# Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API vs Soar

> Hotelbeds Hotel Booking scores 36.3 (F) to Soar's 12.6 (F) for hotel and stay search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-21

Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API scores 36.3 (F) on agent readiness against Soar's 12.6 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Soar leads on maintenance & community. Both do hotel and stay search.

- Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API: grade F, 36.3/100, rank #1107 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hotelbeds.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hotelbeds.json
- Soar: grade F, 12.6/100, rank #1177 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soar-travel.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/soar-travel.json
- Best travel search and booking APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/travel/index.md
- All 105 travel comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/travel/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API (F)

Good for: A travel company with a Hotelbeds contract that wants wholesale rates behind its agent, and for prototyping hotel search without a sales call.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 33 against 5
- Schema & documentation, 57 against 0
- Agent ergonomics, 41 against 0
- Security & auth, 38 against 3
- Transparency & trust, 50 against 44

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Free to start without a card
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.5 against 1.8 out of 5

Watch for: 50 requests a day on evaluation, and the 51st returns a 403

### Soar (F)

Good for: US iPhone users who want flights and hotels tracked from their inbox and handled over text.

Ahead on:
- Maintenance & community, 54 against 3

Watch for: Soar MCP is private, with keys set up by hand after a request.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API | Soar | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 33 | 5 | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API +28 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 0 | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API +57 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 41 | 0 | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API +41 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 38 | 3 | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API +35 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 3 | 54 | Soar +51 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 44 | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API +6 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **36.3 · F** | **12.6 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API | Soar |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Platform |
| Vendor | Hotelbeds (HBX Group) | Soar Intelligence Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.test.hotelbeds.com` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | API key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Your plan | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | none | Closed service under Soar's Terms of Use, last updated 22 May 2025. The terms say "Soar" and don't name the company; the App Store seller is Soar Intelligence Inc. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | no date given |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 1.8/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**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.

**Soar.** Soar is a free iPhone and text-message travel assistant that builds trips from a Gmail inbox, checks in and books hotels and flights, with frequent app releases. Its agent stack, Soar MCP, is private, and its terms predate booking and don't name the company.

## Before you call either

### Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API

1. Compute `X-Signature` fresh per request from key, secret and the current epoch seconds, in that order
2. Budget the 50 daily evaluation calls; cache hotel content and only call availability for real dates
3. Run CheckRate on a rate before booking when the availability response says it needs rechecking
4. Read a 403 on the test host as the daily quota first, not a bad key
5. Simulate a cancellation before running it

### Soar

1. Don't plan to call Soar from another agent. Its MCP server needs private onboarding by the team.
2. Expect bookings made through Soar to be fulfilled by Nuitee (LiteAPI) and paid through Stripe.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API or Soar?

Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API scores 36.3 (F) on agent readiness against Soar's 12.6 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Soar leads on maintenance & community.

### Can an agent call Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API and Soar without installing anything?

Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.test.hotelbeds.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Soar.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-soar-travel.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-soar-travel.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "hotelbeds", "b": "soar-travel"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare hotelbeds soar-travel`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hotelbeds.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/soar-travel.json

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