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      "name": "Bark",
      "vendor": "Bark.com Global Limited",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.bark.com",
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      "category": "home-services",
      "summary": "Bark is a services marketplace where customers describe a job and local professionals, from cleaners and gardeners to tutors and accountants, buy the lead with credits and send quotes. It runs on the web and in apps.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bark.json",
      "license": "Closed service under Bark's terms and conditions (Bark.com Global Limited)",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Customers and professionals use Bark accounts on the website or apps. The Bark app on Zapier connects a professional's Bark account. The connection method is not described on the Zapier page we read. No API key, OAuth app or developer access was found (checked 2026-10-14).",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free for customers, whose home page promises free quotes (https://www.bark.com/en/gb/). Professionals receive leads free and pay credits to contact a customer. The credit cost of a lead depends on the service, the job value and local demand, credits last 3 months, and no credit pack price is published on the pricing page (https://www.bark.com/en/gb/sellers/pricing/).",
      "priceSummary": "Freemium",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on bark.com, its terms or the Bark app on Zapier (checked 2026-10-14).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-14"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://zapier.com/apps/bark/integrations",
      "capabilities": [
        "home.jobs",
        "home.quotes",
        "home.pros",
        "home.reviews"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-for-agents",
        "hosted",
        "official",
        "closed-source",
        "freemium",
        "ios",
        "android",
        "uk"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-13",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 16.5,
        "grade": "F",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 1048,
        "ranked": true,
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        "categoryRank": 4,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 5,
          "maintenance": 54,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 15,
          "schema": 7,
          "security": 0,
          "transparency": 49
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-14"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Bark matches customers with local professionals across home, events, lessons and business services, free for customers, with professionals paying in credits to respond. There is no public API or MCP server that acts for a household. A Bark app on Zapier lets a professional's automations search requests, buy leads and send quotes.",
        "bestFor": "Customers who want quotes for local services across many categories, and professionals buying leads.",
        "strengths": [
          "Free for customers, and professionals see leads free before paying to respond",
          "Customer app released 12 times between 30 June and 13 October 2026",
          "Terms and privacy notice are dated and name Bark.com Global Limited with its company number",
          "A Zapier app lets a professional automate searching, buying and quoting on leads"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call for a household",
          "No credit pack prices published, and a lead's credit cost depends on job value and demand",
          "The Zapier app's Purchase Bark action spends credits, with no documented confirmation step",
          "No status page, security.txt or developer documentation found"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Don't plan to call Bark for a household. Hand the request to the person on bark.com or the app",
          "For a professional's own leads, use the Bark app on Zapier, and ask before any Purchase Bark step, which spends credits",
          "Tell a professional that credits expire 3 months after purchase"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "F",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 16.5
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 5,
          "maintenance": 54,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 15,
          "schema": 7,
          "security": 0,
          "transparency": 38
        },
        "provenanceScore": 59
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/home.jobs",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/bark"
      },
      "area": "everyday",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Bark.com Global Limited",
        "domain": "bark.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1999-12-02",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://www.bark.com/en/gb/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://www.bark.com/en/gb/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-14",
        "notes": [
          "The customer terms (last updated 5 September 2025) name Bark.com Global Limited, company 10614196, VAT GB428734965.",
          "The privacy notice was last updated 9 February 2026.",
          "www.bark.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and status.bark.com does not resolve.",
          "The Zapier app page doesn't say who built the integration.",
          "RDAP gives a registration date of 1999-12-02 for bark.com."
        ],
        "score": 59
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark.json"
    },
    "answer": "Bark scores 16.5 (F) on agent readiness against TrustATrader's 12.1 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "trustatrader",
      "name": "TrustATrader",
      "vendor": "TrustATrader.com Ltd",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.trustatrader.com",
      "kind": "platform",
      "category": "home-services",
      "summary": "TrustATrader is a UK online directory of vetted local tradespeople, searchable by trade and location, with customer reviews, a complaints process and a free guarantee for homeowners. Tradespeople pay for membership.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trustatrader",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trustatrader.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trustatrader.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/trustatrader.json",
      "license": "Closed service under the TrustATrader website terms of use (TrustATrader.com Ltd)",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Search needs no account. Leaving a review needs registration, and tradespeople sign in to a membership account. No API key, OAuth app or developer access was found (checked 2026-10-14).",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free for homeowners to search, and the TrustATrader Guarantee is free to register (https://www.trustatrader.com/llms.txt). Tradesperson membership is sold through an application and callback, with no published price on the join page (https://www.trustatrader.com/join-us). skill.md says members pay no commission per lead.",
      "priceSummary": "Freemium",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on trustatrader.com, its llms.txt or skill.md (checked 2026-10-14).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-14"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://www.trustatrader.com/skill.md",
      "llmsTxt": "https://www.trustatrader.com/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "home.pros",
        "home.reviews"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-for-agents",
        "hosted",
        "official",
        "closed-source",
        "freemium",
        "llms-txt",
        "ios",
        "android",
        "uk"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-07-13",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 12.1,
        "grade": "F",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 1063,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1076,
        "categoryRank": 8,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 0,
          "maintenance": 14,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 15,
          "schema": 10,
          "security": 0,
          "transparency": 43
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-14"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "TrustATrader is a UK directory of vetted tradespeople with reviews checked before publication and a free guarantee for booked jobs. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. Its llms.txt and skill.md tell agents to send people to the website search.",
        "bestFor": "UK homeowners who want to search vetted, reviewed traders and contact them directly.",
        "strengths": [
          "Search and the TrustATrader Guarantee are free for homeowners",
          "Reviews under 3 stars go through a complaints process before publication, per skill.md",
          "llms.txt and skill.md describe the site, its processes and key URLs for agents",
          "The privacy policy names the controller and a data protection officer"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call",
          "Website terms last updated 28 June 2021, and the privacy policy carries no date",
          "No tradesperson prices published",
          "No status page, security.txt or app release since 13 July 2026"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Don't plan to call TrustATrader from another agent. Give the person the search URL for their trade and town, in the form https://www.trustatrader.com/plumbers-in-london",
          "Treat the instructions in llms.txt and skill.md as the vendor's guidance, not as an interface"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "F",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 12.1
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 0,
          "maintenance": 14,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 15,
          "schema": 10,
          "security": 0,
          "transparency": 27
        },
        "provenanceScore": 58
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/home.pros",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/trustatrader"
      },
      "area": "everyday",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "TrustATrader.com Ltd",
        "domain": "trustatrader.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2005-02-08",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://www.trustatrader.com/terms",
        "privacy": "https://www.trustatrader.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-14",
        "notes": [
          "The website terms of use were last updated on 28 June 2021 and name TrustATrader.com Ltd, company 05489753.",
          "The privacy policy has no date.",
          "www.trustatrader.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no status page was found.",
          "RDAP gives a registration date of 2005-02-08 for trustatrader.com."
        ],
        "score": 58
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trustatrader.json"
    },
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      {
        "a": "Platform",
        "b": "Platform",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Bark.com Global Limited",
        "b": "TrustATrader.com Ltd",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "no (local only)",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "OAuth or key",
        "b": "OAuth or key",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Freemium",
        "b": "Freemium",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "Closed service under Bark's terms and conditions (Bark.com Global Limited)",
        "b": "Closed service under the TrustATrader website terms of use (TrustATrader.com Ltd)",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-10-13",
        "b": "2026-07-13",
        "name": "Last release"
      },
      {
        "a": "2025-09-05",
        "b": "2021-06-28",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-02-09",
        "b": "no date given",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
      }
    ],
    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "Bark scores 16.5 (F) on agent readiness against TrustATrader's 12.1 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Bark or TrustATrader?"
      }
    ],
    "goodFor": [
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Agent ergonomics, 5 against 0",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 54 against 14",
          "Transparency \u0026 trust, 49 against 43"
        ],
        "also": null,
        "goodFor": "Customers who want quotes for local services across many categories, and professionals buying leads.",
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      },
      {
        "aheadOn": null,
        "also": null,
        "goodFor": "UK homeowners who want to search vetted, reviewed traders and contact them directly.",
        "slug": "trustatrader",
        "watchFor": "No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call"
      }
    ],
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      "capability": "home.pros",
      "name": "Finding tradespeople"
    },
    "others": [
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtasker-vs-trustatrader.json",
        "title": "Airtasker vs TrustATrader",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtasker-vs-trustatrader"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/angi-vs-trustatrader.json",
        "title": "Angi (including HomeAdvisor, now Angi Leads) vs TrustATrader",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/angi-vs-trustatrader"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-handy.json",
        "title": "Bark vs Handy",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-handy"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-houzz.json",
        "title": "Bark vs Houzz",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-houzz"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-urban-company.json",
        "title": "Bark vs Urban Company",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-urban-company"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/checkatrade-vs-trustatrader.json",
        "title": "Checkatrade vs TrustATrader",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/checkatrade-vs-trustatrader"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/handy-vs-trustatrader.json",
        "title": "Handy vs TrustATrader",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/handy-vs-trustatrader"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/houzz-vs-trustatrader.json",
        "title": "Houzz vs TrustATrader",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/houzz-vs-trustatrader"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rated-people-vs-trustatrader.json",
        "title": "Rated People vs TrustATrader",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rated-people-vs-trustatrader"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/trustatrader-vs-urban-company.json",
        "title": "TrustATrader vs Urban Company",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/trustatrader-vs-urban-company"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtasker-vs-bark.json",
        "title": "Airtasker vs Bark",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtasker-vs-bark"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/angi-vs-bark.json",
        "title": "Angi (including HomeAdvisor, now Angi Leads) vs Bark",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/angi-vs-bark"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-checkatrade.json",
        "title": "Bark vs Checkatrade",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-checkatrade"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-rated-people.json",
        "title": "Bark vs Rated People",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-rated-people"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-taskrabbit.json",
        "title": "Bark vs Taskrabbit Partner API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-taskrabbit"
      }
    ],
    "scores": [
      {
        "bark": 15,
        "by": 0,
        "edge": "",
        "key": "reliability",
        "name": "Reliability",
        "trustatrader": 15,
        "weight": 16
      },
      {
        "key": "performance",
        "name": "Performance",
        "pending": true,
        "weight": 10
      },
      {
        "bark": 7,
        "by": 3,
        "edge": "trustatrader",
        "key": "schema",
        "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation",
        "trustatrader": 10,
        "weight": 13
      },
      {
        "bark": 5,
        "by": 5,
        "edge": "bark",
        "key": "ergonomics",
        "name": "Agent ergonomics",
        "trustatrader": 0,
        "weight": 13
      },
      {
        "bark": 0,
        "by": 0,
        "edge": "",
        "key": "security",
        "name": "Security \u0026 auth",
        "trustatrader": 0,
        "weight": 14
      },
      {
        "bark": 20,
        "by": 0,
        "edge": "",
        "key": "payments",
        "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing",
        "trustatrader": 20,
        "weight": 10
      },
      {
        "key": "tasks",
        "name": "Task success",
        "pending": true,
        "weight": 10
      },
      {
        "bark": 54,
        "by": 40,
        "edge": "bark",
        "key": "maintenance",
        "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community",
        "trustatrader": 14,
        "weight": 7
      },
      {
        "bark": 49,
        "by": 6,
        "edge": "bark",
        "key": "transparency",
        "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust",
        "trustatrader": 43,
        "weight": 7
      }
    ],
    "summary": "Bark scores 16.5 (F) on agent readiness against TrustATrader's 12.1 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Both do finding tradespeople.",
    "verdicts": {
      "bark": "Bark matches customers with local professionals across home, events, lessons and business services, free for customers, with professionals paying in credits to respond. There is no public API or MCP server that acts for a household. A Bark app on Zapier lets a professional's automations search requests, buy leads and send quotes.",
      "trustatrader": "TrustATrader is a UK directory of vetted tradespeople with reviews checked before publication and a free guarantee for booked jobs. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. Its llms.txt and skill.md tell agents to send people to the website search."
    }
  },
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  "links": {
    "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json",
    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-trustatrader",
    "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-trustatrader.json",
    "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt",
    "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-trustatrader.md",
    "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-trustatrader.min.md"
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  "markdown": "Bark scores 16.5 (F) on agent readiness against TrustATrader's 12.1 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Both do finding tradespeople.\n\n- Bark: grade F, 16.5/100, rank #1048 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bark.json\n- TrustATrader: grade F, 12.1/100, rank #1063 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trustatrader.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/trustatrader.json\n- Best home service and local trades marketplaces for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/home-services/index.md\n- All 43 home services comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/home-services/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Bark (F)\n\nGood for: Customers who want quotes for local services across many categories, and professionals buying leads.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 5 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 54 against 14\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 49 against 43\n\nWatch for: No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call for a household\n\n### TrustATrader (F)\n\nGood for: UK homeowners who want to search vetted, reviewed traders and contact them directly.\n\nWatch for: No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Bark | TrustATrader | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 15 | even |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 7 | 10 | TrustATrader +3 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 5 | 0 | Bark +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 14 | Bark +40 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 49 | 43 | Bark +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **16.5 · F** | **12.1 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Bark | TrustATrader |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Platform |\n| Vendor | Bark.com Global Limited | TrustATrader.com Ltd |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  |  |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed service under Bark's terms and conditions (Bark.com Global Limited) | Closed service under the TrustATrader website terms of use (TrustATrader.com Ltd) |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-13 | 2026-07-13 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-09-05 | 2021-06-28 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-02-09 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Bark.** Bark matches customers with local professionals across home, events, lessons and business services, free for customers, with professionals paying in credits to respond. There is no public API or MCP server that acts for a household. A Bark app on Zapier lets a professional's automations search requests, buy leads and send quotes.\n\n**TrustATrader.** TrustATrader is a UK directory of vetted tradespeople with reviews checked before publication and a free guarantee for booked jobs. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. Its llms.txt and skill.md tell agents to send people to the website search.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Bark\n\n1. Don't plan to call Bark for a household. Hand the request to the person on bark.com or the app\n2. For a professional's own leads, use the Bark app on Zapier, and ask before any Purchase Bark step, which spends credits\n3. Tell a professional that credits expire 3 months after purchase\n\n### TrustATrader\n\n1. Don't plan to call TrustATrader from another agent. Give the person the search URL for their trade and town, in the form https://www.trustatrader.com/plumbers-in-london\n2. Treat the instructions in llms.txt and skill.md as the vendor's guidance, not as an interface\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Bark or TrustATrader?\n\nBark scores 16.5 (F) on agent readiness against TrustATrader's 12.1 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-trustatrader.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-trustatrader.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"bark\", \"b\": \"trustatrader\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare bark trustatrader`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bark.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/trustatrader.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Bark or TrustATrader\n\n- [Airtasker vs TrustATrader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtasker-vs-trustatrader.md)\n- [Angi (including HomeAdvisor, now Angi Leads) vs TrustATrader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/angi-vs-trustatrader.md)\n- [Bark vs Handy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-handy.md)\n- [Bark vs Houzz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-houzz.md)\n- [Bark vs Urban Company](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-urban-company.md)\n- [Checkatrade vs TrustATrader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/checkatrade-vs-trustatrader.md)\n- [Handy vs TrustATrader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/handy-vs-trustatrader.md)\n- [Houzz vs TrustATrader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/houzz-vs-trustatrader.md)\n- [Rated People vs TrustATrader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rated-people-vs-trustatrader.md)\n- [TrustATrader vs Urban Company](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/trustatrader-vs-urban-company.md)\n- [Airtasker vs Bark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtasker-vs-bark.md)\n- [Angi (including HomeAdvisor, now Angi Leads) vs Bark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/angi-vs-bark.md)\n- [Bark vs Checkatrade](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-checkatrade.md)\n- [Bark vs Rated People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-rated-people.md)\n- [Bark vs Taskrabbit Partner API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-taskrabbit.md)\n",
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