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      "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 authorisation code with scopes such as user:invoices:read and user:journal_entries:write. Access tokens are JWTs that expire (check the expiry in the token). Refresh tokens never expire but are single use, and only one is alive per user per app, so a refresh invalidates the old one. Call GET /auth/api/v1/users/me for the account_id used by /accounting endpoints and the business_id used by projects and time tracking.",
      "pricing": "byo-plan",
      "pricingNotes": "The API comes with any FreshBooks plan under section 12 of the terms, with no separate developer fee. Plans are Lite at $23 a month (5 billable clients), Plus at $43 (50 clients), Premium at $70 (unlimited) and Select on request, with introductory discounts. Double-entry accounting reports and bank reconciliation start at Plus (https://www.freshbooks.com/pricing).",
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        "hosted",
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        "closed-source"
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          "OAuth scopes split read and write per resource, such as user:invoices:read",
          "Journal entries, chart of accounts, trial balance and general ledger through the API",
          "Numbered error codes such as 1001 RequiredField and 1012 UnknownResource",
          "30-day product trial with no card",
          "PCI DSS Level 1 with an annual third-party audit"
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          "Rate limits have no numbers, status code or headers",
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          "Official SDKs last released in April 2023 (Python) and September 2024 (Node)",
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          "About two hours of full outage on 4 August 2026, and no API component on the status page"
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          "Call /auth/api/v1/users/me first and keep both ids. Accounting endpoints take account_id, projects and time tracking take business_id",
          "Serialise token refreshes. Issuing a new refresh token kills the old one at once",
          "Mark an invoice as sent (action_mark_as_sent) or email it. Reports ignore drafts",
          "Send x-api-version: 2023-09-25 on journal entry calls",
          "Back off on any throttling response yourself. There's no Retry-After to read and no published limit"
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        "legalEntity": "2NDSITE Inc.",
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        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.freshbooks.com/policies/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://www.freshbooks.com/policies/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.freshbooks.com",
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          "The terms name 2NDSITE Inc., 225 King St W, Suite 1200, Toronto, under Ontario law, effective 29 October 2025 for new accounts.",
          "The API terms are section 12 of the general terms. There's no separate developer agreement.",
          "The API changelog page has a single entry, the 2021 to 2023 move from fixed-length bearer tokens to JWTs.",
          "www.freshbooks.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 403 to our fetch."
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        "score": 80
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              "ok": 248
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            "url": "https://www.freshbooks.com/policies/terms-of-service",
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      "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.",
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      "repo": "https://github.com/intuit/quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
      "license": "MIT",
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        "http",
        "stdio"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3",
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          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "intuit-oauth"
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        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "intuit-oauth"
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      ],
      "auth": "oauth",
      "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 authorisation code with OpenID Connect. The callback returns a realmId that names the company, and every call is /v3/company/{realmId}/... with a Bearer token. Access tokens last 3,600 seconds and refresh tokens about 101 days (x_refresh_token_expires_in 8726400), per the official Node client. The sandbox uses the same flow against sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com with an app's development keys.",
      "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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      "toolCount": 145,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 145,
        "npmWeekly": 399820,
        "pypiWeekly": 259619,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/get-started",
      "capabilities": [
        "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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      "lastRelease": "2026-09-17",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 49.3,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 369,
        "ranked": true,
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        "categoryRank": 7,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 45,
          "schema": 43,
          "security": 38,
          "transparency": 51
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "low",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
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        "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"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "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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        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 2,
        "history": [
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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
        },
        "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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              "probes": 109,
              "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": 270,
              "ok": 270
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.developer.intuit.com",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T23:49:26.251815681Z"
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            "registry": "pypi",
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            "released": "2026-07-22",
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        "githubStars": 406,
        "npmWeekly": 430603,
        "pypiWeekly": 264940,
        "securityTxt": {
          "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",
            "fingerprint": "6dec63558567"
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        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:49:26.251815681Z"
      }
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  "markdown": "QuickBooks Online API + MCP has a score of 49.3 (D) against FreshBooks API's 45.6 (E). Both do accounting ledger. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 71 points.\n\n- FreshBooks API: grade E, 45.6/100, rank #397 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/freshbooks.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/freshbooks.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 FreshBooks API for schema \u0026 documentation (+5), security \u0026 auth (+19), transparency \u0026 trust (+17).\n\nPick QuickBooks Online API + MCP for reliability (+10), agent ergonomics (+7), maintenance \u0026 community (+71).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | FreshBooks API | QuickBooks Online API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 45 | QuickBooks Online API + MCP +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 48 | 43 | FreshBooks API +5 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 61 | 68 | QuickBooks Online API + MCP +7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 57 | 38 | FreshBooks API +19 |\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) | 14 | 85 | QuickBooks Online API + MCP +71 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 51 | FreshBooks API +17 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **45.6 · E** | **49.3 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | FreshBooks API | QuickBooks Online API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | FreshBooks | Intuit |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.freshbooks.com` | `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 | MIT | 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 | 2024-09-11 | 2026-09-17 |\n| Popularity | 11 stars, 685 npm/wk, 415 PyPI/wk | 145 stars, 400k npm/wk, 260k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 2/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**FreshBooks API.** OAuth scopes split read and write per resource, such as user:invoices:read. Rate limits have no numbers, status code or headers.\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### FreshBooks API\n\n1. Call /auth/api/v1/users/me first and keep both ids. Accounting endpoints take account_id, projects and time tracking take business_id\n2. Serialise token refreshes. Issuing a new refresh token kills the old one at once\n3. Mark an invoice as sent (action_mark_as_sent) or email it. Reports ignore drafts\n4. Send x-api-version: 2023-09-25 on journal entry calls\n5. Back off on any throttling response yourself. There's no Retry-After to read and no published limit\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 FreshBooks API or QuickBooks Online API + MCP\n\n- [Apideck Accounting API + MCP vs FreshBooks API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-freshbooks.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 QuickBooks Online API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freeagent-vs-quickbooks-online.md)\n- [FreshBooks API vs Merge Accounting API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freshbooks-vs-merge-accounting.md)\n- [FreshBooks API vs Rutter Accounting API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freshbooks-vs-rutter.md)\n- [FreshBooks API vs Xero API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freshbooks-vs-xero.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- [FreshBooks API vs Invoice Ninja API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freshbooks-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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