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    "a": {
      "slug": "adobe-commerce",
      "name": "Adobe Commerce (Magento)",
      "vendor": "Adobe Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://business.adobe.com/products/commerce.html",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "commerce",
      "summary": "Commerce platform from Adobe, built on the open-source Magento core. It runs as Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service, on Adobe's cloud infrastructure or on the merchant's own servers, and agents reach a store through its REST and GraphQL APIs.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-commerce",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-commerce.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-commerce.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/adobe-commerce.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/magento/magento2",
      "license": "Proprietary for Adobe Commerce under Adobe's General Terms and product-specific licensing terms. The Magento Open Source core is OSL 3.0",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@adobe/aio-commerce-sdk"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Access comes from the merchant, with no Adobe review of the caller. On Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service an organisation admin creates an OAuth credential in Adobe Developer Console, and calls carry an Adobe IMS bearer token, from client credentials with the `commerce.accs` scope or from a user flow tied to an Admin role. On Adobe Commerce on Cloud, on-premises and Magento Open Source, the merchant creates an integration limited to chosen ACL resources and requests are signed by OAuth 1.0a. Admin tokens last 4 hours and customer tokens 1 hour by default, and a bare integration token as a bearer token is off by default.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "No price was read. business.adobe.com timed out on every request on 8 October 2026, and the cloud service licensing terms define an account as one opened under a sales order. No sandbox or trial open without a contract was found in the pages we could read. Magento Open Source, the core with the same REST and GraphQL framework, is free under OSL 3.0, so an owner can start on a self-hosted store with no contract. Its Composer install needs keys from a Commerce Marketplace account.",
      "priceSummary": "Freemium",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the web API docs or the Swagger and GraphQL schemas (checked 2026-10-08).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 12198,
        "npmWeekly": 1317,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://developer.adobe.com/commerce/webapi/",
      "openapi": "https://github.com/AdobeDocs/commerce-webapi/tree/main/src/openapi",
      "capabilities": [
        "commerce.products",
        "commerce.orders",
        "commerce.cart",
        "commerce.checkout",
        "commerce.headless"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "self-hosted",
        "enterprise",
        "open-source",
        "openapi",
        "graphql",
        "oauth",
        "php",
        "sales-led",
        "status-page",
        "bug-bounty",
        "b2b"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-07",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 63.9,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 290,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 722,
        "categoryRank": 9,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 67,
          "maintenance": 75,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 55,
          "schema": 82,
          "security": 60,
          "transparency": 90
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Public Swagger files cover 510 REST operations for the cloud service, the GraphQL schema carries cart, checkout and order mutations, and the cloud service authenticates by OAuth 2 through Adobe IMS. No request rate limit or idempotency key was found in the API documentation, Adobe publishes no MCP server for Commerce, and a licence starts with a sales order.",
        "bestFor": "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.",
        "strengths": [
          "Swagger 2.0 files for the cloud service (510 operations) and for releases 2.4.6 to 2.4.9 sit in the public docs repository",
          "The cloud service takes OAuth 2 client credentials or user tokens from Adobe IMS, and older bearer integration tokens are off by default on 2.4 stores",
          "`?fields=` trims any REST response, and `searchCriteria` filters, sorts and pages every list endpoint",
          "Cloud service release notes list four production releases between August and 7 October 2026, each naming new endpoints",
          "A lifecycle policy gives end-of-support dates for every 2.4 release line, and the sub-processor list was updated on 28 September 2026"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No request rate limit for the REST or GraphQL APIs was found in the reviewed documentation, and 429 handling appears only in a code sample",
          "No idempotency keys were found, so a retried POST can create a second order or cart item",
          "status.adobe.com lists three Commerce incidents marked major in September 2026, two of them longer than an hour",
          "The cloud service drops the customer and guest REST APIs, so shopping flows there go through GraphQL only",
          "No Adobe MCP server for Commerce was found, and the only official client library is a JavaScript package for App Builder"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Ask which deployment the store is. The cloud service answers at `https://\u003cserver\u003e.api.commerce.adobe.com/\u003ctenant-id\u003e/` with no `/rest` prefix, and other stores at `https://\u003chost\u003e/rest/\u003cstore-view-code\u003e/`",
          "On the cloud service, request an IMS token with the `commerce.accs` scope and send the `Store` header to pick the store view",
          "On a 2.4 store, sign requests with all four integration credentials by OAuth 1.0a. A bare integration token is refused unless the merchant has switched that on",
          "Add `?fields=` to REST calls and set `searchCriteria[pageSize]`. Stores with input limits on cap a page at 300 items",
          "Don't retry `placeOrder` or a POST blindly. Read the cart or order back first, because no idempotency key was found"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 63.9
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 67,
          "maintenance": 75,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 55,
          "schema": 82,
          "security": 60,
          "transparency": 80
        },
        "provenanceScore": 99
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl --location 'https://\u003cserver\u003e.api.commerce.adobe.com/\u003ctenant-id\u003e/\u003cendpoint\u003e' \\\n  --header 'Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e' \\\n  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n  --header 'Store: \u003call | default | \u003cstore_view_code\u003e\u003e'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/commerce.products",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/adobe-commerce"
      },
      "sameCompany": [
        "adobe-firefly",
        "adobe-pdf-extract",
        "adobe-photoshop-api"
      ],
      "area": "business",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Magento Open Source",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 0,
          "note": "OSL 3.0 core, you pay for your own hosting. Adobe Commerce prices weren't read"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Adobe Inc.",
        "domain": "adobe.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1986-11-17",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.adobe.com/cc-shared/assets/pdf/legal/terms/enterprise/pdfs/generalterms-na-2025v1.pdf",
        "privacy": "https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html",
        "statusPage": "https://status.adobe.com",
        "changelog": "https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/commerce/cloud-service/release-notes",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The privacy policy, last updated 24 October 2025, names Adobe Inc. as controller in the US, Adobe KK in Japan and Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited elsewhere.",
          "The terms link is Adobe's General Terms 2025v1, effective 3 October 2025, as given on the enterprise licensing page. We read that page and the product-specific terms for Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service (2025v1, 13 October 2025), not the General Terms PDF itself.",
          "Separate product-specific terms cover Adobe Commerce on Cloud (18 February 2025), on Managed Services (18 March 2025) and on-premise software (9 January 2023).",
          "The privacy policy says Adobe is the processor for enterprise products and that it doesn't apply to data enterprise customers collect. A data processing addendum is published at www.adobe.com/cc-shared/assets/pdf/legal/terms/enterprise/pdfs/dpa-ww.pdf.",
          "Cloud service endpoints are on api.commerce.adobe.com. Stores on Adobe Commerce on Cloud, on-premises and Magento Open Source answer on the merchant's own domain.",
          "security.txt at www.adobe.com is PGP-signed, expires 30 July 2027 and names an Intigriti programme and psirt@adobe.com.",
          "www.adobe.com and helpx.adobe.com answered curl with 403. The legal pages were read through WebFetch, and the helpx security bulletins weren't read at all.",
          "Verisign RDAP gives a registration date of 1986-11-17 for adobe.com."
        ],
        "score": 99
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-commerce.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "adobe-commerce",
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.adobe.com",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:11.618214553Z"
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:11.618214553Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Adobe Commerce (Magento) scores 63.9 (B) on agent readiness against Swell's 55 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Swell leads on reliability and maintenance \u0026 community.",
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      "name": "Swell",
      "vendor": "Swell",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.swell.is",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "commerce",
      "summary": "Hosted headless commerce platform with a REST Backend API (products, carts, orders, subscriptions, coupons, promotions, custom models) and a Frontend API for storefronts.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swell",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swell.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swell.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/swell.json",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.swell.store",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "swell-node"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "swell-js"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Backend API uses HTTP Basic auth with the store ID as username and a secret key as password. sk_test_ keys hit the test environment, sk_live_ keys hit live data. The Frontend API (swell-js) uses a public key. Official libraries use a custom wire protocol on port 8443.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Billed yearly, Starter $29 a month (2 admins, $50K yearly sales), Basic $79 ($250K), Standard $299 ($1M), Unlimited $2,250 ($5M), Custom above $10M. Above the sales ceiling Swell takes 2, 1.5, 1 or 0.4 per cent. Monthly API requests 100K, 500K and 2M on the first three plans, then $5 per extra 100K; function calls and storage are metered the same way. Monthly billing costs more (the page shows 25 per cent off for yearly). Free trial on every plan (https://www.swell.is/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$29 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 in the docs, pricing or AI page (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": 4510,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://developers.swell.is",
      "capabilities": [
        "commerce.products",
        "commerce.cart",
        "commerce.checkout",
        "commerce.orders",
        "commerce.headless"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "typescript",
        "webhooks",
        "closed-source"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-30",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 55,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 520,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 722,
        "categoryRank": 14,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 65,
          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 25,
          "reliability": 63,
          "schema": 68,
          "security": 35,
          "transparency": 50
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Live /:models schema with field types and descriptions for every store. One full-access secret key per environment, with no scoped or read-only key.",
        "bestFor": "Developers who want a hosted headless store with a flexible data model and an agent that writes server-side.",
        "strengths": [
          "Live /:models schema with field types and descriptions for every store",
          "Carts, coupons, promotions, subscriptions and orders in one REST API",
          "Official Claude Code skills with about 320 KB of agent reference and their own evals",
          "Public plan prices with per-unit overage for API requests and storage",
          "Events audit log in the developer console since 30 September 2026"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "One full-access secret key per environment, with no scoped or read-only key",
          "Invalid writes return HTTP 200 with an errors object",
          "Rate-limit numbers aren't published",
          "No llms.txt, OpenAPI, security.txt or disclosure policy",
          "No DPA, subprocessor list or deprecation policy found"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Call GET /:models once and cache it. It's the ground truth for custom fields",
          "Check `result.errors` after every write. A failed validation still returns 200",
          "Use `$set` to replace an array. A plain PUT merges arrays by element id and never shrinks them",
          "Use an sk_test_ key while testing. A bare sk_ prefix is live",
          "Keep `expand` and `include` small. Each level past the first three points adds rate-limit weight"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 2.5,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 55
          }
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          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 25,
          "reliability": 63,
          "schema": 68,
          "security": 35,
          "transparency": 31
        },
        "provenanceScore": 68
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl \"https://api.swell.store/products?limit=5\" -u \"$SWELL_STORE_ID:$SWELL_SECRET_KEY\""
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/commerce.products",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/swell"
      },
      "area": "business",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Starter",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 29,
          "note": "billed yearly, up to $50K sales a year, 100K API requests a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Basic",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 79,
          "note": "billed yearly, up to $250K sales, 500K API requests"
        },
        {
          "item": "Standard",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 299,
          "note": "billed yearly, up to $1M sales, 2M API requests"
        },
        {
          "item": "Unlimited",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 2250,
          "note": "billed yearly, up to $5M sales"
        },
        {
          "item": "Fee above Starter ceiling",
          "unit": "pct",
          "usd": 2,
          "note": "on sales over $50K in a trailing 12 months"
        },
        {
          "item": "Fee above Basic ceiling",
          "unit": "pct",
          "usd": 1.5,
          "note": "on sales over $250K"
        },
        {
          "item": "Fee above Standard ceiling",
          "unit": "pct",
          "usd": 1,
          "note": "on sales over $1M"
        },
        {
          "item": "Fee above Unlimited ceiling",
          "unit": "pct",
          "usd": 0.4,
          "note": "on sales over $5M"
        },
        {
          "item": "Extra API requests",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.05,
          "note": "$5 per 100K over the plan quota"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Swell Commerce Corp.",
        "domain": "swell.is",
        "domainRegistered": "2019-09-06",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": false,
        "terms": "https://www.swell.is/legal/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://www.swell.is/legal/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.swell.store/",
        "changelog": "https://www.swell.is/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "The API runs on api.swell.store, Swell's older domain, not swell.is.",
          "/.well-known/security.txt redirects to itself, so no file could be read."
        ],
        "score": 68
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swell.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "swell",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.swell.store",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:22.843575317Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 401,
          "lastMs": 421,
          "lastNote": "asks for credentials",
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          "samples30d": 2157,
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              "ok": 35
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              "ok": 276
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
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              "ok": 248
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-06",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-07",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-08",
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              "ok": 239
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          "page": "https://status.swell.store",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:27.50611532Z"
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          "source": "https://rdap.isnic.is/rdap/domain/swell.is",
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      {
        "a": "HTTP API",
        "b": "HTTP API",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Adobe Inc.",
        "b": "Swell",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "https://api.swell.store",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "HTTP",
        "b": "HTTP",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "OAuth or key",
        "b": "API key",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Freemium",
        "b": "Paid",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "Proprietary for Adobe Commerce under Adobe's General Terms and product-specific licensing terms. The Magento Open Source core is OSL 3.0",
        "b": "none",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-10-07",
        "b": "2026-09-30",
        "name": "Last release"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "no date given",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "2025-10-24",
        "b": "2026-08-19",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swell.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/swell.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Adobe Commerce (Magento) (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 68\n- Security \u0026 auth, 60 against 35\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 25\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 90 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No request rate limit for the REST or GraphQL APIs was found in the reviewed documentation, and 429 handling appears only in a code sample\n\n### Swell (C)\n\nGood for: Developers who want a hosted headless store with a flexible data model and an agent that writes server-side.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 63 against 55\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 75\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: One full-access secret key per environment, with no scoped or read-only key\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Adobe Commerce (Magento) | Swell | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 63 | Swell +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 68 | Adobe Commerce (Magento) +14 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 65 | Adobe Commerce (Magento) +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 35 | Adobe Commerce (Magento) +25 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 25 | Adobe Commerce (Magento) +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 82 | Swell +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 90 | 50 | Adobe Commerce (Magento) +40 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.9 · B** | **55 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Adobe Commerce (Magento) | Swell |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Adobe Inc. | Swell |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.swell.store` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary for Adobe Commerce under Adobe's General Terms and product-specific licensing terms. The Magento Open Source core is OSL 3.0 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Terms last updated |  | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-10-24 | 2026-08-19 |\n| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 12k stars, 1.3k npm/wk | 4.5k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Adobe Commerce (Magento).** Public Swagger files cover 510 REST operations for the cloud service, the GraphQL schema carries cart, checkout and order mutations, and the cloud service authenticates by OAuth 2 through Adobe IMS. No request rate limit or idempotency key was found in the API documentation, Adobe publishes no MCP server for Commerce, and a licence starts with a sales order.\n\n**Swell.** Live /:models schema with field types and descriptions for every store. One full-access secret key per environment, with no scoped or read-only key.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Adobe Commerce (Magento)\n\n1. Ask which deployment the store is. The cloud service answers at `https://\u003cserver\u003e.api.commerce.adobe.com/\u003ctenant-id\u003e/` with no `/rest` prefix, and other stores at `https://\u003chost\u003e/rest/\u003cstore-view-code\u003e/`\n2. On the cloud service, request an IMS token with the `commerce.accs` scope and send the `Store` header to pick the store view\n3. On a 2.4 store, sign requests with all four integration credentials by OAuth 1.0a. A bare integration token is refused unless the merchant has switched that on\n4. Add `?fields=` to REST calls and set `searchCriteria[pageSize]`. Stores with input limits on cap a page at 300 items\n5. Don't retry `placeOrder` or a POST blindly. Read the cart or order back first, because no idempotency key was found\n\n### Swell\n\n1. Call GET /:models once and cache it. It's the ground truth for custom fields\n2. Check `result.errors` after every write. A failed validation still returns 200\n3. Use `$set` to replace an array. A plain PUT merges arrays by element id and never shrinks them\n4. Use an sk_test_ key while testing. A bare sk_ prefix is live\n5. Keep `expand` and `include` small. Each level past the first three points adds rate-limit weight\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Adobe Commerce (Magento) or Swell?\n\nAdobe Commerce (Magento) scores 63.9 (B) on agent readiness against Swell's 55 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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