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Integration credentials (client ID and secret, role-bound) for server-side agents, sales channel credentials (client ID only, scoped to a market) for storefront calls, authorisation code for user tokens. API calls go to https://\u003cyour-org\u003e.commercelayer.io/api. The Core MCP takes the same bearer token, or runs the OAuth flow in clients that support it.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Developer plan is free with no time limit, 100 live orders a month, 1,000 SKUs, 2 markets, 2 users, unlimited test orders and the Core API only. Enterprise is quoted by sales (custom yearly order volume, unlimited SKUs, adds the Metrics and Provisioning APIs and SLAs). Distributed OMS, promotion engine and metrics dashboard are add-ons. No transaction fees; payment gateway fees are separate (https://commercelayer.io/pricing).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 in the docs, pricing or MCP pages (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 11, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 7323, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.commercelayer.io", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.commercelayer.io/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://data.commercelayer.app/schemas/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "commerce.products", "commerce.cart", "commerce.checkout", "commerce.orders", "commerce.headless" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "typescript", "webhooks", "enterprise", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 192, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 25, "reliability": 70, "schema": 79, "security": 64, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Public OpenAPI 3.0 file and llms.txt. No price between the free plan and a sales-quoted Enterprise contract.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0 file and llms.txt", "OAuth roles per resource and per operation, and market-scoped sales channel tokens", "Hosted Core MCP with 11 tools and preflight validation before writes", "Free Developer plan with no card and unlimited test orders", "Published per-IP rate limits for reads, writes and tokens" ], "weaknesses": [ "No price between the free plan and a sales-quoted Enterprise contract", "No API versioning, and four breaking changes between 8 May and 2 September 2026", "429s carry no Retry-After or reset header", "Privacy policy last updated October 2020, with no DPA or subprocessor list linked", "No MCP tool annotations and no confirmation step for delete_resource" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `get_resource_schema` before any write. 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"domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://commercelayer.io/legal/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://commercelayer.io/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.commercelayer.io", "changelog": "https://docs.commercelayer.io/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "rdap.org has no RDAP service for .io, so the registration date is blank." ], "score": 75 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/commerce-layer.json", "live": { "slug": "commerce-layer", "probe": { "target": "https://core.commercelayer.io/api/public/resources", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-05T04:05:25.871257663Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 34, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 27, "p95ms24h": 281, "samples24h": 273, "samples30d": 1149, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", 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WordPress that you host yourself.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/woocommerce", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/woocommerce.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/woocommerce.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/woocommerce.json", "repo": "https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce", "license": "GPL-3.0", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@woocommerce/woocommerce-rest-api" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "woocommerce" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@automattic/mcp-wordpress-remote" } ], "auth": "mixed", "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": [] }, "toolCount": 7, "popularity": { "githubStars": 10535, "npmWeekly": 63554, "pypiWeekly": 24657, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "commerce.products", "commerce.cart", "commerce.checkout", "commerce.orders", "commerce.headless" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "mcp", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "python", "typescript" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-22", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 73, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 64, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 60, "reliability": 80, "schema": 77, "security": 55, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "strengths": [ "Free GPL software with no platform fee or revenue share", "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" ], "weaknesses": [ "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" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 73 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 60, "reliability": 80, "schema": 77, "security": 55, "transparency": 86 }, "provenanceScore": 65 }, "connect": { "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=$WP_APP_PASSWORD woocommerce_store -- npx -y @automattic/mcp-wordpress-remote@latest", "config": { "mcpServers": { "woocommerce_store": { "args": [ "-y", "@automattic/mcp-wordpress-remote@latest" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "WP_API_PASSWORD": "${WP_APP_PASSWORD}", "WP_API_URL": "https://yourstore.com/wp-json/mcp/mcp-adapter-default-server", "WP_API_USERNAME": "${WP_USER}" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/commerce.products", "tool": "https://letme.dev/woocommerce" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "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" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "WooCommerce, Inc.", "domain": "woocommerce.com", "domainRegistered": "2010-01-09", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://wordpress.com/tos/", "privacy": "https://automattic.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "", "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" ], "score": 65 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/woocommerce.json", "live": { "slug": "woocommerce", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "woocommerce/woocommerce", "version": "11.1.2", "released": "2026-09-22", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:44:11.870585394Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@automattic/mcp-wordpress-remote", "version": "0.4.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:44:10.661056763Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@woocommerce/woocommerce-rest-api", "version": "1.0.2", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:44:09.664004218Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "woocommerce", "version": "3.0.0", "released": "2021-03-13", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:44:10.474860026Z" } ], "githubStars": 10537, "npmWeekly": 71235, "pypiWeekly": 25015, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://woocommerce.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:50.722559403Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:22.091400501Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "woocommerce.com", "registered": "2010-01-09", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/woocommerce.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:03:39.15219252Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:40.450279292Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6bc1ef6a556d" }, { "url": "https://woocommerce.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:48:53.977389561Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:48:53.977389561Z", "fingerprint": "642474c83179" }, { "url": "https://automattic.com/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:22.375108976Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:22.375108976Z", "fingerprint": "8e713c1d11a4" }, { "url": "https://wordpress.com/tos/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:48:54.340545399Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e46059725bd8" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T16:44:11.870585394Z" } }, "summary": "WooCommerce API + MCP has a score of 73 (BB) against Commerce Layer API + MCP's 63.9 (B). Both do commerce products. The largest gap is payments \u0026 pricing, 35 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce-layer-vs-woocommerce", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce-layer-vs-woocommerce.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce-layer-vs-woocommerce.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce-layer-vs-woocommerce.min.md" }, "markdown": "WooCommerce API + MCP has a score of 73 (BB) against Commerce Layer API + MCP's 63.9 (B). Both do commerce products. The largest gap is payments \u0026 pricing, 35 points.\n\n- Commerce Layer API + MCP: grade B, 63.9/100, rank #192 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/commerce-layer.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/commerce-layer.json\n- WooCommerce API + MCP: grade BB, 73/100, rank #64 of 452. 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 Commerce Layer API + MCP for security \u0026 auth (+9).\n\nPick WooCommerce API + MCP for reliability (+10), agent ergonomics (+19), payments \u0026 pricing (+35), transparency \u0026 trust (+17).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Commerce Layer API + MCP | WooCommerce API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 80 | WooCommerce API + MCP +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 77 | Commerce Layer API + MCP +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 64 | 83 | WooCommerce API + MCP +19 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 55 | Commerce Layer API + MCP +9 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 60 | WooCommerce API + MCP +35 |\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) | 59 | 76 | WooCommerce API + MCP +17 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.9 · B** | **73 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Commerce Layer API + MCP | WooCommerce API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Commerce Layer | WooCommerce (Automattic) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://core.commercelayer.io/api/public/resources` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | GPL-3.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 11 | 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 | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-22 |\n| Popularity | 7.3k npm/wk | 11k stars, 64k npm/wk, 25k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Commerce Layer API + MCP.** Public OpenAPI 3.0 file and llms.txt. No price between the free plan and a sales-quoted Enterprise contract.\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### Commerce Layer API + MCP\n\n1. Call `get_resource_schema` before any write. Preflight rejects bad filter shapes before they reach the API\n2. Give the agent an integration credential tied to a narrow role rather than an admin role\n3. On a 429, wait out the sliding window. No Retry-After is sent, and the IP stays blocked while the rate stays high\n4. Place an order by PATCHing it with `_place: true` once line items, addresses, shipping and payment are set\n5. Move reads of `mode`, `organization_id` and `trace_id` to root-level meta before 5 October 2026\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 Commerce Layer 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 WooCommerce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-woocommerce.md)\n- [Commerce Layer API + MCP vs Elastic Path API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce-layer-vs-elastic-path.md)\n- [Commerce Layer API + MCP vs Medusa API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce-layer-vs-medusa.md)\n- [Commerce Layer API + MCP vs Saleor API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce-layer-vs-saleor.md)\n- [Commerce Layer API + MCP vs Shopify API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce-layer-vs-shopify.md)\n- [Commerce Layer API + MCP vs Snipcart API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce-layer-vs-snipcart.md)\n- [Commerce Layer API + MCP vs Swell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce-layer-vs-swell.md)\n- [Commerce Layer API + MCP vs Vendure](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce-layer-vs-vendure.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", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-05", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.3", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Commerce Layer API + MCP vs WooCommerce API + MCP", "url": "" } ], "description": "WooCommerce API + MCP has a score of 73 (BB) against Commerce Layer API + MCP's 63.9 (B). 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