# Fabric vs Square (slim)

> Square scores 69.2 (B) to Fabric's 43.7 (E) for commerce orders. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Square scores 69.2 (B) on agent readiness against Fabric's 43.7 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do commerce orders.

- Fabric: E 43.7, rank #949 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fabric.min.md
- Square: B 69.2, rank #202 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/square.min.md
- Fabric, good for A merchant-side API for retailers already on Fabric's order management, catalogue or dropship products.
- Square, good for Agents working for a seller already on Square, on catalogue, inventory, orders, payment links and customers, online and in person. Ahead on Reliability, 58 against 23; Schema & documentation, 87 against 79; Agent ergonomics, 83 against 57; Security & auth, 67 against 62; Payments & pricing, 40 against 0; Maintenance & community, 81 against 15; Transparency & trust, 70 against 55. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Fabric | Square |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 23 | 58 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 57 | 83 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 62 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 15 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 55 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Fabric | Square |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Commerce Fabric, Inc. | Block, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.fabric.inc/v3` | `https://mcp.squareup.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |
| Licence | Proprietary SaaS under Fabric's Terms and Conditions (last updated 1 January 2026) and an order form | Proprietary service under the Square Developer Terms of Service. The MCP server and the OpenAPI specification on GitHub are Apache 2.0, and the Node.js SDK is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 3 |
| Last release | none | 2026-09-16 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-01-01 | 2026-09-10 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2021-01-14 | 2026-09-15 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 454k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk |