# Aidbox vs ROOK (slim)

> Aidbox scores 64.2 (B) to ROOK's 54.9 (C) for fhir servers. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Aidbox scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against ROOK's 54.9 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ROOK leads on reliability and transparency & trust. Both do fhir servers.

- Aidbox: B 64.2, rank #385 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aidbox.min.md
- ROOK: C 54.9, rank #718 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rook.min.md
- Aidbox, good for An organisation building its own clinical data repository, EHR or payer platform on FHIR, where an agent works against that store. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 79 against 49; Security & auth, 74 against 32; Maintenance & community, 80 against 73.
- ROOK, good for A wellness, insurance, corporate wellness or remote monitoring product that wants normalised wearable data pushed to its backend, with plan prices it can see up front. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 59; Transparency & trust, 55 against 45.

| Category | Aidbox | ROOK |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 59 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 74 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 79 | 49 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 74 | 32 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 45 | 55 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Aidbox | ROOK |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Health Samurai, Inc. | Rookeries Development Corp. |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary. Aidbox runs from Health Samurai's Docker images under a free development licence (no PHI) or a paid production licence. Examples and the Python SDK on GitHub are MIT | Proprietary service under ROOK's Terms and Conditions for ROOK services |
| Tools exposed | 9 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-08-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2021-06-10 | 2026-05-28 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| 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 |  | yes |