# Fonoa vs Numeral (slim)

> Fonoa scores 51.7 (D) on agent readiness against Numeral's 49.3 (D), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Numeral leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do tax calculate. Category scores, facts, verdicts and…

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Fonoa scores 51.7 (D) on agent readiness against Numeral's 49.3 (D), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Numeral leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do tax calculate.

- Fonoa: D 51.7, rank #575 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fonoa.min.md
- Numeral: D 49.3, rank #611 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/numeral.min.md
- Fonoa, good for An agent working for a company that already has a Fonoa contract and needs tax ID validation, VAT or GST calculation, or e-invoice reporting across many countries through one API. Ahead on Reliability, 66 against 25.
- Numeral, good for An agent working for a seller or platform that has a Numeral account and needs tax at checkout, committed transactions for filing, and read access to nexus, registrations and filings through MCP. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 87 against 68; Agent ergonomics, 71 against 64; Payments & pricing, 10 against 3; Maintenance & community, 60 against 49.

| Category | Fonoa | Numeral |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 25 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 68 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 71 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 47 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 3 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 49 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 48 | 45 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Fonoa | Numeral |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Fonoa Technologies Limited | Numeral Two, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.fonoa.com` | `https://api.numeralhq.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary service. The API contract is not published. The public Terms of Service took effect on 14 May 2020 and name older seller sites | Proprietary service under Numeral's terms of service. The Go, Python and Node SDKs are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 14 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-09-15 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| 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 |  | yes |
| Popularity | none | 0 stars, 9 npm/wk, 19 PyPI/wk |