# Agentzon vs Shopware

> Shopware scores 71.4 (BB) to Agentzon's 51.4 (D) for commerce catalogues. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-10

Shopware scores 71.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Agentzon's 51.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do commerce catalogues.

- Agentzon: grade D, 51.4/100, rank #753 of 955. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentzon.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agentzon.json
- Shopware: grade BB, 71.4/100, rank #128 of 955. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shopware.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shopware.json
- Best commerce platforms and checkout APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/commerce/index.md
- All 153 commerce comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Agentzon (D)

Good for: A shopping destination for an agent buying everyday household goods for a U.S. address.

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- No incidents deducted, where Shopware loses 5 points for them

Watch for: No status page, security.txt or disclosure contact was found. Each probe returned 404

### Shopware (BB)

Good for: A merchant already on Shopware, or a team that wants an MIT PHP backend with a built-in MCP server for back-office work.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 83 against 40
- Security & auth, 73 against 45
- Payments & pricing, 50 against 40
- Maintenance & community, 87 against 5
- Transparency & trust, 76 against 45

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- Open source

Watch for: The MCP server is marked experimental until 6.8, and 6.7.14.0 changed what tools/list returns on the Store API endpoint


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Agentzon | Shopware | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 83 | Shopware +43 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 85 | Shopware +2 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 78 | even |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 73 | Shopware +28 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 50 | Shopware +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 5 | 87 | Shopware +82 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 76 | Shopware +31 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -5 | |
| **Total** | | **51.4 · D** | **71.4 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Agentzon | Shopware |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Merit Systems, Inc. | shopware AG |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://agentzon.co/api` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | none | MIT for the Community Edition core. Paid plans add proprietary extensions under shopware AG's general terms |
| Tools exposed | none | 14 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-06-10 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 3.4k stars, 31k npm/wk |

## Verdicts

**Agentzon.** Public OpenAPI 3.1 description and llms.txt, with a whole-basket checkout that needs no account or key. The buyer pays on a private page, so a person completes each purchase. No status page, security.txt or registered seller address was found on agentzon.co, and 34 of 500 listed items cannot be bought.

**Shopware.** MIT-licensed core with OpenAPI specs for both APIs and a built-in MCP server that advertises three discovery tools, previews writes by default and limits each integration to an allowlist. The MCP server is experimental until 6.8, and 20 security advisories were published between May and September 2026, four of them critical.

## Before you call either

### Agentzon

1. Search with GET /api/products. Use only items with checkoutAvailable true and a non-null unitAmount, because a null price means unavailable, never free
2. Send every item and quantity in one POST /api/checkout, with a new Idempotency-Key for each purchase attempt and the same key only to retry that basket
3. Show the buyer the product image from /api/products/{id}/image and get their approval before opening the checkout URL
4. Tell the buyer that catalogue prices exclude sales tax, that shipping is U.S. only and that change-of-mind returns exclude hygiene and food items
5. Keep the checkout URL and the orderToken private. A paid status confirms payment, not shipment

### Shopware

1. Ask the merchant for an integration without --admin, tied to an ACL role and an MCP allowlist. Send sw-access-key and sw-secret-access-key headers to /api/_mcp
2. Call shopware-tool-search first, then shopware-toolset-enable, and keep the Mcp-Session-Id header. A fresh session lists only three tools
3. Pass dryRun=false to commit a write. shopware-media-upload has no dry run and uploads at once
4. For shopping, call the Store API over HTTP with the sales channel's sw-access-key and keep the sw-context-token. The Store API MCP endpoint has no cart tools in core
5. Send `includes` in search criteria to cut response size, and read the 429 body for the wait time

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Agentzon or Shopware?

Shopware scores 71.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Agentzon's 51.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

### Do Agentzon and Shopware need an API key?

Agentzon needs no key. Shopware takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Agentzon and Shopware without installing anything?

Agentzon has a hosted endpoint at https://agentzon.co/api. No hosted endpoint is listed for Shopware.

### Are Agentzon and Shopware open source?

No open-source release is listed for Agentzon. Shopware is open source (MIT for the Community Edition core. Paid plans add proprietary extensions under shopware AG's general terms).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentzon-vs-shopware.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentzon-vs-shopware.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "agentzon", "b": "shopware"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare agentzon shopware`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agentzon.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shopware.json

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