{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "eat-this-much", "name": "Eat This Much Partner API", "vendor": "Eat This Much, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.eatthismuch.com/partner-api", "kind": "http-api", "category": "cooking", "summary": "The Eat This Much Partner API generates a week, a day or a meal of recipes to calorie and macro targets and diet presets, builds the grocery list and renders the plan as HTML or PDF, under a partner contract.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/eat-this-much", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/eat-this-much.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/eat-this-much.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/eat-this-much.json", "dns": "eat-this-much.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "Proprietary service under a partner contract; the website terms cover the consumer service", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "API keys sent as X-API-Key or Authorization: Bearer. Keys are created, listed and deleted through /gapi/keys/ by an API user, who may also use a logged-in session cookie; the raw key is shown once. Access is by contract: the partner page says there is no self-serve signup, partners are onboarded after a recommended approach and contract are agreed, and the API is in early access with a limited number of partners (https://www.eatthismuch.com/partner-api, checked 3 November 2026).", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Pricing is tailored to each partner's use case and volume, with no public price list. Calls are metered in credits per the OpenAPI, 50 for a week plan, 10 for a day, 5 for a meal, 10 to render or build groceries, 10 for a food search and 1 for a food lookup; the usage endpoint reports base credits, billable credits and a price per credit, whose schema example is $0.01, an example rather than a price. Evaluation before a contract is by contacting the company. The consumer app is free with Premium at $5 a month billed annually (checked 3 November 2026).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI document, the partner page or the changelog (checked 3 November 2026).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 0, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.eatthismuch.com/g/docs", "openapi": "https://www.eatthismuch.com/g/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "cooking.meal-plans", "cooking.grocery", "cooking.nutrition", "cooking.recipes" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "api-key", "openapi", "sales-led", "partner-only", "beta", "no-status-page", "ios", "android" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 45.7, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1114, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1349, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 0, "reliability": 23, "schema": 75, "security": 48, "transparency": 61 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A public OpenAPI 3.0.3 document with credits and concurrency limits per operation, enum diet presets and a dated changelog describes a meal plan generator an agent can read well. Access needs a partner contract with no self-serve signup, no published price and no status page, and the API is in early access.", "bestFor": "Health, fitness, dietitian and healthcare apps that want generated meal plans and grocery lists under contract.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 (version 4.2.0) with curl samples, named response schemas and a per-operation credit cost", "Dated changelog with eight entries since 14 July 2026, breaking changes labelled, newest 15 October 2026", "Week, day or single meal generation to calories and macro ranges, with diet presets, exclusions by name or food id, a grocery list and HTML or PDF rendering", "Several keys per API user, created and deleted through the API, with a paginated usage history per key", "Concurrency limits published per operation (3 week, 10 day, 20 meal generations) with a documented 429" ], "weaknesses": [ "No self-serve signup. Partners are onboarded after a contract, the API is in early access and prices are tailored per partner", "No status page, SLA, Retry-After guidance or idempotency keys; generation is charged per call", "No official SDK, llms.txt or Markdown docs; the docs page is the OpenAPI document alone", "The website terms (undated) forbid bots and scraping and do not cover the API; the privacy policy is dated 3 December 2020", "No security.txt, disclosure policy or certification found, and keys have no scopes or read-only mode" ], "agentNotes": [ "Access needs a contract with Eat This Much first; ask the person to contact support@eatthismuch.com before planning calls", "Send the key as X-API-Key. Each generate call needs calories, number of meals and preset_diet; keep macro percentages summing to 100 or use gram ranges, not both", "Stay under 3 concurrent week, 10 day and 20 meal generations per API user, and treat 429 as a concurrency limit to wait out, not a quota", "Request food_output=simple unless expanded nutrition is needed, and set include_groceries=false when the list is not wanted; each call costs credits", "Read the changelog before upgrading, since 3.0.0 moved preferred_food_type into meal_settings and 4.0.0 renamed amount to servings" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 45.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 0, "reliability": 23, "schema": 75, "security": 48, "transparency": 47 }, "provenanceScore": 74, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-03", "maintenance": "2026-11-03", "payments": "2026-11-03", "reliability": "2026-11-03", "schema": "2026-11-03", "security": "2026-11-03", "transparency": "2026-11-03" }, "last": "2026-11-03", "oldest": "2026-11-03", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST 'https://www.eatthismuch.com/gapi/generate/day/' -H 'X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{\"target_calories\": 2000, \"num_meals\": 3, \"preset_diet\": \"vegetarian\"}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/cooking.meal-plans", "tool": "https://letme.dev/eat-this-much" }, "area": "everyday", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Eat This Much, Inc.", "domain": "eatthismuch.com", "domainRegistered": "2012-03-23", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.eatthismuch.com/terms", "privacy": "https://www.eatthismuch.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.eatthismuch.com/g/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "The terms name Eat This Much, Inc., a Delaware corporation, under California law, with no last-updated date; amendments take effect 10 days after posting. The privacy policy is dated 3 December 2020 and names Louis DeMenthon as privacy officer.", "The terms forbid access through bots, spiders, scripts or software and any scraping, harvesting or data extraction. Recorded as a fact; public pages were read within robots.txt, which allows ClaudeBot with a 2 second crawl delay.", "The API's own terms are the partner contract, not public; the partner page states retention (data kept for the partnership, nutrition data cached up to 7 days).", "/.well-known/security.txt returns 404 with a server error page. No status page found; status.eatthismuch.com does not resolve.", "RDAP gives eatthismuch.com a registration date of 23 March 2012." ], "score": 74 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/eat-this-much.json", "live": { "slug": "eat-this-much", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://eatthismuch.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T15:54:44.288083399Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-04T15:54:44.288083399Z" } }, "answer": "Eat This Much Partner API scores 45.7 (E) on agent readiness against fatsecret Platform API's 42 (E), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. fatsecret Platform API leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "fatsecret", "name": "fatsecret Platform API", "vendor": "fatsecret", "vendorUrl": "https://platform.fatsecret.com/platform-api", "kind": "http-api", "category": "cooking", "summary": "The fatsecret Platform API is a REST API over fatsecret's verified food and nutrition database, with food search, barcode lookup, recipes, image recognition and natural-language food logging, plus per-user food, exercise and weight diaries, under OAuth 2.0 and OAuth 1.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fatsecret", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fatsecret.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fatsecret.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fatsecret.json", "dns": "fatsecret.grade.anchorterminal.com", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 client credentials at https://oauth.fatsecret.com/connect/token with a Client ID and Client Secret from the developer dashboard after a browser registration; tokens last 86,400 seconds and carry scopes (`basic`, `premier`, `barcode`, `localization`, `nlp`, `image-recognition` and `feedback`), and token requests are allowed only from the IP addresses or CIDR ranges registered on the key. OAuth 1.0 with HMAC-SHA1 signatures is kept for signed and delegated (per-user profile) requests, including a 3-legged flow for fatsecret.com accounts.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Basic is free on self sign-up with 5,000 calls a day, US data, English and attribution required. Premier Free (start-ups under US$1M revenue and raised, non-profits, students) needs verification and removes the daily cap. Premier is priced on request by market, with 62 regional datasets, 26 languages, white label and a month-by-month SLA; image recognition and NLP are add-ons billed in tiers of 25,000 inputs. No card for Basic or Premier.", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the guides, editions page, authentication guides or terms (checked 2026-11-03). Premier is contracted through sales.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 0, "popularity": { "githubStars": 25, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://platform.fatsecret.com/docs/guides", "capabilities": [ "cooking.nutrition", "cooking.recipes", "cooking.food-recognition", "cooking.grocery" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "oauth", "sales-led", "enterprise", "closed-source", "no-status-page" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 42, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1185, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1349, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 13, "payments": 25, "reliability": 35, "schema": 52, "security": 51, "transparency": 34 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "OAuth 2.0 client credentials with feature scopes, IP-restricted tokens, a free 5,000-call day with no card, and per-serving nutrients with allergen flags on branded and generic foods. The newest search and image methods need the sales-priced Premier edition, there is no status page, OpenAPI file or official SDK, and the privacy policy and blog could not be read.", "bestFor": "Agents logging foods and reading serving-level nutrients, allergens and barcodes for a person, with diaries written back; strongest outside the US on Premier with 62 regional datasets.", "strengths": [ "OAuth 2.0 client credentials with seven scopes, 24-hour tokens and token requests limited to registered IP addresses", "Basic edition free on self sign-up with 5,000 calls a day and no card", "Serving-level nutrients with allergen and preference flags, barcode lookup and 212 region codes in 26 languages on Premier", "Numeric error codes with messages documented centrally and per method, with JSON or XML responses", "Per-user food, exercise and weight diaries can be written through profiles, so a plan can reach a person's log" ], "weaknesses": [ "Natural language, image recognition, autocomplete, barcode scanning and foods.search v5 are Premier Exclusive, priced on request by market", "No status page, SLA figures outside Premier, OpenAPI document, llms.txt, changelog or official SDK found", "No HTTP 429 or Retry-After documented; limits surface as error codes 11 and 12 in the body", "Content not marked storable must be removed or re-requested within 24 hours, and attribution is required wherever it is shown on Basic and Premier Free", "The privacy policy on foods.fatsecret.com and the blog's release notes could not be read, and the terms name no legal entity or date" ], "agentNotes": [ "Request a token with `grant_type=client_credentials` and only the scopes the task needs; a token request from an IP not registered on the key fails, so run from a fixed address", "Use `foods.search` v1 on Basic, since v5, autocomplete, barcode and image methods answer with a scope error without Premier", "Pass `format=json` and keep `max_results` at or below 50 with a zero-based `page_number`; treat error code 11 or 12 in the body as the rate limit, since no 429 is documented", "Store only food_id and serving_id between sessions and re-request other values within 24 hours, as the terms require", "Use a delegated profile token for diary writes and keep the profile's oauth_token and oauth_secret, since fatsecret does not return them again" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 42 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 13, "payments": 25, "reliability": 35, "schema": 52, "security": 51, "transparency": 18 }, "provenanceScore": 49, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-03", "maintenance": "2026-11-03", "payments": "2026-11-03", "reliability": "2026-11-03", "schema": "2026-11-03", "security": "2026-11-03", "transparency": "2026-11-03" }, "last": "2026-11-03", "oldest": "2026-11-03", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -u \"$FATSECRET_CLIENT_ID:$FATSECRET_CLIENT_SECRET\" -d \"grant_type=client_credentials\u0026scope=basic\" https://oauth.fatsecret.com/connect/token" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/cooking.nutrition", "tool": "https://letme.dev/fatsecret" }, "area": "everyday", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "fatsecret.com", "domainRegistered": "2006-04-07", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://platform.fatsecret.com/terms", "privacy": "https://foods.fatsecret.com/Default.aspx?pa=priv\u0026l=en", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "The Platform API terms name the provider only as Fatsecret.com, under the law of the State of Victoria, Australia, with no effective date. They forbid robots, spiders or other automated applications retrieving or indexing API content except as the documentation allows, and say fatsecret may crawl or monitor applications; no clause addresses automated reading of the website.", "platform.fatsecret.com/robots.txt disallows /rest* for all crawlers, which is the API itself, and nothing was fetched under it. foods.fatsecret.com/robots.txt disallows the whole site for ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai and other named crawlers, so the privacy policy there was not read. blog.fatsecret.com/robots.txt answered 403, so the blog's release notes were not read. www.fatsecret.com has no robots.txt (404) and its about-us page answered 403.", "No status page or changelog found. platform.fatsecret.com/.well-known/security.txt answered the site's generic error page with a request id, so security.txt is unknown. No llms.txt (302 to another page).", "RDAP gives fatsecret.com a registration date of 7 April 2006, the year the about page gives for the company's founding." ], "score": 49 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fatsecret.json", "live": { "slug": "fatsecret", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://fatsecret.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T15:52:54.388597771Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-04T15:52:54.388597771Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 45, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "eat-this-much", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Read as a closed service. Changelog entry 4.2.0 dated 15 October 2026 (30). Four dated entries in the 90 days to 3 November, 5 August, 6 August, 16 September and 15 October 2026 (20). A support address in the OpenAPI contact block and the changelog, no community channel (8 of 15). No official SDK; the docs point to Postman (0). No package to judge (0). Total 58.", "b": "Read as a closed service. No dated API change could be read first-hand. The blog that carries the 'What's new' notes sits behind a robots.txt that answered 403, the method pages are undated, and the official Postman repository's last push is 1 July 2025, more than 180 days before 3 November 2026 (0 of 30). No three dated changes in 90 days established (0 of 20). A developer forum on Google Groups, a contact form, and email, phone, Slack and video support on Premier, with no public changelog on the platform site (8 of 15). No official SDK; an official Postman collection (5 of 15). No package to assess (0 of 10). 0 + 0 + 8 + 5 + 0 = 13." }, "scores": { "a": 58, "b": 13 } }, { "by": 27, "category": "transparency", "leads": "eat-this-much", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service. The website terms name Eat This Much, Inc. under California law but carry no date and do not cover the API, whose terms are the partner contract; the partner page states the standard retention terms (12 of 30). The privacy policy of 3 December 2020 names its processors and US and Canada databases, the partner page gives retention for partner data and a 7-day cache for nutrition data, and the terms say uploaded recipes cannot be removed (15 of 30). Breaking changes are dated and labelled in the changelog but no notice period or policy is stated (8 of 20). Processors named (Google, Amplitude, Meta, Stripe, Bugsnag, Groove, SendGrid, Cloudflare) and data locations stated (12 of 20). Total 47.", "b": "Closed service with terms that are clear on caching, attribution, rate limits and termination, but undated, naming the provider only as Fatsecret.com, and changeable with or without notice (12 of 30). The privacy policy on foods.fatsecret.com could not be read, because that host's robots.txt disallows our reader, so no data-handling statement was scored; the terms require content to be removed within 24 hours (0 of 30, unchecked). Older method versions stay documented alongside v5 and foods.search v4 is still served, but the terms allow any aspect of the API to be changed or discontinued at any time with no notice period (6 of 20). No subprocessors or data locations found (0 of 20). 12 + 0 + 6 + 0 = 18." }, "scores": { "a": 61, "b": 34 } }, { "by": 25, "category": "payments", "leads": "fatsecret", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Pricing is tailored to each partner and not published; the usage schema's price per credit of 0.01 is an example value (0). No free tier or trial for the API; evaluation is by contacting the company (0). Access starts with a contract signed by a person (0). Total 0.", "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0 of 40). Basic is free and Premier is priced on request by market, with add-ons billed in tiers of 25,000 inputs and no price given, so the paid prices are contact sales (5 of 20). Basic is free on self sign-up with no card, and the platform page says Premier needs no upfront payment or card (20 of 20). A person registers in a browser and Premier goes through sales; no key API was found (0 of 20). 0 + 5 + 20 + 0 = 25." }, "scores": { "a": 0, "b": 25 } }, { "by": 23, "category": "schema", "leads": "eat-this-much", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3, version 4.2.0, at /g/openapi.yaml with 14 operations and named schemas (25). No llms.txt or Markdown docs; the docs page is the OpenAPI document and a Postman guide (0 of 10). Every operation states its purpose, its credit cost and its concurrency limit, and the week endpoint says when to use render separately; little on when not to use a call (14 of 20). Enums on preset_diet, output, format, generator_focus, num_foods and food_output, but the generate request schemas list no required properties, with the required inputs stated in prose (10 of 15). curl samples on six operations, error responses 400, 401, 404, 429 and 500 with an IssueMap of field messages (12 of 15). The version is in info only, paths carry no version, but the changelog dates each change and labels breaking ones (14 of 15). Total 75.", "b": "No OpenAPI or similar document was found; the official Postman collection is the only machine-readable contract (8 of 25). No llms.txt (a redirect) and no Markdown docs (0 of 10). Each method page states purpose, parameters, response fields and Premier status, with little on when not to use a method (12 of 20). Parameters are typed with defaults and allowed values, `max_results` is capped at 50, but the field tables mistype allergen names as Long and leave food_images out of the food-level fields (11 of 15). Example responses in XML and JSON on each method, a central error code list with the body shape, and per-method error codes (13 of 15). Methods carry versions (v1 to v5) and older versions stay documented, but no changelog is on the platform site and the blog's 'What's new' could not be read (8 of 15). 8 + 0 + 12 + 11 + 13 + 8 = 52." }, "scores": { "a": 75, "b": 52 } }, { "by": 12, "category": "reliability", "leads": "fatsecret", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Read with the hosted lines. No status page found on eatthismuch.com, the docs or the partner page, and status.eatthismuch.com does not resolve (0). No readable incident history (5). Concurrency limits published with numbers, 3 week, 10 day and 20 meal generations per API user, but no rate per minute or day (12 of 15). 429 documented on three generate operations without Retry-After or backoff guidance, and no idempotency keys on calls that are charged (6 of 15). No SLA (0). The partner page calls the API early access with a limited number of partners, so not general availability (0). Total 23.", "b": "Read with the hosted lines. No status page was found on the platform site, the guides, the editions page or the about page (0), so there is no incident history to read (5). The limit is published with a number, 5,000 calls a day on Basic in the terms and on the editions page, and Premier is unlimited (15). Limits surface as error codes 11 and 12 in the body; no HTTP 429, Retry-After or backoff guidance was found, and diary writes have no idempotency key (5 of 15). Premier carries a month-by-month SLA with service credits, named on the editions page without figures, and every edition claims more than 99.9 per cent uptime (5 of 10). The API is generally available, with versioned methods (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 5 + 5 + 10 = 35." }, "scores": { "a": 23, "b": 35 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Eat This Much, Inc.", "b": "fatsecret", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under a partner contract; the website terms cover the consumer service", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "0", "b": "0", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-15", "b": "none", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2020-12-03", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "25 stars", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Eat This Much Partner API scores 45.7 (E) on agent readiness against fatsecret Platform API's 42 (E), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. fatsecret Platform API leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Eat This Much Partner API or fatsecret Platform API?" }, { "answer": "Eat This Much Partner API needs an API key. fatsecret Platform API uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Eat This Much Partner API and fatsecret Platform API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Eat This Much Partner API. No hosted endpoint is listed for fatsecret Platform API.", "question": "Can an agent call Eat This Much Partner API and fatsecret Platform API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 52", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 58 against 13", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 61 against 34" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Health, fitness, dietitian and healthcare apps that want generated meal plans and grocery lists under contract.", "slug": "eat-this-much", "watchFor": "No self-serve signup. 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Both do cooking nutrition.\n\n- Eat This Much Partner API: grade E, 45.7/100, rank #1114 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/eat-this-much.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/eat-this-much.json\n- fatsecret Platform API: grade E, 42/100, rank #1185 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fatsecret.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fatsecret.json\n- Best recipe, nutrition and meal planning APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/cooking/index.md\n- All 28 cooking comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cooking/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Eat This Much Partner API (E)\n\nGood for: Health, fitness, dietitian and healthcare apps that want generated meal plans and grocery lists under contract.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 52\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 58 against 13\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 61 against 34\n\nWatch for: No self-serve signup. Partners are onboarded after a contract, the API is in early access and prices are tailored per partner\n\n### fatsecret Platform API (E)\n\nGood for: Agents logging foods and reading serving-level nutrients, allergens and barcodes for a person, with diaries written back; strongest outside the US on Premier with 62 regional datasets.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 35 against 23\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 0\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Natural language, image recognition, autocomplete, barcode scanning and foods.search v5 are Premier Exclusive, priced on request by market\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Eat This Much Partner API +45\n\n- Eat This Much Partner API (58): Read as a closed service. Changelog entry 4.2.0 dated 15 October 2026 (30). Four dated entries in the 90 days to 3 November, 5 August, 6 August, 16 September and 15 October 2026 (20). A support address in the OpenAPI contact block and the changelog, no community channel (8 of 15). No official SDK; the docs point to Postman (0). No package to judge (0). Total 58.\n- fatsecret Platform API (13): Read as a closed service. No dated API change could be read first-hand. The blog that carries the 'What's new' notes sits behind a robots.txt that answered 403, the method pages are undated, and the official Postman repository's last push is 1 July 2025, more than 180 days before 3 November 2026 (0 of 30). No three dated changes in 90 days established (0 of 20). A developer forum on Google Groups, a contact form, and email, phone, Slack and video support on Premier, with no public changelog on the platform site (8 of 15). No official SDK; an official Postman collection (5 of 15). No package to assess (0 of 10). 0 + 0 + 8 + 5 + 0 = 13.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Eat This Much Partner API +27\n\n- Eat This Much Partner API (61): Closed service. The website terms name Eat This Much, Inc. under California law but carry no date and do not cover the API, whose terms are the partner contract; the partner page states the standard retention terms (12 of 30). The privacy policy of 3 December 2020 names its processors and US and Canada databases, the partner page gives retention for partner data and a 7-day cache for nutrition data, and the terms say uploaded recipes cannot be removed (15 of 30). Breaking changes are dated and labelled in the changelog but no notice period or policy is stated (8 of 20). Processors named (Google, Amplitude, Meta, Stripe, Bugsnag, Groove, SendGrid, Cloudflare) and data locations stated (12 of 20). Total 47.\n- fatsecret Platform API (34): Closed service with terms that are clear on caching, attribution, rate limits and termination, but undated, naming the provider only as Fatsecret.com, and changeable with or without notice (12 of 30). The privacy policy on foods.fatsecret.com could not be read, because that host's robots.txt disallows our reader, so no data-handling statement was scored; the terms require content to be removed within 24 hours (0 of 30, unchecked). Older method versions stay documented alongside v5 and foods.search v4 is still served, but the terms allow any aspect of the API to be changed or discontinued at any time with no notice period (6 of 20). No subprocessors or data locations found (0 of 20). 12 + 0 + 6 + 0 = 18.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: fatsecret Platform API +25\n\n- Eat This Much Partner API (0): Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Pricing is tailored to each partner and not published; the usage schema's price per credit of 0.01 is an example value (0). No free tier or trial for the API; evaluation is by contacting the company (0). Access starts with a contract signed by a person (0). Total 0.\n- fatsecret Platform API (25): No x402, MPP or L402 (0 of 40). Basic is free and Premier is priced on request by market, with add-ons billed in tiers of 25,000 inputs and no price given, so the paid prices are contact sales (5 of 20). Basic is free on self sign-up with no card, and the platform page says Premier needs no upfront payment or card (20 of 20). A person registers in a browser and Premier goes through sales; no key API was found (0 of 20). 0 + 5 + 20 + 0 = 25.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Eat This Much Partner API +23\n\n- Eat This Much Partner API (75): Public OpenAPI 3.0.3, version 4.2.0, at /g/openapi.yaml with 14 operations and named schemas (25). No llms.txt or Markdown docs; the docs page is the OpenAPI document and a Postman guide (0 of 10). Every operation states its purpose, its credit cost and its concurrency limit, and the week endpoint says when to use render separately; little on when not to use a call (14 of 20). Enums on preset_diet, output, format, generator_focus, num_foods and food_output, but the generate request schemas list no required properties, with the required inputs stated in prose (10 of 15). curl samples on six operations, error responses 400, 401, 404, 429 and 500 with an IssueMap of field messages (12 of 15). The version is in info only, paths carry no version, but the changelog dates each change and labels breaking ones (14 of 15). Total 75.\n- fatsecret Platform API (52): No OpenAPI or similar document was found; the official Postman collection is the only machine-readable contract (8 of 25). No llms.txt (a redirect) and no Markdown docs (0 of 10). Each method page states purpose, parameters, response fields and Premier status, with little on when not to use a method (12 of 20). Parameters are typed with defaults and allowed values, `max_results` is capped at 50, but the field tables mistype allergen names as Long and leave food_images out of the food-level fields (11 of 15). Example responses in XML and JSON on each method, a central error code list with the body shape, and per-method error codes (13 of 15). Methods carry versions (v1 to v5) and older versions stay documented, but no changelog is on the platform site and the blog's 'What's new' could not be read (8 of 15). 8 + 0 + 12 + 11 + 13 + 8 = 52.\n\n### Reliability: fatsecret Platform API +12\n\n- Eat This Much Partner API (23): Read with the hosted lines. No status page found on eatthismuch.com, the docs or the partner page, and status.eatthismuch.com does not resolve (0). No readable incident history (5). Concurrency limits published with numbers, 3 week, 10 day and 20 meal generations per API user, but no rate per minute or day (12 of 15). 429 documented on three generate operations without Retry-After or backoff guidance, and no idempotency keys on calls that are charged (6 of 15). No SLA (0). The partner page calls the API early access with a limited number of partners, so not general availability (0). Total 23.\n- fatsecret Platform API (35): Read with the hosted lines. No status page was found on the platform site, the guides, the editions page or the about page (0), so there is no incident history to read (5). The limit is published with a number, 5,000 calls a day on Basic in the terms and on the editions page, and Premier is unlimited (15). Limits surface as error codes 11 and 12 in the body; no HTTP 429, Retry-After or backoff guidance was found, and diary writes have no idempotency key (5 of 15). Premier carries a month-by-month SLA with service credits, named on the editions page without figures, and every edition claims more than 99.9 per cent uptime (5 of 10). The API is generally available, with versioned methods (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 5 + 5 + 10 = 35.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Eat This Much Partner API | fatsecret Platform API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 23 | 35 | fatsecret Platform API +12 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 52 | Eat This Much Partner API +23 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 64 | fatsecret Platform API +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 48 | 51 | fatsecret Platform API +3 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 25 | fatsecret Platform API +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 13 | Eat This Much Partner API +45 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 34 | Eat This Much Partner API +27 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **45.7 · E** | **42 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Eat This Much Partner API | fatsecret Platform API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Eat This Much, Inc. | fatsecret |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under a partner contract; the website terms cover the consumer service | none |\n| Tools exposed | 0 | 0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | none |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2020-12-03 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 25 stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Eat This Much Partner API.** A public OpenAPI 3.0.3 document with credits and concurrency limits per operation, enum diet presets and a dated changelog describes a meal plan generator an agent can read well. Access needs a partner contract with no self-serve signup, no published price and no status page, and the API is in early access.\n\n**fatsecret Platform API.** OAuth 2.0 client credentials with feature scopes, IP-restricted tokens, a free 5,000-call day with no card, and per-serving nutrients with allergen flags on branded and generic foods. The newest search and image methods need the sales-priced Premier edition, there is no status page, OpenAPI file or official SDK, and the privacy policy and blog could not be read.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Eat This Much Partner API\n\n1. Access needs a contract with Eat This Much first; ask the person to contact support@eatthismuch.com before planning calls\n2. Send the key as X-API-Key. Each generate call needs calories, number of meals and preset_diet; keep macro percentages summing to 100 or use gram ranges, not both\n3. Stay under 3 concurrent week, 10 day and 20 meal generations per API user, and treat 429 as a concurrency limit to wait out, not a quota\n4. Request food_output=simple unless expanded nutrition is needed, and set include_groceries=false when the list is not wanted; each call costs credits\n5. Read the changelog before upgrading, since 3.0.0 moved preferred_food_type into meal_settings and 4.0.0 renamed amount to servings\n\n### fatsecret Platform API\n\n1. Request a token with `grant_type=client_credentials` and only the scopes the task needs; a token request from an IP not registered on the key fails, so run from a fixed address\n2. Use `foods.search` v1 on Basic, since v5, autocomplete, barcode and image methods answer with a scope error without Premier\n3. Pass `format=json` and keep `max_results` at or below 50 with a zero-based `page_number`; treat error code 11 or 12 in the body as the rate limit, since no 429 is documented\n4. Store only food_id and serving_id between sessions and re-request other values within 24 hours, as the terms require\n5. Use a delegated profile token for diary writes and keep the profile's oauth_token and oauth_secret, since fatsecret does not return them again\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Eat This Much Partner API or fatsecret Platform API?\n\nEat This Much Partner API scores 45.7 (E) on agent readiness against fatsecret Platform API's 42 (E), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. fatsecret Platform API leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Eat This Much Partner API and fatsecret Platform API need an API key?\n\nEat This Much Partner API needs an API key. fatsecret Platform API uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Eat This Much Partner API and fatsecret Platform API without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Eat This Much Partner API. No hosted endpoint is listed for fatsecret Platform API.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eat-this-much-vs-fatsecret.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eat-this-much-vs-fatsecret.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"eat-this-much\", \"b\": \"fatsecret\"}`. 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