# Bark vs Checkatrade (slim)

> Checkatrade scores 43.9 (E) to Bark's 16.5 (F) for posting home service jobs. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-14

Checkatrade scores 43.9 (E) on agent readiness against Bark's 16.5 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Bark leads on maintenance & community. Both do posting home service jobs.

- Bark: F 16.5, rank #1048 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark.min.md
- Checkatrade: E 43.9, rank #946 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/checkatrade.min.md
- Bark, good for Customers who want quotes for local services across many categories, and professionals buying leads. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 54 against 13.
- Checkatrade, good for UK homeowners finding vetted tradespeople and booking simple fixed-price jobs such as boiler servicing. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 75 against 7; Agent ergonomics, 63 against 5; Security & auth, 35 against 0; Payments & pricing, 55 against 20. Also No key needed to call it; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Bark | Checkatrade |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 15 | 15 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 7 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 5 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 0 | 35 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 54 | 13 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 49 | 49 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Bark | Checkatrade |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | MCP server |
| Vendor | Bark.com Global Limited | Checkatrade (Vetted Limited) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.checkatrade.com/consumer-claude-mcp/v1/mcp` |
| Transports |  | Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Closed service under Bark's terms and conditions (Bark.com Global Limited) | Proprietary hosted service. No source published |
| Tools exposed | none | 2 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-13 | none |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-05 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-02-09 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |