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Head to head · Restaurant reservations · October 2026 research run

OpenTable APIs vs Tock

OpenTable APIs scores 38.6 (E) on agent readiness against Tock's 12.4 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Tock leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do restaurant reservations.

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OpenTable APIsOpenTable · HTTP API E38.6/100#994 of 1076 TockTock (American Express) · Platform F12.4/100#1062 of 1076

Which one, for what

OpenTable APIs E

Best for Approved affiliates, restaurant groups and voice AI vendors that need to book into OpenTable restaurants.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 35 against 25
  • Schema & documentation, 61 against 5
  • Agent ergonomics, 69 against 0
  • Security & auth, 33 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 5 against 0

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

Access needs an application, review by the partnerships team and an agreement, with no self-serve credentials

Tock F

Best for Restaurants and wineries taking reservations and experience bookings, and for diners booking in person.

Ahead on

  • Maintenance & community, 23 against 5
  • Transparency & trust, 52 against 42

Watch for

No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call. The docs index reads "Docs coming soon"

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runOpenTable APIsTockEdge
Reliability16%203525OpenTable APIs +10
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2615OpenTable APIs +56
Agent ergonomics13%16.2690OpenTable APIs +69
Security & auth14%17.5330OpenTable APIs +33
Payments & pricing10%12.550OpenTable APIs +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8523Tock +18
Transparency & trust7%8.84252Tock +10
Negative events≤1500
TotalE 38.6/100F 12.4/100

Facts side by side

FactOpenTable APIsTock
KindHTTP APIPlatform
VendorOpenTableTock (American Express)
Hosted endpointhttps://platform.opentable.comno (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuthAPI key
PricingYour planPaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under each partner's agreement with OpenTable and the Platform Policy published in the API documentationProprietary service under the Tock Terms of Use (effective 12 February 2026) and merchant terms
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Terms last updatedcouldn't be read2026-02-12
Privacy policy last updatedcouldn't be read2025-11-24
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be readyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be readyes
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be readyes

Verdicts

OpenTable APIs

The public documentation covers diner-side and venue-side booking in detail, with slot locks, policy endpoints, error tables and an X-Request-Id header for safe retries. Access needs partner approval and a contract, rate limits and prices are not published, and the status page and main website could not be read.

Tock

Tock takes reservations and experience bookings for restaurants and wineries and now feeds its venues into Resy. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. api.exploretock.com publishes reservation data models without endpoints, and the Terms of Use forbid automated access to the site.

Before you call either

OpenTable APIs

  1. Lock the slot before calling Make Reservation, since the lock and its reservation_token expire within 5 minutes
  2. Send a unique X-Request-Id on every POST, PUT and PATCH so a retried booking is not duplicated
  3. Fetch booking and cancellation policies before booking and show any deposit, hold or service fee to the diner
  4. Use the Consumer API for diner bookings and the In-House Booking API only for a restaurant's own voice or phone channel
  5. Ask the OpenTable representative for the rate limit of each endpoint before going live

Tock

  1. Don't plan to call Tock from another agent. Hand the booking to the person on exploretock.com or in the Resy app
  2. Do not script the Tock website, which the Terms of Use forbid. A venue wanting data should ask Tock through its dashboard account

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, OpenTable APIs or Tock?

OpenTable APIs scores 38.6 (E) on agent readiness against Tock's 12.4 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Tock leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

Can an agent call OpenTable APIs and Tock without installing anything?

OpenTable APIs has a hosted endpoint at https://platform.opentable.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Tock.

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