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      "category": "commerce",
      "summary": "Hosted commerce platform with REST management APIs for catalogue, carts, checkouts, orders and customers, a GraphQL Storefront API, and a beta storefront MCP server that lets an agent search products, build a cart and get a checkout link.",
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        "http",
        "streamable-http"
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      "packages": [],
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      "authNotes": "Store-level API accounts give a static access token sent as X-Auth-Token, limited by OAuth scopes chosen at creation. Apps get per-store tokens through OAuth. The GraphQL Storefront API takes a JWT. The storefront MCP URL needs no key for guest shopping, and logged-in shoppers connect through Storefront Session Sync.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Core $39 a month or $29 billed yearly (up to $30K trailing 12-month GMV), Growth $105 or $79 (up to $100K), Scale $399 or $299 (up to $33,333 GMV a month, 0.9% on GMV above that), Performance from $1,499 a month billed yearly. No fee on orders through embedded payment providers. Orders through other providers pay 2.0% of GMV on Core, 1.0% on Growth and 0.6% on Scale. Card processing from 2.89% + $0.29. 15-day free trial with no card needed (https://www.bigcommerce.com/essentials/pricing/).",
      "priceSummary": "$39 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402. The MCP hands the shopper a checkout URL and payment happens in the store's checkout.",
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        "commerce.cart",
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        "hosted",
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        "enterprise"
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          "Published rate limits per plan, with X-Rate-Limit-Time-Reset-Ms on every 429",
          "PCI DSS Level 1, SOC 1, 2 and 3, and ISO 27001, 27017, 27018 and 27701 listed in the trust centre",
          "Guest shopping through the storefront MCP with no key",
          "Changelog updated almost daily, ten entries on 29 and 30 September 2026",
          "15-day free trial with no card, and official API clients for Python, PHP, Ruby and Node"
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          "Storefront MCP is beta, switched on per store, has no back-office tools and documents no tool annotations",
          "Access tokens never expire and can't be rotated in place",
          "No current public OpenAPI file and no error-format reference. The old spec repo was archived in December 2023",
          "About 30 status-page incidents between 6 July and 1 October 2026, the longest about 16 hours of degraded search on a subset of stores",
          "Rate-limit quota is shared by every app on the store"
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          "Give the agent a store-level API account with only the scopes the task needs, and delete it when done",
          "On a 429, wait X-Rate-Limit-Time-Reset-Ms before retrying",
          "Expect up to 10 minutes after a store owner enables the MCP before the URL answers",
          "The MCP stops at a checkout URL. Payment happens in the shopper's browser",
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        "http": "curl \"https://api.bigcommerce.com/stores/$BC_STORE_HASH/v3/catalog/products?limit=5\" \\\n  -H \"X-Auth-Token: $BC_ACCESS_TOKEN\" -H \"Accept: application/json\"",
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            "bigcommerce": {
              "type": "streamable-http",
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        },
        {
          "item": "Growth",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 105,
          "note": "$79 billed yearly, up to $100K trailing 12-month GMV"
        },
        {
          "item": "Scale",
          "unit": "month",
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        },
        {
          "item": "Scale GMV overage",
          "unit": "pct",
          "usd": 0.9,
          "note": "on GMV above $33,333 a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Open payment provider fee on Core",
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          "usd": 2,
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        "domainNote": "bigcommerce.com was registered in 1999, a decade before BigCommerce launched in 2009.",
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        "privacy": "https://www.commerce.com/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.bigcommerce.com",
        "changelog": "https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/changelog",
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          "bigcommerce.com terms and privacy pages redirect to commerce.com after the company's rename to Commerce",
          "Developer docs moved from developer.bigcommerce.com to docs.bigcommerce.com"
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      "name": "Snipcart API + MCP",
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      "category": "commerce",
      "summary": "Cart and checkout you add to any website with HTML attributes and a JavaScript widget.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/snipcart",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/snipcart.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/snipcart.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/snipcart.json",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://app.snipcart.com/api",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "HTTP Basic with a secret API key as username and an empty password. Keys are made in Test or Live mode and only see that mode's data. The MCP server takes the same key in a custom X-Snipcart-Api-Key header; no OAuth, so web clients that need OAuth or a bearer header (Claude.ai web, ChatGPT web) can't connect.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "2 per cent of sales plus your payment gateway's fees. Stores under $1,000 in monthly sales pay a flat $20 a month instead. Test mode is free with no card. A Custom plan is billed monthly at a set fee (https://snipcart.com/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "2% fee",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 in docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
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      "toolCount": 38,
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        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.snipcart.com/v3/",
      "capabilities": [
        "commerce.products",
        "commerce.orders",
        "commerce.checkout",
        "commerce.headless"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "mcp",
        "no-card",
        "webhooks",
        "closed-source"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-24",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 41.2,
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        "agentReady": false,
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        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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        "pending": [
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          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
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        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Hosted MCP server with 38 documented tools and a self-hostable Bun build. No server-side cart or checkout. Orders only come from the browser widget.",
        "strengths": [
          "Hosted MCP server with 38 documented tools and a self-hostable Bun build",
          "Free test mode with no card, and separate test and live keys",
          "Public pricing, 2 per cent of sales or $20 a month for small stores",
          "Release notes every two to four weeks, six since 13 July 2026",
          "Uptime history kept in a public GitHub repo"
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        "weaknesses": [
          "No server-side cart or checkout. Orders only come from the browser widget",
          "One full-access key per mode, with no OAuth, scopes or read-only keys",
          "Refund and archive tools have no documented confirmation or annotations",
          "No OpenAPI, llms.txt, security.txt or disclosure contact",
          "The status page doesn't check the API path or the MCP endpoint"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Use the agent for back-office jobs (orders, refunds, discounts, stock, abandoned carts), not for placing orders",
          "Start with a test-mode key (ST_ prefix) before switching to live (SL_)",
          "Send the key in X-Snipcart-Api-Key. OAuth-only clients can't connect",
          "Stay under 100 MCP requests a minute and 10 in flight per key",
          "Ignore unknown response fields. Snipcart adds fields without a new version"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 1.5,
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            "grade": "E",
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        "provenanceScore": 90
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        "http": "curl -H \"Accept: application/json\" https://app.snipcart.com/api/orders -u \"$SNIPCART_SECRET_KEY:\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http snipcart https://ai.snipcart.com/mcp --header \"X-Snipcart-Api-Key: $SNIPCART_SECRET_KEY\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "snipcart": {
              "headers": {
                "X-Snipcart-Api-Key": "${SNIPCART_SECRET_KEY}"
              },
              "url": "https://ai.snipcart.com/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/commerce.products",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/snipcart"
      },
      "area": "business",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Transaction fee",
          "unit": "pct",
          "usd": 2,
          "note": "of sales, plus payment gateway fees"
        },
        {
          "item": "Small-store minimum",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 20,
          "note": "charged instead of 2 per cent when monthly sales are under $1,000"
        }
      ],
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        "legalEntity": "Snipcart inc.",
        "domain": "snipcart.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2013-01-10",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://snipcart.com/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://snipcart.com/terms-of-service",
        "statusPage": "https://status.snipcart.com/",
        "changelog": "https://docs.snipcart.com/v3/release-notes",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "The privacy policy is a section of the terms page; there is no separate privacy URL.",
          "Snipcart inc. is a Canadian company owned by Duda since 2021."
        ],
        "score": 90
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/snipcart.json",
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        "slug": "snipcart",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://app.snipcart.com/api",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:54.485132898Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
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              "date": "2026-09-30",
              "probes": 35,
              "ok": 35
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 276,
              "ok": 276
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 267,
              "ok": 267
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
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          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:29.435328167Z"
        },
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://snipcart.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
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        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "snipcart.com",
          "registered": "2013-01-10",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/snipcart.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:10:50.326878421Z"
        },
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          {
            "url": "https://docs.snipcart.com/v3/release-notes",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:44:01.850353565Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "9f3bede5787c"
          },
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            "url": "https://snipcart.com/pricing",
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            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:47:55.572018935Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "807106c17a22"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://snipcart.com/terms-of-service",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:47:57.591557507Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "2ee2028c28bd"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:54.485132898Z"
      }
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/snipcart.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/snipcart.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick BigCommerce API + MCP for schema \u0026 documentation (+29), agent ergonomics (+37), security \u0026 auth (+50), payments \u0026 pricing (+5), maintenance \u0026 community (+14), transparency \u0026 trust (+13).\n\nPick Snipcart API + MCP for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | BigCommerce API + MCP | Snipcart API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 62 | 58 | BigCommerce API + MCP +4 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 37 | BigCommerce API + MCP +29 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 25 | BigCommerce API + MCP +37 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 20 | BigCommerce API + MCP +50 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 35 | BigCommerce API + MCP +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 68 | BigCommerce API + MCP +14 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 65 | BigCommerce API + MCP +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.5 · B** | **41.2 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | BigCommerce API + MCP | Snipcart API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | BigCommerce (Commerce.com) | Snipcart (Duda) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.bigcommerce.com` | `https://app.snipcart.com/api` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\n| Tools exposed | 7 | 38 |\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 | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-24 |\n| Popularity | none | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 1.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**BigCommerce API + MCP.** Published rate limits per plan, with X-Rate-Limit-Time-Reset-Ms on every 429. Storefront MCP is beta, switched on per store, has no back-office tools and documents no tool annotations.\n\n**Snipcart API + MCP.** Hosted MCP server with 38 documented tools and a self-hostable Bun build. No server-side cart or checkout. Orders only come from the browser widget.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### BigCommerce API + MCP\n\n1. Give the agent a store-level API account with only the scopes the task needs, and delete it when done\n2. On a 429, wait X-Rate-Limit-Time-Reset-Ms before retrying\n3. Expect up to 10 minutes after a store owner enables the MCP before the URL answers\n4. The MCP stops at a checkout URL. Payment happens in the shopper's browser\n5. Point a coding agent at the docs MCP at https://docs.bigcommerce.com/_mcp/server\n\n### Snipcart API + MCP\n\n1. Use the agent for back-office jobs (orders, refunds, discounts, stock, abandoned carts), not for placing orders\n2. Start with a test-mode key (ST_ prefix) before switching to live (SL_)\n3. Send the key in X-Snipcart-Api-Key. OAuth-only clients can't connect\n4. Stay under 100 MCP requests a minute and 10 in flight per key\n5. Ignore unknown response fields. Snipcart adds fields without a new version\n\n## Other comparisons with BigCommerce API + MCP or Snipcart API + MCP\n\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP vs Commerce Layer API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-commerce-layer.md)\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP vs Elastic Path API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-elastic-path.md)\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP vs Medusa API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-medusa.md)\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP vs Saleor API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-saleor.md)\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP vs Shopify API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-shopify.md)\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP vs Swell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-swell.md)\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP vs Vendure](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-vendure.md)\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP vs WooCommerce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-woocommerce.md)\n- [Commerce Layer API + MCP vs Snipcart API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce-layer-vs-snipcart.md)\n- [Elastic Path API + MCP vs Snipcart API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elastic-path-vs-snipcart.md)\n- [Medusa API + MCP vs Snipcart API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medusa-vs-snipcart.md)\n- [Saleor API + MCP vs Snipcart API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/saleor-vs-snipcart.md)\n- [Shopify API + MCP vs Snipcart API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shopify-vs-snipcart.md)\n- [Snipcart API + MCP vs Swell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/snipcart-vs-swell.md)\n- [Snipcart API + MCP vs Vendure](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/snipcart-vs-vendure.md)\n- [Snipcart API + MCP vs WooCommerce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/snipcart-vs-woocommerce.md)\n",
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