# Avalara AvaTax vs Numeral (slim)

> Avalara AvaTax scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against Numeral's 49.3 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do tax calculate. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Avalara AvaTax scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against Numeral's 49.3 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do tax calculate.

- Avalara AvaTax: B 68.8, rank #172 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/avalara.min.md
- Numeral: D 49.3, rank #611 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/numeral.min.md
- Avalara AvaTax, good for An agent that must calculate and record US sales tax at address level, with VAT and GST in other countries, and hand the records to filing. Ahead on Reliability, 62 against 25; Agent ergonomics, 84 against 71; Security & auth, 65 against 47; Payments & pricing, 30 against 10; Maintenance & community, 79 against 60; Transparency & trust, 79 against 45.
- Numeral, good for An agent working for a seller or platform that has a Numeral account and needs tax at checkout, committed transactions for filing, and read access to nexus, registrations and filings through MCP.

| Category | Avalara AvaTax | Numeral |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 62 | 25 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 84 | 71 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 47 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 45 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Avalara AvaTax | Numeral |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Avalara, Inc. | Numeral Two, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://rest.avatax.com/api/v2` | `https://api.numeralhq.com` |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Avalara Service Terms. The SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0. The MCP repository holds a README only, with no licence file | Proprietary service under Numeral's terms of service. The Go, Python and Node SDKs are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 10 | 14 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `com.avalara/avatax` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-16 | 2026-09-15 |
| Terms last updated | 2023-05-01 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2022-08-08 | no document linked |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 5 stars, 331k npm/wk, 38k PyPI/wk | 0 stars, 9 npm/wk, 19 PyPI/wk |