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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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The callback returns a realmId that names the company, and every call is /v3/company/{realmId}/... with a Bearer token. Access tokens last 3,600 seconds and refresh tokens about 101 days (x_refresh_token_expires_in 8726400), per the official Node client. The sandbox uses the same flow against sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com with an app's development keys.", "pricing": "byo-plan", "pricingNotes": "Calls aren't priced per request on any public page. Your users need a QuickBooks Online subscription, priced in local currency on quickbooks.intuit.com, and sandbox companies are free with a developer account. Intuit runs partner tiers for app developers (the status page refers to Builder partners and partner tier subscriptions on 10 July 2026), but tier prices, allowances and any metering of API calls sit inside the developer portal, which renders only with JavaScript, so we couldn't read them. Publishing to the QuickBooks App Store needs Intuit's review (https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/get-started).", "priceSummary": "Your plan", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 145, "popularity": { "githubStars": 145, "npmWeekly": 399820, "pypiWeekly": 259619, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/get-started", "capabilities": [ "accounting.ledger", "accounting.invoices", "accounting.bills", "accounting.reports" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "byo-plan", "free-tier", "oauth", "mcp", "typescript", "python", "webhooks", "status-page", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-17", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 49.3, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 369, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 30, "reliability": 45, "schema": 43, "security": 38, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Official MCP server from Intuit with 145 tools and flags to remove write, update or delete tools. Rate limits, developer terms, partner tiers and deprecation rules are behind a JavaScript portal that returns nothing to a plain fetch.", "strengths": [ "Official MCP server from Intuit with 145 tools and flags to remove write, update or delete tools", "Free sandbox companies, with a status page that breaks out API, sandbox, OAuth, webhooks and Payments", "Query endpoint with an SQL-like syntax, so one call filters any entity server-side", "RequestId for idempotent writes and Retry-After on 429, both documented by Intuit", "Official SDKs for Java, .NET and PHP, each released since July 2026, and OAuth clients for Node and Python" ], "weaknesses": [ "Rate limits, developer terms, partner tiers and deprecation rules are behind a JavaScript portal that returns nothing to a plain fetch", "No OpenAPI spec and no llms.txt. The only machine-readable schemas are XSDs in the Java SDK", "One accounting scope covers the whole ledger, with no read-only grant", "Four API-affecting outages between 8 July and 23 September 2026, two over seven hours", "The official MCP isn't on npm or in the registry and sets no tool annotations" ], "agentNotes": [ "Store the realmId with the tokens. Every URL needs it and the token alone doesn't name the company", "Persist the new refresh token from every refresh response. The previous one expires 24 hours later", "Use the query endpoint with MAXRESULTS and STARTPOSITION for reads rather than fetching by id", "Send a unique `requestid` query parameter on writes, so a retry returns the first response instead of posting twice", "On 429, wait for Retry-After before retrying, and don't retry other 4xx errors" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 49.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 30, "reliability": 45, "schema": 43, "security": 38, "transparency": 22 }, "provenanceScore": 80 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company/$QBO_REALM_ID/query?query=select%20*%20from%20Invoice%20maxresults%2010\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN\" -H \"Accept: application/json\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/accounting.ledger", "tool": "https://letme.dev/quickbooks-online" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Intuit Inc.", "domain": "intuit.com", "domainRegistered": "1994-02-18", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.intuit.com/legal/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/", "statusPage": "https://status.developer.intuit.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The legal index names Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA 94043. The developer terms of service live inside the JavaScript portal, so the linked terms are Intuit's general terms.", "www.intuit.com/.well-known/security.txt returned a 400 error, so we couldn't tell whether one exists. Intuit runs a security site at security.intuit.com.", "The privacy statement was last updated 9 March 2026." ], "score": 80 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/quickbooks-online.json", "live": { "slug": "quickbooks-online", "probe": { "target": "https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:48:14.624227829Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 400, "lastMs": 599, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 593, "p95ms24h": 634, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 898, "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": 270, "ok": 270 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.developer.intuit.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T23:49:26.251815681Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "intuit-oauth", "version": "4.2.5", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:37:54.869303662Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "intuit-oauth", "version": "1.2.7", "released": "2026-07-22", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:37:55.730097959Z" } ], "githubStars": 406, "npmWeekly": 430603, "pypiWeekly": 264940, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://intuit.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "unknown", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:16:02.319821055Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "intuit.com", "registered": "1994-02-18", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/intuit.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:40.944976852Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:53.338786361Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "bdf88eaea616" }, { "url": "https://www.intuit.com/legal/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:51.130631537Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6dec63558567" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:49:26.251815681Z" } }, "summary": "Apideck Accounting API + MCP has a score of 73.2 (BB) against QuickBooks Online API + MCP's 49.3 (D). Both do accounting ledger. The largest gap is schema \u0026 documentation, 49 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-quickbooks-online", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-quickbooks-online.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-quickbooks-online.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-quickbooks-online.min.md" }, "markdown": "Apideck Accounting API + MCP has a score of 73.2 (BB) against QuickBooks Online API + MCP's 49.3 (D). Both do accounting ledger. The largest gap is schema \u0026 documentation, 49 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- QuickBooks Online API + MCP: grade D, 49.3/100, rank #369 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/quickbooks-online.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/quickbooks-online.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Apideck Accounting API + MCP for reliability (+30), schema \u0026 documentation (+49), agent ergonomics (+20), security \u0026 auth (+28), transparency \u0026 trust (+25).\n\nPick QuickBooks Online API + MCP for maintenance \u0026 community (+5).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Apideck Accounting API + MCP | QuickBooks Online API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 45 | Apideck Accounting API + MCP +30 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 92 | 43 | Apideck Accounting API + MCP +49 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 68 | Apideck Accounting API + MCP +20 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 38 | Apideck Accounting API + MCP +28 |\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 | 85 | QuickBooks Online API + MCP +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 51 | Apideck Accounting API + MCP +25 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **73.2 · BB** | **49.3 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Apideck Accounting API + MCP | QuickBooks Online API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Apideck | Intuit |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://unify.apideck.com/accounting` | `https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Your plan |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 362 | 145 |\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 | 2026-09-17 |\n| Popularity | 15 stars, 42k npm/wk, 14k PyPI/wk | 145 stars, 400k npm/wk, 260k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 2/5 (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**QuickBooks Online API + MCP.** Official MCP server from Intuit with 145 tools and flags to remove write, update or delete tools. Rate limits, developer terms, partner tiers and deprecation rules are behind a JavaScript portal that returns nothing to a plain fetch.\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### QuickBooks Online API + MCP\n\n1. Store the realmId with the tokens. Every URL needs it and the token alone doesn't name the company\n2. Persist the new refresh token from every refresh response. The previous one expires 24 hours later\n3. Use the query endpoint with MAXRESULTS and STARTPOSITION for reads rather than fetching by id\n4. Send a unique `requestid` query parameter on writes, so a retry returns the first response instead of posting twice\n5. On 429, wait for Retry-After before retrying, and don't retry other 4xx errors\n\n## Other comparisons with Apideck Accounting API + MCP or QuickBooks Online API + MCP\n\n- [Apideck Accounting API + MCP vs FreeAgent API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-freeagent.md)\n- [Apideck Accounting API + MCP vs FreshBooks API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-freshbooks.md)\n- [Apideck Accounting API + MCP vs Xero API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-xero.md)\n- [FreeAgent API vs QuickBooks Online API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freeagent-vs-quickbooks-online.md)\n- [FreshBooks API vs QuickBooks Online API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freshbooks-vs-quickbooks-online.md)\n- [Merge Accounting API vs QuickBooks Online API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/merge-accounting-vs-quickbooks-online.md)\n- [QuickBooks Online API + MCP vs Rutter Accounting API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/quickbooks-online-vs-rutter.md)\n- [QuickBooks Online API + MCP vs Xero API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/quickbooks-online-vs-xero.md)\n- [Apideck Accounting API + MCP vs Invoice Ninja API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-invoice-ninja.md)\n- [Invoice Ninja API vs QuickBooks Online API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-quickbooks-online.md)\n- [Apideck Accounting API + MCP vs Merge Accounting API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-merge-accounting.md)\n- [Apideck Accounting API + MCP vs Rutter Accounting API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-rutter.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-04", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.3", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Apideck Accounting API + MCP vs QuickBooks Online API + MCP", "url": "" } ], "description": "Apideck Accounting API + MCP has a score of 73.2 (BB) against QuickBooks Online API + MCP's 49.3 (D). 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