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      "summary": "Calendar sync and scheduling API from a UK company.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cronofy",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cronofy.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cronofy.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cronofy.json",
      "dns": "cronofy.grade.anchorterminal.com",
      "repo": "https://github.com/cronofy/cronofy-node",
      "license": "MIT (SDKs)",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
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      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "cronofy"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "pycronofy"
        }
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      "authNotes": "Each user connects through Cronofy's OAuth flow and gets an access token. Application-level calls such as Availability take the application's key as a Bearer token. The MCP server takes the `client_secret` of an internal application as a Bearer token for single-tenant use, or OAuth 2.0 for multi-tenant use.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Free developer account for building and testing. Emerging $819 a month billed yearly for up to 500 synced accounts, then $1.39 each a month. Growth $2,399 a month billed yearly for up to 3,000, then $0.69 each. Strategic is custom with priority support. The Meeting Agents add-on costs $0.79 an hour for 25 to 4,000 hours, with a $99 monthly minimum on its own and the first 24 hours free (https://www.cronofy.com/pricing).",
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        "pypiWeekly": 10097,
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      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.cronofy.com/llms.txt",
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        "calendar.read",
        "calendar.write",
        "calendar.availability",
        "calendar.booking",
        "calendar.webhooks"
      ],
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        "hosted",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "webhooks",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "enterprise",
        "eu",
        "closed-source"
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      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
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        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
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        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1349,
        "categoryRank": 4,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "ergonomics": 76,
          "maintenance": 71,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 95,
          "schema": 58,
          "security": 60,
          "transparency": 72
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-11-02"
        },
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        "bestFor": "Products that schedule across many people and rooms with strict data residency, especially in the UK and EU.",
        "strengths": [
          "OAuth scopes as narrow as `free_busy`, with `delete_event` separate from `create_event`",
          "Event writes keyed on your `event_id`, so a retried create updates instead of duplicating",
          "99.99% uptime guarantee on Emerging and Growth, and no incident touching the service in the 90 days to 2 November 2026",
          "Retention published per data type, such as 30 days for third-party events after disconnection",
          "ISO 27001, 27018 and 27701, SOC 2 Type 2 and a public bug bounty"
        ],
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          "Production pricing starts at $819 a month billed yearly",
          "No OpenAPI spec or security.txt",
          "The Python and Node SDKs' releases since March 2024 only change packaging or dependencies, and the API changelog host disallows automated readers",
          "MCP server has no published tool list, Cronofy warns its standard is likely to change, and single-tenant mode takes the application secret",
          "429 guidance says only to pause, with no Retry-After"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Call the data centre host the account was created in (api-uk, api-de and so on), since data never crosses regions",
          "Reuse the same `event_id` when retrying an event write, since Cronofy upserts on it",
          "Ask for `response_format` slots when you want bookable times rather than free periods",
          "On 423, ask the user to relink, since Cronofy has already emailed them",
          "Keep under 50 requests a second and 500 a minute, and pause on 429"
        ],
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          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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        "avgRating": 4,
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            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 95,
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          "security": 60,
          "transparency": 58
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          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
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      },
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        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.cronofy.com/v1/availability \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $CRONOFY_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"participants\":[{\"members\":[{\"sub\":\"acc_5ba21743f408617d1269ea1e\"}],\"required\":\"all\"}],\"required_duration\":{\"minutes\":30},\"query_periods\":[{\"start\":\"2026-10-01T09:00:00Z\",\"end\":\"2026-10-01T17:00:00Z\"}],\"response_format\":\"slots\"}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http cronofy https://api.cronofy.com/v1/mcp_server --header \"Authorization: Bearer $CRONOFY_CLIENT_SECRET\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "cronofy": {
              "headers": {
                "Authorization": "Bearer ${CRONOFY_CLIENT_SECRET}"
              },
              "url": "https://api.cronofy.com/v1/mcp_server"
            }
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        "tool": "https://letme.dev/cronofy"
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          "item": "Emerging",
          "unit": "month",
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          "note": "Up to 500 synced accounts, billed yearly"
        },
        {
          "item": "Growth",
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          "usd": 2399,
          "note": "Up to 3,000 synced accounts, billed yearly"
        },
        {
          "item": "Extra synced account on Emerging",
          "unit": "account-month",
          "usd": 1.39
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        {
          "item": "Extra synced account on Growth",
          "unit": "account-month",
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        "legalEntity": "Cronofy Limited",
        "domain": "cronofy.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2014-10-06",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://docs.cronofy.com/policies/terms-of-service/",
        "privacy": "https://docs.cronofy.com/policies/privacy-notice/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.cronofy.com",
        "changelog": "https://changelog.cronofy.com",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-11-02",
        "notes": [
          "The terms name Cronofy Limited, company number 07878590, under the laws of England and Wales, re-read on 2 November 2026.",
          "www.cronofy.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 2 November 2026.",
          "The status page lists the API, Scheduler, Meeting Agents, conferencing services and each major calendar provider as separate components. Its robots.txt disallows /api/ and /embed/; history.atom is read.",
          "changelog.cronofy.com's robots.txt allows a list of search crawlers by name and disallows every other agent, so the changelog wasn't read on 2 November 2026."
        ],
        "score": 86
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cronofy.json",
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              "date": "2026-10-19",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-20",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-21",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-22",
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              "date": "2026-10-23",
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              "ok": 248
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-24",
              "probes": 251,
              "ok": 251
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-25",
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              "ok": 250
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-26",
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              "ok": 252
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              "date": "2026-10-27",
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              "ok": 249
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              "date": "2026-10-28",
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              "ok": 251
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              "date": "2026-10-29",
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              "ok": 248
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      "vendor": "AI Software (Capacity) UK Ltd, trading as YouCanBookMe",
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      "category": "scheduling",
      "summary": "YouCanBookMe is a booking-page service from the UK company of the same name, owned by Capacity since 2025. Its REST API manages account details, booking pages (profiles) and bookings over HTTP Basic auth, with webhooks from booking notifications.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youcanbookme",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youcanbookme.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youcanbookme.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/youcanbookme.json",
      "dns": "youcanbookme.grade.anchorterminal.com",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.youcanbook.me/v1",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "HTTP Basic authentication with the account email address or account ID as the username and an account API key as the password. Only the Account Owner can generate, view, copy or delete the key, under Account Password \u0026 Security \u003e Authentication and API, and the help centre says the API key is available on the Team plan. No scopes, expiry or per-user keys are described. Administrators and Contributors must ask the owner for the key.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 1 calendar, 1 booking page and 30 bookings a month, with YouCanBookMe branding. Individual $9, Professional $13 and Teams $18 a seat a month, with 10 per cent off yearly and 20 per cent off for two years ($7.20, $10.40 and $14.40), per the help centre's pricing article. 14-day trial of every feature with no card, per the pricing page. API access is listed under the Team plan; webhooks need Professional or Teams.",
      "priceSummary": "$9 / seat-mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the pricing page, in the help centre API and webhook articles or in the API's error response (checked 2026-11-03). The API reference itself could not be read.",
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        "hosted",
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        "agentReady": false,
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        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 15,
          "schema": 10,
          "security": 24,
          "transparency": 61
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        "pending": [
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          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "low",
          "date": "2026-11-03"
        },
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        "verdict": "A booking-page service with a Team-plan REST API over HTTP Basic auth and one account-wide key, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 on its security page, and a 14-day trial without a card. Its API reference renders only by JavaScript and its status page did not resolve for us, so endpoints, limits and incidents are unverified.",
        "bestFor": "A booking-page product for small businesses, closest to calendly and savvycal in scheduling.",
        "strengths": [
          "SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (certificate issued 20 February 2024) listed on the security page, with AES-256 at rest on AWS",
          "Free plan and a 14-day trial of every feature with no card",
          "Privacy notice (16 March 2026) states retention periods, 24 months for booking data by default, and says booking data is not used to train AI models",
          "Webhook notifications on six booking triggers with a JSON payload the user shapes, on Professional and Teams",
          "The API answers with a JSON error envelope carrying a code, message and status, and declares its version in an `x-api-version` header"
        ],
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          "The API reference at ycbm.stoplight.io could not be read without JavaScript, and the help centre's API article sat behind a Cloudflare challenge",
          "One account-wide API key over HTTP Basic auth, created only by the Account Owner, with no scopes or expiry documented",
          "API access is listed only on the Team plan ($18 a seat a month)",
          "No rate limits, 429 handling, idempotency keys, OpenAPI file, llms.txt or official SDK were found",
          "No security.txt, bug bounty or disclosure policy, and the status page at youcanbookmestatus.com did not resolve for us"
        ],
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          "Ask the Account Owner for the account ID and API key, since Administrators and Contributors cannot generate one, and send them as HTTP Basic credentials",
          "Read the API reference at ycbm.stoplight.io in a browser before planning calls; its endpoints and parameters were not readable to us",
          "Treat the key as full account access and keep it out of logs, since no scoped or read-only key is documented",
          "Expect a JSON error body with `code`, `message` and `status` on failures, and check for an existing booking before repeating a create, since no idempotency key is documented",
          "Use booking-page webhooks for booking, reschedule, cancel, reminder, follow-up and no-show events instead of polling"
        ],
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          "measured": false
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          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 15,
          "schema": 10,
          "security": 24,
          "transparency": 52
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        "provenanceScore": 70,
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          "last": "2026-11-03",
          "oldest": "2026-11-03",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -u \"$YCBM_ACCOUNT_ID:$YCBM_API_KEY\" https://api.youcanbook.me/v1/profiles"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/calendar.booking",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/youcanbookme"
      },
      "area": "everyday",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Individual",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 9,
          "note": "$8.10 a month yearly, $7.20 over two years, per the help centre"
        },
        {
          "item": "Professional",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 13,
          "note": "$11.70 a month yearly, $10.40 over two years"
        },
        {
          "item": "Teams",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 18,
          "note": "Per seat. $16.20 yearly, $14.40 over two years. The plan that lists API access"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "AI Software (Capacity) UK Ltd",
        "domain": "youcanbook.me",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://youcanbook.me/terms",
        "privacy": "https://youcanbook.me/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://www.youcanbookmestatus.com",
        "changelog": "https://youcanbook.me/product-updates",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-11-03",
        "notes": [
          "The terms (last updated 18 March 2026) name AI Software (Capacity) UK Ltd, trading as YouCanBookMe, under English law. Clause 15.3 bars data mining, robots and similar extraction tools without written consent, and clause 7.2 bars downloading the Site's software. Recorded as a fact; the public pages were read.",
          "The privacy notice (16 March 2026) gives company number 7221202, AWS hosting in the United States, a DPA on request through HelloSign, and retention of 24 months for booking data and up to 7 years for support messages.",
          "youcanbook.me/robots.txt disallows only HubSpot preview and preference paths. support.youcanbook.me/robots.txt disallows account, search and request paths; the API article there answered a Cloudflare challenge (403), which is the host's block, not a robots rule. ycbm.capacity.com and ycbm.stoplight.io allow all.",
          "The status page linked from youcanbook.me/help, www.youcanbookmestatus.com, did not resolve from our reader on 3 November 2026 (DNS), with or without www, so no incident history was read.",
          "youcanbook.me/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The security page gives compliance@youcanbook.me as its contact.",
          "RDAP for youcanbook.me (rdap.nic.me) could not be reached from our shell, so the registration date is blank.",
          "The product updates page at youcanbook.me/product-updates is dated by month; its newest entry is September 2026 (registered SMS numbers), which lastRelease records as the first of that month."
        ],
        "score": 70
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youcanbookme.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "youcanbookme",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.youcanbook.me/v1",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-11-04T21:39:54.948803292Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 400,
          "lastMs": 406,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 200,
          "p95ms24h": 447,
          "samples24h": 64,
          "samples30d": 64,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-11-04",
              "probes": 64,
              "ok": 64
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://www.youcanbookmestatus.com",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T21:27:01.611847667Z"
        },
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://youcanbook.me/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T15:54:28.156243558Z"
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-11-04T21:39:54.948803292Z"
      }
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    "edges": [
      {
        "by": 80,
        "category": "reliability",
        "leads": "cronofy",
        "name": "Reliability",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Atlassian Statuspage at status.cronofy.com with the API, Scheduler, Meeting Agents and each calendar provider as components (20). history.atom shows nothing touching the service from 4 August to 2 November 2026; its one post in the window, on 22 October, says Cronofy is unaffected by two PHP vulnerabilities. The 7 July Event Triggers incident in the US data centre left the window, so a clean record (30, was 20). 50 requests a second and 500 in any 60 seconds by default (15). 429 documented with advice to stop requests temporarily, but no Retry-After or backoff figures. Event writes are upserts keyed on your `event_id`, so a repeat updates rather than duplicates (10). 99.99% uptime guarantee on Emerging and Growth, and an API SLA policy page (10). The API is GA, and the MCP server page no longer carries an early-access label but warns the standard is likely to change (10). 20+30+15+10+10+10 = 95.",
          "b": "Read with the hosted lines. The help page links a status page at www.youcanbookmestatus.com, but the host did not resolve from our reader with or without www on 3 November 2026, so it is scored as not established rather than as a finding about the vendor (0). No readable history (5). No rate limit with a number in the help centre articles, the pricing page or the API's own error response; the API reference could not be read (0). No 429 or retry guidance and no idempotency key found (0). No SLA, and the terms say the service is not guaranteed to be available 100 per cent of the time (0). The API reports version 1.18 in its headers and is sold on the Team plan, so generally available (10). 0 + 5 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 15."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 95,
          "b": 15
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 63,
        "category": "ergonomics",
        "leads": "cronofy",
        "name": "Agent ergonomics",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "API responses can be narrowed, for example Availability's `response_format` of slots and the `only_managed` flag on events (15). Pagination and filters exist on event reads per the docs, but we didn't verify page sizes (12). Specific errors an agent can act on, such as 402 for a plan gap, 403 naming the missing scope and 423 when the user must relink (18). Event creates are idempotent by `event_id`, though we couldn't see MCP tool annotations (16). Official SDKs in Node, Python, Ruby, C# and more (15).",
          "b": "Response sizing, field selection and pagination are in the unread reference (3 of 25, 0 of 20). The error envelope names a machine code and a message an agent can branch on (8 of 20). No idempotency key or safe-retry guidance found (0 of 20). No official SDK, and the required parameters are unread (2 of 15). 3 + 0 + 8 + 0 + 2 = 13."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 76,
          "b": 13
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 48,
        "category": "schema",
        "leads": "cronofy",
        "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract found (0). llms.txt with about 35 to 40 links and Markdown copies of pages (10). Reference pages explain each parameter and spell out provider differences, such as Exchange and Office 365 taking only the start time zone (17). Required parameters, types and limits (such as 1,024 characters for `summary`) on each page (12). Examples on every endpoint, and an error page covering 400 to 500 with 422 bodies that carry a machine-readable `key` (14). `/v1` in the path. The changelog at changelog.cronofy.com is on a host whose robots.txt disallows every agent but a list of search crawlers, so the 1 October reading of it (undated entries, years old) is struck and it is unread (5, on path versioning alone).",
          "b": "The reference lives on Stoplight at ycbm.stoplight.io, which usually renders an OpenAPI file, but our reader got only the workspace shell, and no spec file was found at the usual paths; the help centre article on support.youcanbook.me sat behind a Cloudflare challenge. Scored absent (0 of 25). No llms.txt on youcanbook.me, the help centre or the Stoplight host (0). Descriptions, typed inputs and required fields unread (0 of 20, 0 of 15). The one response we saw is a JSON envelope with `code`, `errors`, `httpCode`, `message` and `status`, and the help centre gives a worked webhook payload (4 of 15). A /v1 path and `x-api-version: 1.18` and `x-api-revision` headers, with a product updates page dated by month and no API changelog (6 of 15). 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 4 + 6 = 10."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 58,
          "b": 10
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 43,
        "category": "maintenance",
        "leads": "cronofy",
        "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Cronofy's UI Elements, the JavaScript components it publishes for its API, carry a dated changelog in the docs with three code releases in October 2026, 1.68.0 (15 October, Romanian language support), 1.68.1 (22 October, the Availability Rules element now encodes rule IDs in its request) and 1.68.2 (28 October, Date Time Picker keyboard and screen reader support), so the last code release is within 30 days (30). pycronofy 2.1.2 (30 October) and 2.1.1 (25 September) change only packaging, 2.1.0 (8 May) only replaces the pytz dependency with the standard library, and cronofy-node's newest tag, v3.8.4 (15 September 2025), bumps axios. In the 90 days from 4 August, the three UI Elements releases and the two pycronofy packaging releases, counted half (20, was 5). Support through the docs, support pages and support@cronofy.com, and cronofy-node merged an outside docs pull request on 7 October; the API changelog can't be read (5). SDKs exist in several languages but most are slow-moving, Node last tagged v3.8.4 on 15 September 2025 and Ruby last tagged in 2023 (8). CI on the Node and Python SDKs, with Python 3.15 added on 30 October 2026 (8). 30+20+5+8+8 = 71.",
          "b": "Read as a closed service. The newest product update is dated September 2026 (registered SMS numbers), within 90 days but not 30, taking the month's first day (20 of 30). The previous entry is November 2025, so fewer than three in 90 days (0 of 20). A help centre, a community forum at forum.youcanbook.me and one-to-one support for paid users, with a product updates page that carries no API items (8 of 15). No official SDKs found (0). No package to assess (0). 20 + 0 + 8 + 0 + 0 = 28."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 71,
          "b": 28
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 36,
        "category": "security",
        "leads": "cronofy",
        "name": "Security \u0026 auth",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Per-user OAuth with fine scopes, including `free_busy` alone, `read_only`, and `delete_event` separate from `create_event`. Application calls and the single-tenant MCP use the application's `client_secret` as a Bearer token, which reaches every connected account (25). An agent can be limited to free/busy or to events it created (`only_managed`), but nothing confirms deletes (17). Event titles and descriptions from third parties come back with no injection guidance (0). No operator audit log found (0). ISO 27001, 27018 and 27701, SOC 2 Type 2 and a public bug bounty policy. No security.txt, per the 30 September check (18).",
          "b": "One account-wide API key sent as the HTTP Basic password with the account ID or email, generated and deleted by the Account Owner only; no scopes, expiry or per-user keys are documented (10 of 30). No read-only mode or confirmation step found (0 of 20). The API and webhooks carry names, answers and notes written by people who book, with no injection guidance (2 of 15). No audit log or per-call visibility found (0 of 15). SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (certificate 20/3433, 20 February 2024) and third-party penetration tests on the security page, but no security.txt (404), bug bounty or disclosure policy (12 of 20). 10 + 0 + 2 + 0 + 12 = 24."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 60,
          "b": 24
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 11,
        "category": "transparency",
        "leads": "cronofy",
        "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Closed service with terms naming Cronofy Limited (company 07878590) under English law, and MIT-licensed SDKs (15). The data management policy gives numbers. Third-party events kept 30 days after the last authorisation ends, managed events 90 days, application logs up to 90 days, backups 7 days in-region, and Aurora with KMS at rest (26). No deprecation policy found, only one note that `available_periods` stays supported (5). Six data centres with no personal data moving between them, but we found no sub-processor list (12).",
          "b": "Closed service with terms (18 March 2026) naming AI Software (Capacity) UK Ltd under English law, which bar data-mining and robot tools without consent and let the company end membership without notice for a breach (15 of 30). The privacy notice (16 March 2026) states retention periods (24 months for booking data by default, 7 years for support messages), AWS hosting in the United States, a DPA on request and no training of external AI models on booking data; the security page says no subprocessor list is published, and the two agree on AWS (22 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notice, and clause 18.4 allows changes to the service without notice (3 of 20). Providers are named in the privacy notice (AWS, Stripe, Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Hotjar, HubSpot) with US hosting, but there is no list with locations per processor (12 of 20). 15 + 22 + 3 + 12 = 52."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 72,
          "b": 61
        }
      }
    ],
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      {
        "a": "HTTP API",
        "b": "HTTP API",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Cronofy",
        "b": "AI Software (Capacity) UK Ltd, trading as YouCanBookMe",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "https://api.cronofy.com",
        "b": "https://api.youcanbook.me/v1",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP",
        "b": "HTTP",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "OAuth or key",
        "b": "API key",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Paid",
        "b": "Freemium",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "MIT (SDKs)",
        "b": "none",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-10-30",
        "b": "2026-09-01",
        "name": "Last release"
      },
      {
        "a": "no date given",
        "b": "2026-03-18",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "no date given",
        "b": "2026-03-16",
        "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": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "yes",
        "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": "51 stars, 11k npm/wk, 10k PyPI/wk",
        "b": "none",
        "name": "Popularity"
      },
      {
        "a": "4/5 (2)",
        "b": "none",
        "name": "Agent reviews"
      }
    ],
    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "Cronofy API scores 67.5 (B) on agent readiness against YouCanBookMe API's 22.5 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cronofy API or YouCanBookMe API?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Cronofy API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. YouCanBookMe API needs an API key.",
        "question": "Do Cronofy API and YouCanBookMe API need an API key?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Yes. Cronofy API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cronofy.com and YouCanBookMe API at https://api.youcanbook.me/v1.",
        "question": "Can an agent call Cronofy API and YouCanBookMe API without installing anything?"
      }
    ],
    "goodFor": [
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Reliability, 95 against 15",
          "Schema \u0026 documentation, 58 against 10",
          "Agent ergonomics, 76 against 13",
          "Security \u0026 auth, 60 against 24",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 71 against 28",
          "Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 61"
        ],
        "also": null,
        "goodFor": "Products that schedule across many people and rooms with strict data residency, especially in the UK and EU.",
        "slug": "cronofy",
        "watchFor": "Production pricing starts at $819 a month billed yearly"
      },
      {
        "aheadOn": null,
        "also": [
          "Free to start without a card"
        ],
        "goodFor": "A booking-page product for small businesses, closest to calendly and savvycal in scheduling.",
        "slug": "youcanbookme",
        "watchFor": "The API reference at ycbm.stoplight.io could not be read without JavaScript, and the help centre's API article sat behind a Cloudflare challenge"
      }
    ],
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        {
          "causes": [
            "product",
            "time"
          ],
          "date": "2026-11-02",
          "delta": 3.3,
          "from": 64.2,
          "fromGrade": "B",
          "to": 67.5,
          "toGrade": "B"
        },
        {
          "causes": [
            "method"
          ],
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "delta": -0.2,
          "from": 64.4,
          "fromGrade": "B",
          "to": 64.2,
          "toGrade": "B"
        }
      ],
      "youcanbookme": null
    },
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      "capability": "calendar.booking",
      "name": "Calendar booking"
    },
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agenda-hero-vs-cronofy.json",
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apiroc-vs-cronofy.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aurinko-calendar-vs-cronofy.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cal-com-vs-cronofy.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cozi-vs-cronofy.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cronofy-vs-nylas-calendar.json",
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    "scores": [
      {
        "by": 80,
        "cronofy": 95,
        "edge": "cronofy",
        "key": "reliability",
        "name": "Reliability",
        "weight": 16,
        "youcanbookme": 15
      },
      {
        "key": "performance",
        "name": "Performance",
        "pending": true,
        "weight": 10
      },
      {
        "by": 48,
        "cronofy": 58,
        "edge": "cronofy",
        "key": "schema",
        "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation",
        "weight": 13,
        "youcanbookme": 10
      },
      {
        "by": 63,
        "cronofy": 76,
        "edge": "cronofy",
        "key": "ergonomics",
        "name": "Agent ergonomics",
        "weight": 13,
        "youcanbookme": 13
      },
      {
        "by": 36,
        "cronofy": 60,
        "edge": "cronofy",
        "key": "security",
        "name": "Security \u0026 auth",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youcanbookme.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/youcanbookme.json\n- Best calendar and scheduling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/scheduling/index.md\n- All 89 scheduling comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scheduling/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Cronofy API (B)\n\nGood for: Products that schedule across many people and rooms with strict data residency, especially in the UK and EU.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 95 against 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 58 against 10\n- Agent ergonomics, 76 against 13\n- Security \u0026 auth, 60 against 24\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 71 against 28\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 61\n\nWatch for: Production pricing starts at $819 a month billed yearly\n\n### YouCanBookMe API (F)\n\nGood for: A booking-page product for small businesses, closest to calendly and savvycal in scheduling.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: The API reference at ycbm.stoplight.io could not be read without JavaScript, and the help centre's API article sat behind a Cloudflare challenge\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Cronofy API +80\n\n- Cronofy API (95): Atlassian Statuspage at status.cronofy.com with the API, Scheduler, Meeting Agents and each calendar provider as components (20). history.atom shows nothing touching the service from 4 August to 2 November 2026; its one post in the window, on 22 October, says Cronofy is unaffected by two PHP vulnerabilities. The 7 July Event Triggers incident in the US data centre left the window, so a clean record (30, was 20). 50 requests a second and 500 in any 60 seconds by default (15). 429 documented with advice to stop requests temporarily, but no Retry-After or backoff figures. Event writes are upserts keyed on your `event_id`, so a repeat updates rather than duplicates (10). 99.99% uptime guarantee on Emerging and Growth, and an API SLA policy page (10). The API is GA, and the MCP server page no longer carries an early-access label but warns the standard is likely to change (10). 20+30+15+10+10+10 = 95.\n- YouCanBookMe API (15): Read with the hosted lines. The help page links a status page at www.youcanbookmestatus.com, but the host did not resolve from our reader with or without www on 3 November 2026, so it is scored as not established rather than as a finding about the vendor (0). No readable history (5). No rate limit with a number in the help centre articles, the pricing page or the API's own error response; the API reference could not be read (0). No 429 or retry guidance and no idempotency key found (0). No SLA, and the terms say the service is not guaranteed to be available 100 per cent of the time (0). The API reports version 1.18 in its headers and is sold on the Team plan, so generally available (10). 0 + 5 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 15.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Cronofy API +63\n\n- Cronofy API (76): API responses can be narrowed, for example Availability's `response_format` of slots and the `only_managed` flag on events (15). Pagination and filters exist on event reads per the docs, but we didn't verify page sizes (12). Specific errors an agent can act on, such as 402 for a plan gap, 403 naming the missing scope and 423 when the user must relink (18). Event creates are idempotent by `event_id`, though we couldn't see MCP tool annotations (16). Official SDKs in Node, Python, Ruby, C# and more (15).\n- YouCanBookMe API (13): Response sizing, field selection and pagination are in the unread reference (3 of 25, 0 of 20). The error envelope names a machine code and a message an agent can branch on (8 of 20). No idempotency key or safe-retry guidance found (0 of 20). No official SDK, and the required parameters are unread (2 of 15). 3 + 0 + 8 + 0 + 2 = 13.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Cronofy API +48\n\n- Cronofy API (58): No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract found (0). llms.txt with about 35 to 40 links and Markdown copies of pages (10). Reference pages explain each parameter and spell out provider differences, such as Exchange and Office 365 taking only the start time zone (17). Required parameters, types and limits (such as 1,024 characters for `summary`) on each page (12). Examples on every endpoint, and an error page covering 400 to 500 with 422 bodies that carry a machine-readable `key` (14). `/v1` in the path. The changelog at changelog.cronofy.com is on a host whose robots.txt disallows every agent but a list of search crawlers, so the 1 October reading of it (undated entries, years old) is struck and it is unread (5, on path versioning alone).\n- YouCanBookMe API (10): The reference lives on Stoplight at ycbm.stoplight.io, which usually renders an OpenAPI file, but our reader got only the workspace shell, and no spec file was found at the usual paths; the help centre article on support.youcanbook.me sat behind a Cloudflare challenge. Scored absent (0 of 25). No llms.txt on youcanbook.me, the help centre or the Stoplight host (0). Descriptions, typed inputs and required fields unread (0 of 20, 0 of 15). The one response we saw is a JSON envelope with `code`, `errors`, `httpCode`, `message` and `status`, and the help centre gives a worked webhook payload (4 of 15). A /v1 path and `x-api-version: 1.18` and `x-api-revision` headers, with a product updates page dated by month and no API changelog (6 of 15). 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 4 + 6 = 10.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Cronofy API +43\n\n- Cronofy API (71): Cronofy's UI Elements, the JavaScript components it publishes for its API, carry a dated changelog in the docs with three code releases in October 2026, 1.68.0 (15 October, Romanian language support), 1.68.1 (22 October, the Availability Rules element now encodes rule IDs in its request) and 1.68.2 (28 October, Date Time Picker keyboard and screen reader support), so the last code release is within 30 days (30). pycronofy 2.1.2 (30 October) and 2.1.1 (25 September) change only packaging, 2.1.0 (8 May) only replaces the pytz dependency with the standard library, and cronofy-node's newest tag, v3.8.4 (15 September 2025), bumps axios. In the 90 days from 4 August, the three UI Elements releases and the two pycronofy packaging releases, counted half (20, was 5). Support through the docs, support pages and support@cronofy.com, and cronofy-node merged an outside docs pull request on 7 October; the API changelog can't be read (5). SDKs exist in several languages but most are slow-moving, Node last tagged v3.8.4 on 15 September 2025 and Ruby last tagged in 2023 (8). CI on the Node and Python SDKs, with Python 3.15 added on 30 October 2026 (8). 30+20+5+8+8 = 71.\n- YouCanBookMe API (28): Read as a closed service. The newest product update is dated September 2026 (registered SMS numbers), within 90 days but not 30, taking the month's first day (20 of 30). The previous entry is November 2025, so fewer than three in 90 days (0 of 20). A help centre, a community forum at forum.youcanbook.me and one-to-one support for paid users, with a product updates page that carries no API items (8 of 15). No official SDKs found (0). No package to assess (0). 20 + 0 + 8 + 0 + 0 = 28.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Cronofy API +36\n\n- Cronofy API (60): Per-user OAuth with fine scopes, including `free_busy` alone, `read_only`, and `delete_event` separate from `create_event`. Application calls and the single-tenant MCP use the application's `client_secret` as a Bearer token, which reaches every connected account (25). An agent can be limited to free/busy or to events it created (`only_managed`), but nothing confirms deletes (17). Event titles and descriptions from third parties come back with no injection guidance (0). No operator audit log found (0). ISO 27001, 27018 and 27701, SOC 2 Type 2 and a public bug bounty policy. No security.txt, per the 30 September check (18).\n- YouCanBookMe API (24): One account-wide API key sent as the HTTP Basic password with the account ID or email, generated and deleted by the Account Owner only; no scopes, expiry or per-user keys are documented (10 of 30). No read-only mode or confirmation step found (0 of 20). The API and webhooks carry names, answers and notes written by people who book, with no injection guidance (2 of 15). No audit log or per-call visibility found (0 of 15). SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (certificate 20/3433, 20 February 2024) and third-party penetration tests on the security page, but no security.txt (404), bug bounty or disclosure policy (12 of 20). 10 + 0 + 2 + 0 + 12 = 24.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Cronofy API +11\n\n- Cronofy API (72): Closed service with terms naming Cronofy Limited (company 07878590) under English law, and MIT-licensed SDKs (15). The data management policy gives numbers. Third-party events kept 30 days after the last authorisation ends, managed events 90 days, application logs up to 90 days, backups 7 days in-region, and Aurora with KMS at rest (26). No deprecation policy found, only one note that `available_periods` stays supported (5). Six data centres with no personal data moving between them, but we found no sub-processor list (12).\n- YouCanBookMe API (61): Closed service with terms (18 March 2026) naming AI Software (Capacity) UK Ltd under English law, which bar data-mining and robot tools without consent and let the company end membership without notice for a breach (15 of 30). The privacy notice (16 March 2026) states retention periods (24 months for booking data by default, 7 years for support messages), AWS hosting in the United States, a DPA on request and no training of external AI models on booking data; the security page says no subprocessor list is published, and the two agree on AWS (22 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notice, and clause 18.4 allows changes to the service without notice (3 of 20). Providers are named in the privacy notice (AWS, Stripe, Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Hotjar, HubSpot) with US hosting, but there is no list with locations per processor (12 of 20). 15 + 22 + 3 + 12 = 52.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cronofy API | YouCanBookMe API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 95 | 15 | Cronofy API +80 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 10 | Cronofy API +48 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 13 | Cronofy API +63 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 24 | Cronofy API +36 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 28 | Cronofy API +43 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 61 | Cronofy API +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.5 · B** | **22.5 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cronofy API | YouCanBookMe API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Cronofy | AI Software (Capacity) UK Ltd, trading as YouCanBookMe |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cronofy.com` | `https://api.youcanbook.me/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT (SDKs) | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-30 | 2026-09-01 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-03-18 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-03-16 |\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 | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 51 stars, 11k npm/wk, 10k PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Cronofy API\n\n- +3.3 on 2 November 2026: product, time\n- -0.2 on 8 October 2026: checklist\n\n### YouCanBookMe API\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cronofy API.** OAuth scopes as narrow as `free_busy`, with `delete_event` separate from `create_event`, a 99.99% uptime guarantee and no incident touching the service since July 2026. Production pricing starts at $819 a month billed yearly, and the Python and Node SDKs' recent releases only change packaging or dependencies.\n\n**YouCanBookMe API.** A booking-page service with a Team-plan REST API over HTTP Basic auth and one account-wide key, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 on its security page, and a 14-day trial without a card. Its API reference renders only by JavaScript and its status page did not resolve for us, so endpoints, limits and incidents are unverified.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cronofy API\n\n1. Call the data centre host the account was created in (api-uk, api-de and so on), since data never crosses regions\n2. Reuse the same `event_id` when retrying an event write, since Cronofy upserts on it\n3. Ask for `response_format` slots when you want bookable times rather than free periods\n4. On 423, ask the user to relink, since Cronofy has already emailed them\n5. Keep under 50 requests a second and 500 a minute, and pause on 429\n\n### YouCanBookMe API\n\n1. Ask the Account Owner for the account ID and API key, since Administrators and Contributors cannot generate one, and send them as HTTP Basic credentials\n2. Read the API reference at ycbm.stoplight.io in a browser before planning calls; its endpoints and parameters were not readable to us\n3. Treat the key as full account access and keep it out of logs, since no scoped or read-only key is documented\n4. Expect a JSON error body with `code`, `message` and `status` on failures, and check for an existing booking before repeating a create, since no idempotency key is documented\n5. Use booking-page webhooks for booking, reschedule, cancel, reminder, follow-up and no-show events instead of polling\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cronofy API or YouCanBookMe API?\n\nCronofy API scores 67.5 (B) on agent readiness against YouCanBookMe API's 22.5 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Cronofy API and YouCanBookMe API need an API key?\n\nCronofy API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. YouCanBookMe API needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Cronofy API and YouCanBookMe API without installing anything?\n\nYes. Cronofy API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cronofy.com and YouCanBookMe API at https://api.youcanbook.me/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cronofy-vs-youcanbookme.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cronofy-vs-youcanbookme.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cronofy\", \"b\": \"youcanbookme\"}`. 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