# Adobe Commerce (Magento) vs Square (slim)

> Square scores 69.2 (B) on agent readiness against Adobe Commerce (Magento)'s 63.9 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Adobe Commerce (Magento) leads on transparency & trust. Both do commerce products. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Square scores 69.2 (B) on agent readiness against Adobe Commerce (Magento)'s 63.9 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Adobe Commerce (Magento) leads on transparency & trust. Both do commerce products.

- Adobe Commerce (Magento): B 63.9, rank #290 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-commerce.min.md
- Square: B 69.2, rank #166 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/square.min.md
- Adobe Commerce (Magento), good for An agent working for a merchant already on Adobe Commerce or Magento, for catalogue, order and B2B back-office work over REST and for carts and checkout over GraphQL. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 90 against 70. Also Open source.
- Square, good for Agents working for a seller already on Square, on catalogue, inventory, orders, payment links and customers, online and in person. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 87 against 82; Agent ergonomics, 83 against 67; Security & auth, 67 against 60; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 81 against 75. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Adobe Commerce (Magento) | Square |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 58 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 83 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 60 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 90 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Adobe Commerce (Magento) | Square |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Adobe Inc. | Block, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.squareup.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | Proprietary for Adobe Commerce under Adobe's General Terms and product-specific licensing terms. The Magento Open Source core is OSL 3.0 | Proprietary service under the Square Developer Terms of Service. The MCP server and the OpenAPI specification on GitHub are Apache 2.0, and the Node.js SDK is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 3 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-16 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-09-10 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-10-24 | 2026-09-15 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 12k stars, 1.3k npm/wk | 454k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk |