{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "invoice-ninja", "name": "Invoice Ninja API", "vendor": "Invoice Ninja", "vendorUrl": "https://www.invoiceninja.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "accounting", "summary": "Source-available invoicing platform (Laravel) you can self-host or use hosted at invoicing.co.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/invoice-ninja", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/invoice-ninja.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/invoice-ninja.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/invoice-ninja.json", "repo": "https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja", "license": "Elastic License 2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://invoicing.co/api/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "An API token from Settings, Account Management, Integrations, sent as `X-API-TOKEN`, plus `X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest` on every call. Self-hosted installs can also log in with email and password to get a token, and need `X-API-SECRET` on the login route when API_SECRET is set in .env. The demo at demo.invoiceninja.com accepts the token `TOKEN`.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Hosted plans are Free (up to 5 clients, 1 user, unlimited invoices), Ninja Pro at $14 a month or $140 a year with unlimited clients and REST API access, Enterprise from $18 a month for 1 to 2 users up to $300 a month for 51 to 100 users, adding bank sync and PEPPOL e-invoicing, and Premium Business from $280 a year with developer support. Self-hosting is free under the Elastic License 2.0 with every Pro and Enterprise feature, and a white-label licence to remove the branding is $40 a year (https://invoiceninja.com/pricing-plans/).", "priceSummary": "$14 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 10000, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://api-docs.invoicing.co/", "openapi": "https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja/blob/v5-stable/openapi/api-docs.yaml", "capabilities": [ "accounting.invoices", "accounting.reports" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "self-hosted", "source-available", "freemium", "free-tier", "openapi", "webhooks", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-18", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 52.1, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 568, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 35, "reliability": 36, "schema": 66, "security": 48, "transparency": 62 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -1, "negativeNotes": [ "-1: two moderate stored XSS advisories published 22 and 23 March 2026, GHSA-98wm-cxpw-847p (invoice line items, CVSS 5.4, fixed in 5.13.4) and GHSA-xph7-9749-56mh (product notes). Fixed and disclosed in public, so the deduction is small (https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja/security/advisories)" ], "verdict": "OpenAPI 3 spec with 379 operations and curl and PHP examples on each path. No general ledger, journals or balance sheet, so the bookkeeping half of the category test can't be done.", "bestFor": "An agent that quotes, invoices, chases and records payments for a small business, or for anyone who wants the billing system on their own server.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3 spec with 379 operations and curl and PHP examples on each path", "Public demo endpoint with the token TOKEN, no account needed", "Self-hosting is free with every Pro and Enterprise feature", "16 tagged releases since 3 July, with PHPUnit CI across PHP 8.2 to 8.5", "Security advisories published on GitHub with fixed versions" ], "weaknesses": [ "No general ledger, journals or balance sheet, so the bookkeeping half of the category test can't be done", "Rate limits aren't in the docs, only in the source", "Status page shows seven days and has no history page", "No scoped or read-only API tokens", "Hosted Free plan excludes the REST API" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest with X-API-TOKEN on every call", "Prototype against demo.invoiceninja.com with X-API-TOKEN: TOKEN before asking for real credentials", "Add ?mark_sent=true to the save to make an invoice live, or ?send_email=true to send it. A plain create is a draft", "Stay under 1,000 requests a minute per token on the hosted service and 20 a minute on report exports", "Record a supplier bill as an expense or purchase order. There's no bills resource" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 52.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 35, "reliability": 36, "schema": 66, "security": 48, "transparency": 54 }, "provenanceScore": 70 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://invoicing.co/api/v1/invoices?per_page=10\" \\\n -H \"X-API-TOKEN: $INVOICE_NINJA_TOKEN\" -H \"X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/accounting.invoices", "tool": "https://letme.dev/invoice-ninja" }, "area": "domain-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Ninja Pro", "unit": "month", "usd": 14, "note": "$140 a year, includes REST API access" }, { "item": "Enterprise (1 to 2 users)", "unit": "month", "usd": 18 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Invoice Ninja LLC", "domain": "invoiceninja.com", "domainRegistered": "2013-09-29", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://invoiceninja.github.io/docs/legal/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://invoiceninja.github.io/docs/legal/data-privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.invoiceninja.com", "changelog": "https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The hosted API lives on invoicing.co while the brand and terms are on invoiceninja.com. Both are named in the terms of service as Invoice Ninja LLC domains.", "The terms of service give no registered address or jurisdiction for Invoice Ninja LLC.", "Terms and privacy pages are published from the docs repository on GitHub Pages and their paths changed in 2026, so older links return 404.", "The status page runs on Oh Dear and monitors invoiceninja.com and invoicing.co." ], "score": 70 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/invoice-ninja.json", "live": { "slug": "invoice-ninja", "probe": { "target": "https://invoicing.co/api/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:24.424702016Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 136, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 319, "p95ms24h": 379, "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": "https://status.invoiceninja.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:42.530396693Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "invoiceninja/invoiceninja", "version": "v5.13.44", "released": "2026-10-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:17:05.253142843Z" } ], "githubStars": 10244, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://invoiceninja.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:39:00.212224242Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "invoiceninja.com", "registered": "2013-09-29", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/invoiceninja.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:52.957286244Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://invoiceninja.com/pricing-plans/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:59.55131167Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c58a0d69907d" }, { "url": "https://invoiceninja.github.io/docs/legal/data-privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:01.806441188Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "84bc25c802b0" }, { "url": "https://invoiceninja.github.io/docs/legal/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:03.942785263Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6f674e061225" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:24.424702016Z" } }, "answer": "Odoo External API scores 55.9 (C) on agent readiness against Invoice Ninja API's 52.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Invoice Ninja API leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "odoo", "name": "Odoo External API", "vendor": "Odoo SA", "vendorUrl": "https://www.odoo.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "accounting", "summary": "Odoo is a business suite from Odoo SA in Belgium with accounting, invoicing, sales, stock and HR apps on one database. Outside software reaches it through the JSON-2 HTTP API with API keys and, from Odoo 20, an MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/odoo", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/odoo.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/odoo.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/odoo.json", "repo": "https://github.com/odoo/odoo", "license": "Community edition LGPL-3.0. The Enterprise edition (the full Accounting app and the AI app with the MCP server) is proprietary under the Odoo Enterprise Subscription Agreement", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "An API key created by a user under Preferences, Account Security, New API Key, sent as `Authorization: bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. The key acts with that user's access rights and record rules, is shown once and expires within three months at most. Self-serve once the database is on a plan that includes the external API (Custom on Odoo Online), with no app review. The MCP server takes a key created with the MCP scope. The deprecated XML-RPC and JSON-RPC services take the database name, user id and password or key in the call.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Odoo Online needs the Custom plan for the external API. On 8 October 2026 the pricing page, read from a UK address, showed Custom at £41 a user a month billed yearly or £52 billed monthly (£32 and £41 for the first 12 months), Standard at £22 or £28 without the external API, and One App Free at £0 for one app without it. A free trial needs no card. The Community edition is free to self-host under LGPLv3 and includes the JSON-2 API. We did not read US dollar prices, so the price table is empty.", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the external API docs, the MCP server docs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 54912, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.odoo.com/documentation/20.0/developer/reference/external_api.html", "capabilities": [ "accounting.ledger", "accounting.invoices", "accounting.bills" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "self-hosted", "open-source", "enterprise", "mcp", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.9, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 499, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 22, "reliability": 44, "schema": 51, "security": 61, "transparency": 93 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One endpoint pattern reaches every model, with field selection, filters and paging, and keys that expire within three months. On Odoo Online the external API needs the Custom plan, there is no OpenAPI file, and the acceptable use policy asks for about one call a second with no parallel calls.", "bestFor": "An agent working inside a company that already runs Odoo, where invoices, bills, journal entries, stock and sales sit in one database behind one endpoint pattern.", "strengths": [ "`/json/2/\u003cmodel\u003e/\u003cmethod\u003e` reaches every model the user can see, including `account.move` for invoices, bills and journal entries", "API keys are per user, shown once, expire within three months at most and can be generated and revoked through the API", "Odoo 20 adds an MCP server at `\u003cdatabase_url\u003e/mcp` that exposes five read-only tools by default, with write tools switched on one by one", "The Community edition is LGPLv3 and carries the same JSON-2 controller, so a self-hosted server answers the same calls at no charge", "The privacy policy of 24 September 2026 names subprocessors, hosting regions and retention periods" ], "weaknesses": [ "On Odoo Online the external API is limited to the Custom plan. One App Free and Standard exclude it", "No OpenAPI file and no llms.txt. The per-database reference at `/doc` needs a login or a key, and its docs section reads \"Under construction\"", "The acceptable use policy puts API traffic at about one call a second with no parallel calls. No 429 or Retry-After handling was found in the docs", "No idempotency keys, and the JSON-2 docs say several calls cannot share one transaction", "status.odoo.com has no history page, and its only dated entry is a planned upgrade on 4 August 2026", "The full Accounting app and the MCP server are in the proprietary Enterprise edition. Community has Invoicing" ], "agentNotes": [ "POST to `/json/2/\u003cmodel\u003e/\u003cmethod\u003e` with `Authorization: bearer \u003ckey\u003e` and named arguments in a JSON body. Add `X-Odoo-Database` when one host serves several databases", "Pass `fields` and `limit` on `search_read`. The default limit is every matching record", "Create invoices and bills on `account.move` with `move_type` set to `out_invoice` or `in_invoice`, then call `action_post`. A new move is a draft", "Keep to about one call a second with no parallel calls on Odoo Online, and batch records into one `create` call", "Ask the owner for a key on a dedicated bot user with the minimum access rights, and rotate it before its expiry date" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 55.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 22, "reliability": 44, "schema": 51, "security": 61, "transparency": 87 }, "provenanceScore": 98 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://$DATABASE.odoo.com/json/2/res.partner/search_read \\\n -X POST \\\n --oauth2-bearer $API_KEY \\\n -H \"X-Odoo-Database: $DATABASE\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"domain\": [[\"is_company\", \"=\", true]], \"fields\": [\"name\"]}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport stdio \u003cserver_name\u003e -- npx -y mcp-remote \u003cdatabase_url\u003e/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI_KEY\u003e\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "odoo": { "args": [ "-y", "mcp-remote", "\u003cdatabase_url\u003e/mcp", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI_KEY\u003e" ], "command": "npx" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/accounting.ledger", "tool": "https://letme.dev/odoo" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Odoo SA", "domain": "odoo.com", "domainRegistered": "2001-01-25", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.odoo.com/documentation/20.0/legal/terms/enterprise.html", "privacy": "https://www.odoo.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.odoo.com", "changelog": "https://www.odoo.com/odoo-20-release-notes", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Odoo Enterprise Subscription Agreement (version 13, 24 September 2026) is between the customer and Odoo SA and its affiliates, under Belgian law, and covers the cloud platforms and self-hosting. The Acceptable Use Policy of 7 May 2025 is incorporated into it.", "The privacy policy (effective 24 September 2026) gives the postal contact as Odoo SA, Chaussée de Namur 40, Belgium, and privacy@odoo.com.", "www.odoo.com/.well-known/security.txt is PGP-signed and gives security@odoo.com, the disclosure policy and a hall of fame. It has no Expires field, which RFC 9116 requires.", "Odoo Online databases answer at \u003cname\u003e.odoo.com. A self-hosted server answers on the owner's own domain.", "status.odoo.com is a single page with component states and no history page. Its only dated entry on 8 October 2026 was the planned odoo.com upgrade of 4 August 2026.", "RDAP for odoo.com gives a registration date of 2001-01-25." ], "score": 98 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/odoo.json", "live": { "slug": "odoo", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.odoo.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:51.647101455Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:51.647101455Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Invoice Ninja", "b": "Odoo SA", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://invoicing.co/api/v1", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Elastic License 2.0", "b": "Community edition LGPL-3.0. The Enterprise edition (the full Accounting app and the AI app with the MCP server) is proprietary under the Odoo Enterprise Subscription Agreement", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-18", "b": "2026-10-08", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-02-14", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-02-14", "b": "2026-09-24", "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": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "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": "10k stars", "b": "55k stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Odoo External API scores 55.9 (C) on agent readiness against Invoice Ninja API's 52.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Invoice Ninja API leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Invoice Ninja API or Odoo External API?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Invoice Ninja API and Odoo External API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Invoice Ninja API has a hosted endpoint at https://invoicing.co/api/v1. No hosted endpoint is listed for Odoo External API.", "question": "Can an agent call Invoice Ninja API and Odoo External API without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Invoice Ninja API. Odoo External API is open source (Community edition LGPL-3.0. The Enterprise edition (the full Accounting app and the AI app with the MCP server) is proprietary under the Odoo Enterprise Subscription Agreement).", "question": "Are Invoice Ninja API and Odoo External API open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 66 against 51", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 22", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 73" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "An agent that quotes, invoices, chases and records payments for a small business, or for anyone who wants the billing system on their own server.", "slug": "invoice-ninja", "watchFor": "No general ledger, journals or balance sheet, so the bookkeeping half of the category test can't be done" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 44 against 36", "Agent ergonomics, 67 against 60", "Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 48", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 93 against 62" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "An agent working inside a company that already runs Odoo, where invoices, bills, journal entries, stock and sales sit in one database behind one endpoint pattern.", "slug": "odoo", "watchFor": "On Odoo Online the external API is limited to the Custom plan. One App Free and Standard exclude it" } ], "job": { "capability": "accounting.invoices", "name": "Accounting invoices" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-odoo.json", "title": "Apideck Accounting API + MCP vs Odoo External API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apideck-accounting-vs-odoo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/codat-vs-odoo.json", "title": "Codat vs Odoo External API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/codat-vs-odoo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freeagent-vs-odoo.json", "title": "FreeAgent API vs Odoo External API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freeagent-vs-odoo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freshbooks-vs-odoo.json", "title": "FreshBooks API vs Odoo External API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freshbooks-vs-odoo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/merge-accounting-vs-odoo.json", "title": "Merge Accounting API vs Odoo External API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/merge-accounting-vs-odoo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/odoo-vs-quickbooks-online.json", "title": "Odoo External API vs QuickBooks Online API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/odoo-vs-quickbooks-online" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/odoo-vs-rutter.json", "title": "Odoo External API vs Rutter Accounting API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/odoo-vs-rutter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/odoo-vs-xero.json", "title": "Odoo External API vs Xero API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/odoo-vs-xero" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/odoo-vs-zoho-books.json", "title": "Odoo External API vs Zoho Books", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/odoo-vs-zoho-books" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-merge-accounting" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-quickbooks-online.json", "title": "Invoice Ninja API vs QuickBooks Online API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-quickbooks-online" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-rutter.json", "title": "Invoice Ninja API vs Rutter Accounting API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-rutter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-xero.json", "title": "Invoice Ninja API vs Xero API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-xero" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-zoho-books.json", "title": "Invoice Ninja API vs Zoho Books", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-zoho-books" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 8, "edge": "odoo", "invoice-ninja": 36, 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"Transparency \u0026 trust", "odoo": 93, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Odoo External API scores 55.9 (C) on agent readiness against Invoice Ninja API's 52.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Invoice Ninja API leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do accounting invoices.", "verdicts": { "invoice-ninja": "OpenAPI 3 spec with 379 operations and curl and PHP examples on each path. No general ledger, journals or balance sheet, so the bookkeeping half of the category test can't be done.", "odoo": "One endpoint pattern reaches every model, with field selection, filters and paging, and keys that expire within three months. On Odoo Online the external API needs the Custom plan, there is no OpenAPI file, and the acceptable use policy asks for about one call a second with no parallel calls." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-odoo", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-odoo.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-odoo.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-odoo.min.md" }, "markdown": "Odoo External API scores 55.9 (C) on agent readiness against Invoice Ninja API's 52.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Invoice Ninja API leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do accounting invoices.\n\n- Invoice Ninja API: grade D, 52.1/100, rank #568 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/invoice-ninja.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/invoice-ninja.json\n- Odoo External API: grade C, 55.9/100, rank #499 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/odoo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/odoo.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Invoice Ninja API (D)\n\nGood for: An agent that quotes, invoices, chases and records payments for a small business, or for anyone who wants the billing system on their own server.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 66 against 51\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 22\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 73\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No general ledger, journals or balance sheet, so the bookkeeping half of the category test can't be done\n\n### Odoo External API (C)\n\nGood for: An agent working inside a company that already runs Odoo, where invoices, bills, journal entries, stock and sales sit in one database behind one endpoint pattern.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 44 against 36\n- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 60\n- Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 48\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 93 against 62\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: On Odoo Online the external API is limited to the Custom plan. One App Free and Standard exclude it\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Invoice Ninja API | Odoo External API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 36 | 44 | Odoo External API +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 51 | Invoice Ninja API +15 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 67 | Odoo External API +7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 48 | 61 | Odoo External API +13 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 22 | Invoice Ninja API +13 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 73 | Invoice Ninja API +10 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 93 | Odoo External API +31 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -1 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **52.1 · D** | **55.9 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Invoice Ninja API | Odoo External API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Invoice Ninja | Odoo SA |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://invoicing.co/api/v1` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Elastic License 2.0 | Community edition LGPL-3.0. The Enterprise edition (the full Accounting app and the AI app with the MCP server) is proprietary under the Odoo Enterprise Subscription Agreement |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-10-08 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-02-14 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-02-14 | 2026-09-24 |\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 | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 10k stars | 55k stars |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Invoice Ninja API.** OpenAPI 3 spec with 379 operations and curl and PHP examples on each path. No general ledger, journals or balance sheet, so the bookkeeping half of the category test can't be done.\n\n**Odoo External API.** One endpoint pattern reaches every model, with field selection, filters and paging, and keys that expire within three months. On Odoo Online the external API needs the Custom plan, there is no OpenAPI file, and the acceptable use policy asks for about one call a second with no parallel calls.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Invoice Ninja API\n\n1. Send X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest with X-API-TOKEN on every call\n2. Prototype against demo.invoiceninja.com with X-API-TOKEN: TOKEN before asking for real credentials\n3. Add ?mark_sent=true to the save to make an invoice live, or ?send_email=true to send it. A plain create is a draft\n4. Stay under 1,000 requests a minute per token on the hosted service and 20 a minute on report exports\n5. Record a supplier bill as an expense or purchase order. There's no bills resource\n\n### Odoo External API\n\n1. POST to `/json/2/\u003cmodel\u003e/\u003cmethod\u003e` with `Authorization: bearer \u003ckey\u003e` and named arguments in a JSON body. Add `X-Odoo-Database` when one host serves several databases\n2. Pass `fields` and `limit` on `search_read`. The default limit is every matching record\n3. Create invoices and bills on `account.move` with `move_type` set to `out_invoice` or `in_invoice`, then call `action_post`. A new move is a draft\n4. Keep to about one call a second with no parallel calls on Odoo Online, and batch records into one `create` call\n5. Ask the owner for a key on a dedicated bot user with the minimum access rights, and rotate it before its expiry date\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Invoice Ninja API or Odoo External API?\n\nOdoo External API scores 55.9 (C) on agent readiness against Invoice Ninja API's 52.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Invoice Ninja API leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Invoice Ninja API and Odoo External API need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Invoice Ninja API and Odoo External API without installing anything?\n\nInvoice Ninja API has a hosted endpoint at https://invoicing.co/api/v1. No hosted endpoint is listed for Odoo External API.\n\n### Are Invoice Ninja API and Odoo External API open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Invoice Ninja API. Odoo External API is open source (Community edition LGPL-3.0. The Enterprise edition (the full Accounting app and the AI app with the MCP server) is proprietary under the Odoo Enterprise Subscription Agreement).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-odoo.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-odoo.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"invoice-ninja\", \"b\": \"odoo\"}`. 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