{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "expedia-rapid", "name": "Expedia Group Rapid API", "vendor": "Expedia Group", "vendorUrl": "https://developers.expediagroup.com/docs/products/rapid", "kind": "http-api", "category": "travel", "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.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/expedia-rapid", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/expedia-rapid.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/expedia-rapid.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/expedia-rapid.json", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.ean.com", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "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", "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": 674, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "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.", "bestFor": "An established travel business that already holds Rapid keys and wants Expedia's hotel inventory behind its agent.", "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": "0.4", "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": "2026-10-08T21:12:10.084748426Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 403, "lastMs": 71, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 99.85, "p50ms24h": 48, "p95ms24h": 143, "samples24h": 271, "samples30d": 1955, "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": 272, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 239, "ok": 239 } ] }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://expediagroup.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:36.308788943Z" }, "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": "2026-10-08T18:17:33.986577686Z", "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": "2026-10-08T18:21:26.034585887Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a3c3c9826ec3" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:10.084748426Z" } }, "answer": "Travelport TripServices APIs scores 45.9 (E) on agent readiness against Expedia Group Rapid API's 42.8 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Expedia Group Rapid API leads on reliability and agent ergonomics.", "b": { "slug": "travelport", "name": "Travelport TripServices APIs", "vendor": "Travelport", "vendorUrl": "https://www.travelport.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "travel", "summary": "Travelport TripServices is a set of REST JSON APIs on the Travelport global distribution system. It searches, prices, books, tickets, exchanges and cancels flights, books and cancels hotel stays, and authorises payment cards, for travel sellers under contract.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/travelport", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/travelport.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/travelport.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/travelport.json", "license": "Proprietary service under a Developer Contract and Travelport's API and SDK Terms of Use", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.travelport.net", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 with the password grant. A POST to `https://auth.travelport.net/oauth/token` (pre-production `https://auth.pp.travelport.net/oauth/token`) with `username`, `password`, `client_id` and `client_secret` returns a Bearer token valid for 24 hours. Every call also carries `XAUTH_TRAVELPORT_ACCESSGROUP` or `TVP-PCC-CORE`, which sets the point of sale and the content the caller may reach. Trial credentials are requested on a form at my.travelport.com and arrive by email. Production credentials come after a contract through sales and certification, and are managed in the Credential Access Manager in MyTravelport, which creates, rotates and disables primary and managed identities. No scopes were found.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public price. The API and SDK Terms of Use say charges are set in each Developer Contract and invoiced monthly, and the docs send new customers to sales. A trial with no payment exists for building against realistic air shopping, requested through a form that asks for a name, work email and company. Production access is per contracted API after certification (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer portal, the three OpenAPI files or the terms (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.travelport.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.travelport.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developer.travelport.com/_bundle/apis/flights/@11.36/index.yaml", "capabilities": [ "travel.flights", "travel.stays", "travel.booking", "travel.changes", "travel.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "enterprise", "sales-led", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "gds", "ndc", "trial" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-12", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 45.9, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 653, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 51, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 20, "reliability": 19, "schema": 84, "security": 47, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Public OpenAPI 3.0 files, Markdown docs and an llms.txt cover search, pricing, booking, ticketing, exchanges and hotel stays, with dated release notes through August 2026. Production needs a sales contract and certification with 15 days' notice. No price, API rate limit, status page or SLA is published, and the terms bar automated tools without written permission.", "bestFor": "A travel agency, travel management company or travel platform that will sign a GDS contract and wants GDS, NDC and low-cost air content with full servicing plus hotels.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0 files for Flights (101 operations), Stays (22) and Pay (2), with an llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page", "One API family covers search, price, book, ticket, exchange, refund and void for flights, plus hotel search, booking and cancellation", "Trial credentials need no payment, and a separate pre-production host mirrors the production paths", "Dated Flights release notes, with four releases between 16 July and 12 August 2026", "Credential Access Manager rotates and disables identities, and managed identities give third parties their own credentials" ], "weaknesses": [ "The API and SDK Terms of Use forbid any automated process or tool, such as a bot, without written authorisation from Travelport", "No public price. Charges sit in a Developer Contract reached through sales, and production needs certification with 15 days' notice", "No status page, SLA or API rate limit was found. The only published limit is 50 token requests a second per IP", "Tokens come from the OAuth password grant with a username, password, client id and client secret, and no scopes were found", "No idempotency key, no SDK and no MCP server. Some failures arrive as HTTP 200 with an error object in the body" ], "agentNotes": [ "Request one token and cache it for 24 hours. Travelport declines certification for refreshing more often than every 23 hours without a stated reason", "Send `Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate` and `XAUTH_TRAVELPORT_ACCESSGROUP` (or `TVP-PCC-CORE`) on every call. Production traffic without compression is refused", "Send `offersPerPage` on a journey-based search, or later calls can't reference its results. Cached searches last 12 minutes for GDS content and 34 for NDC", "Commit a workbench within 30 minutes or it expires, and read `Result/Error` in the body even on HTTP 200", "Get written authorisation for agent access before production. The terms bar automated tools and speculative or duplicate bookings" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 45.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 51, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 20, "reliability": 19, "schema": 84, "security": 47, "transparency": 47 }, "provenanceScore": 57 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://auth.pp.travelport.net/oauth/token \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\" \\\n -d \"grant_type=password\u0026username=$TP_USERNAME\u0026password=$TP_PASSWORD\u0026client_id=$TP_CLIENT_ID\u0026client_secret=$TP_CLIENT_SECRET\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/travel.flights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/travelport" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Travelport, LP", "domain": "travelport.com", "domainRegistered": "2001-09-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://www.travelport.com/legal-policies/api-sdk-policies-terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://www.travelport.com/legal-policies/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://developer.travelport.com/docs/flights/general/flights-api-release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The API and SDK Terms of Use are incorporated into each Developer Contract, which names the contracting Travelport company and sets the charges. The contract itself is not public. Trial and pre-production access falls under the Terms of Service for Travelport test system access on the developer portal, governed by the law of Georgia, USA.", "The privacy link is the Travelport Privacy Notice for the GDS, last updated 3 January 2025, which covers traveller data processed in the Apollo, Galileo and Worldspan systems. It names Travelport, LP for the Data Privacy Framework, with offices in Langley, Berkshire and Atlanta, Georgia.", "The APIs answer on api.travelport.net and auth.travelport.net, a second domain named in Travelport's own docs. RDAP gives travelport.net a registration date of 2000-01-12 with Amazon Registrar, and travelport.com 2001-09-30 with CSC Corporate Domains.", "No status page is linked from the developer portal or the support page. status.travelport.com did not answer our request.", "www.travelport.com/.well-known/security.txt and the developer portal's both return 404. A Responsible Disclosure Policy dated June 2025 takes reports at responsibledisclosure@travelport.com and says there is no bug bounty.", "The portal's /changelog page is empty. Dated release notes are kept per API, and the Flights page was last modified on 16 September 2026." ], "score": 57 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/travelport.json", "live": { "slug": "travelport", "probe": { "target": "https://api.travelport.net", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:23.884869501Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 132, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 132, "p95ms24h": 194, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:23.884869501Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Expedia Group", "b": "Travelport", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.ean.com", "b": "https://api.travelport.net", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Your plan", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service under a Developer Contract and Travelport's API and SDK Terms of Use", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2026-08-12", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-01-30", "b": "2025-01-03", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "1.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Travelport TripServices APIs scores 45.9 (E) on agent readiness against Expedia Group Rapid API's 42.8 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Expedia Group Rapid API leads on reliability and agent ergonomics.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Expedia Group Rapid API or Travelport TripServices APIs?" }, { "answer": "Expedia Group Rapid API needs an API key. Travelport TripServices APIs uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Expedia Group Rapid API and Travelport TripServices APIs need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Expedia Group Rapid API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.ean.com and Travelport TripServices APIs at https://api.travelport.net.", "question": "Can an agent call Expedia Group Rapid API and Travelport TripServices APIs without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 25 against 19", "Agent ergonomics, 69 against 51" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An established travel business that already holds Rapid keys and wants Expedia's hotel inventory behind its agent.", "slug": "expedia-rapid", "watchFor": "Partner application and site review before production, no self-serve keys" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 78", "Security \u0026 auth, 47 against 39", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 10", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 56 against 25", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 52 against 42" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A travel agency, travel management company or travel platform that will sign a GDS contract and wants GDS, NDC and low-cost air content with full servicing plus hotels.", "slug": "travelport", "watchFor": "The API and SDK Terms of Use forbid any automated process or tool, such as a bot, without written authorisation from Travelport" } ], "job": { "capability": "travel.stays", "name": "Travel stays" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-expedia-rapid.json", "title": "Booking.com Demand API vs Expedia Group Rapid API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-expedia-rapid" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-travelport.json", "title": "Booking.com Demand API vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-expedia-rapid.json", "title": "Duffel Flights and Stays API vs Expedia Group Rapid API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-expedia-rapid" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-hotelbeds.json", "title": "Expedia Group Rapid API vs Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-hotelbeds" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-letsfg.json", "title": "Expedia Group Rapid API vs LetsFG", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-letsfg" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-liteapi.json", "title": "Expedia Group Rapid API vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-liteapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-ratehawk.json", "title": "Expedia Group Rapid API vs ETG API (RateHawk)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-ratehawk" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "Expedia Group Rapid API vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-skyscanner" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-travelport.json", "title": "Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-travelport.json", "title": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ratehawk-vs-travelport.json", "title": "ETG API (RateHawk) vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ratehawk-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-travelport.json", "title": "Duffel Flights and Stays API vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-travelport.json", "title": "FlightClaw vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiwi-mcp-vs-travelport.json", "title": "Kiwi.com MCP Server vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiwi-mcp-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letsfg-vs-travelport.json", "title": "LetsFG vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letsfg-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skyscanner-vs-travelport.json", "title": "Skyscanner Travel APIs vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skyscanner-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-flightclaw.json", "title": "Expedia Group Rapid API vs FlightClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-flightclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-kiwi-mcp.json", "title": "Expedia Group Rapid API vs Kiwi.com MCP Server", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-kiwi-mcp" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 6, "edge": "expedia-rapid", "expedia-rapid": 25, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "travelport": 19, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "travelport", "expedia-rapid": 78, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "travelport": 84, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 18, "edge": "expedia-rapid", "expedia-rapid": 69, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "travelport": 51, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "travelport", "expedia-rapid": 39, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "travelport": 47, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "travelport", "expedia-rapid": 10, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "travelport": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 31, "edge": "travelport", "expedia-rapid": 25, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "travelport": 56, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "travelport", "expedia-rapid": 42, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "travelport": 52, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Travelport TripServices APIs scores 45.9 (E) on agent readiness against Expedia Group Rapid API's 42.8 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Expedia Group Rapid API leads on reliability and agent ergonomics. Both do travel stays.", "verdicts": { "expedia-rapid": "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.", "travelport": "Public OpenAPI 3.0 files, Markdown docs and an llms.txt cover search, pricing, booking, ticketing, exchanges and hotel stays, with dated release notes through August 2026. Production needs a sales contract and certification with 15 days' notice. No price, API rate limit, status page or SLA is published, and the terms bar automated tools without written permission." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-travelport", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-travelport.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-travelport.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-travelport.min.md" }, "markdown": "Travelport TripServices APIs scores 45.9 (E) on agent readiness against Expedia Group Rapid API's 42.8 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Expedia Group Rapid API leads on reliability and agent ergonomics. Both do travel stays.\n\n- Expedia Group Rapid API: grade E, 42.8/100, rank #674 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/expedia-rapid.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/expedia-rapid.json\n- Travelport TripServices APIs: grade E, 45.9/100, rank #653 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/travelport.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/travelport.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Expedia Group Rapid API (E)\n\nGood for: An established travel business that already holds Rapid keys and wants Expedia's hotel inventory behind its agent.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 25 against 19\n- Agent ergonomics, 69 against 51\n\nWatch for: Partner application and site review before production, no self-serve keys\n\n### Travelport TripServices APIs (E)\n\nGood for: A travel agency, travel management company or travel platform that will sign a GDS contract and wants GDS, NDC and low-cost air content with full servicing plus hotels.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 78\n- Security \u0026 auth, 47 against 39\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 10\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 56 against 25\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 52 against 42\n\nWatch for: The API and SDK Terms of Use forbid any automated process or tool, such as a bot, without written authorisation from Travelport\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Expedia Group Rapid API | Travelport TripServices APIs | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 25 | 19 | Expedia Group Rapid API +6 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 84 | Travelport TripServices APIs +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 51 | Expedia Group Rapid API +18 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 39 | 47 | Travelport TripServices APIs +8 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 20 | Travelport TripServices APIs +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 25 | 56 | Travelport TripServices APIs +31 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 42 | 52 | Travelport TripServices APIs +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **42.8 · E** | **45.9 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Expedia Group Rapid API | Travelport TripServices APIs |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Expedia Group | Travelport |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.ean.com` | `https://api.travelport.net` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Your plan | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under a Developer Contract and Travelport's API and SDK Terms of Use |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-08-12 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-01-30 | 2025-01-03 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | not found in the text |\n| Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (2) | none |\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**Travelport TripServices APIs.** Public OpenAPI 3.0 files, Markdown docs and an llms.txt cover search, pricing, booking, ticketing, exchanges and hotel stays, with dated release notes through August 2026. Production needs a sales contract and certification with 15 days' notice. No price, API rate limit, status page or SLA is published, and the terms bar automated tools without written permission.\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### Travelport TripServices APIs\n\n1. Request one token and cache it for 24 hours. Travelport declines certification for refreshing more often than every 23 hours without a stated reason\n2. Send `Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate` and `XAUTH_TRAVELPORT_ACCESSGROUP` (or `TVP-PCC-CORE`) on every call. Production traffic without compression is refused\n3. Send `offersPerPage` on a journey-based search, or later calls can't reference its results. Cached searches last 12 minutes for GDS content and 34 for NDC\n4. Commit a workbench within 30 minutes or it expires, and read `Result/Error` in the body even on HTTP 200\n5. Get written authorisation for agent access before production. The terms bar automated tools and speculative or duplicate bookings\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Expedia Group Rapid API or Travelport TripServices APIs?\n\nTravelport TripServices APIs scores 45.9 (E) on agent readiness against Expedia Group Rapid API's 42.8 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Expedia Group Rapid API leads on reliability and agent ergonomics.\n\n### Do Expedia Group Rapid API and Travelport TripServices APIs need an API key?\n\nExpedia Group Rapid API needs an API key. Travelport TripServices APIs uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Expedia Group Rapid API and Travelport TripServices APIs without installing anything?\n\nYes. Expedia Group Rapid API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.ean.com and Travelport TripServices APIs at https://api.travelport.net.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-travelport.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-travelport.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"expedia-rapid\", \"b\": \"travelport\"}`. 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