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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, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "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, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 36.3, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 705, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 41, "maintenance": 3, "payments": 20, "reliability": 33, "schema": 57, "security": 38, "transparency": 50 }, "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.", "bestFor": "A travel company with a Hotelbeds contract that wants wholesale rates behind its agent, and for prototyping hotel search without a sales call.", "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": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 36.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 41, "maintenance": 3, "payments": 20, "reliability": 33, "schema": 57, "security": 38, "transparency": 28 }, "provenanceScore": 71 }, "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": 71 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hotelbeds.json", "live": { "slug": "hotelbeds", "probe": { "target": "https://api.test.hotelbeds.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:23.916020018Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 44, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 50, "p95ms24h": 101, "samples24h": 270, "samples30d": 1962, "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": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 246, "ok": 246 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "http://stats.pingdom.com/lxdqh5mwxj3w", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:41.061131805Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://hotelbeds.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:38.683520895Z" }, "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": "2026-10-08T18:28:09.088154808Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d52ebddb3584" }, { "url": "https://developer.hotelbeds.com/api-terms-use", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:14.025007885Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "da01a8431a6e" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:23.916020018Z" } }, "answer": "ETG API (RateHawk) scores 53 (D) on agent readiness against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "ratehawk", "name": "ETG API (RateHawk)", "vendor": "Emerging Travel Group", "vendorUrl": "https://www.ratehawk.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "travel", "summary": "Hotel search and booking API from Emerging Travel Group, the company behind RateHawk and ZenHotels. Contracted partners search rates, prebook, book and cancel stays over REST, with B2B, Affiliate and Content APIs.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ratehawk", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ratehawk.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ratehawk.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ratehawk.json", "repo": "https://github.com/EmergingTravel/papi-sdk-python", "license": "Proprietary service under a signed partner agreement that is not published. The Python and PHP SDKs on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.ratehawk.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "papi-sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Access is by partner approval. A person registers at ratehawk.com/registration, picks API integration as the purpose, then asks an account manager for credentials, and the docs say the relevant agreement must be signed before the API is used. Keys are `\u003cKEY_ID\u003e:\u003cAPI_KEY\u003e` pairs sent as HTTP Basic auth, issued separately for sandbox, test and production. A production key follows a written certification that the docs put at 14 to 30 days. Each key has its own endpoint permissions and request limits, readable at `/api/b2b/v3/overview/`.", "pricing": "byo-plan", "pricingNotes": "No public price list. Partners buy at net rates under contract and pay from a deposit with a credit limit, at the hotel or by card, depending on the rate. The landing page calls the API key free, and the sandbox makes no real bookings or charges, but a key comes from an account manager after registration, so an agent cannot start without a person and an agreement (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Your plan", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the Swagger file or the API landing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 9, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 12, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.emergingtravel.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.emergingtravel.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.ratehawk.com/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "travel.stays", "travel.booking", "travel.changes", "travel.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "openapi", "llms-txt", "sandbox", "sales-led", "certification", "status-page", "python", "php", "eu" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 554, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 10, "reliability": 45, "schema": 85, "security": 41, "transparency": 56 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Hotel search and booking are documented in a public Swagger 2.0 file, an llms.txt index and a changelog with 64 dated entries in 2026. Access is by contract. Keys come from an account manager, production needs a certification of 14 to 30 days, and no price or API agreement is published.", "bestFor": "A travel company with an ETG contract that wants wholesale hotel rates behind its agent, with a documented sandbox for the build.", "strengths": [ "Public Swagger 2.0 file at `https://api.ratehawk.com/openapi.json` with 48 operations and 171 definitions for the B2B and Content APIs", "`llms.txt` and a Markdown copy of every docs page at `index.md`, with robots.txt allowing AI crawlers by name", "Changelog with 64 dated entries in 2026, the latest on 5 October 2026", "Sandbox host with over 2,000 test hotels, named error scenarios and no real bookings or charges", "`partner_order_id` identifies a booking across retries, and the docs say how to handle `timeout`, `unknown` and 5xx during booking" ], "weaknesses": [ "No self-serve key. Registration is followed by a request to an account manager, and the docs say an agreement must be signed before use", "No public price list or API agreement was found. Rates and request limits are set per contract", "The status page's orders monitor recorded downtime of an hour or more on four days between 21 July and 14 September 2026, with no written incident reports", "Both official SDKs (Python and PHP) last changed in 2021 and default to `api.worldota.net`, a host the docs call deprecated", "No `security.txt`, disclosure policy or security certification page was found on ratehawk.com, emergingtravel.com or the docs site" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `/api/b2b/v3/overview/` first. It lists the endpoints the key may use and each one's request limit.", "Keep sandbox IDs, keys and hashes inside `api-sandbox.ratehawk.com`. Sandbox region IDs are limited to 2011, 2395, 2734 and 6053839.", "Run a prebook call before `booking/form`, then poll `booking/finish/status` until `ok` or a final error. Treat `timeout`, `unknown` and 5xx as still in progress.", "Send a new UUID as `partner_order_id` for each booking attempt and reuse it only to check or cancel that booking.", "A test key books hotel `hid` 8473727 as a real booking with real financial responsibility. Cancel it afterwards." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 10, "reliability": 45, "schema": 85, "security": 41, "transparency": 32 }, "provenanceScore": 80 }, "connect": { "http": "curl --user '\u003cKEY_ID\u003e:\u003cAPI_KEY\u003e' 'https://api-sandbox.ratehawk.com/api/b2b/v3/overview/'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/travel.stays", "tool": "https://letme.dev/ratehawk" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Leaside Services Limited", "domain": "ratehawk.com", "domainRegistered": "2006-08-24", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://www.ratehawk.com/legal/site/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.emergingtravel.com", "changelog": "https://docs.emergingtravel.com/docs/changelog/2026/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "No terms document for the API is published. The docs say the relevant agreement must be signed before use, and the only public terms we found are website terms of use on emergingtravel.com, so the terms field is left out.", "The RateHawk legal notice names Leaside Services Limited, a Cyprus company with registration number HE 342401, at Ifigeneias 17, Strovolos, Nicosia. The privacy notice (version 1.0, updated 8 May 2026) gives the same company an address in Limassol and lists eight other Emerging Travel entities as controllers by contract.", "The API answers at api.ratehawk.com and api-sandbox.ratehawk.com. Card tokenisation is at api.payota.net and the docs are at docs.emergingtravel.com, both outside ratehawk.com.", "`/.well-known/security.txt` returned 404 on www.ratehawk.com, api.ratehawk.com, www.emergingtravel.com and docs.emergingtravel.com.", "RDAP gives ratehawk.com a registration date of 2006-08-24 and emergingtravel.com 2007-02-25." ], "score": 80 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ratehawk.json", "live": { "slug": "ratehawk", "probe": { "target": "https://api.ratehawk.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:31.757788824Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 166, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 137, "p95ms24h": 188, "samples24h": 28, "samples30d": 28, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 28, "ok": 28 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.emergingtravel.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:39:06.568833713Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:31.757788824Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Hotelbeds (HBX Group)", "b": "Emerging Travel Group", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.test.hotelbeds.com", "b": "https://api.ratehawk.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Your plan", "b": "Your plan", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service under a signed partner agreement that is not published. The Python and PHP SDKs on GitHub are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2026-10-05", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-05-08", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "9 stars, 12 PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "ETG API (RateHawk) scores 53 (D) on agent readiness against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API or ETG API (RateHawk)?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API and ETG API (RateHawk) need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.test.hotelbeds.com and ETG API (RateHawk) at https://api.ratehawk.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API and ETG API (RateHawk) without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 10" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "A travel company with a Hotelbeds contract that wants wholesale rates behind its agent, and for prototyping hotel search without a sales call.", "slug": "hotelbeds", "watchFor": "50 requests a day on evaluation, and the 51st returns a 403" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 45 against 33", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 57", "Agent ergonomics, 69 against 41", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 65 against 3", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 56 against 50" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A travel company with an ETG contract that wants wholesale hotel rates behind its agent, with a documented sandbox for the build.", "slug": "ratehawk", "watchFor": "No self-serve key. Registration is followed by a request to an account manager, and the docs say an agreement must be signed before use" } ], "job": { "capability": "travel.stays", "name": "Travel stays" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-hotelbeds.json", "title": "Booking.com Demand API vs Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-hotelbeds" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-ratehawk.json", "title": "Booking.com Demand API vs ETG API (RateHawk)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-ratehawk" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-hotelbeds.json", "title": "Duffel Flights and Stays API vs Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-hotelbeds" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-ratehawk.json", "title": "Duffel Flights and Stays API vs ETG API (RateHawk)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-ratehawk" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-hotelbeds.json", "title": "Expedia Group Rapid API vs Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-hotelbeds" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-ratehawk.json", "title": "Expedia Group Rapid API vs ETG API (RateHawk)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-ratehawk" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-letsfg.json", "title": "Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API vs LetsFG", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-letsfg" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-liteapi.json", "title": "Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-liteapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-skyscanner" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-travelport.json", "title": "Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letsfg-vs-ratehawk.json", "title": "LetsFG vs ETG API (RateHawk)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letsfg-vs-ratehawk" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-ratehawk.json", "title": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) vs ETG API (RateHawk)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-ratehawk" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ratehawk-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "ETG API (RateHawk) vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ratehawk-vs-skyscanner" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ratehawk-vs-travelport.json", "title": "ETG API (RateHawk) vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ratehawk-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-hotelbeds.json", "title": "FlightClaw vs Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-hotelbeds" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-ratehawk.json", "title": "FlightClaw vs ETG API (RateHawk)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-ratehawk" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-kiwi-mcp.json", "title": "Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API vs Kiwi.com MCP Server", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-kiwi-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiwi-mcp-vs-ratehawk.json", "title": "Kiwi.com MCP Server vs ETG API (RateHawk)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiwi-mcp-vs-ratehawk" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 12, "edge": "ratehawk", "hotelbeds": 33, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "ratehawk": 45, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 28, "edge": "ratehawk", "hotelbeds": 57, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "ratehawk": 85, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 28, "edge": "ratehawk", "hotelbeds": 41, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "ratehawk": 69, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 3, "edge": "ratehawk", "hotelbeds": 38, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "ratehawk": 41, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "hotelbeds", "hotelbeds": 20, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "ratehawk": 10, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 62, "edge": "ratehawk", "hotelbeds": 3, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "ratehawk": 65, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "ratehawk", "hotelbeds": 50, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "ratehawk": 56, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "ETG API (RateHawk) scores 53 (D) on agent readiness against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do travel stays.", "verdicts": { "hotelbeds": "Free evaluation key on registration, no card and no sales call. 50 requests a day on evaluation, and the 51st returns a 403.", "ratehawk": "Hotel search and booking are documented in a public Swagger 2.0 file, an llms.txt index and a changelog with 64 dated entries in 2026. Access is by contract. Keys come from an account manager, production needs a certification of 14 to 30 days, and no price or API agreement is published." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-ratehawk", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-ratehawk.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-ratehawk.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-ratehawk.min.md" }, "markdown": "ETG API (RateHawk) scores 53 (D) on agent readiness against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do travel stays.\n\n- Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API: grade F, 36.3/100, rank #705 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hotelbeds.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hotelbeds.json\n- ETG API (RateHawk): grade D, 53/100, rank #554 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ratehawk.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ratehawk.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API (F)\n\nGood for: A travel company with a Hotelbeds contract that wants wholesale rates behind its agent, and for prototyping hotel search without a sales call.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 20 against 10\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: 50 requests a day on evaluation, and the 51st returns a 403\n\n### ETG API (RateHawk) (D)\n\nGood for: A travel company with an ETG contract that wants wholesale hotel rates behind its agent, with a documented sandbox for the build.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 45 against 33\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 57\n- Agent ergonomics, 69 against 41\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 65 against 3\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 56 against 50\n\nWatch for: No self-serve key. Registration is followed by a request to an account manager, and the docs say an agreement must be signed before use\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API | ETG API (RateHawk) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 33 | 45 | ETG API (RateHawk) +12 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 85 | ETG API (RateHawk) +28 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 41 | 69 | ETG API (RateHawk) +28 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 38 | 41 | ETG API (RateHawk) +3 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 10 | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 3 | 65 | ETG API (RateHawk) +62 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 56 | ETG API (RateHawk) +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **36.3 · F** | **53 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API | ETG API (RateHawk) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Hotelbeds (HBX Group) | Emerging Travel Group |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.test.hotelbeds.com` | `https://api.ratehawk.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Your plan | Your plan |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under a signed partner agreement that is not published. The Python and PHP SDKs on GitHub are MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-10-05 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-05-08 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Popularity | none | 9 stars, 12 PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |\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**ETG API (RateHawk).** Hotel search and booking are documented in a public Swagger 2.0 file, an llms.txt index and a changelog with 64 dated entries in 2026. Access is by contract. Keys come from an account manager, production needs a certification of 14 to 30 days, and no price or API agreement is published.\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### ETG API (RateHawk)\n\n1. Call `/api/b2b/v3/overview/` first. It lists the endpoints the key may use and each one's request limit.\n2. Keep sandbox IDs, keys and hashes inside `api-sandbox.ratehawk.com`. Sandbox region IDs are limited to 2011, 2395, 2734 and 6053839.\n3. Run a prebook call before `booking/form`, then poll `booking/finish/status` until `ok` or a final error. Treat `timeout`, `unknown` and 5xx as still in progress.\n4. Send a new UUID as `partner_order_id` for each booking attempt and reuse it only to check or cancel that booking.\n5. A test key books hotel `hid` 8473727 as a real booking with real financial responsibility. Cancel it afterwards.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API or ETG API (RateHawk)?\n\nETG API (RateHawk) scores 53 (D) on agent readiness against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API and ETG API (RateHawk) need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API and ETG API (RateHawk) without installing anything?\n\nYes. Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.test.hotelbeds.com and ETG API (RateHawk) at https://api.ratehawk.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-ratehawk.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-ratehawk.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"hotelbeds\", \"b\": \"ratehawk\"}`. 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