# Best Buy Developer API vs opencommerce (slim)

> opencommerce scores 62 (B) to Best Buy Developer's 39.2 (E) for product search for shoppers. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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opencommerce scores 62 (B) on agent readiness against Best Buy Developer API's 39.2 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do product search for shoppers.

- Best Buy Developer API: E 39.2, rank #1124 of 1240 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/best-buy.min.md
- opencommerce: B 62, rank #528 of 1240 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/opencommerce.min.md
- Best Buy Developer API, good for Product, price and store-availability search for US electronics, for agents that compare and then hand the purchase to the person.
- opencommerce, good for A company building a chat agent that buys for US shoppers at many online stores, restaurants and airlines through one tool, with payments approved by the shopper's passkey. Ahead on Reliability, 43 against 31; Schema & documentation, 81 against 45; Security & auth, 68 against 32; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 75 against 5; Transparency & trust, 63 against 48.

| Category | Best Buy Developer API | opencommerce |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 31 | 43 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 45 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 32 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 5 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 48 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Best Buy Developer API | opencommerce |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |
| Vendor | BestBuy.com, LLC (Best Buy Co., Inc.) | Agentcard |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.bestbuy.com/v1/` | `https://api.agentcard.sh` |
| Auth | API key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Best Buy Developer API terms. The SDKs in the BestBuyAPIs GitHub organisation are open source | Proprietary. `@agent-cards/commerce-sdk` and the `agent-cards` CLI ship a licence of Agentcard Corporation that allows running them only to use Agentcard's services and forbids copying, reverse engineering and benchmarking a competing product. The repository they name is private |
| Tools exposed | none | 1 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2021-02-23 | 2026-07-10 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-10-21 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 489 npm/wk | 2.7k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | none |