# Checkatrade vs Rated People (slim)

> Checkatrade scores 43.9 (E) to Rated People's 15.9 (F) for posting home service jobs. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/checkatrade-vs-rated-people.md (~2,150 tokens) · this version ~630 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/checkatrade-vs-rated-people.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/checkatrade-vs-rated-people
- 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 Rated People's 15.9 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Rated People leads on maintenance & community. Both do posting home service jobs.

- Checkatrade: E 43.9, rank #946 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/checkatrade.min.md
- Rated People: F 15.9, rank #1050 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rated-people.min.md
- Checkatrade, good for UK homeowners finding vetted tradespeople and booking simple fixed-price jobs such as boiler servicing. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 75 against 0; Agent ergonomics, 63 against 0; Security & auth, 35 against 0; Payments & pricing, 55 against 30. Also No key needed to call it; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Rated People, good for UK homeowners who want to post a job and hear back from several tradespeople. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 54 against 13.

| Category | Checkatrade | Rated People |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 15 | 15 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 75 | 0 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 0 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 35 | 0 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 55 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 13 | 54 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 49 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Checkatrade | Rated People |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | Platform |
| Vendor | Checkatrade (Vetted Limited) | Averton Ltd (Checkatrade Group) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.checkatrade.com/consumer-claude-mcp/v1/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP |  |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service. No source published | Closed service under the Rated People Platform Terms of Use (Averton Ltd) |
| Tools exposed | 2 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-13 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-09-17 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |