# FetchIQ vs Meta Marketing API

> Meta Marketing scores 67.7 (B) to FetchIQ's 10.3 (F) for ads campaigns. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Meta Marketing API scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against FetchIQ's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do ads campaigns.

- FetchIQ: grade F, 10.3/100, rank #1173 of 1184. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fetchiq.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fetchiq.json
- Meta Marketing API: grade B, 67.7/100, rank #269 of 1184. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meta-marketing-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/meta-marketing-api.json
- Best advertising platform APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/advertising/index.md
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## Which one, for what

### FetchIQ (F)

Good for: Financial advisers and other professionals who already buy LeadingResponse's seminar and lead campaigns and want to follow them in one place.

Watch for: No API, MCP server, webhooks or developer docs found

### Meta Marketing API (B)

Good for: The direct route to Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads advertising for reporting, campaign and budget changes, audiences and creatives.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 80 against 5
- Schema & documentation, 76 against 5
- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 5
- Security & auth, 61 against 10
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 0
- Maintenance & community, 74 against 33
- Transparency & trust, 68 against 35

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 1.3 out of 5

Watch for: Default Limited access allows a score of 60 per ad account (read 1, write 3) and blocks for 300 seconds at the limit


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | FetchIQ | Meta Marketing API | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 5 | 80 | Meta Marketing API +75 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 5 | 76 | Meta Marketing API +71 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 5 | 77 | Meta Marketing API +72 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 10 | 61 | Meta Marketing API +51 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 30 | Meta Marketing API +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 33 | 74 | Meta Marketing API +41 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 35 | 68 | Meta Marketing API +33 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **10.3 · F** | **67.7 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | FetchIQ | Meta Marketing API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | LeadingResponse | Meta Platforms, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://graph.facebook.com` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service for LeadingResponse clients. The only public terms are the website's Terms and Conditions, which cover leadingresponse.com, not the platform. No open-source code or published package was found | Proprietary service under the Meta Platform Terms. The Business SDKs and the codegen specs on GitHub carry Meta's own platform licence, which allows use only with Meta's APIs |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-19 | 2026-09-21 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-02-03 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 1.6k stars, 501k npm/wk, 1.1M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 1.3/5 (4) | 2.8/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**FetchIQ.** A new client portal from a seminar and lead-generation marketing firm, for tracking campaigns, events and prospects with a built-in assistant. Only people signed in through the company's single sign-on can use it. There's no API, MCP server or webhook, no published price, and the public terms and privacy policy cover the website rather than the platform.

**Meta Marketing API.** Reporting, campaign, budget, audience and creative endpoints sit behind `ads_read` and `ads_management` scopes, with a `validate_only` option and sandbox ad accounts for checking a change before it spends. New apps are held to a score of 60 per ad account, with a 300-second block at the limit, and the documented requests pass the access token as a parameter.

## Before you call either

### FetchIQ

1. Don't try to call FetchIQ. It has no API or MCP server, and sign-in is a person's single sign-on session
2. Ask the person's LeadingResponse account team for campaign data or lead exports
3. Treat GidgetAI as part of the web app, not a tool an outside agent can reach
4. Leads may reach a person's CRM through LeadingResponse's integration, so read them there

### Meta Marketing API

1. Put a version in every path, such as /v26.0/act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>/campaigns. Unversioned Marketing API calls fail
2. Create campaigns, ad sets and ads with `status=PAUSED`, and send `execution_options=["validate_only"]` first to test a write without making it
3. Ask for `ads_read` alone when the task is reporting. `ads_management` can change budgets and activate spend
4. Read `X-Business-Use-Case-Usage` and `X-Ad-Account-Usage` after each call and wait for `estimated_time_to_regain_access` on errors 17, 613 and 80004
5. Change an ad set budget at most four times an hour and an account spending limit at most ten times a day

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, FetchIQ or Meta Marketing API?

Meta Marketing API scores 67.7 (B) on agent readiness against FetchIQ's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.

### Can an agent call FetchIQ and Meta Marketing API without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for FetchIQ. Meta Marketing API has a hosted endpoint at https://graph.facebook.com.


## For agents

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