# Health Gorilla vs Terra API (slim)

> Terra scores 65.9 (B) to Health Gorilla's 59.3 (C) for fhir servers. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Terra API scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Health Gorilla's 59.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Health Gorilla leads on transparency & trust. Both do fhir servers.

- Health Gorilla: C 59.3, rank #583 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/health-gorilla.min.md
- Terra API: B 65.9, rank #327 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/terra.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 Transparency & trust, 61 against 56.
- Terra API, good for A fitness, wellness, insurance or research product whose users connect consumer wearables and apps, and an agent that needs to read one user's sleep, activity or body data through MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 67 against 58; Schema & documentation, 89 against 80; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 72; Payments & pricing, 20 against 5; Maintenance & community, 75 against 63. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Health Gorilla | Terra API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 58 | 67 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 66 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 5 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 63 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Health Gorilla | Terra API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Health Gorilla, Inc. | Terra Enabling Developers Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://access.tryterra.co/api/v2/mcp/<user_id>` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Health Gorilla's API Terms of Use (updated 22 January 2026), with a signed licence agreement required before production | Proprietary service under Terra's terms of service. The OpenAPI specs repository is Apache 2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 6 |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-13 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-05-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-08-30 | 2023-04-20 |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 13k npm/wk, 11k PyPI/wk |