{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "liteapi", "name": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)", "vendor": "Nuitee", "vendorUrl": "https://www.liteapi.travel", "kind": "http-api", "category": "travel", "summary": "Self-serve hotel booking API (3 million plus properties) with a rates, prebook, book flow, cancellations and amendments, plus a flights API that needs approval.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liteapi", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liteapi.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liteapi.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/liteapi.json", "repo": "https://github.com/liteapi-travel/mcp-server", "license": "MIT (MCP server), ISC (Node SDK)", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.liteapi.travel/v3.0", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "liteapi-node-sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "`X-API-Key` header. Sandbox keys start with `sand_` and hit the same base URL as production, so the key decides the environment. Booking endpoints (prebook, book, cancel, amend) live on book.liteapi.travel rather than api.liteapi.travel. An HMAC scheme is documented for signed requests. The hosted MCP takes the key as a query parameter in the URL.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "No set-up fee and no charge for the core rates, prebook and book calls while you keep a reasonable look to book ratio. Priced extras are the price index at $0.05 a request and places lookups at $0.01. Flights add 1 per cent of transaction value per ticket (minimum 2 EUR, maximum 10 EUR), 25 EUR per voluntary change and a 0.005 EUR per search surcharge above a 1,500 to 1 search to book ratio. Dashboard add-ons are $4.99 a month each (AI insights, advanced logs, reports) and extra seats $4.99 admin or $1.99 agent. Hotel revenue is the margin you set on net rates, paid out weekly after check-out (https://docs.liteapi.travel/reference/api-pricing-usage-costs).", "priceSummary": "$0.05 / call", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 3, "npmWeekly": 17488, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.liteapi.travel", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.liteapi.travel/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.liteapi.travel/reference/openapi-specifications", "capabilities": [ "travel.stays", "travel.flights", "travel.booking", "travel.changes", "travel.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "typescript", "webhooks", "eu" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53.1, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 548, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 86, "maintenance": 48, "payments": 40, "reliability": 62, "schema": 86, "security": 33, "transparency": 43 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -6, "negativeNotes": [ "-6, fixed 2026-04-20. The official Node SDK repository (liteapi-travel/nodejs-sdk) carried an obfuscated payload appended to index.js on main, introduced in a merge commit dated 8 July 2025 whose author and committer time zones differ, so the real injection date is unclear. Nuitée removed it in a commit titled \"remove obfuscated malware payload injected into index.js\" on 20 April 2026. The npm package 4.3.2 was published in March 2025, before it, so npm installs weren't affected; installs from the repository in that window were. A similar removal from test.js was merged in June 2025. We found no advisory or notice in the repository or docs. https://github.com/liteapi-travel/nodejs-sdk/commit/80d6d307fe3e82dc7bb448c3a8258e974f070ef7" ], "verdict": "Sandbox key at sign-up, same base URL as production, no card. Hosted MCP's documented setup puts the API key in the URL query string and exposes 111 generated tools.", "bestFor": "A builder who wants an agent to book hotels this week without a contract, and to earn a margin on them.", "strengths": [ "Sandbox key at sign-up, same base URL as production, no card", "OpenAPI specs for 12 modules, llms.txt and a Markdown twin for every docs page", "Rates, prebook, book, cancel, amend and rebook, with `clientReference` as an idempotency key", "Free core booking calls and published prices for the paid extras, updated July 2026", "Better Stack status page with per-workflow components" ], "weaknesses": [ "Hosted MCP's documented setup puts the API key in the URL query string and exposes 111 generated tools", "Official Node SDK repository carried an injected payload on main until 20 April 2026, with no advisory found", "No public changelog, deprecation policy or SLA", "SDKs last published March 2025 or earlier", "Rate limits differ between the rate-limiting page (250 a second) and the performance page (500 a second)" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use `/hotels/rates` with a short `hotelIds` list from `/data/hotels`; a broad rates call is slow and large", "Always prebook before book and read the cancellation policy in the prebook response, since refundability differs per rate", "Send a unique `clientReference` on book; a repeat returns error 4005 instead of a second booking", "Set `margin` explicitly on every rates call. Zero means net rates with no commission to you", "Send the key to the MCP in an `X-Api-Key` header rather than `?apiKey=` where the client allows it" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 4, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 86, "maintenance": 48, "payments": 40, "reliability": 62, "schema": 86, "security": 33, "transparency": 31 }, "provenanceScore": 55 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install liteapi-node-sdk", "http": "curl \"https://api.liteapi.travel/v3.0/data/hotels?countryCode=GB\u0026cityName=London\u0026limit=5\" \\\n -H \"X-API-Key: $LITEAPI_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http liteapi \"https://mcp.liteapi.travel/api/mcp?apiKey=$LITEAPI_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "liteapi": { "url": "https://mcp.liteapi.travel/api/mcp?apiKey=${LITEAPI_API_KEY}" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/travel.stays", "tool": "https://letme.dev/liteapi" }, "area": "domain-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Price index request", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.05 }, { "item": "Places request", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.01 }, { "item": "Flight ticketing fee", "unit": "pct", "usd": 1, "note": "of transaction value, minimum 2 EUR and maximum 10 EUR per booking" }, { "item": "Additional admin seat", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 4.99 }, { "item": "Additional agent seat", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 1.99 }, { "item": "AI Insights add-on", "unit": "month", "usd": 4.99, "note": "advanced logs and reports are $4.99 a month each too" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Nuitée Travel Limited", "domain": "liteapi.travel", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.liteapi.travel/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.liteapi.travel/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://status.liteapi.travel", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "Incorporated in Ireland, VAT IE3388031IH, registered office 4 Waterloo Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin D04 A0X3, governed by Irish law.", "The product is being renamed Nuitee Connect; the site, docs and dashboard mix both names.", "The .travel registry's RDAP server rate-limited our lookup, so the registration date is unrecorded.", "www.liteapi.travel/.well-known/security.txt returns 404." ], "score": 55 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liteapi.json", "live": { "slug": "liteapi", "probe": { "target": "https://api.liteapi.travel/v3.0", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T01:12:50.180298144Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 146, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 152, "p95ms24h": 244, "samples24h": 267, "samples30d": 1997, "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": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 13, "ok": 13 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.liteapi.travel", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:45.52029912Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "liteapi-node-sdk", "version": "4.3.2", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:19:04.124292811Z" } ], "githubStars": 3, "npmWeekly": 18346, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://liteapi.travel/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:41.174596837Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.liteapi.travel/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:34.748421747Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "liteapi.travel", "registered": "2023-03-01", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/liteapi.travel", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:10:23.88661532Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.liteapi.travel/reference/api-pricing-usage-costs", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:19:00.155898578Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:05:12.574004952Z", "fingerprint": "978e088f8c75" }, { "url": "https://www.liteapi.travel/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:46.645905878Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2bc0675bca0b" }, { "url": "https://www.liteapi.travel/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:48.792681106Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "85254ed151cc" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T01:12:50.180298144Z" } }, "answer": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) and ETG API (RateHawk) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 53.1 (D) and 53 (D). ETG API (RateHawk) leads on security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "ratehawk", "name": "ETG API (RateHawk)", "vendor": "Emerging Travel Group", "vendorUrl": "https://www.ratehawk.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "travel", "summary": "Hotel search and booking API from Emerging Travel Group, the company behind RateHawk and ZenHotels. Contracted partners search rates, prebook, book and cancel stays over REST, with B2B, Affiliate and Content APIs.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ratehawk", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ratehawk.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ratehawk.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ratehawk.json", "repo": "https://github.com/EmergingTravel/papi-sdk-python", "license": "Proprietary service under a signed partner agreement that is not published. The Python and PHP SDKs on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.ratehawk.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "papi-sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Access is by partner approval. A person registers at ratehawk.com/registration, picks API integration as the purpose, then asks an account manager for credentials, and the docs say the relevant agreement must be signed before the API is used. Keys are `\u003cKEY_ID\u003e:\u003cAPI_KEY\u003e` pairs sent as HTTP Basic auth, issued separately for sandbox, test and production. A production key follows a written certification that the docs put at 14 to 30 days. Each key has its own endpoint permissions and request limits, readable at `/api/b2b/v3/overview/`.", "pricing": "byo-plan", "pricingNotes": "No public price list. Partners buy at net rates under contract and pay from a deposit with a credit limit, at the hotel or by card, depending on the rate. The landing page calls the API key free, and the sandbox makes no real bookings or charges, but a key comes from an account manager after registration, so an agent cannot start without a person and an agreement (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Your plan", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the Swagger file or the API landing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 9, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 12, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.emergingtravel.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.emergingtravel.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.ratehawk.com/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "travel.stays", "travel.booking", "travel.changes", "travel.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "openapi", "llms-txt", "sandbox", "sales-led", "certification", "status-page", "python", "php", "eu" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 554, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 10, "reliability": 45, "schema": 85, "security": 41, "transparency": 56 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Hotel search and booking are documented in a public Swagger 2.0 file, an llms.txt index and a changelog with 64 dated entries in 2026. Access is by contract. Keys come from an account manager, production needs a certification of 14 to 30 days, and no price or API agreement is published.", "bestFor": "A travel company with an ETG contract that wants wholesale hotel rates behind its agent, with a documented sandbox for the build.", "strengths": [ "Public Swagger 2.0 file at `https://api.ratehawk.com/openapi.json` with 48 operations and 171 definitions for the B2B and Content APIs", "`llms.txt` and a Markdown copy of every docs page at `index.md`, with robots.txt allowing AI crawlers by name", "Changelog with 64 dated entries in 2026, the latest on 5 October 2026", "Sandbox host with over 2,000 test hotels, named error scenarios and no real bookings or charges", "`partner_order_id` identifies a booking across retries, and the docs say how to handle `timeout`, `unknown` and 5xx during booking" ], "weaknesses": [ "No self-serve key. Registration is followed by a request to an account manager, and the docs say an agreement must be signed before use", "No public price list or API agreement was found. Rates and request limits are set per contract", "The status page's orders monitor recorded downtime of an hour or more on four days between 21 July and 14 September 2026, with no written incident reports", "Both official SDKs (Python and PHP) last changed in 2021 and default to `api.worldota.net`, a host the docs call deprecated", "No `security.txt`, disclosure policy or security certification page was found on ratehawk.com, emergingtravel.com or the docs site" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `/api/b2b/v3/overview/` first. It lists the endpoints the key may use and each one's request limit.", "Keep sandbox IDs, keys and hashes inside `api-sandbox.ratehawk.com`. Sandbox region IDs are limited to 2011, 2395, 2734 and 6053839.", "Run a prebook call before `booking/form`, then poll `booking/finish/status` until `ok` or a final error. Treat `timeout`, `unknown` and 5xx as still in progress.", "Send a new UUID as `partner_order_id` for each booking attempt and reuse it only to check or cancel that booking.", "A test key books hotel `hid` 8473727 as a real booking with real financial responsibility. Cancel it afterwards." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 10, "reliability": 45, "schema": 85, "security": 41, "transparency": 32 }, "provenanceScore": 80 }, "connect": { "http": "curl --user '\u003cKEY_ID\u003e:\u003cAPI_KEY\u003e' 'https://api-sandbox.ratehawk.com/api/b2b/v3/overview/'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/travel.stays", "tool": "https://letme.dev/ratehawk" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Leaside Services Limited", "domain": "ratehawk.com", "domainRegistered": "2006-08-24", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://www.ratehawk.com/legal/site/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.emergingtravel.com", "changelog": "https://docs.emergingtravel.com/docs/changelog/2026/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "No terms document for the API is published. The docs say the relevant agreement must be signed before use, and the only public terms we found are website terms of use on emergingtravel.com, so the terms field is left out.", "The RateHawk legal notice names Leaside Services Limited, a Cyprus company with registration number HE 342401, at Ifigeneias 17, Strovolos, Nicosia. The privacy notice (version 1.0, updated 8 May 2026) gives the same company an address in Limassol and lists eight other Emerging Travel entities as controllers by contract.", "The API answers at api.ratehawk.com and api-sandbox.ratehawk.com. Card tokenisation is at api.payota.net and the docs are at docs.emergingtravel.com, both outside ratehawk.com.", "`/.well-known/security.txt` returned 404 on www.ratehawk.com, api.ratehawk.com, www.emergingtravel.com and docs.emergingtravel.com.", "RDAP gives ratehawk.com a registration date of 2006-08-24 and emergingtravel.com 2007-02-25." ], "score": 80 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ratehawk.json", "live": { "slug": "ratehawk", "probe": { "target": "https://api.ratehawk.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T01:12:55.141193844Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 136, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 129, "p95ms24h": 175, "samples24h": 63, "samples30d": 63, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 50, "ok": 50 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 13, "ok": 13 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.emergingtravel.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:39:06.568833713Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T01:12:55.141193844Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Nuitee", "b": "Emerging Travel Group", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.liteapi.travel/v3.0", "b": "https://api.ratehawk.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Your plan", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT (MCP server), ISC (Node SDK)", "b": "Proprietary service under a signed partner agreement that is not published. The Python and PHP SDKs on GitHub are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-30", "b": "2026-10-05", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-09-12", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2025-05-20", "b": "2026-05-08", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "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": "3 stars, 17k npm/wk", "b": "9 stars, 12 PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "4/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) and ETG API (RateHawk) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 53.1 (D) and 53 (D). ETG API (RateHawk) leads on security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) or ETG API (RateHawk)?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) and ETG API (RateHawk) need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) has a hosted endpoint at https://api.liteapi.travel/v3.0 and ETG API (RateHawk) at https://api.ratehawk.com.", "question": "Can an agent call LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) and ETG API (RateHawk) without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 62 against 45", "Agent ergonomics, 86 against 69", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 10" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "A builder who wants an agent to book hotels this week without a contract, and to earn a margin on them.", "slug": "liteapi", "watchFor": "Hosted MCP's documented setup puts the API key in the URL query string and exposes 111 generated tools" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 41 against 33", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 65 against 48", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 56 against 43" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) loses 6 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A travel company with an ETG contract that wants wholesale hotel rates behind its agent, with a documented sandbox for the build.", "slug": "ratehawk", "watchFor": "No self-serve key. Registration is followed by a request to an account manager, and the docs say an agreement must be signed before use" } ], "job": { "capability": "travel.stays", "name": "Travel stays" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-liteapi.json", "title": "Booking.com Demand API vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-liteapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-ratehawk.json", "title": "Booking.com Demand API vs ETG API (RateHawk)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-ratehawk" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-ratehawk.json", "title": "Duffel Flights and Stays API vs ETG API (RateHawk)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-ratehawk" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-liteapi.json", "title": "Expedia Group Rapid API vs LiteAPI 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community", "ratehawk": 65, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 13, "edge": "ratehawk", "key": "transparency", "liteapi": 43, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "ratehawk": 56, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) and ETG API (RateHawk) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 53.1 (D) and 53 (D). ETG API (RateHawk) leads on security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do travel stays.", "verdicts": { "liteapi": "Sandbox key at sign-up, same base URL as production, no card. Hosted MCP's documented setup puts the API key in the URL query string and exposes 111 generated tools.", "ratehawk": "Hotel search and booking are documented in a public Swagger 2.0 file, an llms.txt index and a changelog with 64 dated entries in 2026. Access is by contract. Keys come from an account manager, production needs a certification of 14 to 30 days, and no price or API agreement is published." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-ratehawk", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-ratehawk.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-ratehawk.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-ratehawk.min.md" }, "markdown": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) and ETG API (RateHawk) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 53.1 (D) and 53 (D). ETG API (RateHawk) leads on security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do travel stays.\n\n- LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect): grade D, 53.1/100, rank #548 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liteapi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/liteapi.json\n- ETG API (RateHawk): grade D, 53/100, rank #554 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ratehawk.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ratehawk.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) (D)\n\nGood for: A builder who wants an agent to book hotels this week without a contract, and to earn a margin on them.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 62 against 45\n- Agent ergonomics, 86 against 69\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 10\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Hosted MCP's documented setup puts the API key in the URL query string and exposes 111 generated tools\n\n### ETG API (RateHawk) (D)\n\nGood for: A travel company with an ETG contract that wants wholesale hotel rates behind its agent, with a documented sandbox for the build.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 41 against 33\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 65 against 48\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 56 against 43\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) loses 6 points for them\n\nWatch for: No self-serve key. Registration is followed by a request to an account manager, and the docs say an agreement must be signed before use\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) | ETG API (RateHawk) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 62 | 45 | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) +17 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 85 | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 69 | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) +17 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 33 | 41 | ETG API (RateHawk) +8 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 10 | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 48 | 65 | ETG API (RateHawk) +17 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 43 | 56 | ETG API (RateHawk) +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -6 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **53.1 · D** | **53 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) | ETG API (RateHawk) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Nuitee | Emerging Travel Group |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.liteapi.travel/v3.0` | `https://api.ratehawk.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Your plan |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT (MCP server), ISC (Node SDK) | Proprietary service under a signed partner agreement that is not published. The Python and PHP SDKs on GitHub are MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-05 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-05-20 | 2026-05-08 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Popularity | 3 stars, 17k npm/wk | 9 stars, 12 PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect).** Sandbox key at sign-up, same base URL as production, no card. Hosted MCP's documented setup puts the API key in the URL query string and exposes 111 generated tools.\n\n**ETG API (RateHawk).** Hotel search and booking are documented in a public Swagger 2.0 file, an llms.txt index and a changelog with 64 dated entries in 2026. Access is by contract. Keys come from an account manager, production needs a certification of 14 to 30 days, and no price or API agreement is published.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)\n\n1. Use `/hotels/rates` with a short `hotelIds` list from `/data/hotels`; a broad rates call is slow and large\n2. Always prebook before book and read the cancellation policy in the prebook response, since refundability differs per rate\n3. Send a unique `clientReference` on book; a repeat returns error 4005 instead of a second booking\n4. Set `margin` explicitly on every rates call. Zero means net rates with no commission to you\n5. Send the key to the MCP in an `X-Api-Key` header rather than `?apiKey=` where the client allows it\n\n### ETG API (RateHawk)\n\n1. Call `/api/b2b/v3/overview/` first. It lists the endpoints the key may use and each one's request limit.\n2. Keep sandbox IDs, keys and hashes inside `api-sandbox.ratehawk.com`. Sandbox region IDs are limited to 2011, 2395, 2734 and 6053839.\n3. Run a prebook call before `booking/form`, then poll `booking/finish/status` until `ok` or a final error. Treat `timeout`, `unknown` and 5xx as still in progress.\n4. Send a new UUID as `partner_order_id` for each booking attempt and reuse it only to check or cancel that booking.\n5. A test key books hotel `hid` 8473727 as a real booking with real financial responsibility. Cancel it afterwards.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) or ETG API (RateHawk)?\n\nLiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) and ETG API (RateHawk) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 53.1 (D) and 53 (D). ETG API (RateHawk) leads on security \u0026 auth, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) and ETG API (RateHawk) need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) and ETG API (RateHawk) without installing anything?\n\nYes. LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) has a hosted endpoint at https://api.liteapi.travel/v3.0 and ETG API (RateHawk) at https://api.ratehawk.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-ratehawk.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-ratehawk.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"liteapi\", \"b\": \"ratehawk\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare liteapi ratehawk`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/liteapi.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ratehawk.json\n\n## Other comparisons with LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) or ETG API (RateHawk)\n\n- [Booking.com Demand API vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [Booking.com Demand API vs ETG API (RateHawk)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/booking-demand-api-vs-ratehawk.md)\n- [Duffel Flights and Stays API vs ETG API (RateHawk)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-ratehawk.md)\n- [Expedia Group Rapid API vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [Expedia Group Rapid API vs ETG API (RateHawk)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/expedia-rapid-vs-ratehawk.md)\n- [Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [Hotelbeds Hotel Booking API vs ETG API (RateHawk)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hotelbeds-vs-ratehawk.md)\n- [LetsFG vs ETG API (RateHawk)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letsfg-vs-ratehawk.md)\n- [LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) vs Skyscanner Travel APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-skyscanner.md)\n- [LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) vs Travelport TripServices APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liteapi-vs-travelport.md)\n- [ETG API (RateHawk) vs Skyscanner Travel APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ratehawk-vs-skyscanner.md)\n- [ETG API (RateHawk) vs Travelport TripServices APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ratehawk-vs-travelport.md)\n- [Duffel Flights and Stays API vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/duffel-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [FlightClaw vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [Kiwi.com MCP Server vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiwi-mcp-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [LetsFG vs LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letsfg-vs-liteapi.md)\n- [FlightClaw vs ETG API (RateHawk)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flightclaw-vs-ratehawk.md)\n- [Kiwi.com MCP Server vs ETG API (RateHawk)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiwi-mcp-vs-ratehawk.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-09", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) vs ETG API (RateHawk)", "url": "" } ], "description": "LiteAPI (Nuitee Connect) and ETG API (RateHawk) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 53.1 (D) and 53 (D). 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