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      "pricing": "byo-plan",
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          "Published limits of 120 requests a minute and 3,600 an hour per user, with Retry-After on 429",
          "X-RateLimit-Test header that lowers the sandbox to 5 requests a minute for testing back-off",
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          "Free sandbox with its own sign-up and API host",
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          "Error responses aren't documented beyond the 429",
          "UK only, so VAT, MTD and HMRC filings are the tax model",
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          "Store the new refresh token from every refresh response. The old one stops working",
          "Create the invoice, then PUT /v2/invoices/:id/transitions/mark_as_sent. A draft isn't visible to the customer",
          "Record a customer payment by explaining the bank transaction against the invoice. There's no invoice payments endpoint",
          "Send X-RateLimit-Test: true in the sandbox to see the 429 and Retry-After path before production does it to you",
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          "The API terms name FreeAgent Central Limited, registered in Scotland (SC316774) at One Edinburgh Quay, 133 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, wholly owned by NatWest Group.",
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          "The terms let FreeAgent introduce API fees on 30 days' notice."
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            "url": "https://www.freeagent.com/privacy/",
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      "slug": "quickbooks-online",
      "name": "QuickBooks Online API + MCP",
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      "vendorUrl": "https://developer.intuit.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "accounting",
      "summary": "Intuit's REST API for accessing QuickBooks Online accounting data.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/quickbooks-online",
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      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/quickbooks-online.min.md",
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      "repo": "https://github.com/intuit/quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
      "license": "MIT",
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          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "intuit-oauth"
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      "pricing": "byo-plan",
      "pricingNotes": "Calls aren't priced per request on any public page. Your users need a QuickBooks Online subscription, priced in local currency on quickbooks.intuit.com, and sandbox companies are free with a developer account. Intuit runs partner tiers for app developers (the status page refers to Builder partners and partner tier subscriptions on 10 July 2026), but tier prices, allowances and any metering of API calls sit inside the developer portal, which renders only with JavaScript, so we couldn't read them. Publishing to the QuickBooks App Store needs Intuit's review (https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/get-started).",
      "priceSummary": "Your plan",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
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        "npmWeekly": 399820,
        "pypiWeekly": 259619,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
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      "docsUrl": "https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/get-started",
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        "accounting.ledger",
        "accounting.invoices",
        "accounting.bills",
        "accounting.reports"
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        "hosted",
        "byo-plan",
        "free-tier",
        "oauth",
        "mcp",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "webhooks",
        "status-page",
        "closed-source"
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      "graded": true,
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        "graded": true,
        "score": 49.3,
        "grade": "D",
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        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "payments": 30,
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          "schema": 43,
          "security": 38,
          "transparency": 51
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "low",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Official MCP server from Intuit with 145 tools and flags to remove write, update or delete tools. Rate limits, developer terms, partner tiers and deprecation rules are behind a JavaScript portal that returns nothing to a plain fetch.",
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          "Official MCP server from Intuit with 145 tools and flags to remove write, update or delete tools",
          "Free sandbox companies, with a status page that breaks out API, sandbox, OAuth, webhooks and Payments",
          "Query endpoint with an SQL-like syntax, so one call filters any entity server-side",
          "RequestId for idempotent writes and Retry-After on 429, both documented by Intuit",
          "Official SDKs for Java, .NET and PHP, each released since July 2026, and OAuth clients for Node and Python"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Rate limits, developer terms, partner tiers and deprecation rules are behind a JavaScript portal that returns nothing to a plain fetch",
          "No OpenAPI spec and no llms.txt. The only machine-readable schemas are XSDs in the Java SDK",
          "One accounting scope covers the whole ledger, with no read-only grant",
          "Four API-affecting outages between 8 July and 23 September 2026, two over seven hours",
          "The official MCP isn't on npm or in the registry and sets no tool annotations"
        ],
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          "Store the realmId with the tokens. Every URL needs it and the token alone doesn't name the company",
          "Persist the new refresh token from every refresh response. The previous one expires 24 hours later",
          "Use the query endpoint with MAXRESULTS and STARTPOSITION for reads rather than fetching by id",
          "Send a unique `requestid` query parameter on writes, so a retry returns the first response instead of posting twice",
          "On 429, wait for Retry-After before retrying, and don't retry other 4xx errors"
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          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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        "avgRating": 2,
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          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
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            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.3",
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              "performance",
              "tasks"
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          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 45,
          "schema": 43,
          "security": 38,
          "transparency": 22
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        "provenanceScore": 80
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      "connect": {
        "http": "curl \"https://sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company/$QBO_REALM_ID/query?query=select%20*%20from%20Invoice%20maxresults%2010\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN\" -H \"Accept: application/json\""
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/accounting.ledger",
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      "area": "domain-data",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Intuit Inc.",
        "domain": "intuit.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1994-02-18",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.intuit.com/legal/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.developer.intuit.com",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "unknown",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "The legal index names Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA 94043. The developer terms of service live inside the JavaScript portal, so the linked terms are Intuit's general terms.",
          "www.intuit.com/.well-known/security.txt returned a 400 error, so we couldn't tell whether one exists. Intuit runs a security site at security.intuit.com.",
          "The privacy statement was last updated 9 March 2026."
        ],
        "score": 80
      },
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              "date": "2026-10-01",
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              "ok": 109
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 267,
              "ok": 267
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          "page": "https://status.developer.intuit.com",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
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          "url": "https://intuit.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "unknown",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:16:02.319821055Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "intuit.com",
          "registered": "1994-02-18",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/intuit.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:40.944976852Z"
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        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:53.338786361Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "bdf88eaea616"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.intuit.com/legal/terms/",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:51.130631537Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:53.025466324Z"
      }
    },
    "summary": "FreeAgent API has a score of 57.6 (C) against QuickBooks Online API + MCP's 49.3 (D). Both do accounting ledger. The largest gap is reliability, 40 points."
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  "markdown": "FreeAgent API has a score of 57.6 (C) against QuickBooks Online API + MCP's 49.3 (D). Both do accounting ledger. The largest gap is reliability, 40 points.\n\n- FreeAgent API: grade C, 57.6/100, rank #291 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/freeagent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/freeagent.json\n- QuickBooks Online API + MCP: grade D, 49.3/100, rank #369 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/quickbooks-online.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/quickbooks-online.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick FreeAgent API for reliability (+40), schema \u0026 documentation (+7), security \u0026 auth (+6), transparency \u0026 trust (+27).\n\nPick QuickBooks Online API + MCP for agent ergonomics (+13), maintenance \u0026 community (+25).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | FreeAgent API | QuickBooks Online API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 85 | 45 | FreeAgent API +40 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 50 | 43 | FreeAgent API +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 68 | QuickBooks Online API + MCP +13 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 38 | FreeAgent API +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 85 | QuickBooks Online API + MCP +25 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 51 | FreeAgent API +27 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **57.6 · C** | **49.3 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | FreeAgent API | QuickBooks Online API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | FreeAgent | Intuit |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.freeagent.com/v2` | `https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Your plan | Your plan |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 145 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-01 | 2026-09-17 |\n| Popularity | none | 145 stars, 400k npm/wk, 260k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 2/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**FreeAgent API.** Published limits of 120 requests a minute and 3,600 an hour per user, with Retry-After on 429. No OAuth scopes, so a token can do anything the authorising user can.\n\n**QuickBooks Online API + MCP.** Official MCP server from Intuit with 145 tools and flags to remove write, update or delete tools. Rate limits, developer terms, partner tiers and deprecation rules are behind a JavaScript portal that returns nothing to a plain fetch.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### FreeAgent API\n\n1. Store the new refresh token from every refresh response. The old one stops working\n2. Create the invoice, then PUT /v2/invoices/:id/transitions/mark_as_sent. A draft isn't visible to the customer\n3. Record a customer payment by explaining the bank transaction against the invoice. There's no invoice payments endpoint\n4. Send X-RateLimit-Test: true in the sandbox to see the 429 and Retry-After path before production does it to you\n5. Use view= and updated_since= on list calls and per_page up to 100 to stay under 120 requests a minute\n\n### QuickBooks Online API + MCP\n\n1. Store the realmId with the tokens. Every URL needs it and the token alone doesn't name the company\n2. Persist the new refresh token from every refresh response. The previous one expires 24 hours later\n3. Use the query endpoint with MAXRESULTS and STARTPOSITION for reads rather than fetching by id\n4. Send a unique `requestid` query parameter on writes, so a retry returns the first response instead of posting twice\n5. On 429, wait for Retry-After before retrying, and don't retry other 4xx errors\n\n## Other comparisons with FreeAgent API or QuickBooks Online API + MCP\n\n- [Apideck Accounting API + MCP vs FreeAgent API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-freeagent.md)\n- [Apideck Accounting API + MCP vs QuickBooks Online API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-quickbooks-online.md)\n- [FreeAgent API vs FreshBooks API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freeagent-vs-freshbooks.md)\n- [FreeAgent API vs Merge Accounting API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freeagent-vs-merge-accounting.md)\n- [FreeAgent API vs Rutter Accounting API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freeagent-vs-rutter.md)\n- [FreeAgent API vs Xero API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freeagent-vs-xero.md)\n- [FreshBooks API vs QuickBooks Online API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freshbooks-vs-quickbooks-online.md)\n- [Merge Accounting API vs QuickBooks Online API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/merge-accounting-vs-quickbooks-online.md)\n- [QuickBooks Online API + MCP vs Rutter Accounting API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/quickbooks-online-vs-rutter.md)\n- [QuickBooks Online API + MCP vs Xero API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/quickbooks-online-vs-xero.md)\n- [FreeAgent API vs Invoice Ninja API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freeagent-vs-invoice-ninja.md)\n- [Invoice Ninja API vs QuickBooks Online API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-quickbooks-online.md)\n",
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