{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "chope", "name": "Chope", "vendor": "The Chope Group Pte Ltd", "vendorUrl": "https://www.chope.co", "kind": "platform", "category": "local-bookings", "summary": "Chope is a restaurant reservation website and app for diners in Singapore, Bangkok, Phuket, Jakarta and Bali, owned by Grab. Diners search restaurants, book tables and pay deposits where a restaurant asks for one.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/chope", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/chope.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/chope.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/chope.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Chope's Terms \u0026 Conditions", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "No developer access. Diners sign up with an email or Facebook, or book as a guest and manage the booking with a confirmation code (https://www.chope.co/singapore-restaurants/pages/dinerfaq).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free for diners, and the app is free on the App Store. Restaurants may ask for a deposit for set menus, large groups, particular days or occasions (https://www.chope.co/singapore-restaurants/pages/dinerfaq, checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No API, so no x402, MPP or L402 (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "capabilities": [ "booking.reservations", "booking.availability" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "not-for-agents", "ios", "android", "free", "diner-side" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 13.3, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1074, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 34, "payments": 30, "reliability": 15, "schema": 0, "security": 0, "transparency": 41 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Chope is a diner-facing restaurant booking site and app in Singapore, Bangkok, Phuket, Jakarta and Bali, owned by Grab, with free bookings and app releases in September 2026. No public API or MCP server lets an outside agent search or book, and restaurant integrations run through partners such as TableCheck and SevenRooms by arrangement.", "bestFor": "A person booking restaurants in Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia.", "strengths": [ "Free for diners, with deposits set by each restaurant and explained in the diner FAQ", "iOS releases on 15 and 30 September 2026", "Dated notices for product changes, such as the end of Chope-Dollars from 15 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public API or MCP server that an outside agent can call", "The Terms \u0026 Conditions forbid spidering, scraping or mirroring without written permission", "No status page, security.txt or named processors, apart from Grab", "The privacy notice gives no retention periods" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to call Chope from another agent. Hand the booking to the person, who can use the Chope site, the app or Grab Dine Out", "For a restaurant on Chope that also uses TableCheck or SevenRooms, check whether that platform's API covers the venue", "Tell the person that some restaurants ask for a deposit, which depends on the restaurant, day and party size" ], "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": 13.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 34, "payments": 30, "reliability": 15, "schema": 0, "security": 0, "transparency": 43 }, "provenanceScore": 39 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/booking.reservations", "tool": "https://letme.dev/chope" }, "area": "everyday", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "The Chope Group Pte Ltd", "domain": "chope.co", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.chope.co/singapore-restaurants/tc", "privacy": "https://www.chope.co/singapore-restaurants/tc", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The Terms \u0026 Conditions (last updated 11 September 2023) and the privacy notice (last updated 6 March 2025) are on one page with tabs.", "www.chope.co/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and status.chope.co redirects to the home page.", "The RDAP registration date for chope.co was not returned." ], "score": 39 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/chope.json", "live": { "slug": "chope", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://chope.co/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T15:46:10.253559565Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.chope.co/singapore-restaurants/tc", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:11:23.896354829Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "51afed429019" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T21:11:23.896354829Z" } }, "answer": "Square Appointments (Bookings API) scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Chope's 13.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "square-appointments", "name": "Square Appointments (Bookings API)", "vendor": "Block, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://squareup.com/us/en/appointments", "kind": "http-api", "category": "local-bookings", "summary": "Square Appointments is Block's booking product for service businesses. Its Bookings API searches a seller's availability and creates, updates and cancels appointments, with location, team member and business booking profiles and custom attributes.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/square-appointments", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/square-appointments.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/square-appointments.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/square-appointments.json", "repo": "https://github.com/square/connect-api-specification", "license": "Proprietary service under the Square Developer Terms of Service. The OpenAPI specification and MCP server are Apache 2.0", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://connect.squareup.com/v2/bookings", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "square" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "squareup" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "square-mcp-server" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. A Square account and a Developer Console application. OAuth access tokens carry appointment scopes (`APPOINTMENTS_READ`, `APPOINTMENTS_WRITE`, `APPOINTMENTS_ALL_READ`, `APPOINTMENTS_ALL_WRITE`, `APPOINTMENTS_BUSINESS_SETTINGS_READ`), expire after 30 days and can be refreshed and revoked. Personal access tokens are unrestricted for the owner's account. Seller-level permissions see every booking. Buyer-level permissions see only the bookings the app created (https://developer.squareup.com/docs/bookings-api/what-it-is).", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The API carries no charge. Square Free is $0 a month per location, Plus $49 and Premium $149, and the comparison table lists the Bookings API under Plus and Premium. Seller-level create, update and cancel need Plus or Premium, while buyer-level bookings work on the free plan. Card processing fees apply to payments. The sandbox is free (https://squareup.com/us/en/appointments/pricing, checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "$49 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in developer.squareup.com/llms.txt or the OpenAPI spec (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 3, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.squareup.com/docs/bookings-api/what-it-is", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.squareup.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/square/connect-api-specification/master/api.json", "capabilities": [ "booking.appointments", "booking.availability", "booking.venue" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "rest", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "sandbox", "mcp", "freemium", "status-page", "bug-bounty", "venue-side" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68.1, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 245, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 40, "reliability": 55, "schema": 89, "security": 70, "transparency": 70 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The Bookings API lets an agent working for a Square seller search availability and create, change and cancel appointments, with a public OpenAPI spec, appointment OAuth scopes and idempotency keys. It acts for the venue. Seller-level writes need Plus or Premium, services with a no-show fee can't be booked through it, and it hasn't changed since September 2024.", "bestFor": "Venue-side appointment booking for salons, clinics and other service businesses already on Square.", "strengths": [ "Availability search, create, update and cancel are separate documented operations, all generally available", "Five appointment OAuth scopes separate reading, writing and business settings", "`idempotency_key` on create, update and cancel, and `booking_version` for optimistic locking", "Buyer-level permissions work on the free Appointments plan and limit an app to its own bookings", "Free sandbox, and Square's MCP server includes the bookings service" ], "weaknesses": [ "Seller-level create, update and cancel fail with 403 unless the seller pays for Plus ($49) or Premium ($149) per location", "Services with a non-zero no-show fee cannot be booked through the API, and the fee can't be set through it", "No Bookings API change in the changelog since 19 September 2024", "No numeric REST rate limits or SLA were found", "Bookable team members can only be set in the Square Dashboard" ], "agentNotes": [ "Act for the seller. This API books into one Square seller's calendar, not across businesses", "Call RetrieveBusinessBookingProfile and check `support_seller_level_writes` before trying to create or cancel a seller-level booking", "Call SearchAvailability first, then CreateBooking with the service variation ID and version, team member, location and customer", "Send a fresh `idempotency_key` on each create, update or cancel, and pass `booking_version` when cancelling", "Check `no_show_fee` on the service. A service with a non-zero fee must be booked by the customer elsewhere" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 68.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 40, "reliability": 55, "schema": 89, "security": 70, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 84 }, "connect": { "install": "npx square-mcp-server start", "http": "curl https://connect.squareupsandbox.com/v2/bookings/availability/search \\\n -X POST \\\n -H 'Square-Version: 2026-09-16' \\\n -H 'Authorization: Bearer {SANDBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN}' \\\n -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\"query\": {\"filter\": {\"start_at_range\": {\"start_at\": \"2026-10-20T09:00:00Z\", \"end_at\": \"2026-10-21T09:00:00Z\"}, \"location_id\": \"{LOCATION_ID}\"}}}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/booking.appointments", "tool": "https://letme.dev/square-appointments" }, "sameCompany": [ "square" ], "area": "everyday", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Square Free", "unit": "month", "usd": 0, "note": "per location, buyer-level bookings only" }, { "item": "Square Plus", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "per location, Bookings API seller-level writes" }, { "item": "Square Premium", "unit": "month", "usd": 149, "note": "per location" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Block, Inc.", "domain": "squareup.com", "domainRegistered": "2007-05-26", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/developers", "privacy": "https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/privacy", "statusPage": "https://www.issquareup.com", "changelog": "https://developer.squareup.com/docs/changelog/connect", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The Square Developer Terms (updated 10 September 2026) are an agreement with Block, Inc. and govern the APIs, as recorded for the Square listing on 8 October 2026.", "The privacy notice (updated 15 September 2026) names Block, Inc., 1955 Broadway, Suite 600, Oakland, CA 94612 for US sellers.", "squareup.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 8 October 2026, and developer.squareup.com disallows /.well-known/ in robots.txt.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2007-05-26 for squareup.com." ], "score": 84 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/square-appointments.json", "live": { "slug": "square-appointments", "probe": { "target": "https://connect.squareup.com/v2/bookings", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-15T15:32:51.674422469Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 204, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 199, "p95ms24h": 271, "samples24h": 254, "samples30d": 332, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 166, "ok": 166 }, { 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"https://developer.squareup.com/docs/changelog/connect", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T20:56:36.942381541Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "62494a1dd472" }, { "url": "https://squareup.com/us/en/appointments/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:07:39.771343799Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1a6056b1039e" }, { "url": "https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:07:45.32559064Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-10T19:10:06.312268685Z", "fingerprint": "64085b2a8993" }, { "url": "https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/developers", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:07:42.974741378Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "74a446dafa05" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T15:34:26.117440207Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "The Chope Group Pte 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The OpenAPI specification and MCP server are Apache 2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-30", "b": "2026-09-16", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2023-09-11", "b": "2026-09-10", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2023-09-11", "b": "2026-09-15", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Square Appointments (Bookings API) scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Chope's 13.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Chope or Square Appointments (Bookings API)?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Chope. Square Appointments (Bookings API) has a hosted endpoint at https://connect.squareup.com/v2/bookings.", "question": "Can an agent call Chope and Square Appointments (Bookings API) without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "A person booking restaurants in Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia.", "slug": "chope", "watchFor": "No public API or MCP server that an outside agent can call" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 55 against 15", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 0", "Agent ergonomics, 80 against 0", "Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 0", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 71 against 34", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 70 against 41" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "Venue-side appointment booking for salons, clinics and other service businesses already on Square.", "slug": "square-appointments", "watchFor": "Seller-level create, update and cancel fail with 403 unless the seller pays for Plus ($49) or Premium ($149) per location" } ], "job": { "capability": "booking.availability", "name": "Booking availability" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-eat-app.json", "title": "Chope vs Eat App Partner API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-eat-app" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-opentable.json", "title": "Chope vs OpenTable APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-opentable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-resy.json", "title": "Chope vs Resy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-resy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-sevenrooms.json", "title": "Chope vs SevenRooms", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-sevenrooms" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-tablecheck.json", "title": "Chope vs TableCheck API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-tablecheck" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-thefork.json", "title": "Chope vs TheFork B2B API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-thefork" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-tock.json", "title": "Chope vs Tock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-tock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eat-app-vs-square-appointments.json", "title": "Eat App Partner API vs Square Appointments (Bookings API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eat-app-vs-square-appointments" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-square-appointments.json", "title": "OpenTable APIs vs Square Appointments (Bookings API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-square-appointments" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/resy-vs-square-appointments.json", "title": "Resy vs Square Appointments (Bookings API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/resy-vs-square-appointments" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/square-appointments-vs-tablecheck.json", "title": "Square Appointments (Bookings API) vs TableCheck API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/square-appointments-vs-tablecheck" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/square-appointments-vs-thefork.json", "title": "Square Appointments (Bookings API) vs TheFork B2B API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/square-appointments-vs-thefork" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sevenrooms-vs-square-appointments.json", "title": "SevenRooms vs Square Appointments (Bookings API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sevenrooms-vs-square-appointments" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/square-appointments-vs-tock.json", "title": "Square Appointments (Bookings API) vs Tock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/square-appointments-vs-tock" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 40, "chope": 15, "edge": "square-appointments", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "square-appointments": 55, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 89, "chope": 0, "edge": "square-appointments", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "square-appointments": 89, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 80, "chope": 0, "edge": "square-appointments", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "square-appointments": 80, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 70, "chope": 0, "edge": "square-appointments", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "square-appointments": 70, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 10, "chope": 30, "edge": "square-appointments", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "square-appointments": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 37, "chope": 34, "edge": "square-appointments", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "square-appointments": 71, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 29, "chope": 41, "edge": "square-appointments", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "square-appointments": 70, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Square Appointments (Bookings API) scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Chope's 13.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do booking availability.", "verdicts": { "chope": "Chope is a diner-facing restaurant booking site and app in Singapore, Bangkok, Phuket, Jakarta and Bali, owned by Grab, with free bookings and app releases in September 2026. No public API or MCP server lets an outside agent search or book, and restaurant integrations run through partners such as TableCheck and SevenRooms by arrangement.", "square-appointments": "The Bookings API lets an agent working for a Square seller search availability and create, change and cancel appointments, with a public OpenAPI spec, appointment OAuth scopes and idempotency keys. It acts for the venue. Seller-level writes need Plus or Premium, services with a no-show fee can't be booked through it, and it hasn't changed since September 2024." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-square-appointments", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-square-appointments.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-square-appointments.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-square-appointments.min.md" }, "markdown": "Square Appointments (Bookings API) scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Chope's 13.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do booking availability.\n\n- Chope: grade F, 13.3/100, rank #1074 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/chope.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/chope.json\n- Square Appointments (Bookings API): grade B, 68.1/100, rank #245 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/square-appointments.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/square-appointments.json\n- Best restaurant reservation and local appointment APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/local-bookings/index.md\n- All 36 bookings comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/local-bookings/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Chope (F)\n\nGood for: A person booking restaurants in Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia.\n\nWatch for: No public API or MCP server that an outside agent can call\n\n### Square Appointments (Bookings API) (B)\n\nGood for: Venue-side appointment booking for salons, clinics and other service businesses already on Square.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 55 against 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 0\n- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 0\n- Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 0\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 71 against 34\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 70 against 41\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: Seller-level create, update and cancel fail with 403 unless the seller pays for Plus ($49) or Premium ($149) per location\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Chope | Square Appointments (Bookings API) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 55 | Square Appointments (Bookings API) +40 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 89 | Square Appointments (Bookings API) +89 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 80 | Square Appointments (Bookings API) +80 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 70 | Square Appointments (Bookings API) +70 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | Square Appointments (Bookings API) +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 34 | 71 | Square Appointments (Bookings API) +37 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 41 | 70 | Square Appointments (Bookings API) +29 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **13.3 · F** | **68.1 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Chope | Square Appointments (Bookings API) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | The Chope Group Pte Ltd | Block, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://connect.squareup.com/v2/bookings` |\n| Transports | | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Chope's Terms \u0026 Conditions | Proprietary service under the Square Developer Terms of Service. The OpenAPI specification and MCP server are Apache 2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | none | 3 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-16 |\n| Terms last updated | 2023-09-11 | 2026-09-10 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-09-11 | 2026-09-15 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Chope.** Chope is a diner-facing restaurant booking site and app in Singapore, Bangkok, Phuket, Jakarta and Bali, owned by Grab, with free bookings and app releases in September 2026. No public API or MCP server lets an outside agent search or book, and restaurant integrations run through partners such as TableCheck and SevenRooms by arrangement.\n\n**Square Appointments (Bookings API).** The Bookings API lets an agent working for a Square seller search availability and create, change and cancel appointments, with a public OpenAPI spec, appointment OAuth scopes and idempotency keys. It acts for the venue. Seller-level writes need Plus or Premium, services with a no-show fee can't be booked through it, and it hasn't changed since September 2024.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Chope\n\n1. Don't plan to call Chope from another agent. Hand the booking to the person, who can use the Chope site, the app or Grab Dine Out\n2. For a restaurant on Chope that also uses TableCheck or SevenRooms, check whether that platform's API covers the venue\n3. Tell the person that some restaurants ask for a deposit, which depends on the restaurant, day and party size\n\n### Square Appointments (Bookings API)\n\n1. Act for the seller. This API books into one Square seller's calendar, not across businesses\n2. Call RetrieveBusinessBookingProfile and check `support_seller_level_writes` before trying to create or cancel a seller-level booking\n3. Call SearchAvailability first, then CreateBooking with the service variation ID and version, team member, location and customer\n4. Send a fresh `idempotency_key` on each create, update or cancel, and pass `booking_version` when cancelling\n5. Check `no_show_fee` on the service. A service with a non-zero fee must be booked by the customer elsewhere\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Chope or Square Appointments (Bookings API)?\n\nSquare Appointments (Bookings API) scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Chope's 13.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Can an agent call Chope and Square Appointments (Bookings API) without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Chope. Square Appointments (Bookings API) has a hosted endpoint at https://connect.squareup.com/v2/bookings.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-square-appointments.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-square-appointments.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"chope\", \"b\": \"square-appointments\"}`. 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