# Fabric vs Vendure

> Vendure scores 70.9 (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

Vendure scores 70.9 (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
- Vendure: grade BB, 70.9/100, rank #142 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vendure.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vendure.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:
- No incidents deducted, where Vendure loses 3 points for them

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

### Vendure (BB)

Good for: TypeScript teams that want a typed GraphQL commerce server and will host it.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 89 against 23
- Schema & documentation, 91 against 79
- Agent ergonomics, 68 against 57
- Payments & pricing, 45 against 0
- Maintenance & community, 85 against 15
- Transparency & trust, 67 against 55

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

Watch for: No vendor-hosted API. Vendure Cloud is only partly available


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Fabric | Vendure | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 23 | 89 | Vendure +66 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 91 | Vendure +12 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 68 | Vendure +11 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 62 | 65 | Vendure +3 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 45 | Vendure +45 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 15 | 85 | Vendure +70 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 55 | 67 | Vendure +12 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **43.7 · E** | **70.9 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Fabric | Vendure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Commerce Fabric, Inc. | Vendure (Elevantiq GmbH) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.fabric.inc/v3` | `https://readonlydemo.vendure.io/shop-api` |
| Transports | HTTP | 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 | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-09-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-01-01 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2021-01-14 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| 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 | 8.5k stars, 30k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |

## 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.

**Vendure.** Full cart, coupon, shipping and payment flow in the GraphQL Shop API, with ErrorResult types an agent can branch on. No vendor-hosted API. Vendure Cloud is only partly available.

## 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

### Vendure

1. Keep the session token from the first Shop API response and send it on every call. It holds the active order
2. Check each mutation result's `__typename` and `errorCode`. Expected failures return 200 with an ErrorResult
3. Don't retry addItemToOrder blindly. Read the active order first, since a repeat adds the quantity again
4. For server-side work, enable `api-key` in authOptions.tokenMethod and give the key one role in one channel
5. Run 3.7.3 or later, and purge old job records, which may still hold session tokens

## Questions

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

Vendure scores 70.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Fabric's 43.7 (E), and leads in every scored category.

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

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

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

Yes. Fabric has a hosted endpoint at https://api.fabric.inc/v3 and Vendure at https://readonlydemo.vendure.io/shop-api.

### Are Fabric and Vendure open source?

No open-source release is listed for Fabric. Vendure is open source (GPL-3.0-or-later).


## For agents

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

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