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Keys come from the Partner Portal under Connectivity and stay in a restricted development mode until Expedia reviews your site and approves launch.", "pricing": "byo-plan", "pricingNotes": "No published prices. Rapid is a partner product. You apply through partner.expediagroup.com, sign an agreement, and the commercial model (net rates or commission, payment handling) sits in that contract. The developer docs never state a price (https://developers.expediagroup.com/rapid/setup).", "priceSummary": "Your plan", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.expediagroup.com/docs/products/rapid", "openapi": "https://github.com/ExpediaGroup/rapid-java-sdk/blob/main/specs.yaml", "capabilities": [ "travel.stays", "travel.booking", "travel.changes", "travel.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "enterprise", "partner-only", "java" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 42.8, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 411, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 25, "payments": 10, "reliability": 25, "schema": 78, "security": 39, "transparency": 42 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Expedia's lodging inventory with shop, price check, book, change and cancel in one API. Partner application and site review before production, no self-serve keys.", "strengths": [ "Expedia's lodging inventory with shop, price check, book, change and cancel in one API", "Public OpenAPI 3.0.1 document for Rapid v3 in Expedia Group's rapid-java-sdk repository", "Test host (test.ean.com) that never creates real bookings, with a `Test` header to force error responses", "429 responses carry per-minute and per-day limit, remaining and reset headers", "Dated public changelog, with holdable rates, sanction screening and card recapture added since December 2025" ], "weaknesses": [ "Partner application and site review before production, no self-serve keys", "No published prices, rate-limit numbers, SLA or status page", "Signed `Authorization` header needs the shared secret and an accurate clock on every call", "Java is the only official SDK and its spec copy was last updated in December 2025", "No changelog entry since May 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Build the SHA-512 signature from key, secret and the current epoch seconds in that order, per request", "Send `Customer-Ip` and the session headers the docs ask for, since fraud checks use them", "Point everything at test.ean.com until the site review is through; the paths match api.ean.com", "Follow the `links` in each response rather than building URLs; price check and book links carry tokens", "Read the `Rate-Limit-Minute-Remaining` and `Rate-Limit-Day-Remaining` headers, since the docs publish no ceilings" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 1.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 42.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 25, "payments": 10, "reliability": 25, "schema": 78, "security": 39, "transparency": 28 }, "provenanceScore": 55 }, "connect": { "http": "TS=$(date +%s); SIG=$(printf '%s%s%s' \"$EAN_API_KEY\" \"$EAN_SHARED_SECRET\" \"$TS\" | sha512sum | cut -d' ' -f1)\ncurl \"https://test.ean.com/v3/regions?include=standard\u0026language=en-GB\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: EAN APIKey=$EAN_API_KEY,Signature=$SIG,timestamp=$TS\" \\\n -H \"Accept: application/json\" -H \"Customer-Ip: 203.0.113.10\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/travel.stays", "tool": "https://letme.dev/expedia-rapid" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Expedia, Inc.", "domain": "expediagroup.com", "domainRegistered": "2005-03-18", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://legal.expediagroup.com/privacy/privacy-and-cookies-statements/other/expedia-group-privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://developers.expediagroup.com/rapid/setup/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The API lives on ean.com (the old Expedia Affiliate Network domain), not expediagroup.com.", "The Rapid terms are in the partner agreement, which isn't public; the group privacy statement names Expedia, Inc. as principal controller.", "developers.expediagroup.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404." ], "score": 55 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/expedia-rapid.json", "live": { "slug": "expedia-rapid", "probe": { "target": "https://api.ean.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:47.237363145Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 403, "lastMs": 40, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 99.63, "uptime30d": 99.66, "p50ms24h": 44, "p95ms24h": 170, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 895, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 246 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 267, "ok": 266 } ] }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://expediagroup.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:45.034337971Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "expediagroup.com", "registered": "2005-03-18", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/expediagroup.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:10:15.717910339Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.expediagroup.com/rapid/setup/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:47.605009025Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "905135a2bb15" }, { "url": "https://legal.expediagroup.com/privacy/privacy-and-cookies-statements/other/expedia-group-privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:45:25.556412177Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a3c3c9826ec3" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:47.237363145Z" } }, "b": { "slug": "hotelbeds", "name": "Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API", "vendor": "Hotelbeds (HBX Group)", "vendorUrl": "https://developer.hotelbeds.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "travel", "summary": "B2B hotel distribution API for availability, rates, bookings, cancellations and property content.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hotelbeds", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hotelbeds.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hotelbeds.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hotelbeds.json", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.test.hotelbeds.com", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Two headers on every call. `Api-key` is your key and `X-Signature` is a SHA-256 hex digest of the key, the shared secret and the current Unix time in seconds, concatenated in that order, so a clock that drifts breaks auth. Keys come from the developer dashboard on registration. The production host is issued once you're certified.", "pricing": "byo-plan", "pricingNotes": "No published price list. Registration gives an evaluation key with 50 requests a day on the test host. Better quotas come from progressing through profile completion and certification in the dashboard, and live bookings need a commercial agreement with Hotelbeds whose rates aren't published. The API terms warn that abusive or excessively frequent requests get an account suspended (https://developer.hotelbeds.com/documentation/getting-started/).", "priceSummary": "Your plan", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.hotelbeds.com/documentation/", "capabilities": [ "travel.stays", "travel.booking", "travel.changes", "travel.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "free-tier", "no-card", "enterprise", "eu" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 36.7, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 435, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 41, "maintenance": 3, "payments": 20, "reliability": 33, "schema": 57, "security": 38, "transparency": 54 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Free evaluation key on registration, no card and no sales call. 50 requests a day on evaluation, and the 51st returns a 403.", "strengths": [ "Free evaluation key on registration, no card and no sales call", "Availability, CheckRate, booking, modification and cancellation in one API, with Content and Cache APIs alongside", "Cancellation can be simulated before it's run", "Swagger specifications and Postman collections referenced from the getting-started page", "Test host on the same servers as production, with no real reservations or card charges" ], "weaknesses": [ "50 requests a day on evaluation, and the 51st returns a 403", "Live bookings need certification and a commercial contract, with no published prices", "No changelog, release notes or deprecation notices found", "Status page is a Pingdom uptime report with no incident history", "No SDKs, llms.txt, documented error codes or MCP server" ], "agentNotes": [ "Compute `X-Signature` fresh per request from key, secret and the current epoch seconds, in that order", "Budget the 50 daily evaluation calls; cache hotel content and only call availability for real dates", "Run CheckRate on a rate before booking when the availability response says it needs rechecking", "Read a 403 on the test host as the daily quota first, not a bad key", "Simulate a cancellation before running it" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 36.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 41, "maintenance": 3, "payments": 20, "reliability": 33, "schema": 57, "security": 38, "transparency": 28 }, "provenanceScore": 80 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://api.test.hotelbeds.com/hotel-api/1.0/status\" \\\n -H \"Api-key: $HOTELBEDS_API_KEY\" -H \"Accept: application/json\" \\\n -H \"X-Signature: $(printf '%s%s%s' \"$HOTELBEDS_API_KEY\" \"$HOTELBEDS_SECRET\" \"$(date +%s)\" | sha256sum | cut -d' ' -f1)\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/travel.stays", "tool": "https://letme.dev/hotelbeds" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "HBX International Group PLC (Hotelbeds)", "domain": "hotelbeds.com", "domainRegistered": "2001-06-19", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://developer.hotelbeds.com/api-terms-use", "privacy": "https://www.hbxgroup.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "http://stats.pingdom.com/lxdqh5mwxj3w", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The API terms name Hotelbeds or Travel B2B Ltd as the provider, under Spanish law and the courts of Palma de Mallorca. The group privacy policy names HBX International Group PLC, 7th Floor Tower 42, 25 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1HN, as controller.", "The status page is a public Pingdom report rather than a vendor status site.", "developer.hotelbeds.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404." ], "score": 80 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hotelbeds.json", "live": { "slug": "hotelbeds", "probe": { "target": "https://api.test.hotelbeds.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:48.581617396Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 67, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 48, "p95ms24h": 88, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 895, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 267, "ok": 267 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "http://stats.pingdom.com/lxdqh5mwxj3w", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:07.893490523Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://hotelbeds.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:50.583118891Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "hotelbeds.com", "registered": "2001-06-19", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/hotelbeds.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:04:34.216873885Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.hbxgroup.com/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:37.63156573Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d52ebddb3584" }, { "url": "https://developer.hotelbeds.com/api-terms-use", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:36.629077789Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "da01a8431a6e" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:48.581617396Z" } }, "summary": "Expedia Group Rapid API has a score of 42.8 (E) against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.7 (F). Both do travel stays. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 28 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-hotelbeds", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-hotelbeds.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-hotelbeds.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-hotelbeds.min.md" }, "markdown": "Expedia Group Rapid API has a score of 42.8 (E) against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.7 (F). Both do travel stays. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 28 points.\n\n- Expedia Group Rapid API: grade E, 42.8/100, rank #411 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/expedia-rapid.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/expedia-rapid.json\n- Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API: grade F, 36.7/100, rank #435 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hotelbeds.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hotelbeds.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Expedia Group Rapid API for schema \u0026 documentation (+21), agent ergonomics (+28), maintenance \u0026 community (+22).\n\nPick Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API for reliability (+8), payments \u0026 pricing (+10), transparency \u0026 trust (+12).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Expedia Group Rapid API | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 25 | 33 | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 57 | Expedia Group Rapid API +21 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 41 | Expedia Group Rapid API +28 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 39 | 38 | Expedia Group Rapid API +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 20 | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 25 | 3 | Expedia Group Rapid API +22 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 42 | 54 | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **42.8 · E** | **36.7 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Expedia Group Rapid API | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Expedia Group | Hotelbeds (HBX Group) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.ean.com` | `https://api.test.hotelbeds.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Your plan | Your plan |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | none | none |\n| Popularity | none | none |\n| Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (2) | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Expedia Group Rapid API.** Expedia's lodging inventory with shop, price check, book, change and cancel in one API. Partner application and site review before production, no self-serve keys.\n\n**Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API.** Free evaluation key on registration, no card and no sales call. 50 requests a day on evaluation, and the 51st returns a 403.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Expedia Group Rapid API\n\n1. Build the SHA-512 signature from key, secret and the current epoch seconds in that order, per request\n2. Send `Customer-Ip` and the session headers the docs ask for, since fraud checks use them\n3. Point everything at test.ean.com until the site review is through; the paths match api.ean.com\n4. Follow the `links` in each response rather than building URLs; price check and book links carry tokens\n5. Read the `Rate-Limit-Minute-Remaining` and `Rate-Limit-Day-Remaining` headers, since the docs publish no ceilings\n\n### Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API\n\n1. Compute `X-Signature` fresh per request from key, secret and the current epoch seconds, in that order\n2. Budget the 50 daily evaluation calls; cache hotel content and only call availability for real dates\n3. Run CheckRate on a rate before booking when the availability response says it needs rechecking\n4. Read a 403 on the test host as the daily quota first, not a bad key\n5. Simulate a cancellation before running it\n\n## Other comparisons with Expedia Group Rapid API or Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API\n\n- [Booking.com Demand API vs Expedia Group Rapid API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-expedia-rapid.md)\n- [Booking.com Demand API vs Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-hotelbeds.md)\n- [Duffel Flights and Stays API vs Expedia Group Rapid API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-expedia-rapid.md)\n- [Duffel Flights and Stays API vs Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-hotelbeds.md)\n- [Expedia Group Rapid API vs LetsFG](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-letsfg.md)\n- [Expedia Group Rapid API vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API vs LetsFG](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-letsfg.md)\n- [Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [Expedia Group Rapid API vs FlightClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-flightclaw.md)\n- [FlightClaw vs Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-hotelbeds.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-04", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.3", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Expedia Group Rapid API vs Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API", "url": "" } ], "description": "Expedia Group Rapid API has a score of 42.8 (E) against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.7 (F). 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