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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/urban-company.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/urban-company.json\n- Best home service and local trades marketplaces for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/home-services/index.md\n- All 43 home services comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/home-services/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Handy (F)\n\nGood for: A person booking a cleaner or handyperson at a set time.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 5 against 0\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 52 against 32\n\nWatch for: No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call\n\n### Urban Company (F)\n\nGood for: People in Indian, Emirati, Singaporean and Saudi cities booking services at home through the app.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 54 against 4\n\nWatch for: No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Handy | Urban Company | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 15 | even |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 5 | 0 | Handy +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 10 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 4 | 54 | Urban Company +50 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 32 | Handy +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **10 · F** | **11.8 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Handy | Urban Company |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Platform |\n| Vendor | Handy Technologies, Inc. (Angi) | Urban Company Limited |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  |  |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed service under the Handy Terms of Use / User Agreement, last updated 8 July 2024. | Closed service under Urban Company's terms and conditions, which our reader could not load. |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2025-10-13 | 2026-10-13 |\n| Terms last updated | 2024-07-08 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-06-22 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Handy.** Handy books cleaning, handyman and assembly jobs in the US, Canada and the UK, with a guarantee on jobs paid through Handy. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. Businesses can ask to partner with Handy, but no partner documentation is public, and the iOS app was last updated in October 2025.\n\n**Urban Company.** Urban Company books cleaning, repairs, appliance servicing and beauty at home in India, the UAE, Singapore and Saudi Arabia, with app releases most weeks. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today, robots.txt prohibits crawling without permission, and its terms and privacy policy did not load for our reader.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Handy\n\n1. Don't plan to call Handy from another agent. Hand the booking to the person on handy.com or in the Handy app\n2. For a business that wants Handy services for its customers, point it to the Partner with Handy route on handy.com\n\n### Urban Company\n\n1. Don't plan to call Urban Company from another agent. Hand the booking to the person in the Urban Company app or on urbancompany.com\n2. Don't fetch /api/ paths. robots.txt disallows them and prohibits crawling without permission\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Handy or Urban Company?\n\nUrban Company scores 11.8 (F) on agent readiness against Handy's 10 (F), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Handy leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/handy-vs-urban-company.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/handy-vs-urban-company.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"handy\", \"b\": \"urban-company\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare handy urban-company`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/handy.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/urban-company.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Handy or Urban Company\n\n- [Bark vs Handy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-handy.md)\n- [Bark vs Urban Company](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-urban-company.md)\n- [Handy vs Houzz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/handy-vs-houzz.md)\n- [Handy vs Rated People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/handy-vs-rated-people.md)\n- [Handy vs TrustATrader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/handy-vs-trustatrader.md)\n- [Houzz vs Urban Company](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/houzz-vs-urban-company.md)\n- [Rated People vs Urban Company](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rated-people-vs-urban-company.md)\n- [TrustATrader vs Urban Company](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/trustatrader-vs-urban-company.md)\n- [Airtasker vs Handy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtasker-vs-handy.md)\n- [Airtasker vs Urban Company](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtasker-vs-urban-company.md)\n- [Angi (including HomeAdvisor, now Angi Leads) vs Handy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/angi-vs-handy.md)\n- [Angi (including HomeAdvisor, now Angi Leads) vs Urban Company](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/angi-vs-urban-company.md)\n- [Checkatrade vs Handy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/checkatrade-vs-handy.md)\n- [Checkatrade vs Urban Company](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/checkatrade-vs-urban-company.md)\n- [Handy vs Taskrabbit Partner API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/handy-vs-taskrabbit.md)\n- [Taskrabbit Partner API vs Urban Company](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/taskrabbit-vs-urban-company.md)\n",
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