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      "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": 110,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 629,
        "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": "2026-10-08T19:08:43.983307366Z",
          "lastOk": false,
          "lastStatus": 0,
          "lastMs": 0,
          "lastNote": "invalid character \"{\" in host name",
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 0,
          "uptime30d": 0,
          "p50ms24h": 0,
          "p95ms24h": 0,
          "samples24h": 19,
          "samples30d": 19,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-10-08",
              "probes": 19,
              "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": "2026-10-08T17:50:31.099632039Z"
        },
        "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"
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        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:08:43.983307366Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "commercetools scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Snipcart API + MCP's 40.8 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Snipcart API + MCP leads on payments \u0026 pricing.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "snipcart",
      "name": "Snipcart API + MCP",
      "vendor": "Snipcart (Duda)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://snipcart.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "commerce",
      "summary": "Cart and checkout you add to any website with HTML attributes and a JavaScript widget.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/snipcart",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/snipcart.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/snipcart.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/snipcart.json",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://app.snipcart.com/api",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "HTTP Basic with a secret API key as username and an empty password. Keys are made in Test or Live mode and only see that mode's data. The MCP server takes the same key in a custom X-Snipcart-Api-Key header; no OAuth, so web clients that need OAuth or a bearer header (Claude.ai web, ChatGPT web) can't connect.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "2 per cent of sales plus your payment gateway's fees. Stores under $1,000 in monthly sales pay a flat $20 a month instead. Test mode is free with no card. A Custom plan is billed monthly at a set fee (https://snipcart.com/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "2% fee",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 in docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 38,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.snipcart.com/v3/",
      "capabilities": [
        "commerce.products",
        "commerce.orders",
        "commerce.checkout",
        "commerce.headless"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "mcp",
        "no-card",
        "webhooks",
        "closed-source"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-24",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 40.8,
        "grade": "E",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 595,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 629,
        "categoryRank": 13,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 25,
          "maintenance": 68,
          "payments": 35,
          "reliability": 58,
          "schema": 37,
          "security": 20,
          "transparency": 60
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Hosted MCP server with 38 documented tools and a self-hostable Bun build. No server-side cart or checkout. Orders only come from the browser widget.",
        "bestFor": "Static-site merchants who want an agent to handle orders, refunds and coupons.",
        "strengths": [
          "Hosted MCP server with 38 documented tools and a self-hostable Bun build",
          "Free test mode with no card, and separate test and live keys",
          "Public pricing, 2 per cent of sales or $20 a month for small stores",
          "Release notes every two to four weeks, six since 13 July 2026",
          "Uptime history kept in a public GitHub repo"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No server-side cart or checkout. Orders only come from the browser widget",
          "One full-access key per mode, with no OAuth, scopes or read-only keys",
          "Refund and archive tools have no documented confirmation or annotations",
          "No OpenAPI, llms.txt, security.txt or disclosure contact",
          "The status page doesn't check the API path or the MCP endpoint"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Use the agent for back-office jobs (orders, refunds, discounts, stock, abandoned carts), not for placing orders",
          "Start with a test-mode key (ST_ prefix) before switching to live (SL_)",
          "Send the key in X-Snipcart-Api-Key. OAuth-only clients can't connect",
          "Stay under 100 MCP requests a minute and 10 in flight per key",
          "Ignore unknown response fields. Snipcart adds fields without a new version"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 1.5,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "E",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
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        ],
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          "payments": 35,
          "reliability": 58,
          "schema": 37,
          "security": 20,
          "transparency": 39
        },
        "provenanceScore": 81
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -H \"Accept: application/json\" https://app.snipcart.com/api/orders -u \"$SNIPCART_SECRET_KEY:\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http snipcart https://ai.snipcart.com/mcp --header \"X-Snipcart-Api-Key: $SNIPCART_SECRET_KEY\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "snipcart": {
              "headers": {
                "X-Snipcart-Api-Key": "${SNIPCART_SECRET_KEY}"
              },
              "url": "https://ai.snipcart.com/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/commerce.products",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/snipcart"
      },
      "area": "business",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Transaction fee",
          "unit": "pct",
          "usd": 2,
          "note": "of sales, plus payment gateway fees"
        },
        {
          "item": "Small-store minimum",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 20,
          "note": "charged instead of 2 per cent when monthly sales are under $1,000"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Snipcart inc.",
        "domain": "snipcart.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2013-01-10",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://snipcart.com/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://snipcart.com/terms-of-service",
        "statusPage": "https://status.snipcart.com/",
        "changelog": "https://docs.snipcart.com/v3/release-notes",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "The privacy policy is a section of the terms page; there is no separate privacy URL.",
          "Snipcart inc. is a Canadian company owned by Duda since 2021."
        ],
        "score": 81
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/snipcart.json",
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            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
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              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-06",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-07",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-08",
              "probes": 217,
              "ok": 217
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.snipcart.com",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T17:51:13.088994967Z"
        },
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://snipcart.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:53.750963612Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "snipcart.com",
          "registered": "2013-01-10",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/snipcart.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:10:50.326878421Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://docs.snipcart.com/v3/release-notes",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:19:27.49912012Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "9f3bede5787c"
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          {
            "url": "https://snipcart.com/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:24:26.324483884Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "807106c17a22"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://snipcart.com/terms-of-service",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:24:28.480542186Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "2ee2028c28bd"
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        ],
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        "a": "HTTP API",
        "b": "HTTP API",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "commercetools GmbH",
        "b": "Snipcart (Duda)",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}",
        "b": "https://app.snipcart.com/api",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
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      {
        "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio",
        "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "OAuth",
        "b": "API key",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Paid",
        "b": "Pay per use",
        "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": "none",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "38",
        "name": "Tools exposed"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-10-07",
        "b": "2026-09-24",
        "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"
      },
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/snipcart.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/snipcart.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 58\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 86 against 37\n- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 25\n- Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 68\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 60\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\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### Snipcart API + MCP (E)\n\nGood for: Static-site merchants who want an agent to handle orders, refunds and coupons.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No server-side cart or checkout. Orders only come from the browser widget\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | commercetools | Snipcart API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 73 | 58 | commercetools +15 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 37 | commercetools +49 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 25 | commercetools +58 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 20 | commercetools +50 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 35 | Snipcart API + MCP +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 68 | commercetools +17 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 60 | commercetools +21 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **71.3 · BB** | **40.8 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | commercetools | Snipcart API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | commercetools GmbH | Snipcart (Duda) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}` | `https://app.snipcart.com/api` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | API key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |\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 | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 38 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-24 |\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 | none |\n| Agent reviews | none | 1.5/5 (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**Snipcart API + MCP.** Hosted MCP server with 38 documented tools and a self-hostable Bun build. No server-side cart or checkout. Orders only come from the browser widget.\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### Snipcart API + MCP\n\n1. Use the agent for back-office jobs (orders, refunds, discounts, stock, abandoned carts), not for placing orders\n2. Start with a test-mode key (ST_ prefix) before switching to live (SL_)\n3. Send the key in X-Snipcart-Api-Key. OAuth-only clients can't connect\n4. Stay under 100 MCP requests a minute and 10 in flight per key\n5. Ignore unknown response fields. Snipcart adds fields without a new version\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, commercetools or Snipcart API + MCP?\n\ncommercetools scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Snipcart API + MCP's 40.8 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Snipcart API + MCP leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do commercetools and Snipcart API + MCP need an API key?\n\ncommercetools uses an OAuth sign-in. 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