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A free hosted sandbox on Google Cloud comes with an aidbox.app account. Whether sign-up asks for a card was not established.", "priceSummary": "$1900 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or pricing page (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 9, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.health-samurai.io/docs/aidbox", "llmsTxt": "https://www.health-samurai.io/docs/aidbox/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "health.fhir", "health.records", "health.consent" ], "tags": [ "self-hosted", "fhir", "mcp", "oauth", "smart-on-fhir", "docker", "postgresql", "llms-txt", "iso27001" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 385, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 25, "reliability": 59, "schema": 77, "security": 74, "transparency": 45 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Graded on the FHIR REST API of an Aidbox instance the owner runs. Monthly releases, two-year LTS lines, SMART on FHIR, AccessPolicy rules and AuditEvent logging are documented, and a free development licence needs no sales call. Aidbox has no rate limiting of its own, its MCP module is alpha, and no terms of service were found on the website.", "bestFor": "An organisation building its own clinical data repository, EHR or payer platform on FHIR, where an agent works against that store.", "strengths": [ "Monthly releases with dated notes, the latest 2609 on 8 October 2026, and LTS lines supported for two years", "SMART on FHIR backend services, client credentials and AccessPolicy rules per client, user or operation", "AuditEvent recording and an audit event topic that can forward to an external repository", "Free development licence and hosted sandbox, with Base pricing published from $1,900 a month", "Cosign-signed images, SBOMs per release and remediation deadlines from 7 days for critical vulnerabilities" ], "weaknesses": [ "No built-in rate limiting or brute-force protection, by the vendor's hardening page", "The MCP module is alpha, its tools take whole resources as free JSON, and no tool annotations are documented", "No terms of service or licence agreement was found on the website, and the privacy policy dates from 10 June 2021", "Closed source with no public CI and no OpenAPI document", "No public status page, security.txt or sub-processor list was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the operator for a Client with an AccessPolicy limited to the task. Don't rely on the public MCP policy, which the docs mark unsafe", "Use `If-None-Exist` on creates and conditional update on identifiers so retries don't duplicate records", "Use `_elements` and `_count` to keep responses small, and follow the Bundle's paging links", "Throttle yourself. Aidbox applies no rate limit, so a burst lands on the customer's database", "Don't load real patient data into an instance on a development licence" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "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": 64.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 25, "reliability": 59, "schema": 77, "security": 74, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 39 }, "connect": { "install": "curl -JO https://aidbox.app/runme \u0026\u0026 docker compose up" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/health.fhir", "tool": "https://letme.dev/aidbox" }, "area": "domain-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Aidbox Base licence", "unit": "month", "usd": 1900, "note": "From price, monthly billing. $19,000 a year on yearly billing" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Health Samurai, Inc.", "domain": "health-samurai.io", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://www.health-samurai.io/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.health-samurai.io/docs/aidbox/overview/release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The site footer and privacy policy name Health Samurai, Inc. The privacy policy was last updated on 10 June 2021 and refers to Terms of Use that were not found.", "No terms of service or licence agreement was found at /legal or in the docs.", "www.health-samurai.io/.well-known/security.txt returns a 404 page. The supply chain page sends reports to security@health-samurai.io.", "Aidbox runs on the customer's infrastructure, so endpoints are on the customer's domain. The free sandbox runs on aidbox.app subdomains.", "No public status page was found. The domain registration date was not established." ], "score": 39 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aidbox.json" }, "answer": "Terra API scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Aidbox's 64.2 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Aidbox leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "terra", "name": "Terra API", "vendor": "Terra Enabling Developers Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://tryterra.co", "kind": "http-api", "category": "health-data", "summary": "Terra's Unified API collects activity, sleep, body and nutrition data from 500+ wearables and health apps, normalises it into one schema and sends it by webhook or REST. An MCP server, Terra AI, lets agents read a connected user's data.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/terra", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/terra.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/terra.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/terra.json", "repo": "https://github.com/tryterra/openapi", "license": "Proprietary service under Terra's terms of service. The OpenAPI specs repository is Apache 2.0", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://access.tryterra.co/api/v2/mcp/\u003cuser_id\u003e", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "terra-python" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "terra-api" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tryterra/cli" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A self-serve dashboard account gives a dev-id and one x-api-key per environment, sent as headers to the Unified API and to Terra AI. The key has no scopes and can be rotated. The admin API and admin MCP server take personal access tokens with 26 scopes, lifetimes of 7 to 90 days and optional environment limits. The admin MCP server signs in by OAuth, and risky changes need approval in the dashboard. End users connect each wearable through Terra's widget, and Terra holds the provider tokens.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Quick Start from $499 a month includes 100,000 credits, then $0.005 a credit to 1,000,000 and $0.003 above. Sign-up asks for a plan and billing details, with a 30-day money-back guarantee and no free tier found. Testing and staging environments allow 50 users each. Enterprise is custom (checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "$499 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the OpenAPI specs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 6, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 13061, "pypiWeekly": 10636, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.tryterra.co", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.tryterra.co/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tryterra/openapi/master/dist/core/v2-bundled.yaml", "capabilities": [ "health.wearables", "health.consent", "health.fhir" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "wearables", "health-data", "mcp", "api-key", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "status-page", "python", "typescript", "soc2", "hipaa" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-13", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 65.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 327, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 20, "reliability": 67, "schema": 89, "security": 65, "transparency": 56 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Graded on the Unified API and the Terra AI MCP server. A public OpenAPI 3.1 spec, llms.txt, per-user rate limits with Retry-After, and scoped admin tokens with approvals. Access starts at $499 a month with billing details at sign-up, the data API key has no scopes, and API key requests failed for 2 hours 38 minutes on 7 August 2026.", "bestFor": "A fitness, wellness, insurance or research product whose users connect consumer wearables and apps, and an agent that needs to read one user's sleep, activity or body data through MCP.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.1 specs on GitHub under Apache 2.0, republished almost daily (spec version 2026.10.08.1 for the Unified API)", "Rate limits documented per user, with a Retry-After header and an X-Terra-RateLimit-Rule header naming the rule that fired", "Terra AI MCP server has six read tools that take explicit fields or select lists, so an agent fetches only the columns it needs", "Admin tokens carry 26 scopes, expire within 90 days, can be limited to environments, and risky changes need approval in the dashboard", "Credit prices are public, $0.005 a credit from 100,001 to 1,000,000 and $0.003 above, with 200 credits per active user a month" ], "weaknesses": [ "No free tier. Sign-up asks for a plan and billing details, and Quick Start starts at $499 a month with a 30-day money-back guarantee", "The Unified API key is one environment-wide x-api-key with no scopes, and Terra AI takes the same key", "status.tryterra.co shows REST requests failing with authorisation errors for 2 hours 38 minutes on 7 August 2026", "No SLA is published outside Enterprise contracts, and no idempotency keys were found for write endpoints", "The privacy policy, effective 20 April 2023, excludes end-user wearable data, and no public sub-processor list was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send dev-id and x-api-key headers on every Unified API and Terra AI call. A missing header returns 401 problem+json", "Keep each request window to 1,825 days or less and under 6,000 requested days per user an hour. On 429 with rule r2, wait Retry-After seconds", "Pass either fields or select to Terra AI tools, never both and never neither, or the call fails with a validation error", "Expect data by webhook after a user connects through the widget session. REST reads are for backfills and on-demand queries", "Use the Read only access level for the admin MCP server unless a change is needed. 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The privacy policy names a UK subsidiary, Terra Enabling Developers Ltd.", "The privacy policy (effective 20 April 2023) says it doesn't cover data collected from wearables about end users, and that processing takes place mainly in the United Kingdom.", "tryterra.co/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "RDAP for tryterra.co returned no registration date.", "API and MCP endpoints answer at access.tryterra.co, a tryterra.co subdomain." ], "score": 69 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/terra.json", "live": { "slug": "terra", "probe": { "target": "https://access.tryterra.co/api/v2/mcp/\u003cuser_id\u003e", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T09:42:10.210334836Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 45, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 47, "p95ms24h": 126, "samples24h": 17, "samples30d": 17, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 17, "ok": 17 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.tryterra.co", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T08:54:00.980823971Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T09:42:10.210334836Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Health Samurai, Inc.", "b": "Terra Enabling Developers Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://access.tryterra.co/api/v2/mcp/\u003cuser_id\u003e", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "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", "b": "Proprietary service under Terra's terms of service. The OpenAPI specs repository is Apache 2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "9", "b": "6", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-08", "b": "2026-10-13", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-05-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2021-06-10", "b": "2023-04-20", "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" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "13k npm/wk, 11k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Terra API scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Aidbox's 64.2 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Aidbox leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Aidbox or Terra API?" }, { "answer": "Aidbox uses an OAuth sign-in. Terra API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Aidbox and Terra API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Aidbox. Terra API has a hosted endpoint at https://access.tryterra.co/api/v2/mcp/\u003cuser_id\u003e.", "question": "Can an agent call Aidbox and Terra API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 65", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 75" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An organisation building its own clinical data repository, EHR or payer platform on FHIR, where an agent works against that store.", "slug": "aidbox", "watchFor": "No built-in rate limiting or brute-force protection, by the vendor's hardening page" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 67 against 59", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 77", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 56 against 45" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "A fitness, wellness, insurance or research product whose users connect consumer wearables and apps, and an agent that needs to read one user's sleep, activity or body data through MCP.", "slug": "terra", "watchFor": "No free tier. Sign-up asks for a plan and billing details, and Quick Start starts at $499 a month with a 30-day money-back guarantee" } ], "job": { "capability": "health.fhir", "name": "FHIR servers" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1uphealth-vs-terra.json", "title": "1upHealth vs Terra API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1uphealth-vs-terra" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-health-gorilla.json", "title": "Aidbox vs Health Gorilla", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-health-gorilla" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-medblocks.json", "title": "Aidbox vs Medblocks", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-medblocks" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-medplum.json", "title": "Aidbox vs Medplum", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-medplum" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-metriport.json", "title": "Aidbox vs Metriport Medical API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-metriport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-particle-health.json", "title": "Aidbox vs Particle Health", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-particle-health" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-redox.json", "title": "Aidbox vs Redox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-redox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-rook.json", "title": "Aidbox vs ROOK", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-rook" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-zus-health.json", "title": "Aidbox vs Zus Health", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-zus-health" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/health-gorilla-vs-terra.json", "title": "Health Gorilla vs Terra API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/health-gorilla-vs-terra" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medplum-vs-terra.json", "title": "Medplum vs Terra API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medplum-vs-terra" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/metriport-vs-terra.json", "title": "Metriport Medical API vs Terra API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/metriport-vs-terra" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/particle-health-vs-terra.json", "title": "Particle Health vs Terra API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/particle-health-vs-terra" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/redox-vs-terra.json", "title": "Redox vs Terra API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/redox-vs-terra" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1uphealth-vs-aidbox.json", "title": "1upHealth vs Aidbox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1uphealth-vs-aidbox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-validic.json", "title": "Aidbox vs Validic Inform", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-validic" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-terra.json", "title": "Medblocks vs Terra API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-terra" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/terra-vs-zus-health.json", "title": "Terra API vs Zus Health", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/terra-vs-zus-health" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rook-vs-terra.json", "title": "ROOK vs Terra API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rook-vs-terra" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/terra-vs-validic.json", "title": "Terra API vs Validic Inform", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/terra-vs-validic" } ], "scores": [ { "aidbox": 59, "by": 8, "edge": "terra", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "terra": 67, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "aidbox": 77, "by": 12, "edge": "terra", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "terra": 89, "weight": 13 }, { "aidbox": 79, "by": 1, "edge": "aidbox", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "terra": 78, "weight": 13 }, { "aidbox": 74, "by": 9, "edge": "aidbox", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "terra": 65, "weight": 14 }, { "aidbox": 25, "by": 5, "edge": "aidbox", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "terra": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "aidbox": 80, "by": 5, "edge": "aidbox", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "terra": 75, "weight": 7 }, { "aidbox": 45, "by": 11, "edge": "terra", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "terra": 56, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Terra API scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Aidbox's 64.2 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Aidbox leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do fhir servers.", "verdicts": { "aidbox": "Graded on the FHIR REST API of an Aidbox instance the owner runs. Monthly releases, two-year LTS lines, SMART on FHIR, AccessPolicy rules and AuditEvent logging are documented, and a free development licence needs no sales call. Aidbox has no rate limiting of its own, its MCP module is alpha, and no terms of service were found on the website.", "terra": "Graded on the Unified API and the Terra AI MCP server. A public OpenAPI 3.1 spec, llms.txt, per-user rate limits with Retry-After, and scoped admin tokens with approvals. Access starts at $499 a month with billing details at sign-up, the data API key has no scopes, and API key requests failed for 2 hours 38 minutes on 7 August 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-terra", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-terra.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-terra.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-terra.min.md" }, "markdown": "Terra API scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Aidbox's 64.2 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Aidbox leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do fhir servers.\n\n- Aidbox: grade B, 64.2/100, rank #385 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aidbox.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/aidbox.json\n- Terra API: grade B, 65.9/100, rank #327 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/terra.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/terra.json\n- Best health record and wellness data APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/health-data/index.md\n- All 63 health comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/health-data/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Aidbox (B)\n\nGood for: An organisation building its own clinical data repository, EHR or payer platform on FHIR, where an agent works against that store.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 65\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 75\n\nWatch for: No built-in rate limiting or brute-force protection, by the vendor's hardening page\n\n### Terra API (B)\n\nGood for: A fitness, wellness, insurance or research product whose users connect consumer wearables and apps, and an agent that needs to read one user's sleep, activity or body data through MCP.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 67 against 59\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 77\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 56 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No free tier. Sign-up asks for a plan and billing details, and Quick Start starts at $499 a month with a 30-day money-back guarantee\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Aidbox | Terra API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 59 | 67 | Terra API +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 89 | Terra API +12 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 78 | Aidbox +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 65 | Aidbox +9 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 20 | Aidbox +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 75 | Aidbox +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 56 | Terra API +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.2 · B** | **65.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Aidbox | Terra API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Health Samurai, Inc. | Terra Enabling Developers Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://access.tryterra.co/api/v2/mcp/\u003cuser_id\u003e` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| 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 Terra's terms of service. The OpenAPI specs repository is Apache 2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 9 | 6 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-13 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-05-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2021-06-10 | 2023-04-20 |\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 | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 13k npm/wk, 11k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Aidbox.** Graded on the FHIR REST API of an Aidbox instance the owner runs. Monthly releases, two-year LTS lines, SMART on FHIR, AccessPolicy rules and AuditEvent logging are documented, and a free development licence needs no sales call. Aidbox has no rate limiting of its own, its MCP module is alpha, and no terms of service were found on the website.\n\n**Terra API.** Graded on the Unified API and the Terra AI MCP server. A public OpenAPI 3.1 spec, llms.txt, per-user rate limits with Retry-After, and scoped admin tokens with approvals. Access starts at $499 a month with billing details at sign-up, the data API key has no scopes, and API key requests failed for 2 hours 38 minutes on 7 August 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Aidbox\n\n1. Ask the operator for a Client with an AccessPolicy limited to the task. Don't rely on the public MCP policy, which the docs mark unsafe\n2. Use `If-None-Exist` on creates and conditional update on identifiers so retries don't duplicate records\n3. Use `_elements` and `_count` to keep responses small, and follow the Bundle's paging links\n4. Throttle yourself. Aidbox applies no rate limit, so a burst lands on the customer's database\n5. Don't load real patient data into an instance on a development licence\n\n### Terra API\n\n1. Send dev-id and x-api-key headers on every Unified API and Terra AI call. A missing header returns 401 problem+json\n2. Keep each request window to 1,825 days or less and under 6,000 requested days per user an hour. On 429 with rule r2, wait Retry-After seconds\n3. Pass either fields or select to Terra AI tools, never both and never neither, or the call fails with a validation error\n4. Expect data by webhook after a user connects through the widget session. REST reads are for backfills and on-demand queries\n5. Use the Read only access level for the admin MCP server unless a change is needed. The MCP level can read API keys\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Aidbox or Terra API?\n\nTerra API scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Aidbox's 64.2 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Aidbox leads on security \u0026 auth, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Aidbox and Terra API need an API key?\n\nAidbox uses an OAuth sign-in. Terra API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Aidbox and Terra API without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Aidbox. Terra API has a hosted endpoint at https://access.tryterra.co/api/v2/mcp/\u003cuser_id\u003e.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-terra.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-terra.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"aidbox\", \"b\": \"terra\"}`. 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