{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "apideck-accounting", "name": "Apideck Accounting API + MCP", "vendor": "Apideck", "vendorUrl": "https://www.apideck.com/accounting-api", "kind": "http-api", "category": "accounting", "summary": "Unified accounting API for invoices, bills, payments, journal entries and financial reports across platforms including QuickBooks, Xero and NetSuite.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apideck-accounting", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apideck-accounting.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apideck-accounting.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/apideck-accounting.json", "repo": "https://github.com/apideck-libraries/mcp", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://unify.apideck.com/accounting", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@apideck/unify" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "apideck-unify" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@apideck/mcp" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API key plus `x-apideck-app-id` on every call, and `x-apideck-consumer-id` naming the customer whose connection you're using. Add `x-apideck-service-id` when a consumer has more than one accounting connection. End users authorise through Vault, which holds and refreshes their OAuth tokens. The hosted MCP takes the same three values as headers, the local server as environment variables.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Priced per active consumer (your customer), with a 30-day free trial on every plan. Launch is $599 a month for 25 consumers and one unified API category ($23.96 a consumer, $19.98 at 50), including webhooks, the Proxy API and the MCP server. Scale is $1,299 a month for 100 consumers and three categories ($12.99 a consumer), falling to $4,250 for 500 ($8.50 a consumer), and adds custom field mapping and data scopes. Enterprise is custom on an annual contract with SSO, a white-label Vault, vendor sandboxes and an uptime SLA. Yearly billing is 10 per cent less (https://www.apideck.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$599 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 362, "popularity": { "githubStars": 15, "npmWeekly": 42170, "pypiWeekly": 14248, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.apideck.com/apis/accounting/reference", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.apideck.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://github.com/apideck-libraries/openapi-specs/blob/main/accounting.yml", "registryName": "com.apideck/mcp", "capabilities": [ "accounting.unified", "accounting.ledger", "accounting.invoices", "accounting.bills", "accounting.reports" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "paid", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "typescript", "python", "webhooks", "enterprise", "eu", "status-page", "toolsets" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 73.2, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 60, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 88, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 30, "reliability": 75, "schema": 92, "security": 66, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "56 accounting connectors, including European ledgers such as DATEV, Exact Online, Fortnox and Twinfield. No published rate limits of Apideck's own, only connector limits mirrored in headers.", "strengths": [ "56 accounting connectors, including European ledgers such as DATEV, Exact Online, Fortnox and Twinfield", "Dynamic MCP mode with 4 meta-tools at about 1,300 tokens, and annotations on all 362 tools", "Public OpenAPI spec (accounting.yml, 208 operations) with a dated changelog and a BREAKING.md for removals", "Identity lock on the MCP so one agent can't switch to another customer's ledger", "30-day trial with full access and no card" ], "weaknesses": [ "No published rate limits of Apideck's own, only connector limits mirrored in headers", "No idempotency keys on writes, so a timed-out create can duplicate", "$599 a month for 25 customers after the trial, no free tier", "Vendor sandboxes only on Enterprise", "Registry entry stuck at 0.1.13 from April while npm is at 0.21.0" ], "agentNotes": [ "Stay in dynamic mode and search for tools. Static mode loads all 362 schemas", "Start the MCP with --lock-identity (or ?lock_identity=true) when one agent serves one customer", "Read x-downstream-ratelimit-remaining before fanning out, and wait until x-downstream-ratelimit-reset after a 429", "List before you retry a create that timed out. 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Both are the vendor's.", "One status-page incident in the last 90 days, delayed log delivery for about 2.5 hours on 2026-09-15, with API traffic unaffected." ], "score": 90 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apideck-accounting.json", "live": { "slug": "apideck-accounting", "probe": { "target": "https://unify.apideck.com/accounting", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-05T00:25:38.640420696Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 403, "lastMs": 43, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 67, "p95ms24h": 116, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 905, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 5, "ok": 5 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.apideck.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T00:22:37.126927018Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "apideck-libraries/mcp", "version": "v0.21.0", "released": "2026-09-28", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:20:35.283761505Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "com.apideck/mcp", "version": "0.1.13", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T23:42:40.113054682Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@apideck/mcp", "version": "0.21.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:20:33.720080514Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@apideck/unify", "version": "0.52.2", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:20:33.080746348Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "apideck-unify", "version": "0.44.0", "released": "2026-10-02", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:20:33.534216287Z" } ], "githubStars": 19, "npmWeekly": 40772, "pypiWeekly": 10695, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://apideck.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:16:01.278396866Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://developers.apideck.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:15.129512718Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "apideck.com", "registered": "2012-07-04", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/apideck.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:27.918141231Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.apideck.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:41.455478164Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3240ab3af0c0" }, { "url": "https://www.apideck.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:49:08.239438283Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a97becc57c6d" }, { "url": "https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/16710317", "kind": "privacy", "status": 0, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:55.193422375Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "blockedByRobots": true }, { "url": "https://compliance.apideck.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:07.912353084Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "8bf62a1f7bee" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T00:25:38.640420696Z" } }, "b": { "slug": "freshbooks", "name": "FreshBooks API", "vendor": "FreshBooks", "vendorUrl": "https://www.freshbooks.com/api/start", "kind": "http-api", "category": "accounting", "summary": "REST API for FreshBooks, the invoicing-first accounting product for freelancers and small firms.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/freshbooks", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/freshbooks.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/freshbooks.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/freshbooks.json", "repo": "https://github.com/freshbooks/freshbooks-python-sdk", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.freshbooks.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@freshbooks/api" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "freshbooks-sdk" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 authorisation code with scopes such as user:invoices:read and user:journal_entries:write. Access tokens are JWTs that expire (check the expiry in the token). Refresh tokens never expire but are single use, and only one is alive per user per app, so a refresh invalidates the old one. Call GET /auth/api/v1/users/me for the account_id used by /accounting endpoints and the business_id used by projects and time tracking.", "pricing": "byo-plan", "pricingNotes": "The API comes with any FreshBooks plan under section 12 of the terms, with no separate developer fee. Plans are Lite at $23 a month (5 billable clients), Plus at $43 (50 clients), Premium at $70 (unlimited) and Select on request, with introductory discounts. Double-entry accounting reports and bank reconciliation start at Plus (https://www.freshbooks.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "Your plan", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 11, "npmWeekly": 685, "pypiWeekly": 415, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.freshbooks.com/api/start", "capabilities": [ "accounting.ledger", "accounting.invoices", "accounting.bills", "accounting.reports" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "byo-plan", "oauth", "typescript", "python", "webhooks", "status-page", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2024-09-11", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 45.6, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 397, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 14, "payments": 30, "reliability": 35, "schema": 48, "security": 57, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "OAuth scopes split read and write per resource, such as user:invoices:read. Rate limits have no numbers, status code or headers.", "strengths": [ "OAuth scopes split read and write per resource, such as user:invoices:read", "Journal entries, chart of accounts, trial balance and general ledger through the API", "Numbered error codes such as 1001 RequiredField and 1012 UnknownResource", "30-day product trial with no card", "PCI DSS Level 1 with an annual third-party audit" ], "weaknesses": [ "Rate limits have no numbers, status code or headers", "No sandbox, so testing happens in a trial account", "Official SDKs last released in April 2023 (Python) and September 2024 (Node)", "Changelog holds a single entry, the move to JWT tokens", "About two hours of full outage on 4 August 2026, and no API component on the status page" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call /auth/api/v1/users/me first and keep both ids. Accounting endpoints take account_id, projects and time tracking take business_id", "Serialise token refreshes. Issuing a new refresh token kills the old one at once", "Mark an invoice as sent (action_mark_as_sent) or email it. Reports ignore drafts", "Send x-api-version: 2023-09-25 on journal entry calls", "Back off on any throttling response yourself. There's no Retry-After to read and no published limit" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 45.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 14, "payments": 30, "reliability": 35, "schema": 48, "security": 57, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 80 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://api.freshbooks.com/accounting/account/$FRESHBOOKS_ACCOUNT_ID/invoices/invoices?per_page=10\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $FRESHBOOKS_ACCESS_TOKEN\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/accounting.ledger", "tool": "https://letme.dev/freshbooks" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "2NDSITE Inc.", "domain": "freshbooks.com", "domainRegistered": "2004-03-23", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.freshbooks.com/policies/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.freshbooks.com/policies/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.freshbooks.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The terms name 2NDSITE Inc., 225 King St W, Suite 1200, Toronto, under Ontario law, effective 29 October 2025 for new accounts.", "The API terms are section 12 of the general terms. There's no separate developer agreement.", "The API changelog page has a single entry, the 2021 to 2023 move from fixed-length bearer tokens to JWTs.", "www.freshbooks.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 403 to our fetch." ], "score": 80 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/freshbooks.json", "live": { "slug": "freshbooks", "probe": { "target": "https://api.freshbooks.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-05T00:25:43.237985423Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 143, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 137, "p95ms24h": 186, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 905, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 5, "ok": 5 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.freshbooks.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T00:22:46.496966397Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "freshbooks/freshbooks-python-sdk", "version": "release/1.2.1", "released": "2023-04-24", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:27:33.686534225Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@freshbooks/api", "version": "4.1.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:27:30.852425352Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "freshbooks-sdk", "version": "1.3.0", "released": "2024-10-08", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:27:33.500867221Z" } ], "githubStars": 11, "npmWeekly": 905, "pypiWeekly": 246, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://freshbooks.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "unknown", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:40.438598204Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "freshbooks.com", "registered": "2004-03-23", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/freshbooks.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:03:59.146069659Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.freshbooks.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:23.777400508Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "98986299b19f" }, { "url": "https://www.freshbooks.com/policies/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:19.717552449Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "12e269175e94" }, { "url": "https://www.freshbooks.com/policies/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:21.795401021Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ca7450fe9735" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T00:25:43.237985423Z" } }, "summary": "Apideck Accounting API + MCP has a score of 73.2 (BB) against FreshBooks API's 45.6 (E). Both do accounting ledger. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 66 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-freshbooks", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-freshbooks.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-freshbooks.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-freshbooks.min.md" }, "markdown": "Apideck Accounting API + MCP has a score of 73.2 (BB) against FreshBooks API's 45.6 (E). Both do accounting ledger. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 66 points.\n\n- Apideck Accounting API + MCP: grade BB, 73.2/100, rank #60 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apideck-accounting.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/apideck-accounting.json\n- FreshBooks API: grade E, 45.6/100, rank #397 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/freshbooks.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/freshbooks.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Apideck Accounting API + MCP for reliability (+40), schema \u0026 documentation (+44), agent ergonomics (+27), security \u0026 auth (+9), maintenance \u0026 community (+66), transparency \u0026 trust (+8).\n\nPick FreshBooks API for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Apideck Accounting API + MCP | FreshBooks API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 35 | Apideck Accounting API + MCP +40 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 92 | 48 | Apideck Accounting API + MCP +44 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 61 | Apideck Accounting API + MCP +27 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 57 | Apideck Accounting API + MCP +9 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 14 | Apideck Accounting API + MCP +66 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 68 | Apideck Accounting API + MCP +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **73.2 · BB** | **45.6 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Apideck Accounting API + MCP | FreshBooks API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Apideck | FreshBooks |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://unify.apideck.com/accounting` | `https://api.freshbooks.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Your plan |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 362 | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | `com.apideck/mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2024-09-11 |\n| Popularity | 15 stars, 42k npm/wk, 14k PyPI/wk | 11 stars, 685 npm/wk, 415 PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Apideck Accounting API + MCP.** 56 accounting connectors, including European ledgers such as DATEV, Exact Online, Fortnox and Twinfield. No published rate limits of Apideck's own, only connector limits mirrored in headers.\n\n**FreshBooks API.** OAuth scopes split read and write per resource, such as user:invoices:read. Rate limits have no numbers, status code or headers.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Apideck Accounting API + MCP\n\n1. Stay in dynamic mode and search for tools. Static mode loads all 362 schemas\n2. Start the MCP with --lock-identity (or ?lock_identity=true) when one agent serves one customer\n3. Read x-downstream-ratelimit-remaining before fanning out, and wait until x-downstream-ratelimit-reset after a 429\n4. List before you retry a create that timed out. Writes aren't idempotent and there's no idempotency key\n5. Pass fields= on list calls to cut the response to the columns you need\n\n### FreshBooks API\n\n1. Call /auth/api/v1/users/me first and keep both ids. Accounting endpoints take account_id, projects and time tracking take business_id\n2. Serialise token refreshes. Issuing a new refresh token kills the old one at once\n3. Mark an invoice as sent (action_mark_as_sent) or email it. Reports ignore drafts\n4. Send x-api-version: 2023-09-25 on journal entry calls\n5. Back off on any throttling response yourself. 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