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Head to head · Restaurant reservations · October 2026 research run

Eat App Partner API vs TheFork B2B API

Eat App Partner API scores 53.4 (D) on agent readiness against TheFork B2B API's 43.6 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. TheFork B2B API leads on schema & documentation. Both do restaurant reservations.

Best restaurant reservation and local appointment APIs for AI agents · All 36 bookings comparisons

Eat App Partner APIEat App (EAT APPLICATION DMCC) · HTTP API D53.4/100#752 of 1076 TheFork B2B APITheFork (La Fourchette SAS) · HTTP API E43.6/100#951 of 1076

Which one, for what

Eat App Partner API D

Best for Booking channels and concierge services that want to book into Eat App restaurants, and for restaurants that want an assistant to read their data.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 78 against 35
  • Agent ergonomics, 66 against 56
  • Payments & pricing, 15 against 5
  • Maintenance & community, 40 against 15
  • Transparency & trust, 52 against 47

Watch for

A booking channel can book only at restaurants whose partnership Eat App has activated

TheFork B2B API E

Best for CRM, PMS and AI phone-agent vendors and restaurant groups that run on TheFork Manager, mainly in Europe.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 87 against 59

Watch for

Venue-side only. Credentials cover the restaurants that granted access, and no endpoint lists restaurants

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runEat App Partner APITheFork B2B APIEdge
Reliability16%207835Eat App Partner API +43
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25987TheFork B2B API +28
Agent ergonomics13%16.26656Eat App Partner API +10
Security & auth14%17.54342Eat App Partner API +1
Payments & pricing10%12.5155Eat App Partner API +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.84015Eat App Partner API +25
Transparency & trust7%8.85247Eat App Partner API +5
Negative events≤1500
TotalD 53.4/100E 43.6/100

Facts side by side

FactEat App Partner APITheFork B2B API
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorEat App (EAT APPLICATION DMCC)TheFork (La Fourchette SAS)
Hosted endpointhttps://api.eatapp.co/partners/v2https://api.thefork.io/manager
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth
PricingPaidYour plan
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Eat App's terms of service (effective 10 September 2025) and partner agreementsProprietary service under TheFork Partners API Terms of Use (La Fourchette SAS) and any core agreement with TheFork
Read-only variant documentedyesyes
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-10-13none
Terms last updated2025-09-10
Privacy policy last updatedno date givenno document linked
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text

Verdicts

Eat App Partner API

A diner-side Partner API with idempotent booking, a stated rate limit, per-API status monitoring and a changelog updated on 13 October 2026, plus a read-only MCP server for restaurants. Partnerships are activated restaurant by restaurant, API access is priced through sales, and the docs are a Postman collection without OpenAPI or llms.txt.

TheFork B2B API

A venue-side API with a generated OpenAPI 3.1 schema, an llms.txt written for agents and nine OAuth scopes down to read-only availability. It acts for restaurants and their vendors, not diners, needs partner approval, cannot take card guarantees, and has no public status page, changelog or published prices.

Before you call either

Eat App Partner API

  1. Send a unique idempotency_token with each new booking so a retry returns the first result
  2. Use POST /partners/v2/availability/range, not the legacy availability endpoint
  3. Keep include_tables ranges to 24 hours or less and pass covers with it
  4. Stay under 60 requests a minute and wait for the next minute after a 429
  5. Cancel by PATCH with status canceled, after which the reservation can no longer change

TheFork B2B API

  1. Read hasPaymentGuaranteeRequirement in the timeslots response before booking, since the API cannot take a card
  2. Check the status field after creating a reservation and treat REQUESTED as unconfirmed
  3. Send the timeslot datetime unchanged as mealDate, because times are the restaurant's local time
  4. Check for an existing reservation before retrying a failed POST, as no idempotency key exists and 409 signals DOUBLE_BOOKING
  5. Cache the access token for its 8,600 seconds and do not request a new one while it is valid

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Eat App Partner API or TheFork B2B API?

Eat App Partner API scores 53.4 (D) on agent readiness against TheFork B2B API's 43.6 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. TheFork B2B API leads on schema & documentation.

Do Eat App Partner API and TheFork B2B API need an API key?

Eat App Partner API takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. TheFork B2B API uses an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Eat App Partner API and TheFork B2B API without installing anything?

Yes. Eat App Partner API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.eatapp.co/partners/v2 and TheFork B2B API at https://api.thefork.io/manager.

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