# Fabric vs Vendure (slim)

> 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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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: E 43.7, rank #949 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fabric.min.md
- Vendure: BB 70.9, rank #142 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vendure.min.md
- Fabric, good for A merchant-side API for retailers already on Fabric's order management, catalogue or dropship products. Also No incidents deducted, where Vendure loses 3 points for them.
- Vendure, 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 Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Open source.

| Category | Fabric | Vendure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 23 | 89 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 91 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 57 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 62 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 45 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 15 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 55 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Fabric | Vendure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Commerce Fabric, Inc. | Vendure (Elevantiq GmbH) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.fabric.inc/v3` | `https://readonlydemo.vendure.io/shop-api` |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary SaaS under Fabric's Terms and Conditions (last updated 1 January 2026) and an order form | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| 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 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 8.5k stars, 30k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |