# Fabric vs Shopware

> Shopware scores 71.4 (BB) to Fabric's 43.7 (E) for commerce orders. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-14

Shopware scores 71.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Fabric's 43.7 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do commerce orders.

- 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
- Shopware: grade BB, 71.4/100, rank #131 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shopware.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shopware.json
- Best commerce platforms and checkout APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/commerce/index.md
- All 171 commerce comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Fabric (E)

Good for: A merchant-side API for retailers already on Fabric's order management, catalogue or dropship products.

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- No incidents deducted, where Shopware loses 5 points for them

Watch for: No public price, free tier or self-serve signup. A trial account is arranged with Fabric

### Shopware (BB)

Good for: A merchant already on Shopware, or a team that wants an MIT PHP backend with a built-in MCP server for back-office work.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 83 against 23
- Schema & documentation, 85 against 79
- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 57
- Security & auth, 73 against 62
- Payments & pricing, 50 against 0
- Maintenance & community, 87 against 15
- Transparency & trust, 76 against 55

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- Open source

Watch for: The MCP server is marked experimental until 6.8, and 6.7.14.0 changed what tools/list returns on the Store API endpoint


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Fabric | Shopware | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 23 | 83 | Shopware +60 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 85 | Shopware +6 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 78 | Shopware +21 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 62 | 73 | Shopware +11 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 50 | Shopware +50 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 15 | 87 | Shopware +72 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 55 | 76 | Shopware +21 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -5 | |
| **Total** | | **43.7 · E** | **71.4 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Fabric | Shopware |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Commerce Fabric, Inc. | shopware AG |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.fabric.inc/v3` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary SaaS under Fabric's Terms and Conditions (last updated 1 January 2026) and an order form | MIT for the Community Edition core. Paid plans add proprietary extensions under shopware AG's general terms |
| Tools exposed | none | 14 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-01-01 | 2026-06-10 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2021-01-14 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 3.4k stars, 31k npm/wk |

## 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.

**Shopware.** MIT-licensed core with OpenAPI specs for both APIs and a built-in MCP server that advertises three discovery tools, previews writes by default and limits each integration to an allowlist. The MCP server is experimental until 6.8, and 20 security advisories were published between May and September 2026, four of them critical.

## Before you call either

### Fabric

1. 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
2. Request a new system token from {authURL}/v1/token every 10 minutes, since system apps receive no refresh token
3. Send x-fabric-tenant-id on every call, and x-fabric-channel-id where the merchant sells in more than one channel
4. Page order searches with offset and limit, because the default response returns 10 orders
5. Read errorCode and context.endpoint in Orders and Inventory errors, and check for duplicates before retrying a write

### Shopware

1. Ask the merchant for an integration without --admin, tied to an ACL role and an MCP allowlist. Send sw-access-key and sw-secret-access-key headers to /api/_mcp
2. Call shopware-tool-search first, then shopware-toolset-enable, and keep the Mcp-Session-Id header. A fresh session lists only three tools
3. Pass dryRun=false to commit a write. shopware-media-upload has no dry run and uploads at once
4. For shopping, call the Store API over HTTP with the sales channel's sw-access-key and keep the sw-context-token. The Store API MCP endpoint has no cart tools in core
5. Send `includes` in search criteria to cut response size, and read the 429 body for the wait time

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Fabric or Shopware?

Shopware scores 71.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Fabric's 43.7 (E), and leads in every scored category.

### Do Fabric and Shopware need an API key?

Fabric uses an OAuth sign-in. Shopware takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Fabric and Shopware without installing anything?

Fabric has a hosted endpoint at https://api.fabric.inc/v3. No hosted endpoint is listed for Shopware.

### Are Fabric and Shopware open source?

No open-source release is listed for Fabric. Shopware is open source (MIT for the Community Edition core. Paid plans add proprietary extensions under shopware AG's general terms).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fabric-vs-shopware.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fabric-vs-shopware.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "fabric", "b": "shopware"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare fabric shopware`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fabric.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shopware.json

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