $61 a month, the single OAuth scope grants the whole account, and no changelog, idempotency key or audit log was found in the reviewed documentation.", "bestFor": "A business that already takes bookings in Acuity and wants an agent to check slots, book, move and cancel appointments for clients, including classes, packages and intake forms.", "strengths": [ "Availability by date and time, booking, rescheduling and cancelling are separate documented endpoints under `/api/v1`", "Errors return a status code, a named `error` code and a message, and a 404 suggests the nearest valid path", "Webhooks are signed with HMAC-SHA256 in `x-acuity-signature` and retried nine times over 24 hours", "Every docs page has a Markdown copy with an OpenAPI 3.1 fragment, and `llms.txt` is published", "Rate limit stated as 10 requests a second and 20 concurrent connections per IP" ], "weaknesses": [ "The pricing page lists custom API access on Premium only, $61 a month or $49 billed yearly", "OAuth2 has one scope, `api-v1`, and Basic authentication uses one account API key, so no read-only credential exists", "No changelog or deprecation policy was found, and the Developer Terms allow changes without notice", "The Node.js and PHP SDKs were last released in July 2019", "The status page records two critical service disruptions in the last 90 days, on 19 July and 12 August 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `/availability/dates` then `/availability/times` with `appointmentTypeID` before `POST /appointments`, which validates the slot as a client would", "Avoid `admin=true` unless the owner asks for it, because it skips availability and form validation", "Pass `noEmail=true` when a booking or cancellation must not send the client an email or SMS", "Check `GET /appointments` filtered by `email` and date before retrying a booking, since no idempotency key is documented", "Stay under 10 requests a second and 20 concurrent connections per IP, and back off on 429, which carries no documented `Retry-After`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 42.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 44, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 30, "reliability": 58, "schema": 56, "security": 27, "transparency": 34 }, "provenanceScore": 74 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install --save acuityscheduling", "http": "curl -u ACUITY_USER_ID:ACUITY_API_KEY \"https://acuityscheduling.com/api/v1/appointments\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/calendar.read", "tool": "https://letme.dev/acuity-scheduling" }, "area": "everyday", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Premium (the plan with API access)", "unit": "month", "usd": 61, "note": "Monthly billing. $49 a month billed yearly" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Squarespace, Inc.", "domain": "acuityscheduling.com", "domainRegistered": "2007-01-15", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.squarespace.com/developer-terms", "privacy": "https://www.squarespace.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.acuityscheduling.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The developer docs' legal page links two documents, Squarespace's Developer Terms (last updated 16 December 2025) and Squarespace's privacy policy (effective 15 July 2026). Both name acuityscheduling.com.", "The contracting entity is Squarespace, Inc., 225 Varick Street, New York, for US users and Squarespace Ireland Limited, Dublin, for others.", "acuityscheduling.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. www.squarespace.com publishes one that expires on 1 January 2028 and points to its vulnerability reporting page.", "The API answers at https://acuityscheduling.com/api/v1 and OAuth at https://acuityscheduling.com/oauth2.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2007-01-15 and MarkMonitor Inc. as registrar.", "No changelog was found. developers.acuityscheduling.com/changelog.md returns the docs' not-found page." ], "score": 74 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/acuity-scheduling.json", "live": { "slug": "acuity-scheduling", "probe": { "target": "https://acuityscheduling.com/api/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T22:39:39.762243389Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 487, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 471, "p95ms24h": 504, "samples24h": 36, "samples30d": 36, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 36, "ok": 36 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.acuityscheduling.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T22:39:07.646935429Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T22:39:39.762243389Z" } }, "answer": "Calendly API + MCP scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Acuity Scheduling API's 42.4 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "calendly", "name": "Calendly API + MCP", "vendor": "Calendly", "vendorUrl": "https://calendly.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "scheduling", "summary": "Calendly's scheduling API for availability, bookings, invitees and webhooks, with a hosted MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/calendly", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/calendly.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/calendly.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/calendly.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.calendly.com", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Personal access tokens for your own account, OAuth apps for other people's. Both go in the `Authorization: Bearer` header. The hosted MCP uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration only. Only 8 OAuth tokens per user can be requested in a minute.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan. The pricing page lists Standard at $10 a seat a month and Teams at $16, and says yearly billing saves 17 and 20 per cent. Enterprise starts at $15,000 a year with a 50-seat minimum, in USD only (https://calendly.com/pricing). Booking through the API needs Standard or above (https://developer.calendly.com/api-docs/calendly-api/scheduled-events/create-event-invitee.md).", "priceSummary": "$10 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 36, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.calendly.com", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.calendly.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developer.calendly.com/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "calendar.read", "calendar.availability", "calendar.booking", "calendar.webhooks" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "webhooks", "oauth", "closed-source", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-25", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68.3, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 182, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 50, "payments": 30, "reliability": 85, "schema": 86, "security": 70, "transparency": 80 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Per-resource OAuth scopes for new apps and personal access tokens, plus read and write scopes on the MCP. Booking through the API needs a paid seat, and Free users get a 403.", "bestFor": "Best when the host already schedules through Calendly and the agent needs to find a slot and book or cancel it.", "strengths": [ "Per-resource OAuth scopes for new apps and personal access tokens, plus read and write scopes on the MCP", "MCP tools annotated with readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and idempotentHint", "OpenAPI 3.1 in JSON and YAML, llms.txt and Markdown copies of every page", "Status page with separate API and Webhooks components, both showing 100% uptime", "SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001, with an activity log scope on Enterprise" ], "weaknesses": [ "Booking through the API needs a paid seat, and Free users get a 403", "Booking limited to 10 a minute, 50 an hour and 100 a day per user below Enterprise", "No idempotency key on POST /invitees", "No official SDK", "Tokens issued before scoped permissions keep full access" ], "agentNotes": [ "Resolve the user's URI with GET /users/me before listing 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Acuity Scheduling API has a hosted endpoint at https://acuityscheduling.com/api/v1 and Calendly API + MCP at https://api.calendly.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Acuity Scheduling API and Calendly API + MCP without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "A business that already takes bookings in Acuity and wants an agent to check slots, book, move and cancel appointments for clients, including classes, packages and intake forms.", "slug": "acuity-scheduling", "watchFor": "The pricing page lists custom API access on Premium only, $61 a month or $49 billed yearly" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 85 against 58", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 86 against 56", "Agent ergonomics, 61 against 44", "Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 27", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 50 against 15", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 54" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Best when the host already schedules through Calendly and the agent needs to find a slot and book or cancel it.", "slug": "calendly", "watchFor": "Booking through the API needs a paid seat, and Free users get a 403" } ], "job": { "capability": "calendar.read", "name": "Calendar read" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-apiroc.json", "title": "Acuity Scheduling API vs Apiroc Unified Calendar API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-apiroc" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-aurinko-calendar.json", "title": "Acuity Scheduling API vs Aurinko Calendar API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-aurinko-calendar" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-cal-com.json", "title": "Acuity Scheduling API vs Cal.com API v2 + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-cal-com" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-cronofy.json", "title": "Acuity Scheduling API vs Cronofy API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-cronofy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-google-calendar-api.json", "title": "Acuity Scheduling API vs Google Calendar API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-google-calendar-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-microsoft-graph-calendar.json", "title": "Acuity Scheduling API vs Microsoft Graph Calendar API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-microsoft-graph-calendar" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-nylas-calendar.json", "title": "Acuity Scheduling API vs Nylas Calendar and Scheduler API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-nylas-calendar" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apiroc-vs-calendly.json", "title": "Apiroc Unified Calendar API vs Calendly API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apiroc-vs-calendly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aurinko-calendar-vs-calendly.json", "title": "Aurinko Calendar API vs Calendly API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aurinko-calendar-vs-calendly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cal-com-vs-calendly.json", "title": "Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs Calendly API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cal-com-vs-calendly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/calendly-vs-cronofy.json", "title": "Calendly API + MCP vs Cronofy API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/calendly-vs-cronofy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/calendly-vs-google-calendar-api.json", "title": "Calendly API + MCP vs Google Calendar API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/calendly-vs-google-calendar-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/calendly-vs-microsoft-graph-calendar.json", "title": "Calendly API + MCP vs Microsoft Graph Calendar API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/calendly-vs-microsoft-graph-calendar" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/calendly-vs-nylas-calendar.json", "title": "Calendly API + MCP vs Nylas Calendar and Scheduler API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/calendly-vs-nylas-calendar" } ], "scores": [ { "acuity-scheduling": 58, "by": 27, "calendly": 85, "edge": "calendly", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "acuity-scheduling": 56, "by": 30, "calendly": 86, "edge": "calendly", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "acuity-scheduling": 44, "by": 17, "calendly": 61, "edge": "calendly", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "acuity-scheduling": 27, "by": 43, "calendly": 70, "edge": "calendly", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "acuity-scheduling": 30, "by": 0, "calendly": 30, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "acuity-scheduling": 15, "by": 35, "calendly": 50, "edge": "calendly", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "acuity-scheduling": 54, "by": 26, "calendly": 80, "edge": "calendly", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Calendly API + MCP scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Acuity Scheduling API's 42.4 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do calendar read.", "verdicts": { "acuity-scheduling": "The API covers the full booking cycle, with availability checks, named error codes and signed webhooks retried for 24 hours. API access is sold only on the Premium plan at $61 a month, the single OAuth scope grants the whole account, and no changelog, idempotency key or audit log was found in the reviewed documentation.", "calendly": "Per-resource OAuth scopes for new apps and personal access tokens, plus read and write scopes on the MCP. Booking through the API needs a paid seat, and Free users get a 403." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-calendly", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-calendly.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-calendly.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-calendly.min.md" }, "markdown": "Calendly API + MCP scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Acuity Scheduling API's 42.4 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do calendar read.\n\n- Acuity Scheduling API: grade E, 42.4/100, rank #678 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/acuity-scheduling.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/acuity-scheduling.json\n- Calendly API + MCP: grade B, 68.3/100, rank #182 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/calendly.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/calendly.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Acuity Scheduling API (E)\n\nGood for: A business that already takes bookings in Acuity and wants an agent to check slots, book, move and cancel appointments for clients, including classes, packages and intake forms.\n\nWatch for: The pricing page lists custom API access on Premium only, $61 a month or $49 billed yearly\n\n### Calendly API + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Best when the host already schedules through Calendly and the agent needs to find a slot and book or cancel it.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 85 against 58\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 86 against 56\n- Agent ergonomics, 61 against 44\n- Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 27\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 50 against 15\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 54\n\nWatch for: Booking through the API needs a paid seat, and Free users get a 403\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Acuity Scheduling API | Calendly API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 58 | 85 | Calendly API + MCP +27 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 86 | Calendly API + MCP +30 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 44 | 61 | Calendly API + MCP +17 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 27 | 70 | Calendly API + MCP +43 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 15 | 50 | Calendly API + MCP +35 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 80 | Calendly API + MCP +26 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **42.4 · E** | **68.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Acuity Scheduling API | Calendly API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Squarespace | Calendly |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://acuityscheduling.com/api/v1` | `https://api.calendly.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Squarespace's Developer Terms. The Node.js and PHP SDKs are MIT | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 36 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-08-25 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-12-16 | 2026-08-05 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-07-03 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | 9.2k npm/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Acuity Scheduling API.** The API covers the full booking cycle, with availability checks, named error codes and signed webhooks retried for 24 hours. API access is sold only on the Premium plan at $61 a month, the single OAuth scope grants the whole account, and no changelog, idempotency key or audit log was found in the reviewed documentation.\n\n**Calendly API + MCP.** Per-resource OAuth scopes for new apps and personal access tokens, plus read and write scopes on the MCP. Booking through the API needs a paid seat, and Free users get a 403.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Acuity Scheduling API\n\n1. Call `/availability/dates` then `/availability/times` with `appointmentTypeID` before `POST /appointments`, which validates the slot as a client would\n2. Avoid `admin=true` unless the owner asks for it, because it skips availability and form validation\n3. Pass `noEmail=true` when a booking or cancellation must not send the client an email or SMS\n4. Check `GET /appointments` filtered by `email` and date before retrying a booking, since no idempotency key is documented\n5. Stay under 10 requests a second and 20 concurrent connections per IP, and back off on 429, which carries no documented `Retry-After`\n\n### Calendly API + MCP\n\n1. Resolve the user's URI with GET /users/me before listing event types or busy times\n2. Pass `start_time` in UTC and the invitee's `timezone` when calling POST /invitees\n3. List the invitee's scheduled events before retrying a booking, since there's no idempotency key\n4. Read `X-RateLimit-Reset` on 429 and wait that many seconds\n5. Use a client with dynamic client registration for mcp.calendly.com, since it has no static client ID\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Acuity Scheduling API or Calendly API + MCP?\n\nCalendly API + MCP scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Acuity Scheduling API's 42.4 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Acuity Scheduling API and Calendly API + MCP need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Acuity Scheduling API and Calendly API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. Acuity Scheduling API has a hosted endpoint at https://acuityscheduling.com/api/v1 and Calendly API + MCP at https://api.calendly.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-calendly.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/acuity-scheduling-vs-calendly.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"acuity-scheduling\", \"b\": \"calendly\"}`. 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