{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "hotelbeds", "name": "Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API", "vendor": "Hotelbeds (HBX Group)", "vendorUrl": "https://developer.hotelbeds.com", "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, "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": "2026-10-08T21:12:12.225500153Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 40, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 50, "p95ms24h": 101, "samples24h": 271, "samples30d": 1955, "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": 239, "ok": 239 } ] }, "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": "2026-10-08T21:12:12.225500153Z" } }, "answer": "Skyscanner Travel APIs scores 45.6 (E) on agent readiness against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "skyscanner", "name": "Skyscanner Travel APIs", "vendor": "Skyscanner Limited", "vendorUrl": "https://www.partners.skyscanner.net/product/travel-api", "kind": "http-api", "category": "travel", "summary": "Skyscanner's partner APIs for flight, hotel and car hire search, with live and indicative prices, hotel content and reviews, and deep links that send travellers to airlines and travel agents to book. Access is by application.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skyscanner", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skyscanner.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skyscanner.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skyscanner.json", "license": "Proprietary service. The API terms are in the partner contract and are not public", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://partners.api.skyscanner.net", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Partner approval. A business applies at https://www.partners.skyscanner.net/contact/travel-api, Skyscanner reviews each application within two weeks, and an account manager issues the key after a commercial agreement and onboarding on impact.com. The key goes in the `x-api-key` header on every call. Rate limits are set per key. No scopes, self-serve rotation or OAuth were found in the docs.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "No usage fee. Skyscanner's partner help centre says the Travel APIs carry no per-booking, monthly or yearly fee and that partners earn a revenue share on bookings, tracked through Impact. The share is not published. There is no sandbox, trial or test key, and access starts only after an approved application and a commercial agreement (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the API reference or the partner pages (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.skyscanner.net/docs/intro", "capabilities": [ "travel.flights", "travel.stays", "travel.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "partner-only", "api-key", "metasearch", "flights", "hotels", "car-hire", "affiliate", "bug-bounty" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 45.6, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 655, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 25, "reliability": 35, "schema": 56, "security": 48, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Thirteen documented search APIs cover flights, hotels and car hire behind one `x-api-key` header, with default rate limits published per endpoint and no usage fee. Access needs an approved application, an audience above 100,000 monthly users and a commercial agreement, and the usage guidelines bar live-price calls made without a user action. Booking happens on supplier sites.", "bestFor": "An established travel site or app with a large audience that wants metasearch prices across flights, hotels and car hire and is content to send users to suppliers to book.", "strengths": [ "Thirteen APIs and 21 operations cover flights, hotels and car hire, with live and indicative prices, hotel content, reviews, geography and autosuggest", "Default rate limits are published per endpoint, per second, minute and hour, such as 100 flight search creates a minute and 500 polls", "Skyscanner states the Travel APIs carry no per-booking, monthly or yearly fee, and partners earn a revenue share on bookings", "The docs changelog is dated and current, with four entries between 14 July and 1 October 2026", "Public bug bounty on Bugcrowd and a security.txt on www.skyscanner.net that runs to November 2030" ], "weaknesses": [ "Keys are issued only after an application review and a commercial agreement, with a stated minimum of 100,000 monthly active users", "The usage guidelines say live pricing calls are made only on user-generated requests, and automated calls without a user action are not permitted", "No booking, change or cancel calls. Every result carries a deep link and the traveller books on the supplier's site", "No downloadable OpenAPI file, SDK or code samples were found, and `llms.txt` on the docs host returns 403", "No status page, SLA or public API terms were found. The API terms sit in the partner's contract on impact.com" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key in the `x-api-key` header on every call to `https://partners.api.skyscanner.net`. CORS is not supported, so call from a server", "Create a live search only when a user has given origin, destination and exact dates. Use the indicative price endpoints for open-ended questions", "Poll `/search/poll/{sessionToken}` until `status` is `RESULT_STATUS_COMPLETE`, and replace earlier results only when `action` is `RESULT_ACTION_REPLACED`", "Start a new session when a poll returns 400. Flight session tokens last about an hour and hotel sessions at most 15 minutes", "Pass each `deepLink` to the traveller unchanged, since altered encoding breaks Impact tracking, and never put personal data in `subid2`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 45.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 25, "reliability": 35, "schema": 56, "security": 48, "transparency": 28 }, "provenanceScore": 76 }, "connect": { "http": "curl --request POST 'https://partners.api.skyscanner.net/apiservices/v3/flights/live/search/create' \\\n --header 'x-api-key: your-api-key' \\\n --data '{\"query\":{\"market\":\"UK\",\"locale\":\"en-GB\",\"currency\":\"GBP\",\"queryLegs\":[{\"originPlaceId\":{\"iata\":\"LHR\"},\"destinationPlaceId\":{\"iata\":\"SIN\"},\"date\":{\"year\":2024,\"month\":12,\"day\":22}}],\"adults\":1,\"cabinClass\":\"CABIN_CLASS_ECONOMY\"}}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/travel.flights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/skyscanner" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Skyscanner Limited", "domain": "skyscanner.net", "domainRegistered": "2002-07-03", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://www.skyscanner.net/media/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://developers.skyscanner.net/docs/change-log", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The privacy policy and terms of service name Skyscanner Limited, company number 04217916, registered in England and Wales.", "No `terms` URL is given. The partner help centre says the Skyscanner API Terms and Conditions are in the partner's contract on impact.com, and the only public terms are the website terms of service at https://www.skyscanner.net/media/terms-of-service.", "The privacy policy is Skyscanner's general one for its platforms and travellers. No separate privacy notice or DPA for API partners was found.", "The API answers at partners.api.skyscanner.net. Deep links pass through skyscanner.pxf.io, an Impact tracking domain.", "https://www.skyscanner.net/.well-known/security.txt lists security@skyscanner.net and the Bugcrowd programme and expires 2030-11-20. The same path returns 403 on developers.skyscanner.net and 404 on www.partners.skyscanner.net.", "No status page is linked from the developer docs or the partner site. Requests to status.skyscanner.net did not connect from our network.", "RDAP for skyscanner.net gives a registration date of 2002-07-03." ], "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skyscanner.json", "live": { "slug": "skyscanner", "probe": { "target": "https://partners.api.skyscanner.net", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:21.721422508Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 70, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 73, "p95ms24h": 100, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:21.721422508Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Hotelbeds (HBX Group)", "b": "Skyscanner Limited", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.test.hotelbeds.com", "b": "https://partners.api.skyscanner.net", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Your plan", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service. The API terms are in the partner contract and are not public", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2026-10-01", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "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": "2.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Skyscanner Travel APIs scores 45.6 (E) on agent readiness against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API or Skyscanner Travel APIs?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API and Skyscanner Travel APIs need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.test.hotelbeds.com and Skyscanner Travel APIs at https://partners.api.skyscanner.net.", "question": "Can an agent call Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API and Skyscanner Travel APIs without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "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": [ "Agent ergonomics, 50 against 41", "Security \u0026 auth, 48 against 38", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 60 against 3" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An established travel site or app with a large audience that wants metasearch prices across flights, hotels and car hire and is content to send users to suppliers to book.", "slug": "skyscanner", "watchFor": "Keys are issued only after an application review and a commercial agreement, with a stated minimum of 100,000 monthly active users" } ], "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-skyscanner.json", "title": "Booking.com Demand API vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-skyscanner" }, { "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/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-skyscanner.json", "title": "Expedia Group Rapid API vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-skyscanner" }, { "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-ratehawk.json", "title": "Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API vs ETG API (RateHawk)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-ratehawk" }, { "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/liteapi-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-skyscanner" }, { "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/duffel-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "Duffel Flights and Stays API vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-skyscanner" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "FlightClaw vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-skyscanner" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiwi-mcp-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "Kiwi.com MCP Server vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiwi-mcp-vs-skyscanner" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letsfg-vs-skyscanner.json", "title": "LetsFG vs Skyscanner Travel APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letsfg-vs-skyscanner" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skyscanner-vs-travelport.json", "title": "Skyscanner Travel APIs vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skyscanner-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/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" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 2, "edge": "skyscanner", "hotelbeds": 33, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "skyscanner": 35, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "hotelbeds", "hotelbeds": 57, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "skyscanner": 56, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "skyscanner", "hotelbeds": 41, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "skyscanner": 50, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "skyscanner", "hotelbeds": 38, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "skyscanner": 48, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "skyscanner", "hotelbeds": 20, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "skyscanner": 25, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 57, "edge": "skyscanner", "hotelbeds": 3, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "skyscanner": 60, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "skyscanner", "hotelbeds": 50, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "skyscanner": 52, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Skyscanner Travel APIs scores 45.6 (E) on agent readiness against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. 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.", "skyscanner": "Thirteen documented search APIs cover flights, hotels and car hire behind one `x-api-key` header, with default rate limits published per endpoint and no usage fee. Access needs an approved application, an audience above 100,000 monthly users and a commercial agreement, and the usage guidelines bar live-price calls made without a user action. Booking happens on supplier sites." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-skyscanner", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-skyscanner.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-skyscanner.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-skyscanner.min.md" }, "markdown": "Skyscanner Travel APIs scores 45.6 (E) on agent readiness against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. 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- Skyscanner Travel APIs: grade E, 45.6/100, rank #655 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skyscanner.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skyscanner.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\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### Skyscanner Travel APIs (E)\n\nGood for: An established travel site or app with a large audience that wants metasearch prices across flights, hotels and car hire and is content to send users to suppliers to book.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 50 against 41\n- Security \u0026 auth, 48 against 38\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 60 against 3\n\nWatch for: Keys are issued only after an application review and a commercial agreement, with a stated minimum of 100,000 monthly active users\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API | Skyscanner Travel APIs | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 33 | 35 | Skyscanner Travel APIs +2 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 56 | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 41 | 50 | Skyscanner Travel APIs +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 38 | 48 | Skyscanner Travel APIs +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 25 | Skyscanner Travel APIs +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 3 | 60 | Skyscanner Travel APIs +57 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 52 | Skyscanner Travel APIs +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **36.3 · F** | **45.6 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API | Skyscanner Travel APIs |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Hotelbeds (HBX Group) | Skyscanner Limited |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.test.hotelbeds.com` | `https://partners.api.skyscanner.net` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Your plan | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service. The API terms are in the partner contract and are not public |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | none | 2026-10-01 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\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| 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**Skyscanner Travel APIs.** Thirteen documented search APIs cover flights, hotels and car hire behind one `x-api-key` header, with default rate limits published per endpoint and no usage fee. Access needs an approved application, an audience above 100,000 monthly users and a commercial agreement, and the usage guidelines bar live-price calls made without a user action. Booking happens on supplier sites.\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### Skyscanner Travel APIs\n\n1. Send the key in the `x-api-key` header on every call to `https://partners.api.skyscanner.net`. CORS is not supported, so call from a server\n2. Create a live search only when a user has given origin, destination and exact dates. Use the indicative price endpoints for open-ended questions\n3. Poll `/search/poll/{sessionToken}` until `status` is `RESULT_STATUS_COMPLETE`, and replace earlier results only when `action` is `RESULT_ACTION_REPLACED`\n4. Start a new session when a poll returns 400. Flight session tokens last about an hour and hotel sessions at most 15 minutes\n5. Pass each `deepLink` to the traveller unchanged, since altered encoding breaks Impact tracking, and never put personal data in `subid2`\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API or Skyscanner Travel APIs?\n\nSkyscanner Travel APIs scores 45.6 (E) on agent readiness against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API and Skyscanner Travel APIs need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API and Skyscanner Travel APIs without installing anything?\n\nYes. Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.test.hotelbeds.com and Skyscanner Travel APIs at https://partners.api.skyscanner.net.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-skyscanner.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-skyscanner.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"hotelbeds\", \"b\": \"skyscanner\"}`. 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