# Health Gorilla vs Metriport Medical API (slim)

> Health Gorilla scores 59.3 (C) to Metriport Medical's 50.1 (D) for patient record retrieval. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Health Gorilla scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Metriport Medical API's 50.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Metriport Medical API leads on maintenance & community. Both do patient record retrieval.

- Health Gorilla: C 59.3, rank #583 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/health-gorilla.min.md
- Metriport Medical API: D 50.1, rank #833 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/metriport.min.md
- Health Gorilla, good for US providers, labs and digital health companies that need network record retrieval and lab ordering through one FHIR API with a QHIN behind it. Ahead on Reliability, 58 against 45; Schema & documentation, 80 against 65; Security & auth, 66 against 41; Transparency & trust, 61 against 56.
- Metriport Medical API, good for US care providers and digital health companies that need a patient's network records as FHIR with webhooks. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 74 against 63. Also Open source.

| Category | Health Gorilla | Metriport Medical API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 58 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 65 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 66 | 41 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 5 | 5 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 63 | 74 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Health Gorilla | Metriport Medical API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Health Gorilla, Inc. | Metriport Inc. |
| Auth | OAuth | API key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Health Gorilla's API Terms of Use (updated 22 January 2026), with a signed licence agreement required before production | Proprietary hosted service under Metriport's terms of use. The source in metriport/metriport is AGPLv3, with an enterprise directory under its own licence, and the @metriport/api-sdk package on npm is MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-09-28 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2024-01-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-08-30 | 2023-02-21 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 793 stars, 28k npm/wk |