# FetchIQ vs Microsoft Advertising API

> Microsoft Advertising scores 60.3 (C) to FetchIQ's 10.3 (F) for ads campaigns. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Microsoft Advertising API scores 60.3 (C) 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
- Microsoft Advertising API: grade C, 60.3/100, rank #585 of 1184. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/microsoft-advertising-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/microsoft-advertising-api.json
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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

### Microsoft Advertising API (C)

Good for: Agents that manage or report on Microsoft Advertising accounts, including Google Ads imports.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 60 against 5
- Schema & documentation, 79 against 5
- Agent ergonomics, 63 against 5
- Security & auth, 60 against 10
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 0
- Maintenance & community, 61 against 33
- Transparency & trust, 64 against 35

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 1.3 out of 5

Watch for: Call-rate limits carry no numbers. The docs describe a 60-second sliding window, and call the Bulk and Reporting limits internal and subject to change


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | FetchIQ | Microsoft Advertising API | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 5 | 60 | Microsoft Advertising API +55 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 5 | 79 | Microsoft Advertising API +74 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 5 | 63 | Microsoft Advertising API +58 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 10 | 60 | Microsoft Advertising API +50 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 30 | Microsoft Advertising API +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 33 | 61 | Microsoft Advertising API +28 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 35 | 64 | Microsoft Advertising API +29 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **10.3 · F** | **60.3 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | FetchIQ | Microsoft Advertising API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | LeadingResponse | Microsoft |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://campaign.api.bingads.microsoft.com/CampaignManagement/v13` |
| 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. The .NET, Java, Python and PHP SDKs are MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 7 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-19 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated |  | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-09-01 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | none | 128 stars, 19k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 1.3/5 (4) | 3/5 (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.

**Microsoft Advertising API.** Version 13 covers campaigns, budgets, audiences, ads and reports over REST with JSON, with a sandbox that needs no payment method and four official SDKs. Call-rate limits are unpublished, no public OpenAPI file or idempotency key was found, and one OAuth scope covers every operation. The SOAP interface retires on 31 January 2027.

## 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

### Microsoft Advertising API

1. Build and test against the sandbox hosts (`*.api.sandbox.bingads.microsoft.com`) with developer token BBD37VB98. Sandbox and production credentials are separate
2. Send `Authorization: Bearer <token>`, `DeveloperToken`, `CustomerId` and `CustomerAccountId` on REST calls. Use the account ID, never the eight-character account number
3. Create campaigns with `Status` set to `Paused`, then read them back before activating. No validate-only mode was found
4. On error 117 (CallRateExceeded) wait 60 seconds. On Bulk error 4204 wait up to 15 minutes
5. Read `PartialErrors` on every add, update and delete. A call can succeed for some items and fail for others

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, FetchIQ or Microsoft Advertising API?

Microsoft Advertising API scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against FetchIQ's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.

### Can an agent call FetchIQ and Microsoft Advertising API without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for FetchIQ. Microsoft Advertising API has a hosted endpoint at https://campaign.api.bingads.microsoft.com/CampaignManagement/v13.


## For agents

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- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fetchiq.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/microsoft-advertising-api.json

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