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Its REST APIs, documented as v3, cover orders, inventory, catalogue, pricing, carts and dropship.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fabric", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fabric.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fabric.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fabric.json", "license": "Proprietary SaaS under Fabric's Terms and Conditions (last updated 1 January 2026) and an order form", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.fabric.inc/v3", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "Server-to-server calls use a System App with the OpenID Connect client credentials flow. A merchant admin creates the app in the Copilot console, picks one role (Admin, Developer Admin, Developer Viewer, Editor, Viewer or a module editor) and receives a client ID and secret. System tokens last 10 minutes and have no refresh token. User Apps use the authorisation code flow with PKCE for shoppers, with 30-minute user tokens and rotating refresh tokens. Every call also carries an x-fabric-tenant-id header. The Product Agent API uses its own client credentials token, valid for 60 minutes.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public prices. fabric.inc/pricing returns 404, the developer docs say to reach out for a trial account, and the sites link to a demo request. Services run under an order form. The terms say beta services are free of charge (checked 14 October 2026).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in llms.txt, the 69 OpenAPI files listed there, the terms or the site pages read on 14 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.fabric.inc/v3/home", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.fabric.inc/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developer.fabric.inc/openapi/orders/v3/orders.openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "commerce.orders", "commerce.products", "commerce.cart", "commerce.checkout", "commerce.headless" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "enterprise", "closed-source", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "sales-led", "sla", "soc2" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 43.7, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 949, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 18, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 0, "reliability": 23, "schema": 79, "security": 62, "transparency": 55 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Public OpenAPI files for about 980 operations, llms.txt, client credentials with role-limited system apps, and a published 99.9 per cent SLA. Access needs a sales contract, with no public price or self-serve trial. The commerce docs are labelled legacy, the newest release notes date from July 2025, and no status page was found.", "bestFor": "A merchant-side API for retailers already on Fabric's order management, catalogue or dropship products.", "strengths": [ "69 public OpenAPI files covering orders, inventory, catalogue, carts, pricing and dropship, listed in llms.txt", "System apps take one of ten roles, including Viewer and module-only editors, and tokens expire after 10 minutes", "Standardised JSON error codes with service and endpoint context for the Orders and Inventory APIs", "Published SLA of 99.9 per cent monthly availability with service credits up to 40 per cent" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public price, free tier or self-serve signup. A trial account is arranged with Fabric", "The v3 and v2 commerce docs are labelled legacy, and the newest dated release notes are from July 2025", "No status page, rate-limit figures, Retry-After guidance or idempotency keys were found", "No official SDKs and no MCP server for the commerce APIs. The docs MCP server only searches documentation" ], "agentNotes": [ "Get the tenant ID and a System App client ID and secret from the merchant's Copilot admin, with the narrowest role the task needs", "Request a new system token from {authURL}/v1/token every 10 minutes, since system apps receive no refresh token", "Send x-fabric-tenant-id on every call, and x-fabric-channel-id where the merchant sells in more than one channel", "Page order searches with offset and limit, because the default response returns 10 orders", "Read errorCode and context.endpoint in Orders and Inventory errors, and check for duplicates before retrying a write" ], "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": 43.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 0, "reliability": 23, "schema": 79, "security": 62, "transparency": 35 }, "provenanceScore": 74 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST '{authURL}/v1/token' \\\n -H 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \\\n --data-urlencode 'grant_type=client_credentials' \\\n --data-urlencode 'scope=s2s' \\\n --data-urlencode 'client_id={clientId}' \\\n --data-urlencode 'client_secret={clientSecret}'\ncurl https://api.fabric.inc/v3/product-attributes \\\n -H 'Authorization: Bearer {token}' \\\n -H 'x-fabric-tenant-id: {tenantId}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/commerce.orders", "tool": "https://letme.dev/fabric" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Commerce Fabric, Inc.", "domain": "fabric.inc", "domainRegistered": "2019-08-08", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://fabric.inc/legal/terms-and-conditions", "privacy": "https://fabric.inc/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://developer.fabric.inc/v3/release-notes/july2025/release-summary", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The Terms and Conditions (last updated 1 January 2026) and the website terms of use name Commerce Fabric, Inc., 455 Market St. PMB 66768 Suite 1940, San Francisco, California 94105-2448. The site footer reads Fabric, Inc., San Francisco and Toronto.", "The privacy policy is dated 14 January 2021. The Data Processing Addendum it and the terms link at https://fabric.inc/data-processing-addendum returned 404, as did https://fabric.inc/api-license, named as the API licence in the OpenAPI files.", "No status page was found. status.fabric.inc does not resolve.", "fabric.inc/.well-known/security.txt and api.fabric.inc/.well-known/security.txt return 404.", "RDAP for fabric.inc gives a registration date of 8 August 2019 and GoDaddy.com, LLC as registrar." ], "score": 74 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fabric.json", "live": { "slug": "fabric", "probe": { "target": "https://api.fabric.inc/v3", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T09:41:50.740446708Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 255, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 259, "p95ms24h": 360, "samples24h": 17, "samples30d": 17, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 17, "ok": 17 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T09:41:50.740446708Z" } }, "answer": "Medusa API + MCP scores 63.5 (B) on agent readiness against Fabric's 43.7 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. 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Admin API calls take a user JWT, a session cookie or a secret API key. The docs MCP at https://docs.medusajs.com/mcp takes Medusa Cloud OAuth or a Cloud personal access key as a Bearer token.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Self-hosting the MIT core is free. Medusa Cloud Develop from $29 a month, Launch from $99, Scale from $299, Enterprise custom, with no GMV fee on any plan. Plans include 1M, 5M or 10M edge requests a month, then $0.30 per 1M. Search includes 10,000 requests a month, then $20 per 100,000 (https://medusajs.com/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$29 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402. Payments go through payment provider modules such as Stripe.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 36514, "npmWeekly": 202809, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.medusajs.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.medusajs.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/medusajs/medusa/develop/www/apps/api-reference/specs/store/openapi.full.yaml", "registryName": "com.medusajs/medusa-mcp", "capabilities": [ "commerce.products", "commerce.cart", "commerce.checkout", "commerce.orders", "commerce.headless" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "hosted", "mcp", "llms-txt", "typescript", "webhooks", "freemium" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 413, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 93, "payments": 50, "reliability": 55, "schema": 81, "security": 40, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "MIT core you can self-host, with Medusa Cloud running the same APIs and no GMV fee. The official MCP server is docs-only and limited to Cloud accounts.", "bestFor": "Teams that want to own a TypeScript commerce backend and extend it with their own routes and workflows.", "strengths": [ "MIT core you can self-host, with Medusa Cloud running the same APIs and no GMV fee", "Public OpenAPI 3.0 files for the Store and Admin APIs, frozen per release", "Field selection, pagination and documented error types on every list route", "Seven releases between 23 July and 28 September 2026, and 68 open issues triaged within a day" ], "weaknesses": [ "The official MCP server is docs-only and limited to Cloud accounts", "Breaking changes ship in minor releases, listed in 2.16.0, 2.17.0, 2.18.0, 2.19.0 and 2.20.0", "No rate limits, retry guidance or documented idempotency header", "No public security advisories, security.txt or audit log", "Some files sit under a proprietary Enterprise Edition licence" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send x-publishable-api-key on every /store call. It decides which sales channels and products the agent sees", "Ask for only the fields you need with `fields`. Store routes reject relations nested more than three deep since 2.20.0", "Read the store's regions before creating a cart, since prices and shipping options depend on region", "Place the order with POST /store/carts/{id}/complete after shipping and payment sessions are set", "Read the release notes before upgrading a minor version. 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Fabric leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do commerce orders.", "verdicts": { "fabric": "Public OpenAPI files for about 980 operations, llms.txt, client credentials with role-limited system apps, and a published 99.9 per cent SLA. Access needs a sales contract, with no public price or self-serve trial. The commerce docs are labelled legacy, the newest release notes date from July 2025, and no status page was found.", "medusa": "MIT core you can self-host, with Medusa Cloud running the same APIs and no GMV fee. The official MCP server is docs-only and limited to Cloud accounts." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fabric-vs-medusa", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fabric-vs-medusa.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fabric-vs-medusa.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fabric-vs-medusa.min.md" }, "markdown": "Medusa API + MCP scores 63.5 (B) on agent readiness against Fabric's 43.7 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Fabric leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do commerce orders.\n\n- Fabric: grade E, 43.7/100, rank #949 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fabric.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fabric.json\n- Medusa API + MCP: grade B, 63.5/100, rank #413 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/medusa.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/medusa.json\n- Best commerce platforms and checkout APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/commerce/index.md\n- All 171 commerce comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Fabric (E)\n\nGood for: A merchant-side API for retailers already on Fabric's order management, catalogue or dropship products.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 62 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No public price, free tier or self-serve signup. A trial account is arranged with Fabric\n\n### Medusa API + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that want to own a TypeScript commerce backend and extend it with their own routes and workflows.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 55 against 23\n- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 57\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 93 against 15\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 55\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The official MCP server is docs-only and limited to Cloud accounts\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Fabric | Medusa API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 23 | 55 | Medusa API + MCP +32 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 81 | Medusa API + MCP +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 72 | Medusa API + MCP +15 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 62 | 40 | Fabric +22 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 50 | Medusa API + MCP +50 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 15 | 93 | Medusa API + MCP +78 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 55 | 71 | Medusa API + MCP +16 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **43.7 · E** | **63.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Fabric | Medusa API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Commerce Fabric, Inc. | Medusa |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.fabric.inc/v3` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary SaaS under Fabric's Terms and Conditions (last updated 1 January 2026) and an order form | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `com.medusajs/medusa-mcp` |\n| Last release | none | 2026-09-28 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-01-01 | 2026-09-21 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2021-01-14 | 2026-09-07 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 37k stars, 203k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Fabric.** Public OpenAPI files for about 980 operations, llms.txt, client credentials with role-limited system apps, and a published 99.9 per cent SLA. Access needs a sales contract, with no public price or self-serve trial. The commerce docs are labelled legacy, the newest release notes date from July 2025, and no status page was found.\n\n**Medusa API + MCP.** MIT core you can self-host, with Medusa Cloud running the same APIs and no GMV fee. The official MCP server is docs-only and limited to Cloud accounts.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Fabric\n\n1. Get the tenant ID and a System App client ID and secret from the merchant's Copilot admin, with the narrowest role the task needs\n2. Request a new system token from {authURL}/v1/token every 10 minutes, since system apps receive no refresh token\n3. Send x-fabric-tenant-id on every call, and x-fabric-channel-id where the merchant sells in more than one channel\n4. Page order searches with offset and limit, because the default response returns 10 orders\n5. Read errorCode and context.endpoint in Orders and Inventory errors, and check for duplicates before retrying a write\n\n### Medusa API + MCP\n\n1. Send x-publishable-api-key on every /store call. It decides which sales channels and products the agent sees\n2. Ask for only the fields you need with `fields`. Store routes reject relations nested more than three deep since 2.20.0\n3. Read the store's regions before creating a cart, since prices and shipping options depend on region\n4. Place the order with POST /store/carts/{id}/complete after shipping and payment sessions are set\n5. Read the release notes before upgrading a minor version. Breaking changes land there\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Fabric or Medusa API + MCP?\n\nMedusa API + MCP scores 63.5 (B) on agent readiness against Fabric's 43.7 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Fabric leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Fabric and Medusa API + MCP need an API key?\n\nFabric uses an OAuth sign-in. Medusa API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Fabric and Medusa API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nFabric has a hosted endpoint at https://api.fabric.inc/v3. No hosted endpoint is listed for Medusa API + MCP.\n\n### Are Fabric and Medusa API + MCP open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Fabric. Medusa API + MCP is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fabric-vs-medusa.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fabric-vs-medusa.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"fabric\", \"b\": \"medusa\"}`. 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