{ "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": 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" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:08:43.983307366Z" } }, "answer": "commercetools scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Square's 69.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Square leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "square", "name": "Square", "vendor": "Block, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://squareup.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "commerce", "summary": "Square is Block's commerce and payments platform for sellers. Its REST API covers catalogue, orders, payment links, payments, inventory and customers, with seven SDKs and a beta MCP server hosted at mcp.squareup.com.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/square", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/square.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/square.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/square.json", "repo": "https://github.com/square/square-mcp-server", "license": "Proprietary service under the Square Developer Terms of Service. The MCP server and the OpenAPI specification on GitHub are Apache 2.0, and the Node.js SDK is MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.squareup.com/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "square" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "square-mcp-server" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "squareup" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access needs a Square account and an application created in the Developer Console, both self-serve. Two token types go in the `Authorization: Bearer` header. A personal access token gives unrestricted access to the owner's own account, with a separate sandbox token. OAuth access tokens are limited to the scopes a seller grants, expire after 30 days and can be refreshed and revoked. The remote MCP server signs in through OAuth, and Square keeps an allowlist of MCP clients that may register.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "The API and sandbox carry no charge. Sellers pay processing fees, 2.9% + 30 cents for card payments through the payments APIs in the US. Square Free is $0 a month, Plus $49 and Premium $149 per location. The sandbox lets an agent start without a contract (https://squareup.com/us/en/payments/our-fees, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "2.9% fee", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index at developer.squareup.com/llms.txt or the OpenAPI spec (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 3, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 453743, "pypiWeekly": 72138, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.squareup.com/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.squareup.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/square/connect-api-specification/master/api.json", "capabilities": [ "commerce.products", "commerce.orders", "commerce.checkout", "commerce.cart", "commerce.headless", "payments.card", "payments.checkout" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "sandbox", "graphql", "typescript", "python", "status-page", "bug-bounty" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 156, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 629, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 40, "reliability": 58, "schema": 87, "security": 67, "transparency": 70 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The REST API has a public OpenAPI 3.0 spec, OAuth scopes split by read and write for each resource, idempotency keys on writes and a free sandbox. The MCP server is in beta and its remote instance reaches production only. No numeric REST rate limits or SLA were found, and the status page recorded widespread errors on 27 September 2026.", "bestFor": "Agents working for a seller already on Square, on catalogue, inventory, orders, payment links and customers, online and in person.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0 spec with 332 operations and 1,476 schemas, regenerated for API version 2026-09-16", "OAuth scopes are split by read and write for each resource, and access tokens expire after 30 days", "78 request schemas carry an `idempotency_key`, and the docs describe backoff with jitter for 429 responses", "Free sandbox at connect.squareupsandbox.com with test cards, and API Logs kept for 28 days", "Deprecated APIs are typically retired at least 12 months after deprecation, with dated release notes each month" ], "weaknesses": [ "The MCP server is marked beta, and the remote server reaches production data only", "No numeric rate limits were found for the REST API. Only GraphQL states a figure, 10 queries a second", "No SLA was found in the developer terms or documentation", "The status page recorded widespread latency and errors on 27 September 2026, including payment authorisation", "A personal access token grants unrestricted access to the whole Square account", "97 of the 332 operations in the spec are marked beta" ], "agentNotes": [ "Test against the sandbox first with the local MCP server and `SANDBOX=true`. The remote server at mcp.squareup.com reaches production only", "Set `DISALLOW_WRITES=true` on the local MCP server when the task only reads", "Call `get_service_info`, then `get_type_info`, before each `make_api_request`. The request body is otherwise untyped", "Send a fresh `idempotency_key` on every write, and reuse it when retrying the same write", "Pin `Square-Version` in each request. Use a page cursor within 5 minutes of receiving it" ], "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": 69.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 40, "reliability": 58, "schema": 87, "security": 67, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 84 }, "connect": { "install": "npx square-mcp-server start", "http": "curl https://connect.squareupsandbox.com/v2/locations \\\n -H 'Square-Version: 2026-09-16' \\\n -H 'Authorization: Bearer {SANDBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN}' \\\n -H 'Content-Type: application/json'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "mcp_square_api": { "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.squareup.com/mcp" ], "command": "npx" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/commerce.products", "tool": "https://letme.dev/square" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Card payment through the payments APIs (US)", "unit": "pct", "usd": 2.9, "note": "plus 30 cents per transaction" }, { "item": "ACH bank transfer through the API (US)", "unit": "pct", "usd": 1, "note": "$1 minimum, $5 fee cap" }, { "item": "Square Free", "unit": "month", "usd": 0, "note": "per location" }, { "item": "Square Plus", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "per location" }, { "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": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Square Developer Terms of Service (last updated 10 September 2026) are an agreement with Block, Inc. and govern the APIs, SDKs and developer tools. Payment processing through an API is also subject to Square's General Terms.", "The Privacy Notice for Square Sellers and Website Visitors (last updated 15 September 2026) names Block, Inc., 1955 Broadway, Suite 600, Oakland, CA 94612 as the entity for US sellers, with other Square entities for Canada, Japan, Australia and the EU.", "The API answers at connect.squareup.com and the remote MCP server at mcp.squareup.com. The sandbox uses the separate domain squareupsandbox.com.", "squareup.com/.well-known/security.txt and developer.squareup.com/.well-known/security.txt return 404. The security page links a Bugcrowd programme.", "RDAP for squareup.com gives a registration date of 2007-05-26." ], "score": 84 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/square.json", "live": { "slug": "square", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.squareup.com/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T19:08:59.27689094Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 59, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 80, "p95ms24h": 137, "samples24h": 19, "samples30d": 19, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 19, "ok": 19 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.issquareup.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:06:59.998723569Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developer.squareup.com/docs/changelog/connect", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:18.308620553Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "62494a1dd472" }, { "url": "https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:24:44.136652202Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "18b57fb2f3f3" }, { "url": "https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/developers", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:24:40.889937356Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "10ccc5457da5" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:08:59.27689094Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "commercetools GmbH", "b": "Block, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}", "b": "https://mcp.squareup.com/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth or 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": "Proprietary service under the Square Developer Terms of Service. The MCP server and the OpenAPI specification on GitHub are Apache 2.0, and the Node.js SDK is MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-07", "b": "2026-09-16", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-09-10", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "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": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "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": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "221k npm/wk", "b": "454k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "commercetools scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Square's 69.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Square leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, commercetools or Square?" }, { "answer": "commercetools uses an OAuth sign-in. Square takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do commercetools and Square need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. commercetools has a hosted endpoint at https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey} and Square at https://mcp.squareup.com/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call commercetools and Square without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 73 against 58", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 70" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better" ], "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, 40 against 20" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents working for a seller already on Square, on catalogue, inventory, orders, payment links and customers, online and in person.", "slug": "square", "watchFor": "The MCP server is marked beta, and the remote server reaches production data only" } ], "job": { "capability": "commerce.products", "name": "Commerce products" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-commercetools.json", "title": "BigCommerce API + MCP vs commercetools", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-commercetools" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-square.json", "title": "BigCommerce API + MCP vs Square", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-square" }, { "json": 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"commercetools": 73, "edge": "commercetools", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "square": 58, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 1, "commercetools": 86, "edge": "square", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "square": 87, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 0, "commercetools": 83, "edge": "", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "square": 83, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 3, "commercetools": 70, "edge": "commercetools", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "square": 67, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "commercetools": 20, "edge": "square", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "square": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 4, "commercetools": 85, "edge": "commercetools", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "square": 81, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 11, "commercetools": 81, "edge": "commercetools", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "square": 70, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "commercetools scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Square's 69.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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No numeric REST rate limits or SLA were found, and the status page recorded widespread errors on 27 September 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commercetools-vs-square", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commercetools-vs-square.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commercetools-vs-square.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commercetools-vs-square.min.md" }, "markdown": "commercetools scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Square's 69.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Square leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do commerce products.\n\n- commercetools: grade BB, 71.3/100, rank #110 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/commercetools.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/commercetools.json\n- Square: grade B, 69.2/100, rank #156 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/square.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/square.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- Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 70\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: No public price. The pricing page describes order-based pricing and sends buyers to sales\n\n### Square (B)\n\nGood for: Agents working for a seller already on Square, on catalogue, inventory, orders, payment links and customers, online and in person.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20\n\nWatch for: The MCP server is marked beta, and the remote server reaches production data only\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | commercetools | Square | 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 | 87 | Square +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 83 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 67 | commercetools +3 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | Square +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 81 | commercetools +4 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 70 | commercetools +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **71.3 · BB** | **69.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | commercetools | Square |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | commercetools GmbH | Block, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}` | `https://mcp.squareup.com/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or 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 | Proprietary service under the Square Developer Terms of Service. The MCP server and the OpenAPI specification on GitHub are Apache 2.0, and the Node.js SDK is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 3 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-16 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-09-10 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-09-15 |\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 | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\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 | yes |\n| Popularity | 221k npm/wk | 454k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk |\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**Square.** The REST API has a public OpenAPI 3.0 spec, OAuth scopes split by read and write for each resource, idempotency keys on writes and a free sandbox. The MCP server is in beta and its remote instance reaches production only. No numeric REST rate limits or SLA were found, and the status page recorded widespread errors on 27 September 2026.\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### Square\n\n1. Test against the sandbox first with the local MCP server and `SANDBOX=true`. The remote server at mcp.squareup.com reaches production only\n2. Set `DISALLOW_WRITES=true` on the local MCP server when the task only reads\n3. Call `get_service_info`, then `get_type_info`, before each `make_api_request`. The request body is otherwise untyped\n4. Send a fresh `idempotency_key` on every write, and reuse it when retrying the same write\n5. Pin `Square-Version` in each request. Use a page cursor within 5 minutes of receiving it\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, commercetools or Square?\n\ncommercetools scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Square's 69.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Square leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do commercetools and Square need an API key?\n\ncommercetools uses an OAuth sign-in. Square takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call commercetools and Square without installing anything?\n\nYes. commercetools has a hosted endpoint at https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey} and Square at https://mcp.squareup.com/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commercetools-vs-square.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commercetools-vs-square.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"commercetools\", \"b\": \"square\"}`. 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