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      "summary": "Expedia Group's lodging distribution API for partners, with shop, price check, book, change and cancel on Expedia's hotel inventory, plus content, geography and typeahead endpoints.",
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      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/expedia-rapid.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/expedia-rapid.min.md",
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      "transports": [
        "http"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://api.ean.com",
      "packages": [],
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      "authNotes": "Signed header. `Authorization: EAN APIKey=\u003ckey\u003e,Signature=\u003csha512\u003e,timestamp=\u003cunix seconds\u003e`, where the signature is a SHA-512 hex digest of the API key, the shared secret and the timestamp. 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",
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      },
      "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,
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        "graded": true,
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        "agentReady": false,
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        "ranked": true,
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        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "payments": 10,
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          "schema": 78,
          "security": 39,
          "transparency": 42
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          "performance",
          "tasks"
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          "confidence": "medium",
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        },
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        "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"
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          "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"
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          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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            "basis": "public evidence",
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        "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\""
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/travel.stays",
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      "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",
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          "target": "https://api.ean.com",
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              "date": "2026-10-01",
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              "ok": 109
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 246
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
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              "ok": 271
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
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              "ok": 271
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
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        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://expediagroup.com/.well-known/security.txt",
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          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:45.034337971Z"
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          "domain": "expediagroup.com",
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            "url": "https://developers.expediagroup.com/rapid/setup/changelog",
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            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "905135a2bb15"
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          {
            "url": "https://legal.expediagroup.com/privacy/privacy-and-cookies-statements/other/expedia-group-privacy",
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            "status": 200,
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            "fingerprint": "a3c3c9826ec3"
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        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T03:17:25.893328261Z"
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      "slug": "liteapi",
      "name": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)",
      "vendor": "Nuitee",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.liteapi.travel",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "travel",
      "summary": "Self-serve hotel booking API (3 million plus properties) with a rates, prebook, book flow, cancellations and amendments, plus a flights API that needs approval.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liteapi",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liteapi.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liteapi.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/liteapi.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/liteapi-travel/mcp-server",
      "license": "MIT (MCP server), ISC (Node SDK)",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http",
        "stdio"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://api.liteapi.travel/v3.0",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "liteapi-node-sdk"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "`X-API-Key` header. Sandbox keys start with `sand_` and hit the same base URL as production, so the key decides the environment. Booking endpoints (prebook, book, cancel, amend) live on book.liteapi.travel rather than api.liteapi.travel. An HMAC scheme is documented for signed requests. The hosted MCP takes the key as a query parameter in the URL.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "No set-up fee and no charge for the core rates, prebook and book calls while you keep a reasonable look to book ratio. Priced extras are the price index at $0.05 a request and places lookups at $0.01. Flights add 1 per cent of transaction value per ticket (minimum 2 EUR, maximum 10 EUR), 25 EUR per voluntary change and a 0.005 EUR per search surcharge above a 1,500 to 1 search to book ratio. Dashboard add-ons are $4.99 a month each (AI insights, advanced logs, reports) and extra seats $4.99 admin or $1.99 agent. Hotel revenue is the margin you set on net rates, paid out weekly after check-out (https://docs.liteapi.travel/reference/api-pricing-usage-costs).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.05 / call",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 3,
        "npmWeekly": 17488,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.liteapi.travel",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.liteapi.travel/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://docs.liteapi.travel/reference/openapi-specifications",
      "capabilities": [
        "travel.stays",
        "travel.flights",
        "travel.booking",
        "travel.changes",
        "travel.search"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "typescript",
        "webhooks",
        "eu"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-30",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 53.5,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 332,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 3,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 86,
          "maintenance": 48,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 33,
          "transparency": 48
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": -6,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "-6, fixed 2026-04-20. The official Node SDK repository (liteapi-travel/nodejs-sdk) carried an obfuscated payload appended to index.js on main, introduced in a merge commit dated 8 July 2025 whose author and committer time zones differ, so the real injection date is unclear. Nuitée removed it in a commit titled \"remove obfuscated malware payload injected into index.js\" on 20 April 2026. The npm package 4.3.2 was published in March 2025, before it, so npm installs weren't affected; installs from the repository in that window were. A similar removal from test.js was merged in June 2025. We found no advisory or notice in the repository or docs. https://github.com/liteapi-travel/nodejs-sdk/commit/80d6d307fe3e82dc7bb448c3a8258e974f070ef7"
        ],
        "verdict": "Sandbox key at sign-up, same base URL as production, no card. Hosted MCP's documented setup puts the API key in the URL query string and exposes 111 generated tools.",
        "strengths": [
          "Sandbox key at sign-up, same base URL as production, no card",
          "OpenAPI specs for 12 modules, llms.txt and a Markdown twin for every docs page",
          "Rates, prebook, book, cancel, amend and rebook, with `clientReference` as an idempotency key",
          "Free core booking calls and published prices for the paid extras, updated July 2026",
          "Better Stack status page with per-workflow components"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Hosted MCP's documented setup puts the API key in the URL query string and exposes 111 generated tools",
          "Official Node SDK repository carried an injected payload on main until 20 April 2026, with no advisory found",
          "No public changelog, deprecation policy or SLA",
          "SDKs last published March 2025 or earlier",
          "Rate limits differ between the rate-limiting page (250 a second) and the performance page (500 a second)"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Use `/hotels/rates` with a short `hotelIds` list from `/data/hotels`; a broad rates call is slow and large",
          "Always prebook before book and read the cancellation policy in the prebook response, since refundability differs per rate",
          "Send a unique `clientReference` on book; a repeat returns error 4005 instead of a second booking",
          "Set `margin` explicitly on every rates call. Zero means net rates with no commission to you",
          "Send the key to the MCP in an `X-Api-Key` header rather than `?apiKey=` where the client allows it"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 4,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 53.5
          }
        ],
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          "maintenance": 48,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 33,
          "transparency": 31
        },
        "provenanceScore": 65
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install liteapi-node-sdk",
        "http": "curl \"https://api.liteapi.travel/v3.0/data/hotels?countryCode=GB\u0026cityName=London\u0026limit=5\" \\\n  -H \"X-API-Key: $LITEAPI_API_KEY\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http liteapi \"https://mcp.liteapi.travel/api/mcp?apiKey=$LITEAPI_API_KEY\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "liteapi": {
              "url": "https://mcp.liteapi.travel/api/mcp?apiKey=${LITEAPI_API_KEY}"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/travel.stays",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/liteapi"
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      "area": "domain-data",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Price index request",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.05
        },
        {
          "item": "Places request",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.01
        },
        {
          "item": "Flight ticketing fee",
          "unit": "pct",
          "usd": 1,
          "note": "of transaction value, minimum 2 EUR and maximum 10 EUR per booking"
        },
        {
          "item": "Additional admin seat",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 4.99
        },
        {
          "item": "Additional agent seat",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 1.99
        },
        {
          "item": "AI Insights add-on",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 4.99,
          "note": "advanced logs and reports are $4.99 a month each too"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Nuitée Travel Limited",
        "domain": "liteapi.travel",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.liteapi.travel/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://www.liteapi.travel/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.liteapi.travel",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "Incorporated in Ireland, VAT IE3388031IH, registered office 4 Waterloo Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin D04 A0X3, governed by Irish law.",
          "The product is being renamed Nuitee Connect; the site, docs and dashboard mix both names.",
          "The .travel registry's RDAP server rate-limited our lookup, so the registration date is unrecorded.",
          "www.liteapi.travel/.well-known/security.txt returns 404."
        ],
        "score": 65
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liteapi.json",
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        "slug": "liteapi",
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          "lastStatus": 404,
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 109,
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            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
              "probes": 38,
              "ok": 38
            }
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.liteapi.travel",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:13.197653183Z"
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            "registry": "npm",
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            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:31:48.81445089Z"
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        ],
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          "url": "https://liteapi.travel/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:51.367596285Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.liteapi.travel/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:57.129284461Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "liteapi.travel",
          "registered": "2023-03-01",
          "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/liteapi.travel",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:10:23.88661532Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://docs.liteapi.travel/reference/api-pricing-usage-costs",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:45.051909196Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "cbca94e86dd0"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.liteapi.travel/privacy/",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:02.932582724Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "2bc0675bca0b"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.liteapi.travel/terms/",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:05.068111235Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "85254ed151cc"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T03:17:28.260158141Z"
      }
    },
    "summary": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) has a score of 53.5 (D) against Expedia Group Rapid API's 42.8 (E). Both do travel stays. The largest gap is reliability, 37 points."
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  "links": {
    "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json",
    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-liteapi",
    "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-liteapi.json",
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  "markdown": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) has a score of 53.5 (D) against Expedia Group Rapid API's 42.8 (E). Both do travel stays. The largest gap is reliability, 37 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- LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect): grade D, 53.5/100, rank #332 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liteapi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/liteapi.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Expedia Group Rapid API for security \u0026 auth (+6).\n\nPick LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) for reliability (+37), schema \u0026 documentation (+8), agent ergonomics (+17), payments \u0026 pricing (+30), maintenance \u0026 community (+23), transparency \u0026 trust (+6).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Expedia Group Rapid API | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 25 | 62 | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) +37 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 86 | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) +8 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 86 | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) +17 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 39 | 33 | Expedia Group Rapid API +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 40 | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 25 | 48 | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) +23 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 42 | 48 | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -6 | |\n| **Total** | | **42.8 · E** | **53.5 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Expedia Group Rapid API | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Expedia Group | Nuitee |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.ean.com` | `https://api.liteapi.travel/v3.0` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Your plan | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | MIT (MCP server), ISC (Node SDK) |\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 | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | none | 2026-09-30 |\n| Popularity | none | 3 stars, 17k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (2) | 4/5 (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**LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect).** Sandbox key at sign-up, same base URL as production, no card. Hosted MCP's documented setup puts the API key in the URL query string and exposes 111 generated tools.\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### LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)\n\n1. Use `/hotels/rates` with a short `hotelIds` list from `/data/hotels`; a broad rates call is slow and large\n2. Always prebook before book and read the cancellation policy in the prebook response, since refundability differs per rate\n3. Send a unique `clientReference` on book; a repeat returns error 4005 instead of a second booking\n4. Set `margin` explicitly on every rates call. Zero means net rates with no commission to you\n5. Send the key to the MCP in an `X-Api-Key` header rather than `?apiKey=` where the client allows it\n\n## Other comparisons with Expedia Group Rapid API or LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)\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 LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [Duffel Flights and Stays API vs Expedia Group Rapid API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-expedia-rapid.md)\n- [Expedia Group Rapid API vs Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-hotelbeds.md)\n- [Expedia Group Rapid API vs LetsFG](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-letsfg.md)\n- [Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [Duffel Flights and Stays API vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [FlightClaw vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [LetsFG vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letsfg-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [Expedia Group Rapid API vs FlightClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-flightclaw.md)\n",
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