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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": "2026-10-08T21:12:12.225500153Z", "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": "Travelport TripServices APIs scores 45.9 (E) on agent readiness against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API leads on reliability.", "b": { "slug": "travelport", "name": "Travelport TripServices APIs", "vendor": "Travelport", "vendorUrl": "https://www.travelport.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "travel", "summary": "Travelport TripServices is a set of REST JSON APIs on the Travelport global distribution system. It searches, prices, books, tickets, exchanges and cancels flights, books and cancels hotel stays, and authorises payment cards, for travel sellers under contract.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/travelport", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/travelport.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/travelport.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/travelport.json", "license": "Proprietary service under a Developer Contract and Travelport's API and SDK Terms of Use", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.travelport.net", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 with the password grant. A POST to `https://auth.travelport.net/oauth/token` (pre-production `https://auth.pp.travelport.net/oauth/token`) with `username`, `password`, `client_id` and `client_secret` returns a Bearer token valid for 24 hours. Every call also carries `XAUTH_TRAVELPORT_ACCESSGROUP` or `TVP-PCC-CORE`, which sets the point of sale and the content the caller may reach. Trial credentials are requested on a form at my.travelport.com and arrive by email. Production credentials come after a contract through sales and certification, and are managed in the Credential Access Manager in MyTravelport, which creates, rotates and disables primary and managed identities. No scopes were found.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public price. The API and SDK Terms of Use say charges are set in each Developer Contract and invoiced monthly, and the docs send new customers to sales. A trial with no payment exists for building against realistic air shopping, requested through a form that asks for a name, work email and company. Production access is per contracted API after certification (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer portal, the three OpenAPI files or the terms (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.travelport.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.travelport.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developer.travelport.com/_bundle/apis/flights/@11.36/index.yaml", "capabilities": [ "travel.flights", "travel.stays", "travel.booking", "travel.changes", "travel.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "enterprise", "sales-led", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "gds", "ndc", "trial" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-12", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 45.9, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 653, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 51, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 20, "reliability": 19, "schema": 84, "security": 47, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Public OpenAPI 3.0 files, Markdown docs and an llms.txt cover search, pricing, booking, ticketing, exchanges and hotel stays, with dated release notes through August 2026. Production needs a sales contract and certification with 15 days' notice. No price, API rate limit, status page or SLA is published, and the terms bar automated tools without written permission.", "bestFor": "A travel agency, travel management company or travel platform that will sign a GDS contract and wants GDS, NDC and low-cost air content with full servicing plus hotels.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0 files for Flights (101 operations), Stays (22) and Pay (2), with an llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page", "One API family covers search, price, book, ticket, exchange, refund and void for flights, plus hotel search, booking and cancellation", "Trial credentials need no payment, and a separate pre-production host mirrors the production paths", "Dated Flights release notes, with four releases between 16 July and 12 August 2026", "Credential Access Manager rotates and disables identities, and managed identities give third parties their own credentials" ], "weaknesses": [ "The API and SDK Terms of Use forbid any automated process or tool, such as a bot, without written authorisation from Travelport", "No public price. Charges sit in a Developer Contract reached through sales, and production needs certification with 15 days' notice", "No status page, SLA or API rate limit was found. The only published limit is 50 token requests a second per IP", "Tokens come from the OAuth password grant with a username, password, client id and client secret, and no scopes were found", "No idempotency key, no SDK and no MCP server. Some failures arrive as HTTP 200 with an error object in the body" ], "agentNotes": [ "Request one token and cache it for 24 hours. Travelport declines certification for refreshing more often than every 23 hours without a stated reason", "Send `Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate` and `XAUTH_TRAVELPORT_ACCESSGROUP` (or `TVP-PCC-CORE`) on every call. Production traffic without compression is refused", "Send `offersPerPage` on a journey-based search, or later calls can't reference its results. Cached searches last 12 minutes for GDS content and 34 for NDC", "Commit a workbench within 30 minutes or it expires, and read `Result/Error` in the body even on HTTP 200", "Get written authorisation for agent access before production. The terms bar automated tools and speculative or duplicate bookings" ], "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": 45.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 51, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 20, "reliability": 19, "schema": 84, "security": 47, "transparency": 47 }, "provenanceScore": 57 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://auth.pp.travelport.net/oauth/token \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\" \\\n -d \"grant_type=password\u0026username=$TP_USERNAME\u0026password=$TP_PASSWORD\u0026client_id=$TP_CLIENT_ID\u0026client_secret=$TP_CLIENT_SECRET\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/travel.flights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/travelport" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Travelport, LP", "domain": "travelport.com", "domainRegistered": "2001-09-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://www.travelport.com/legal-policies/api-sdk-policies-terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://www.travelport.com/legal-policies/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://developer.travelport.com/docs/flights/general/flights-api-release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The API and SDK Terms of Use are incorporated into each Developer Contract, which names the contracting Travelport company and sets the charges. The contract itself is not public. Trial and pre-production access falls under the Terms of Service for Travelport test system access on the developer portal, governed by the law of Georgia, USA.", "The privacy link is the Travelport Privacy Notice for the GDS, last updated 3 January 2025, which covers traveller data processed in the Apollo, Galileo and Worldspan systems. It names Travelport, LP for the Data Privacy Framework, with offices in Langley, Berkshire and Atlanta, Georgia.", "The APIs answer on api.travelport.net and auth.travelport.net, a second domain named in Travelport's own docs. RDAP gives travelport.net a registration date of 2000-01-12 with Amazon Registrar, and travelport.com 2001-09-30 with CSC Corporate Domains.", "No status page is linked from the developer portal or the support page. status.travelport.com did not answer our request.", "www.travelport.com/.well-known/security.txt and the developer portal's both return 404. A Responsible Disclosure Policy dated June 2025 takes reports at responsibledisclosure@travelport.com and says there is no bug bounty.", "The portal's /changelog page is empty. Dated release notes are kept per API, and the Flights page was last modified on 16 September 2026." ], "score": 57 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/travelport.json", "live": { "slug": "travelport", "probe": { "target": "https://api.travelport.net", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:23.884869501Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 132, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 132, "p95ms24h": 194, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:23.884869501Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Hotelbeds (HBX Group)", "b": "Travelport", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.test.hotelbeds.com", "b": "https://api.travelport.net", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Your plan", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service under a Developer Contract and Travelport's API and SDK Terms of Use", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2026-08-12", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2025-01-03", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Travelport TripServices APIs scores 45.9 (E) on agent readiness against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API leads on reliability.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API or Travelport TripServices APIs?" }, { "answer": "Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API needs an API key. Travelport TripServices APIs uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API and Travelport TripServices APIs need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.test.hotelbeds.com and Travelport TripServices APIs at https://api.travelport.net.", "question": "Can an agent call Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API and Travelport TripServices APIs without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 33 against 19" ], "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": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 57", "Agent ergonomics, 51 against 41", "Security \u0026 auth, 47 against 38", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 56 against 3" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A travel agency, travel management company or travel platform that will sign a GDS contract and wants GDS, NDC and low-cost air content with full servicing plus hotels.", "slug": "travelport", "watchFor": "The API and SDK Terms of Use forbid any automated process or tool, such as a bot, without written authorisation from Travelport" } ], "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-travelport.json", "title": "Booking.com Demand API vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-travelport" }, { "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-travelport.json", "title": "Expedia Group Rapid API vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-travelport" }, { "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-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/liteapi-vs-travelport.json", "title": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-travelport" }, { "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/duffel-vs-travelport.json", "title": "Duffel Flights and Stays API vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-travelport.json", "title": "FlightClaw vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiwi-mcp-vs-travelport.json", "title": "Kiwi.com MCP Server vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiwi-mcp-vs-travelport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letsfg-vs-travelport.json", "title": "LetsFG vs Travelport TripServices APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letsfg-vs-travelport" }, { "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": 14, "edge": "hotelbeds", "hotelbeds": 33, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "travelport": 19, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 27, "edge": "travelport", "hotelbeds": 57, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "travelport": 84, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "travelport", "hotelbeds": 41, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "travelport": 51, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "travelport", "hotelbeds": 38, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "travelport": 47, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "hotelbeds": 20, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "travelport": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 53, "edge": "travelport", "hotelbeds": 3, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "travelport": 56, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "travelport", "hotelbeds": 50, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "travelport": 52, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Travelport TripServices APIs scores 45.9 (E) on agent readiness against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API leads on reliability. 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.", "travelport": "Public OpenAPI 3.0 files, Markdown docs and an llms.txt cover search, pricing, booking, ticketing, exchanges and hotel stays, with dated release notes through August 2026. Production needs a sales contract and certification with 15 days' notice. No price, API rate limit, status page or SLA is published, and the terms bar automated tools without written permission." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-travelport", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-travelport.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-travelport.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-travelport.min.md" }, "markdown": "Travelport TripServices APIs scores 45.9 (E) on agent readiness against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API leads on reliability. 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- Travelport TripServices APIs: grade E, 45.9/100, rank #653 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/travelport.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/travelport.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- Reliability, 33 against 19\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### Travelport TripServices APIs (E)\n\nGood for: A travel agency, travel management company or travel platform that will sign a GDS contract and wants GDS, NDC and low-cost air content with full servicing plus hotels.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 57\n- Agent ergonomics, 51 against 41\n- Security \u0026 auth, 47 against 38\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 56 against 3\n\nWatch for: The API and SDK Terms of Use forbid any automated process or tool, such as a bot, without written authorisation from Travelport\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API | Travelport TripServices APIs | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 33 | 19 | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API +14 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 84 | Travelport TripServices APIs +27 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 41 | 51 | Travelport TripServices APIs +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 38 | 47 | Travelport TripServices APIs +9 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 3 | 56 | Travelport TripServices APIs +53 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 52 | Travelport TripServices APIs +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **36.3 · F** | **45.9 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API | Travelport TripServices APIs |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Hotelbeds (HBX Group) | Travelport |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.test.hotelbeds.com` | `https://api.travelport.net` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Your plan | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under a Developer Contract and Travelport's API and SDK Terms of Use |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-08-12 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-01-03 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | 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**Travelport TripServices APIs.** Public OpenAPI 3.0 files, Markdown docs and an llms.txt cover search, pricing, booking, ticketing, exchanges and hotel stays, with dated release notes through August 2026. Production needs a sales contract and certification with 15 days' notice. No price, API rate limit, status page or SLA is published, and the terms bar automated tools without written permission.\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### Travelport TripServices APIs\n\n1. Request one token and cache it for 24 hours. Travelport declines certification for refreshing more often than every 23 hours without a stated reason\n2. Send `Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate` and `XAUTH_TRAVELPORT_ACCESSGROUP` (or `TVP-PCC-CORE`) on every call. Production traffic without compression is refused\n3. Send `offersPerPage` on a journey-based search, or later calls can't reference its results. Cached searches last 12 minutes for GDS content and 34 for NDC\n4. Commit a workbench within 30 minutes or it expires, and read `Result/Error` in the body even on HTTP 200\n5. Get written authorisation for agent access before production. The terms bar automated tools and speculative or duplicate bookings\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API or Travelport TripServices APIs?\n\nTravelport TripServices APIs scores 45.9 (E) on agent readiness against Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API's 36.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API leads on reliability.\n\n### Do Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API and Travelport TripServices APIs need an API key?\n\nHotelbeds Hotel Booking API needs an API key. Travelport TripServices APIs uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API and Travelport TripServices APIs without installing anything?\n\nYes. Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.test.hotelbeds.com and Travelport TripServices APIs at https://api.travelport.net.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-travelport.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-travelport.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"hotelbeds\", \"b\": \"travelport\"}`. 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