{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "commercetools", "name": "commercetools", "vendor": "commercetools GmbH", "vendorUrl": "https://commercetools.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "commerce", "summary": "Headless commerce platform from commercetools GmbH in Munich, with HTTP and GraphQL APIs for catalogue, carts, checkout, orders and customers. Agents reach it through the API, four SDKs or a managed MCP server per project.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/commercetools", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/commercetools.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/commercetools.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/commercetools.json", "repo": "https://github.com/commercetools/commercetools-api-reference", "license": "Proprietary service under the commercetools Master Service Agreement. The API specifications are public, the SDKs are MIT (TypeScript, PHP) or Apache 2.0 (Java, .NET) and Commerce MCP is MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@commercetools/platform-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@commercetools/commerce-mcp" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0. A person creates an API Client in the Merchant Centre (or through the API Clients API) with chosen scopes, and the secret is shown once. The client credentials flow at https://auth.{region}.commercetools.com/oauth/token returns a Bearer token valid for 48 hours by default. Scopes are view or manage per resource and per store, and `manage_project` grants everything. Password, anonymous-session and refresh flows exist for shoppers. A managed MCP server takes a token scoped to `mcp:{projectKey}:{mcpServerKey}` (30 days at most), OAuth client credentials discovery, or a browser sign-in with an Identity account. Access is self-serve through the trial sign-up form.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public prices. The pricing page describes order-based pricing and sends buyers to sales, and the product is also sold through the AWS and Google Cloud marketplaces. A 60-day trial has every core commerce API and the Merchant Centre, needs no card and does not convert automatically, so an agent can start without a contract. InStore, Frontend and the agent products are not in the trial (https://commercetools.com/free-trial, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms.txt or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 221261, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.commercetools.com/api/", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.commercetools.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/commercetools/commercetools-api-reference/main/oas/api/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "commerce.products", "commerce.cart", "commerce.checkout", "commerce.orders", "commerce.headless" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "enterprise", "closed-source", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "graphql", "llms-txt", "typescript", "java", "php", "dotnet", "webhooks", "sales-led", "status-page", "sla", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 71.3, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 116, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 20, "reliability": 73, "schema": 86, "security": 70, "transparency": 81 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A public OpenAPI file with 822 operations, per-resource OAuth scopes and a managed MCP server whose tools an administrator selects per agent. Prices are quoted by sales only, and the HTTP API publishes no platform-wide rate limit. A 60-day trial needs no card.", "bestFor": "Enterprises that already run or plan a composable commerce stack and want agents working across catalogue, pricing, carts and orders under scoped credentials.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0 file with 822 operations, plus RAML, a GraphQL schema, llms.txt and Markdown copies of every docs page", "OAuth 2.0 API Clients with view and manage scopes per resource, a token revocation endpoint, and no tokens accepted in URL parameters", "Managed MCP server per agent with a chosen tool list, field filtering and redaction, and readOnlyHint and destructiveHint on every tool since 1 October 2026", "99.9 per cent monthly availability SLA with service credits, published in the docs", "60-day trial with every core commerce API and no card" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public price. The pricing page describes order-based pricing and sends buyers to sales", "The docs state that the HTTP API has no single documented platform-wide rate limit", "Managed MCP Servers, AI Hub and Platform Insights are excluded from the standard SLA", "API-wide change tracking needs the paid Audit Log Premium add-on. Audit Log Basic records Merchant Centre changes only", "No security.txt and no bug bounty found, and audit reports are released under NDA" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use the auth and API hosts for the project's region, such as auth.europe-west1.gcp.commercetools.com and api.europe-west1.gcp.commercetools.com. There are five regions", "Send the resource's current `version` with every update or delete. On 409 ConcurrentModification, re-read the resource and retry only if the change is still needed", "Retry 502 and 503 with exponential backoff from 200 ms, honour Retry-After, and check Content-Type before parsing an error body", "For MCP, ask for an API Client scoped to `mcp:{projectKey}:{mcpServerKey}` and a server limited to the tools the task needs, not `all`", "Keep page size at or under 500 and offset at or under 10,000. Product Search returns at most 100 per request" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 71.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 20, "reliability": 73, "schema": 86, "security": 70, "transparency": 75 }, "provenanceScore": 86 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @commercetools/platform-sdk", "http": "curl https://{auth_host}/oauth/token -X POST \\\n --basic --user \"{clientId}:{clientSecret}\" \\\n -d \"grant_type=client_credentials\u0026scope=manage_project:{projectKey}\"\ncurl https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/ \\\n -X GET \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer ${BEARER_TOKEN}\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "managed-mcp-servers": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer \u003cyour-ctp-token\u003e" }, "type": "http", "url": "\u003cyour-mcp-server-url\u003e" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/commerce.products", "tool": "https://letme.dev/commercetools" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "commercetools GmbH", "domain": "commercetools.com", "domainRegistered": "2002-05-13", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://commercetools.com/msa", "privacy": "https://commercetools.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.commercetools.com", "changelog": "https://docs.commercetools.com/docs/release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The imprint names commercetools GmbH, Adams-Lehmann-Str. 44, 80797 Munich, Amtsgericht München HRB 161496.", "The Master Service Agreement at commercetools.com/msa governs paid use once an Order Form is signed. Trial use falls under the 60 Days Trial Agreement at commercetools.com/trial-agreement, last updated 24 July 2024.", "The privacy notice covers the websites in section III and customers' use of the service in section IV. Data that customers store in the platform falls under the DPA at commercetools.com/dpa, last updated 1 October 2024.", "commercetools.com/.well-known/security.txt and docs.commercetools.com/.well-known/security.txt both return 404.", "API, auth and MCP hosts are subdomains of commercetools.com for each region. RDAP gives a registration date of 2002-05-13 for commercetools.com." ], "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/commercetools.json", "live": { "slug": "commercetools", "probe": { "target": "https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T19:52:48.549926987Z", "lastOk": false, "lastStatus": 0, "lastMs": 0, "lastNote": "invalid character \"{\" in host name", "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 0, "uptime30d": 0, "p50ms24h": 0, "p95ms24h": 0, "samples24h": 27, "samples30d": 27, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 27, "ok": 0 } ], "outages": [ { "start": "2026-10-08T17:31:33.341731081Z", "end": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "note": "invalid character \"{\" in host name" } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.commercetools.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:23.515268968Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.commercetools.com/docs/release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 404, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:30.793646678Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://commercetools.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:37.91248595Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "58be3463d4f5" }, { "url": "https://commercetools.com/msa", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:35.711051914Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c72525a36335" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:52:48.549926987Z" } }, "answer": "commercetools scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Saleor API + MCP's 68.6 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Saleor API + MCP leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "saleor", "name": "Saleor API + MCP", "vendor": "Saleor", "vendorUrl": "https://saleor.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "commerce", "summary": "Open-source headless commerce with a single GraphQL API for products, channels, checkouts, orders and customers, self-hosted or on Saleor Cloud.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/saleor", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/saleor.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/saleor.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/saleor.json", "repo": "https://github.com/saleor/saleor", "license": "BSD-3-Clause", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@saleor/app-sdk" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Public channel queries such as products need no token. Staff users get a JWT from tokenCreate, and apps get an app token limited to the permissions they request, such as MANAGE_PRODUCTS and MANAGE_ORDERS. The MCP server takes the Saleor API URL and a token in the X-Saleor-API-URL and X-Saleor-Auth-Token headers.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Self-hosting the BSD core is free. Saleor Cloud sandboxes are free for non-commercial use. Select $1,599 a month up to $200,000 GMV a month with 0.8% above it, Volume $3,999 a month up to $1,000,000 with 0.4% above it, Enterprise negotiated down to 0.2%. Optional onboarding add-ons at $6,000 and $12,000 one-time, credited back over the first year (https://saleor.io/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$1599 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402. Payments go through payment apps such as Stripe or Adyen.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": 23397, "npmWeekly": 7310, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.saleor.io", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.saleor.io/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "commerce.products", "commerce.cart", "commerce.checkout", "commerce.orders", "commerce.headless" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "hosted", "mcp", "llms-txt", "python", "webhooks", "read-only-mode", "freemium" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68.6, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 175, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 86, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 45, "reliability": 50, "schema": 89, "security": 71, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "Two high-severity advisories in the last 12 months touched customer data, an IDOR in the GraphQL API published 23 January 2026 (GHSA-r6fj-f4r9-36gr) and account pre-hijacking through an unverified anonymous order merge published 27 July 2026 (GHSA-6whj-8p3f-2xqp). Both were fixed and disclosed in public, so the deduction is small (https://github.com/saleor/saleor/security/advisories)." ], "verdict": "One GraphQL schema with 78 typed error-code enums and 464 marked deprecations. The MCP server can't create checkouts or orders.", "bestFor": "Teams that want an open-source GraphQL backend with multi-channel pricing and an agent that reads store data safely.", "strengths": [ "One GraphQL schema with 78 typed error-code enums and 464 marked deprecations", "BSD-3-Clause core, self-host or run on Saleor Cloud", "Official MCP server with 8 tools, all read-only, 7 with readOnlyHint and idempotentHint", "Thirteen patch releases between 5 August and 30 September 2026", "Security advisories published through GitHub, and SOC 2 Type 2 and PCI DSS claimed for Cloud" ], "weaknesses": [ "The MCP server can't create checkouts or orders", "The hosted MCP at mcp.saleor.app only connects to saleor.cloud stores on 3.21 or later", "Cloud starts at $1,599 a month, and free sandboxes are non-commercial only", "No published request-rate limits, 429 guidance or SLA", "Self-hosted servers send usage telemetry by default" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pass the channel slug on product and checkout queries. Prices and availability are per channel", "Send X-Saleor-API-URL and X-Saleor-Auth-Token on every MCP request, with a token holding MANAGE_PRODUCTS and MANAGE_ORDERS", "Read the `errors` array in every mutation payload. A 200 response can still carry a CheckoutErrorCode", "Keep queries under the 50,000 complexity cap and 100 items a page, and send at most 4 mutations per request", "The 3.24 changelog removes the old dummy payment plugins, so test checkouts should use a payment app" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 68.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 86, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 45, "reliability": 50, "schema": 89, "security": 71, "transparency": 83 }, "provenanceScore": 68 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST \"https://\u003cyour-env\u003e.saleor.cloud/graphql/\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"query\":\"{ products(first: 5, channel: \\\"default-channel\\\") { edges { node { id name } } } }\"}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http saleor https://mcp.saleor.app/mcp --header \"X-Saleor-API-URL: https://\u003cyour-env\u003e.saleor.cloud/graphql/\" --header \"X-Saleor-Auth-Token: $SALEOR_TOKEN\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "saleor": { "headers": { "X-Saleor-API-URL": "https://\u003cyour-env\u003e.saleor.cloud/graphql/", "X-Saleor-Auth-Token": "${SALEOR_TOKEN}" }, "type": "streamable-http", "url": "https://mcp.saleor.app/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/commerce.products", "tool": "https://letme.dev/saleor" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Cloud Select", "unit": "month", "usd": 1599, "note": "up to $200,000 GMV a month" }, { "item": "Select GMV overage", "unit": "pct", "usd": 0.8, "note": "on orders above the GMV cap" }, { "item": "Cloud Volume", "unit": "month", "usd": 3999, "note": "up to $1,000,000 GMV a month" }, { "item": "Volume GMV overage", "unit": "pct", "usd": 0.4, "note": "on orders above the GMV cap" }, { "item": "Self-hosted", "unit": "month", "usd": 0, "note": "BSD core, you pay for your own servers" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Saleor Commerce sp. z o.o.", "domain": "saleor.io", "domainRegistered": "2018-12-28", "domainNote": "Saleor's code dates from 2013; saleor.io was registered in 2018.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://saleor.io/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://saleor.io/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.saleor.io", "changelog": "https://github.com/saleor/saleor/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "Cloud APIs run on saleor.cloud and the hosted MCP on saleor.app, not on saleor.io" ], "score": 68 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/saleor.json", "live": { "slug": "saleor", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.saleor.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:51:01.976376981Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "saleor/saleor", "version": "3.23.40", "released": "2026-10-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:27:59.482588719Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@saleor/app-sdk", "version": "1.16.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:27:58.942693742Z" } ], "githubStars": 23420, "npmWeekly": 8054, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://saleor.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:54.513008536Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.saleor.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:51.421728964Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "saleor.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:19.936175554Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://saleor.io/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:57.767826297Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d71c0304e251" }, { "url": "https://saleor.io/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:53.553316248Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6db975edf88a" }, { "url": "https://saleor.io/legal/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:55.781519018Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6bd50f5b31d6" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:51:01.976376981Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "commercetools GmbH", "b": "Saleor", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under the commercetools Master Service Agreement. The API specifications are public, the SDKs are MIT (TypeScript, PHP) or Apache 2.0 (Java, .NET) and Commerce MCP is MIT", "b": "BSD-3-Clause", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "8", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-07", "b": "2026-09-30", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "221k npm/wk", "b": "23k stars, 7.3k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.5/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "commercetools scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Saleor API + MCP's 68.6 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Saleor API + MCP leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, commercetools or Saleor API + MCP?" }, { "answer": "commercetools uses an OAuth sign-in. Saleor API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do commercetools and Saleor API + MCP need an API key?" }, { "answer": "commercetools has a hosted endpoint at https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}. No hosted endpoint is listed for Saleor API + MCP.", "question": "Can an agent call commercetools and Saleor API + MCP without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for commercetools. Saleor API + MCP is open source (BSD-3-Clause).", "question": "Are commercetools and Saleor API + MCP open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 73 against 50", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 76" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "Enterprises that already run or plan a composable commerce stack and want agents working across catalogue, pricing, carts and orders under scoped credentials.", "slug": "commercetools", "watchFor": "No public price. The pricing page describes order-based pricing and sends buyers to sales" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 45 against 20" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Teams that want an open-source GraphQL backend with multi-channel pricing and an agent that reads store data safely.", "slug": "saleor", "watchFor": "The MCP server can't create checkouts or orders" } ], "job": { "capability": "commerce.products", "name": "Commerce products" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-commercetools.json", "title": "Adobe Commerce (Magento) vs commercetools", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-commercetools" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-saleor.json", "title": "Adobe Commerce (Magento) vs Saleor API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-commerce-vs-saleor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-commercetools.json", 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success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 0, "commercetools": 85, "edge": "", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "saleor": 85, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 5, "commercetools": 81, "edge": "commercetools", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "saleor": 76, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "commercetools scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Saleor API + MCP's 68.6 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Saleor API + MCP leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do commerce products.", "verdicts": { "commercetools": "A public OpenAPI file with 822 operations, per-resource OAuth scopes and a managed MCP server whose tools an administrator selects per agent. Prices are quoted by sales only, and the HTTP API publishes no platform-wide rate limit. A 60-day trial needs no card.", "saleor": "One GraphQL schema with 78 typed error-code enums and 464 marked deprecations. The MCP server can't create checkouts or orders." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commercetools-vs-saleor", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commercetools-vs-saleor.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commercetools-vs-saleor.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commercetools-vs-saleor.min.md" }, "markdown": "commercetools scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Saleor API + MCP's 68.6 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Saleor API + MCP leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do commerce products.\n\n- commercetools: grade BB, 71.3/100, rank #116 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/commercetools.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/commercetools.json\n- Saleor API + MCP: grade B, 68.6/100, rank #175 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/saleor.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/saleor.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### commercetools (BB)\n\nGood for: Enterprises that already run or plan a composable commerce stack and want agents working across catalogue, pricing, carts and orders under scoped credentials.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 73 against 50\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 76\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: No public price. The pricing page describes order-based pricing and sends buyers to sales\n\n### Saleor API + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that want an open-source GraphQL backend with multi-channel pricing and an agent that reads store data safely.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 45 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The MCP server can't create checkouts or orders\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | commercetools | Saleor API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 73 | 50 | commercetools +23 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 89 | Saleor API + MCP +3 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 86 | Saleor API + MCP +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 71 | Saleor API + MCP +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 45 | Saleor API + MCP +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 85 | even |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 76 | commercetools +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **71.3 · BB** | **68.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | commercetools | Saleor API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | commercetools GmbH | Saleor |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the commercetools Master Service Agreement. The API specifications are public, the SDKs are MIT (TypeScript, PHP) or Apache 2.0 (Java, .NET) and Commerce MCP is MIT | BSD-3-Clause |\n| Tools exposed | none | 8 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 221k npm/wk | 23k stars, 7.3k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**commercetools.** A public OpenAPI file with 822 operations, per-resource OAuth scopes and a managed MCP server whose tools an administrator selects per agent. Prices are quoted by sales only, and the HTTP API publishes no platform-wide rate limit. A 60-day trial needs no card.\n\n**Saleor API + MCP.** One GraphQL schema with 78 typed error-code enums and 464 marked deprecations. The MCP server can't create checkouts or orders.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### commercetools\n\n1. Use the auth and API hosts for the project's region, such as auth.europe-west1.gcp.commercetools.com and api.europe-west1.gcp.commercetools.com. There are five regions\n2. Send the resource's current `version` with every update or delete. On 409 ConcurrentModification, re-read the resource and retry only if the change is still needed\n3. Retry 502 and 503 with exponential backoff from 200 ms, honour Retry-After, and check Content-Type before parsing an error body\n4. For MCP, ask for an API Client scoped to `mcp:{projectKey}:{mcpServerKey}` and a server limited to the tools the task needs, not `all`\n5. Keep page size at or under 500 and offset at or under 10,000. Product Search returns at most 100 per request\n\n### Saleor API + MCP\n\n1. Pass the channel slug on product and checkout queries. Prices and availability are per channel\n2. Send X-Saleor-API-URL and X-Saleor-Auth-Token on every MCP request, with a token holding MANAGE_PRODUCTS and MANAGE_ORDERS\n3. Read the `errors` array in every mutation payload. A 200 response can still carry a CheckoutErrorCode\n4. Keep queries under the 50,000 complexity cap and 100 items a page, and send at most 4 mutations per request\n5. The 3.24 changelog removes the old dummy payment plugins, so test checkouts should use a payment app\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, commercetools or Saleor API + MCP?\n\ncommercetools scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Saleor API + MCP's 68.6 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Saleor API + MCP leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do commercetools and Saleor API + MCP need an API key?\n\ncommercetools uses an OAuth sign-in. Saleor API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call commercetools and Saleor API + MCP without installing anything?\n\ncommercetools has a hosted endpoint at https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}. No hosted endpoint is listed for Saleor API + MCP.\n\n### Are commercetools and Saleor API + MCP open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for commercetools. Saleor API + MCP is open source (BSD-3-Clause).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commercetools-vs-saleor.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commercetools-vs-saleor.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"commercetools\", \"b\": \"saleor\"}`. 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