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      "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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      "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/).",
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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",
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          "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",
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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",
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          "item": "Open payment provider fee on Core",
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      "category": "commerce",
      "summary": "Open-source commerce plugin for WordPress that you host yourself.",
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      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/woocommerce.md",
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      "repo": "https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce",
      "license": "GPL-3.0",
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        "stdio"
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          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "woocommerce"
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@automattic/mcp-wordpress-remote"
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      "authNotes": "REST API keys (consumer key and secret) with read, write or read_write permission, sent as HTTP Basic over HTTPS. The Store API needs no key for browsing and uses a nonce or Cart-Token for cart and checkout calls. The MCP adapter takes a WordPress Application Password and acts with that user's capabilities. The deprecated /wp-json/woocommerce/mcp endpoint used REST keys.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "The plugin is free under GPL with no platform fee or revenue share. You pay for hosting, which Woo puts at $25 to $350 a month for most stores, extensions at $29 to $299 a year each, and card processing, about 2.9% + 30 cents per US transaction with WooPayments (https://woocommerce.com/pricing/).",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 in core. Payments go through whichever gateway the store installs.",
        "endpoints": []
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        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
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      "docsUrl": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/",
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        "commerce.cart",
        "commerce.checkout",
        "commerce.orders",
        "commerce.headless"
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        "local",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "webhooks",
        "python",
        "typescript"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-09-22",
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        "agentReady": true,
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        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "date": "2026-10-01"
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          "Store API runs carts, coupons and checkout with a Cart-Token instead of a key",
          "Code examples in five languages on every REST endpoint, and official JavaScript and Python clients",
          "Automattic's HackerOne bug bounty covers WooCommerce core",
          "Six stable releases between 7 July and 22 September 2026, CI green on trunk"
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          "Uptime, speed and security depend on each store's host and plugins. No vendor status page",
          "MCP is a developer preview behind the mcp_integration flag, with 7 abilities",
          "REST docs allow the consumer key and secret in the query string",
          "Store API rate limiting is off by default",
          "No OpenAPI file, so the contract only comes from a live store"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Create a REST key with read permission only for reporting tasks, and send it in the Authorization header, never the URL",
          "Get a Cart-Token with GET /wp-json/wc/store/v1/cart and send it on every cart and checkout call instead of a nonce",
          "Add `_fields=id,name,price` to REST calls to cut response size",
          "Page with per_page up to 100 and stop at X-WP-TotalPages",
          "Product delete only trashes unless you pass force true, so check the trash before assuming it's gone"
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          "reliability": 80,
          "schema": 77,
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          "transparency": 86
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        "provenanceScore": 65
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        "http": "curl \"https://yourstore.com/wp-json/wc/v3/products?per_page=5\" \\\n  -u \"$WC_CONSUMER_KEY:$WC_CONSUMER_SECRET\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --env WP_API_URL=https://yourstore.com/wp-json/mcp/mcp-adapter-default-server --env WP_API_USERNAME=$WP_USER --env WP_API_PASSWORD=$WP_APP_PASSWORD woocommerce_store -- npx -y @automattic/mcp-wordpress-remote@latest",
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                "-y",
                "@automattic/mcp-wordpress-remote@latest"
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              "command": "npx",
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                "WP_API_PASSWORD": "${WP_APP_PASSWORD}",
                "WP_API_URL": "https://yourstore.com/wp-json/mcp/mcp-adapter-default-server",
                "WP_API_USERNAME": "${WP_USER}"
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/commerce.products",
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        {
          "item": "WooCommerce plugin",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 0,
          "note": "GPL, you pay for your own hosting"
        },
        {
          "item": "WooPayments US card rate",
          "unit": "pct",
          "usd": 2.9,
          "note": "plus 30 cents per transaction, optional gateway"
        }
      ],
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        "domainRegistered": "2010-01-09",
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        "terms": "https://wordpress.com/tos/",
        "privacy": "https://automattic.com/privacy/",
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        "changelog": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/changelog/",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "woocommerce.com/terms-conditions redirects to the WordPress.com terms, which name WooCommerce, Inc. as an Automattic company",
          "The API runs on each merchant's own domain"
        ],
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      },
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        "pypiWeekly": 25015,
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          "url": "https://woocommerce.com/.well-known/security.txt",
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          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:22.091400501Z"
        },
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          "registered": "2010-01-09",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/woocommerce.com",
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            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:40.450279292Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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          },
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            "status": 200,
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            "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:48:53.977389561Z",
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            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:22.375108976Z",
            "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:22.375108976Z",
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            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:48:54.340545399Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "e46059725bd8"
          }
        ],
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      }
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    "summary": "WooCommerce API + MCP has a score of 73 (BB) against BigCommerce API + MCP's 64.5 (B). Both do commerce products. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 21 points."
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/woocommerce.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/woocommerce.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick BigCommerce API + MCP for security \u0026 auth (+15).\n\nPick WooCommerce API + MCP for reliability (+18), schema \u0026 documentation (+11), agent ergonomics (+21), payments \u0026 pricing (+20).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | BigCommerce API + MCP | WooCommerce API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 62 | 80 | WooCommerce API + MCP +18 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 77 | WooCommerce API + MCP +11 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 83 | WooCommerce API + MCP +21 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 55 | BigCommerce API + MCP +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 60 | WooCommerce API + MCP +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 82 | even |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 76 | BigCommerce API + MCP +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.5 · B** | **73 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | BigCommerce API + MCP | WooCommerce API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | BigCommerce (Commerce.com) | WooCommerce (Automattic) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.bigcommerce.com` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | GPL-3.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 7 | 7 |\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 | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-22 |\n| Popularity | none | 11k stars, 64k npm/wk, 25k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (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**WooCommerce API + MCP.** Free GPL software with no platform fee or revenue share. Uptime, speed and security depend on each store's host and plugins. No vendor status page.\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### WooCommerce API + MCP\n\n1. Create a REST key with read permission only for reporting tasks, and send it in the Authorization header, never the URL\n2. Get a Cart-Token with GET /wp-json/wc/store/v1/cart and send it on every cart and checkout call instead of a nonce\n3. Add `_fields=id,name,price` to REST calls to cut response size\n4. Page with per_page up to 100 and stop at X-WP-TotalPages\n5. Product delete only trashes unless you pass force true, so check the trash before assuming it's gone\n\n## Other comparisons with BigCommerce API + MCP or WooCommerce 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 Snipcart API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-snipcart.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- [Commerce Layer API + MCP vs WooCommerce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce-layer-vs-woocommerce.md)\n- [Elastic Path API + MCP vs WooCommerce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elastic-path-vs-woocommerce.md)\n- [Medusa API + MCP vs WooCommerce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medusa-vs-woocommerce.md)\n- [Saleor API + MCP vs WooCommerce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/saleor-vs-woocommerce.md)\n- [Shopify API + MCP vs WooCommerce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shopify-vs-woocommerce.md)\n- [Snipcart API + MCP vs WooCommerce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/snipcart-vs-woocommerce.md)\n- [Swell vs WooCommerce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/swell-vs-woocommerce.md)\n- [Vendure vs WooCommerce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/vendure-vs-woocommerce.md)\n",
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