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      "name": "Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API",
      "vendor": "Hotelbeds (HBX Group)",
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      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "travel",
      "summary": "B2B hotel distribution API for availability, rates, bookings, cancellations and property content.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hotelbeds",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hotelbeds.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hotelbeds.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hotelbeds.json",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.test.hotelbeds.com",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Two headers on every call. `Api-key` is your key and `X-Signature` is a SHA-256 hex digest of the key, the shared secret and the current Unix time in seconds, concatenated in that order, so a clock that drifts breaks auth. Keys come from the developer dashboard on registration. The production host is issued once you're certified.",
      "pricing": "byo-plan",
      "pricingNotes": "No published price list. Registration gives an evaluation key with 50 requests a day on the test host. Better quotas come from progressing through profile completion and certification in the dashboard, and live bookings need a commercial agreement with Hotelbeds whose rates aren't published. The API terms warn that abusive or excessively frequent requests get an account suspended (https://developer.hotelbeds.com/documentation/getting-started/).",
      "priceSummary": "Your plan",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
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        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://developer.hotelbeds.com/documentation/",
      "capabilities": [
        "travel.stays",
        "travel.booking",
        "travel.changes",
        "travel.search"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "closed-source",
        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "enterprise",
        "eu"
      ],
      "graded": true,
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        "graded": true,
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        "agentReady": false,
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        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 3,
          "payments": 20,
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          "transparency": 54
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Free evaluation key on registration, no card and no sales call. 50 requests a day on evaluation, and the 51st returns a 403.",
        "strengths": [
          "Free evaluation key on registration, no card and no sales call",
          "Availability, CheckRate, booking, modification and cancellation in one API, with Content and Cache APIs alongside",
          "Cancellation can be simulated before it's run",
          "Swagger specifications and Postman collections referenced from the getting-started page",
          "Test host on the same servers as production, with no real reservations or card charges"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "50 requests a day on evaluation, and the 51st returns a 403",
          "Live bookings need certification and a commercial contract, with no published prices",
          "No changelog, release notes or deprecation notices found",
          "Status page is a Pingdom uptime report with no incident history",
          "No SDKs, llms.txt, documented error codes or MCP server"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Compute `X-Signature` fresh per request from key, secret and the current epoch seconds, in that order",
          "Budget the 50 daily evaluation calls; cache hotel content and only call availability for real dates",
          "Run CheckRate on a rate before booking when the availability response says it needs rechecking",
          "Read a 403 on the test host as the daily quota first, not a bad key",
          "Simulate a cancellation before running it"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 2.5,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "F",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
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          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 33,
          "schema": 57,
          "security": 38,
          "transparency": 28
        },
        "provenanceScore": 80
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl \"https://api.test.hotelbeds.com/hotel-api/1.0/status\" \\\n  -H \"Api-key: $HOTELBEDS_API_KEY\" -H \"Accept: application/json\" \\\n  -H \"X-Signature: $(printf '%s%s%s' \"$HOTELBEDS_API_KEY\" \"$HOTELBEDS_SECRET\" \"$(date +%s)\" | sha256sum | cut -d' ' -f1)\""
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/travel.stays",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/hotelbeds"
      },
      "area": "domain-data",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "HBX International Group PLC (Hotelbeds)",
        "domain": "hotelbeds.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2001-06-19",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://developer.hotelbeds.com/api-terms-use",
        "privacy": "https://www.hbxgroup.com/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "http://stats.pingdom.com/lxdqh5mwxj3w",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "The API terms name Hotelbeds or Travel B2B Ltd as the provider, under Spanish law and the courts of Palma de Mallorca. The group privacy policy names HBX International Group PLC, 7th Floor Tower 42, 25 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1HN, as controller.",
          "The status page is a public Pingdom report rather than a vendor status site.",
          "developer.hotelbeds.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404."
        ],
        "score": 80
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hotelbeds.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "hotelbeds",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.test.hotelbeds.com",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:48.581617396Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 67,
          "authRequired": false,
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          "p95ms24h": 88,
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          "days": [
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              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 109,
              "ok": 109
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 267,
              "ok": 267
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "http://stats.pingdom.com/lxdqh5mwxj3w",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:07.893490523Z"
        },
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://hotelbeds.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:50.583118891Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "hotelbeds.com",
          "registered": "2001-06-19",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/hotelbeds.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:04:34.216873885Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.hbxgroup.com/privacy-policy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:37.63156573Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "d52ebddb3584"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://developer.hotelbeds.com/api-terms-use",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:36.629077789Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "da01a8431a6e"
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        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:48.581617396Z"
      }
    },
    "b": {
      "slug": "liteapi",
      "name": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)",
      "vendor": "Nuitee",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.liteapi.travel",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "travel",
      "summary": "Self-serve hotel booking API (3 million plus properties) with a rates, prebook, book flow, cancellations and amendments, plus a flights API that needs approval.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liteapi",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liteapi.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liteapi.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/liteapi.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/liteapi-travel/mcp-server",
      "license": "MIT (MCP server), ISC (Node SDK)",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.liteapi.travel/v3.0",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "liteapi-node-sdk"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "`X-API-Key` header. Sandbox keys start with `sand_` and hit the same base URL as production, so the key decides the environment. Booking endpoints (prebook, book, cancel, amend) live on book.liteapi.travel rather than api.liteapi.travel. An HMAC scheme is documented for signed requests. The hosted MCP takes the key as a query parameter in the URL.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "No set-up fee and no charge for the core rates, prebook and book calls while you keep a reasonable look to book ratio. Priced extras are the price index at $0.05 a request and places lookups at $0.01. Flights add 1 per cent of transaction value per ticket (minimum 2 EUR, maximum 10 EUR), 25 EUR per voluntary change and a 0.005 EUR per search surcharge above a 1,500 to 1 search to book ratio. Dashboard add-ons are $4.99 a month each (AI insights, advanced logs, reports) and extra seats $4.99 admin or $1.99 agent. Hotel revenue is the margin you set on net rates, paid out weekly after check-out (https://docs.liteapi.travel/reference/api-pricing-usage-costs).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.05 / call",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 3,
        "npmWeekly": 17488,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.liteapi.travel",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.liteapi.travel/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://docs.liteapi.travel/reference/openapi-specifications",
      "capabilities": [
        "travel.stays",
        "travel.flights",
        "travel.booking",
        "travel.changes",
        "travel.search"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "typescript",
        "webhooks",
        "eu"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-30",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 53.5,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 332,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 3,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 86,
          "maintenance": 48,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 33,
          "transparency": 48
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": -6,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "-6, fixed 2026-04-20. The official Node SDK repository (liteapi-travel/nodejs-sdk) carried an obfuscated payload appended to index.js on main, introduced in a merge commit dated 8 July 2025 whose author and committer time zones differ, so the real injection date is unclear. Nuitée removed it in a commit titled \"remove obfuscated malware payload injected into index.js\" on 20 April 2026. The npm package 4.3.2 was published in March 2025, before it, so npm installs weren't affected; installs from the repository in that window were. A similar removal from test.js was merged in June 2025. We found no advisory or notice in the repository or docs. https://github.com/liteapi-travel/nodejs-sdk/commit/80d6d307fe3e82dc7bb448c3a8258e974f070ef7"
        ],
        "verdict": "Sandbox key at sign-up, same base URL as production, no card. Hosted MCP's documented setup puts the API key in the URL query string and exposes 111 generated tools.",
        "strengths": [
          "Sandbox key at sign-up, same base URL as production, no card",
          "OpenAPI specs for 12 modules, llms.txt and a Markdown twin for every docs page",
          "Rates, prebook, book, cancel, amend and rebook, with `clientReference` as an idempotency key",
          "Free core booking calls and published prices for the paid extras, updated July 2026",
          "Better Stack status page with per-workflow components"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Hosted MCP's documented setup puts the API key in the URL query string and exposes 111 generated tools",
          "Official Node SDK repository carried an injected payload on main until 20 April 2026, with no advisory found",
          "No public changelog, deprecation policy or SLA",
          "SDKs last published March 2025 or earlier",
          "Rate limits differ between the rate-limiting page (250 a second) and the performance page (500 a second)"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Use `/hotels/rates` with a short `hotelIds` list from `/data/hotels`; a broad rates call is slow and large",
          "Always prebook before book and read the cancellation policy in the prebook response, since refundability differs per rate",
          "Send a unique `clientReference` on book; a repeat returns error 4005 instead of a second booking",
          "Set `margin` explicitly on every rates call. Zero means net rates with no commission to you",
          "Send the key to the MCP in an `X-Api-Key` header rather than `?apiKey=` where the client allows it"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 4,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 53.5
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 86,
          "maintenance": 48,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 33,
          "transparency": 31
        },
        "provenanceScore": 65
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install liteapi-node-sdk",
        "http": "curl \"https://api.liteapi.travel/v3.0/data/hotels?countryCode=GB\u0026cityName=London\u0026limit=5\" \\\n  -H \"X-API-Key: $LITEAPI_API_KEY\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http liteapi \"https://mcp.liteapi.travel/api/mcp?apiKey=$LITEAPI_API_KEY\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "liteapi": {
              "url": "https://mcp.liteapi.travel/api/mcp?apiKey=${LITEAPI_API_KEY}"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/travel.stays",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/liteapi"
      },
      "area": "domain-data",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Price index request",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.05
        },
        {
          "item": "Places request",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.01
        },
        {
          "item": "Flight ticketing fee",
          "unit": "pct",
          "usd": 1,
          "note": "of transaction value, minimum 2 EUR and maximum 10 EUR per booking"
        },
        {
          "item": "Additional admin seat",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 4.99
        },
        {
          "item": "Additional agent seat",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 1.99
        },
        {
          "item": "AI Insights add-on",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 4.99,
          "note": "advanced logs and reports are $4.99 a month each too"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Nuitée Travel Limited",
        "domain": "liteapi.travel",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.liteapi.travel/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://www.liteapi.travel/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.liteapi.travel",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "Incorporated in Ireland, VAT IE3388031IH, registered office 4 Waterloo Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin D04 A0X3, governed by Irish law.",
          "The product is being renamed Nuitee Connect; the site, docs and dashboard mix both names.",
          "The .travel registry's RDAP server rate-limited our lookup, so the registration date is unrecorded.",
          "www.liteapi.travel/.well-known/security.txt returns 404."
        ],
        "score": 65
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liteapi.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "liteapi",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.liteapi.travel/v3.0",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:49.832113357Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 124,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 132,
          "p95ms24h": 224,
          "samples24h": 272,
          "samples30d": 895,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 109,
              "ok": 109
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 267,
              "ok": 267
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.liteapi.travel",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:13.197653183Z"
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "liteapi-node-sdk",
            "version": "4.3.2",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:31:48.81445089Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 3,
        "npmWeekly": 18281,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://liteapi.travel/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:51.367596285Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.liteapi.travel/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:57.129284461Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "liteapi.travel",
          "registered": "2023-03-01",
          "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/liteapi.travel",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:10:23.88661532Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://docs.liteapi.travel/reference/api-pricing-usage-costs",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:45.051909196Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "cbca94e86dd0"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.liteapi.travel/privacy/",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:02.932582724Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "2bc0675bca0b"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.liteapi.travel/terms/",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:05.068111235Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "85254ed151cc"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:49.832113357Z"
      }
    },
    "summary": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) has a score of 53.5 (D) against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.7 (F). Both do travel stays. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 45 points."
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  "links": {
    "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json",
    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-liteapi",
    "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-liteapi.json",
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  "markdown": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) has a score of 53.5 (D) against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.7 (F). Both do travel stays. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 45 points.\n\n- Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API: grade F, 36.7/100, rank #435 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hotelbeds.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hotelbeds.json\n- LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect): grade D, 53.5/100, rank #332 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liteapi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/liteapi.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API for security \u0026 auth (+5), transparency \u0026 trust (+6).\n\nPick LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) for reliability (+29), schema \u0026 documentation (+29), agent ergonomics (+45), payments \u0026 pricing (+20), maintenance \u0026 community (+45).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 33 | 62 | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) +29 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 86 | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) +29 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 41 | 86 | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) +45 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 38 | 33 | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 3 | 48 | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) +45 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 48 | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -6 | |\n| **Total** | | **36.7 · F** | **53.5 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Hotelbeds (HBX Group) | Nuitee |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.test.hotelbeds.com` | `https://api.liteapi.travel/v3.0` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Your plan | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | MIT (MCP server), ISC (Node SDK) |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\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 | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | none | 2026-09-30 |\n| Popularity | none | 3 stars, 17k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 4/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API.** Free evaluation key on registration, no card and no sales call. 50 requests a day on evaluation, and the 51st returns a 403.\n\n**LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect).** Sandbox key at sign-up, same base URL as production, no card. Hosted MCP's documented setup puts the API key in the URL query string and exposes 111 generated tools.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API\n\n1. Compute `X-Signature` fresh per request from key, secret and the current epoch seconds, in that order\n2. Budget the 50 daily evaluation calls; cache hotel content and only call availability for real dates\n3. Run CheckRate on a rate before booking when the availability response says it needs rechecking\n4. Read a 403 on the test host as the daily quota first, not a bad key\n5. Simulate a cancellation before running it\n\n### LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)\n\n1. Use `/hotels/rates` with a short `hotelIds` list from `/data/hotels`; a broad rates call is slow and large\n2. Always prebook before book and read the cancellation policy in the prebook response, since refundability differs per rate\n3. Send a unique `clientReference` on book; a repeat returns error 4005 instead of a second booking\n4. Set `margin` explicitly on every rates call. Zero means net rates with no commission to you\n5. Send the key to the MCP in an `X-Api-Key` header rather than `?apiKey=` where the client allows it\n\n## Other comparisons with Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API or LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)\n\n- [Booking.com Demand API vs Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-hotelbeds.md)\n- [Booking.com Demand API vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [Duffel Flights and Stays API vs Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-hotelbeds.md)\n- [Expedia Group Rapid API vs Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-hotelbeds.md)\n- [Expedia Group Rapid API vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API vs LetsFG](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-letsfg.md)\n- [Duffel Flights and Stays API vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [FlightClaw vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [LetsFG vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letsfg-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [FlightClaw vs Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-hotelbeds.md)\n",
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