# Medblocks vs Medplum (slim)

> Medplum scores 68.7 (B) to Medblocks's 52.7 (D) for patient record retrieval. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Medplum scores 68.7 (B) on agent readiness against Medblocks's 52.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do patient record retrieval.

- Medblocks: D 52.7, rank #773 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/medblocks.min.md
- Medplum: B 68.7, rank #216 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/medplum.min.md
- Medblocks, good for A consumer or care app, or an assistant, that needs a patient's own records from US hospitals and payers with the patient's consent, and wants an MCP route as well as REST.
- Medplum, good for An agent working inside a digital health company's own FHIR store, reading and writing patients, observations and appointments under a BAA. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 28; Schema & documentation, 82 against 62; Security & auth, 74 against 67; Maintenance & community, 93 against 69; Transparency & trust, 72 against 51. Also Open source.

| Category | Medblocks | Medplum |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 28 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 62 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 73 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 74 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 69 | 93 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 51 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Medblocks | Medplum |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Medblocks Inc. | Orangebot, Inc. (dba Medplum) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.medblocks.com/mcp` | `https://api.medplum.com/mcp/stream` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Medblocks' terms. The medblocks TypeScript SDK on npm carries a proprietary licence that forbids redistribution and reverse engineering. The agent skills repository has no licence file | Apache 2.0 for the server, SDKs and apps in medplum/medplum. The hosted service at api.medplum.com runs under Medplum's terms of service |
| Tools exposed | 10 | 3 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.medplum/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-14 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-05 | 2023-04-11 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-05 | 2022-04-05 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 36 npm/wk | 2.7k stars, 270k npm/wk |