{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "medblocks", "name": "Medblocks", "vendor": "Medblocks Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://medblocks.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "health-data", "summary": "Medblocks Platform lets an app or agent connect a patient's hospital, clinic and insurer records through SMART on FHIR and read them back as FHIR R4, through a REST API, a TypeScript SDK or a remote MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/medblocks", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/medblocks.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/medblocks.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/medblocks.json", "repo": "https://github.com/medblocks/skills", "license": "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", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.medblocks.com/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "medblocks" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The REST API takes a workspace API key as a Bearer token (`mb_sk_sbx_` for Sandbox, `mb_sk_live_` for Production). Owners and admins mint, rotate and revoke keys in the dashboard, and the full key is shown once. The MCP server at https://app.medblocks.com/mcp also accepts OAuth from Medblocks' own authorisation server, which publishes dynamic client registration, PKCE and ten scopes (patients:read, patients:write, fhir:read and others), with a consent screen of three tick boxes. Patients authorise each hospital themselves through SMART on FHIR. A BAA is needed before production use.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan at $0 for up to 1,000 active patients, with patient access, synthetic sandboxes and full API access. Enterprise is $60,000 a year with no patient cap and adds backend services, clinical workflows, OCR and data structuring. A patient counts as active from the first successful FHIR pull. Upgrades go through support@medblocks.com, and requests outside the plan return 402 `billing_error` (checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "$5000 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms-full.txt or the billing page. A 402 status is used only for `billing_error` when a plan does not cover a feature (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 10, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 36, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://medblocks.com/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://medblocks.com/docs/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "health.records", "health.consent", "health.ehr", "health.fhir", "agent.tools" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "fhir", "smart-on-fhir", "typescript", "llms-txt", "free-tier", "hipaa" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 52.7, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 773, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 69, "payments": 25, "reliability": 28, "schema": 62, "security": 67, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Patient-authorised record retrieval with a ten-tool remote MCP server, OAuth with per-capability consent, an audit entry for every call and a free plan for 1,000 active patients. No status page, no published rate limits and no idempotency keys were found, and the OpenAPI file behind the reference is not published.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Remote MCP server with ten tools, OAuth with dynamic client registration and a consent screen that can leave destructive actions off", "Free plan for up to 1,000 active patients and a Synthetic Hospital sandbox with seeded FHIR R4 patients", "One error envelope with 36 stable codes, a `param` field, a request ID and `Retry-After` on 429", "Every MCP tool call writes an audit entry, and the dashboard shows authorisation and pull history per patient", "llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page, plus agent skills for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, SLA or published rate limits for the Platform API", "No idempotency keys were found, and the API conventions and versioning pages are unwritten placeholders", "The OpenAPI file the reference is generated from is not published", "Only one SDK, in TypeScript, with npm's latest tag still at 1.0.0 while the changelog documents 1.2.0", "The public terms cover the website and Blue Button app, and no sub-processor list or customer terms for the API were found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Connect with `claude mcp add --transport http medblocks https://app.medblocks.com/mcp` and sign in, or send a workspace API key as a Bearer token from a backend", "Ask the person before calling `disconnect_health_system` or `delete_person`. Both are permanent", "Wait for the connection webhook or check connection status before reading records. Pulls run in the background after the patient approves", "Branch on `error.code`, not the message, and wait the `Retry-After` seconds on a 429", "Use a Sandbox workspace and the Synthetic Hospital (password `demopass`) for tests. Sandbox keys cannot reach production sources" ], "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": 52.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 69, "payments": 25, "reliability": 28, "schema": 62, "security": 67, "transparency": 32 }, "provenanceScore": 70 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install medblocks", "http": "curl https://app.medblocks.com/patients -H \"Authorization: Bearer $MEDBLOCKS_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http medblocks https://app.medblocks.com/mcp" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/health.records", "tool": "https://letme.dev/medblocks" }, "area": "domain-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Enterprise plan, uncapped patients", "unit": "month", "usd": 5000, "note": "$60,000 a year per the billing page, shown here as a monthly equivalent" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Medblocks Inc.", "domain": "medblocks.com", "domainRegistered": "2005-11-04", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://medblocks.com/terms", "privacy": "https://medblocks.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://medblocks.com/docs/reference/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The terms, last updated 5 October 2026, name Medblocks Inc., a Delaware corporation, at 100 Front Street, Suite 400 #122, Worcester, MA 01608, and cover the website and the CMS Blue Button application. No separate customer terms for the Platform API were found.", "The terms forbid using robots, scripts or scrapers to access the site. We read public pages and recorded that clause.", "The privacy policy, last updated 5 October 2026, covers the Medblocks applications including Medblocks Platform and the MCP server, and says no data is used to train AI models.", "medblocks.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. status.medblocks.com did not answer and no status page was linked from the docs.", "RDAP for medblocks.com gives a registration date of 2005-11-04." ], "score": 70 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/medblocks.json", "live": { "slug": "medblocks", "probe": { "target": "https://app.medblocks.com/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T09:41:57.376112052Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 317, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 317, "p95ms24h": 463, "samples24h": 17, "samples30d": 17, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 17, "ok": 17 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T09:41:57.376112052Z" } }, "answer": "Validic Inform scores 57.9 (C) on agent readiness against Medblocks's 52.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Medblocks leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "validic", "name": "Validic Inform", "vendor": "Validic, Inc. (ChartSpan)", "vendorUrl": "https://validic.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "health-data", "summary": "Validic Inform normalises data from wearables, health apps and in-home medical devices into one API, with a REST API for per-user reads and a server-sent events Streaming API for bulk delivery, and a free self-service developer tier.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/validic", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/validic.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/validic.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/validic.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Validic/inform-quickstart", "license": "Proprietary service under Validic's Online Service Agreement for Inform (last updated 13 August 2025). The inform-quickstart sample apps are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "sse" ], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Every Inform request carries the organisation token as `?token=` in the query string, the only option documented. A developer account is created by a sign-up API at https://api.dashboard.validic.com (register, verify a six-digit emailed code, log in, provision), which returns `organization_id` and `organization_token`. End users connect their devices through a Validic marketplace URL returned for each user. No scopes or rotation were found.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The Developer tier is free with no card or contract and allows 5 connected users, 5 cloud integrations, the Streaming API, a REST API preview and 90-day retention, on synthetic test data, with no SLA. A Business tier is listed as coming soon. Enterprise is negotiated and adds a BAA, custom SLA, all sources and 7-year retention (checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, agent guides or the sign-up page (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.validic.com", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.validic.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "health.wearables", "health.consent" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "wearables", "remote-patient-monitoring", "api-key", "llms-txt", "sse", "free-tier", "status-page", "programmatic-signup" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-12", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 57.9, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 628, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 74, "payments": 40, "reliability": 73, "schema": 75, "security": 30, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Graded on the Inform REST and Streaming APIs. An agent can create a free developer account through a sign-up API, with only an emailed code needing a person's inbox, and llms.txt plus agent guides document every step. The organisation token travels in the URL query string, the free tier holds synthetic data only, and production access needs an Enterprise contract.", "bestFor": "A remote patient monitoring or wellness app that needs normalised readings from many wearables and home devices, and an agent that wants to start building without a sales call.", "strengths": [ "Sign-up, email verification and organisation provisioning are all API calls, with an agent guide at dashboard.validic.com/agents.txt", "Free developer tier with no card or contract, covering 5 users and 5 cloud integrations", "Published rate limit of 2,000 REST requests per token per hour", "Dated release notes, the newest for the Inform platform on 12 October 2026", "No status page incidents between 16 July and 14 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "The organisation token is sent as `?token=` in the URL, the only documented option", "Errors return only a status and a phrase, and a date range over the limit gives a bare 400", "The free tier holds synthetic data only, and the REST API there is a preview", "No server-side SDK and no full OpenAPI file, only fragments on each reference page" ], "agentNotes": [ "Show the developer the free-tier terms and wait for acceptance before calling `POST /auth/register`", "Send `Authorization: \u003cid_token\u003e` to sign-up calls, but pass the organisation token as `?token=` on Inform calls", "Use the customer `uid` in URLs, never Validic's internal `id`, which returns a silent 404", "Keep date ranges to 30 days or less and page month by month for backfills", "Unwrap `data` on list responses and treat an empty array as normal on a new account" ], "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": 57.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 74, "payments": 40, "reliability": 73, "schema": 75, "security": 30, "transparency": 53 }, "provenanceScore": 88 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://api.v2.validic.com/organizations/$ORG_ID/users?token=$ORG_TOKEN\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/health.wearables", "tool": "https://letme.dev/validic" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Validic, Inc.", "domain": "validic.com", "domainRegistered": "2005-09-11", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://validic.com/online-service-agreement-inform/", "privacy": "https://validic.com/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.validic.com", "changelog": "https://help.validic.com/space/VRN", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The Online Service Agreement (last updated 13 August 2025) names Validic, Inc. The privacy policy was last updated 20 January 2026.", "ChartSpan announced the completed acquisition of Validic on 22 June 2026, and the inform-quickstart licence names Chartspan Medical Technologies.", "validic.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "The developer changelog at developer.validic.com/changelog stopped on 15 April 2025 and points to the release notes on help.validic.com.", "RDAP for validic.com gives a registration date of 11 September 2005." ], "score": 88 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/validic.json", "live": { "slug": "validic", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.validic.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T09:39:45.767488138Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T09:39:45.767488138Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Medblocks Inc.", "b": "Validic, Inc. (ChartSpan)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://app.medblocks.com/mcp", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, SSE (legacy)", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "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", "b": "Proprietary service under Validic's Online Service Agreement for Inform (last updated 13 August 2025). The inform-quickstart sample apps are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "10", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-14", "b": "2026-10-12", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-10-05", "b": "2025-08-13", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-10-05", "b": "2026-01-20", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "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": "36 npm/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Validic Inform scores 57.9 (C) on agent readiness against Medblocks's 52.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Medblocks leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Medblocks or Validic Inform?" }, { "answer": "Medblocks takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Validic Inform needs an API key.", "question": "Do Medblocks and Validic Inform need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Medblocks has a hosted endpoint at https://app.medblocks.com/mcp. No hosted endpoint is listed for Validic Inform.", "question": "Can an agent call Medblocks and Validic Inform without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 72 against 50", "Security \u0026 auth, 67 against 30" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "medblocks", "watchFor": "No status page, SLA or published rate limits for the Platform API" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 73 against 28", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 62", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 25", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 74 against 69", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 51" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A remote patient monitoring or wellness app that needs normalised readings from many wearables and home devices, and an agent that wants to start building without a sales call.", "slug": "validic", "watchFor": "The organisation token is sent as `?token=` in the URL, the only documented option" } ], "job": { "capability": "health.consent", "name": "Patient consent" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-medblocks.json", "title": "Aidbox vs Medblocks", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-medblocks" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1uphealth-vs-medblocks.json", "title": "1upHealth vs Medblocks", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1uphealth-vs-medblocks" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/health-gorilla-vs-medblocks.json", "title": "Health Gorilla vs Medblocks", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/health-gorilla-vs-medblocks" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-medplum.json", "title": "Medblocks vs Medplum", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-medplum" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-metriport.json", "title": "Medblocks vs Metriport Medical API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-metriport" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-particle-health.json", "title": "Medblocks vs Particle Health", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-particle-health" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-redox.json", "title": "Medblocks vs Redox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-redox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-zus-health.json", "title": "Medblocks vs Zus Health", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-zus-health" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1uphealth-vs-validic.json", "title": "1upHealth vs Validic Inform", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1uphealth-vs-validic" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-validic.json", "title": "Aidbox vs Validic Inform", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-validic" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/health-gorilla-vs-validic.json", "title": "Health Gorilla vs Validic Inform", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/health-gorilla-vs-validic" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-rook.json", "title": "Medblocks vs ROOK", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-rook" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-terra.json", "title": "Medblocks vs Terra API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-terra" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/metriport-vs-validic.json", "title": "Metriport Medical API vs Validic Inform", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/metriport-vs-validic" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/validic-vs-zus-health.json", "title": "Validic Inform vs Zus Health", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/validic-vs-zus-health" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rook-vs-validic.json", "title": "ROOK vs Validic Inform", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rook-vs-validic" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/terra-vs-validic.json", "title": "Terra API vs Validic Inform", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/terra-vs-validic" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 45, "edge": "validic", "key": "reliability", "medblocks": 28, "name": "Reliability", "validic": 73, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 13, "edge": "validic", "key": "schema", "medblocks": 62, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "validic": 75, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 22, "edge": "medblocks", "key": "ergonomics", "medblocks": 72, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "validic": 50, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 37, "edge": "medblocks", "key": "security", "medblocks": 67, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "validic": 30, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "validic", "key": "payments", "medblocks": 25, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "validic": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "validic", "key": "maintenance", "medblocks": 69, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "validic": 74, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "validic", "key": "transparency", "medblocks": 51, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "validic": 71, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Validic Inform scores 57.9 (C) on agent readiness against Medblocks's 52.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Medblocks leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth. Both do patient consent.", "verdicts": { "medblocks": "Patient-authorised record retrieval with a ten-tool remote MCP server, OAuth with per-capability consent, an audit entry for every call and a free plan for 1,000 active patients. No status page, no published rate limits and no idempotency keys were found, and the OpenAPI file behind the reference is not published.", "validic": "Graded on the Inform REST and Streaming APIs. An agent can create a free developer account through a sign-up API, with only an emailed code needing a person's inbox, and llms.txt plus agent guides document every step. The organisation token travels in the URL query string, the free tier holds synthetic data only, and production access needs an Enterprise contract." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-validic", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-validic.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-validic.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-validic.min.md" }, "markdown": "Validic Inform scores 57.9 (C) on agent readiness against Medblocks's 52.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Medblocks leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth. Both do patient consent.\n\n- Medblocks: grade D, 52.7/100, rank #773 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/medblocks.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/medblocks.json\n- Validic Inform: grade C, 57.9/100, rank #628 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/validic.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/validic.json\n- Best health record and wellness data APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/health-data/index.md\n- All 63 health comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/health-data/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Medblocks (D)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 50\n- Security \u0026 auth, 67 against 30\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No status page, SLA or published rate limits for the Platform API\n\n### Validic Inform (C)\n\nGood for: A remote patient monitoring or wellness app that needs normalised readings from many wearables and home devices, and an agent that wants to start building without a sales call.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 73 against 28\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 62\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 74 against 69\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 51\n\nWatch for: The organisation token is sent as `?token=` in the URL, the only documented option\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Medblocks | Validic Inform | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 28 | 73 | Validic Inform +45 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 75 | Validic Inform +13 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 50 | Medblocks +22 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 67 | 30 | Medblocks +37 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 40 | Validic Inform +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 74 | Validic Inform +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 71 | Validic Inform +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **52.7 · D** | **57.9 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Medblocks | Validic Inform |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Medblocks Inc. | Validic, Inc. (ChartSpan) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.medblocks.com/mcp` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, SSE (legacy) |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| 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 | Proprietary service under Validic's Online Service Agreement for Inform (last updated 13 August 2025). The inform-quickstart sample apps are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 10 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-14 | 2026-10-12 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-05 | 2025-08-13 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-05 | 2026-01-20 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 36 npm/wk | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Medblocks.** Patient-authorised record retrieval with a ten-tool remote MCP server, OAuth with per-capability consent, an audit entry for every call and a free plan for 1,000 active patients. No status page, no published rate limits and no idempotency keys were found, and the OpenAPI file behind the reference is not published.\n\n**Validic Inform.** Graded on the Inform REST and Streaming APIs. An agent can create a free developer account through a sign-up API, with only an emailed code needing a person's inbox, and llms.txt plus agent guides document every step. The organisation token travels in the URL query string, the free tier holds synthetic data only, and production access needs an Enterprise contract.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Medblocks\n\n1. Connect with `claude mcp add --transport http medblocks https://app.medblocks.com/mcp` and sign in, or send a workspace API key as a Bearer token from a backend\n2. Ask the person before calling `disconnect_health_system` or `delete_person`. Both are permanent\n3. Wait for the connection webhook or check connection status before reading records. Pulls run in the background after the patient approves\n4. Branch on `error.code`, not the message, and wait the `Retry-After` seconds on a 429\n5. Use a Sandbox workspace and the Synthetic Hospital (password `demopass`) for tests. Sandbox keys cannot reach production sources\n\n### Validic Inform\n\n1. Show the developer the free-tier terms and wait for acceptance before calling `POST /auth/register`\n2. Send `Authorization: \u003cid_token\u003e` to sign-up calls, but pass the organisation token as `?token=` on Inform calls\n3. Use the customer `uid` in URLs, never Validic's internal `id`, which returns a silent 404\n4. Keep date ranges to 30 days or less and page month by month for backfills\n5. Unwrap `data` on list responses and treat an empty array as normal on a new account\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Medblocks or Validic Inform?\n\nValidic Inform scores 57.9 (C) on agent readiness against Medblocks's 52.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Medblocks leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Medblocks and Validic Inform need an API key?\n\nMedblocks takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Validic Inform needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Medblocks and Validic Inform without installing anything?\n\nMedblocks has a hosted endpoint at https://app.medblocks.com/mcp. No hosted endpoint is listed for Validic Inform.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-validic.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-validic.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"medblocks\", \"b\": \"validic\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare medblocks validic`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/medblocks.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/validic.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Medblocks or Validic Inform\n\n- [Aidbox vs Medblocks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-medblocks.md)\n- [1upHealth vs Medblocks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1uphealth-vs-medblocks.md)\n- [Health Gorilla vs Medblocks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/health-gorilla-vs-medblocks.md)\n- [Medblocks vs Medplum](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-medplum.md)\n- [Medblocks vs Metriport Medical API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-metriport.md)\n- [Medblocks vs Particle Health](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-particle-health.md)\n- [Medblocks vs Redox](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-redox.md)\n- [Medblocks vs Zus Health](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-zus-health.md)\n- [1upHealth vs Validic Inform](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/1uphealth-vs-validic.md)\n- [Aidbox vs Validic Inform](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aidbox-vs-validic.md)\n- [Health Gorilla vs Validic Inform](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/health-gorilla-vs-validic.md)\n- [Medblocks vs ROOK](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-rook.md)\n- [Medblocks vs Terra API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medblocks-vs-terra.md)\n- [Metriport Medical API vs Validic Inform](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/metriport-vs-validic.md)\n- [Validic Inform vs Zus Health](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/validic-vs-zus-health.md)\n- [ROOK vs Validic Inform](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rook-vs-validic.md)\n- [Terra API vs Validic Inform](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/terra-vs-validic.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-14", "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": "Medblocks vs Validic Inform", "url": "" } ], "description": "Validic Inform scores 57.9 (C) to Medblocks's 52.7 (D) for patient consent. 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