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A partner applies through OpenTable's become-a-partner form, the partnerships team reviews the application, and approved partners receive sandbox credentials and restaurant IDs in a welcome email. Tokens come from the OAuth 2.0 client credentials grant at https://oauth-pp.opentable.com (sandbox) or https://oauth.opentable.com (production), with the client ID and secret Base64-encoded in the Authorization header. The Platform Policy forbids sharing credentials and says OpenTable may require rotation. Restaurants connect a partner through an OAuth or unique-identifier onboarding flow in the Integrations Marketplace.", "pricing": "byo-plan", "pricingNotes": "No API prices are published. Use is governed by each partner's agreement with OpenTable, and the docs say new implementations may need additional contracting and certification. A sandbox is granted after approval. The change log describes a configurable OpenTable Service Fee (shown to diners as 2 per cent) that restaurants may pass on to diners on experiences, deposits and card holds (https://docs.opentable.com/).", "priceSummary": "Your plan", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the public API documentation (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.opentable.com", "capabilities": [ "booking.availability", "booking.reservations", "booking.venue", "crm.records" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "partner-only", "rest", "oauth", "webhooks", "sandbox", "restaurants" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 38.6, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 994, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 5, "payments": 5, "reliability": 35, "schema": 61, "security": 33, "transparency": 42 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "Approved affiliates, restaurant groups and voice AI vendors that need to book into OpenTable restaurants.", "strengths": [ "Diner-side Consumer API v2 and venue-side In-House Booking API both cover availability, slot lock, booking, change and cancellation", "Booking and cancellation policy endpoints return deposits, holds and cut-off rules before a booking is made", "X-Request-Id on POST, PUT and PATCH requests makes retries safe", "Error tables name business-rule failures such as DinerHasOverlappingReservations with their HTTP codes", "A sandbox environment with its own OAuth host is granted after approval" ], "weaknesses": [ "Access needs an application, review by the partnerships team and an agreement, with no self-serve credentials", "Rate limits are not published and come from the OpenTable representative", "No OpenAPI file, llms.txt or SDK, only a Postman collection", "The change log has one dated entry, the TLS 1.3 notice of 6 October 2025", "The Platform Policy allows API changes and suspension with or without notice and promises no support" ], "agentNotes": [ "Lock the slot before calling Make Reservation, since the lock and its reservation_token expire within 5 minutes", "Send a unique X-Request-Id on every POST, PUT and PATCH so a retried booking is not duplicated", "Fetch booking and cancellation policies before booking and show any deposit, hold or service fee to the diner", "Use the Consumer API for diner bookings and the In-House Booking API only for a restaurant's own voice or phone channel", "Ask the OpenTable representative for the rate limit of each endpoint before going live" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 38.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 5, "payments": 5, "reliability": 35, "schema": 61, "security": 33, "transparency": 20 }, "provenanceScore": 64 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://oauth-pp.opentable.com/api/v2/oauth/token?grant_type=client_credentials\" -H \"Authorization: Basic BASE64_CLIENT_ID_AND_SECRET\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/booking.availability", "tool": "https://letme.dev/opentable" }, "area": "everyday", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "opentable.com", "domainRegistered": "1999-01-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.opentable.com/legal/terms-and-conditions", "privacy": "https://www.opentable.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.opentable.com", "changelog": "https://docs.opentable.com/", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The terms and privacy URLs are the ones the API documentation links. www.opentable.com timed out on every request from our network on 14 October 2026, including robots.txt, so neither page nor the legal entity was read.", "The API's own Platform Policy (last updated 20 December 2024) is published at the top of docs.opentable.com and refers to each partner's agreement with OpenTable.", "status.opentable.com is a StatusDashboard page whose components and history load by script and were not readable to our reader.", "The change log is a section of the documentation (API Reference, Change Log), not a separate page.", "security.txt could not be fetched because www.opentable.com did not answer.", "RDAP gives opentable.com a registration date of 1999-01-17." ], "score": 64 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/opentable.json", "live": { "slug": "opentable", "probe": { "target": "https://platform.opentable.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T09:42:01.177574691Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 476, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 545, "p95ms24h": 2988, "samples24h": 17, "samples30d": 17, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 17, "ok": 17 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.opentable.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T08:53:44.535821064Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T09:42:01.177574691Z" } }, "answer": "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 \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "tock", "name": "Tock", "vendor": "Tock (American Express)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.exploretock.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "local-bookings", "summary": "Tock is a reservation and experience booking platform for restaurants, wineries and other venues, owned by American Express and now part of the Resy network. Venues run it through the Tock Dashboard, and diners book on exploretock.com and Resy.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tock", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tock.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tock.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tock.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the Tock Terms of Use (effective 12 February 2026) and merchant terms", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "No public agent access. api.exploretock.com publishes data models for reservation exports, but its docs index reads \"Docs coming soon\" and no endpoints, base URL or key request process are published there.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No prices were read. The Tock home page answered 403 to our reader, and no pricing page was reached. Venue terms are in the Tock Merchant Terms of Service (https://www.exploretock.com/merchant-terms).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on api.exploretock.com or the Tock terms (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://api.exploretock.com/docs/latest/reservation.html", "capabilities": [ "booking.reservations", "booking.venue" ], "tags": [ "not-for-agents", "sales-led", "hosted", "closed-source", "partner-only", "restaurants" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 12.4, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1062, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 23, "payments": 0, "reliability": 25, "schema": 5, "security": 0, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "Restaurants and wineries taking reservations and experience bookings, and for diners booking in person.", "strengths": [ "Reservation data model published with a Swagger 2.0 file of 33 definitions", "Terms of Use (February 2026) and privacy policy (November 2025) are dated and name Tock LLC", "Venues also reach diners through the Resy app since 11 August 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call. The docs index reads \"Docs coming soon\"", "The Terms of Use forbid robots, scripts and automated systems on the site", "No prices could be read, and the home page answered 403 to our reader", "No security.txt or disclosure policy found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to call Tock from another agent. 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The terms, privacy and merchant terms pages answered 200.", "www.exploretock.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "status.exploretock.com loads by script and showed no components or history to our reader.", "RDAP gives exploretock.com a registration date of 2017-03-22." ], "score": 71 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tock.json", "live": { "slug": "tock", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.exploretock.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T08:54:01.394581552Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T08:54:01.394581552Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "OpenTable", "b": "Tock (American Express)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://platform.opentable.com", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Your plan", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under each partner's agreement with OpenTable and the Platform Policy published in the API documentation", "b": "Proprietary service under the Tock Terms of Use (effective 12 February 2026) and merchant terms", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2026-02-12", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2025-11-24", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "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 \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, OpenTable APIs or Tock?" }, { "answer": "OpenTable APIs has a hosted endpoint at https://platform.opentable.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Tock.", "question": "Can an agent call OpenTable APIs and Tock without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 35 against 25", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 61 against 5", "Agent ergonomics, 69 against 0", "Security \u0026 auth, 33 against 0", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 5 against 0" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Approved affiliates, restaurant groups and voice AI vendors that need to book into OpenTable restaurants.", "slug": "opentable", "watchFor": "Access needs an application, review by the partnerships team and an agreement, with no self-serve credentials" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Maintenance \u0026 community, 23 against 5", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 52 against 42" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Restaurants and wineries taking reservations and experience bookings, and for diners booking in person.", "slug": "tock", "watchFor": "No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call. The docs index reads \"Docs coming soon\"" } ], "job": { "capability": "booking.reservations", "name": "Restaurant reservations" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-opentable.json", "title": "Chope vs OpenTable APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-opentable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-tock.json", "title": "Chope vs Tock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-tock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eat-app-vs-opentable.json", "title": "Eat App Partner API vs OpenTable APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eat-app-vs-opentable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eat-app-vs-tock.json", "title": "Eat App Partner API vs Tock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eat-app-vs-tock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/resy-vs-tock.json", "title": "Resy vs Tock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/resy-vs-tock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tablecheck-vs-tock.json", "title": "TableCheck API vs Tock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tablecheck-vs-tock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thefork-vs-tock.json", "title": "TheFork B2B API vs Tock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thefork-vs-tock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-resy.json", "title": "OpenTable APIs vs Resy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-resy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-sevenrooms.json", "title": "OpenTable APIs vs SevenRooms", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-sevenrooms" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-square-appointments.json", "title": "OpenTable APIs vs Square Appointments (Bookings API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-square-appointments" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-tablecheck.json", "title": "OpenTable APIs vs TableCheck API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-tablecheck" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-thefork.json", "title": "OpenTable APIs vs TheFork B2B API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-thefork" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sevenrooms-vs-tock.json", "title": "SevenRooms vs Tock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sevenrooms-vs-tock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/square-appointments-vs-tock.json", "title": "Square Appointments (Bookings API) vs Tock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/square-appointments-vs-tock" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 10, "edge": "opentable", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "opentable": 35, "tock": 25, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 56, "edge": "opentable", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "opentable": 61, "tock": 5, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 69, "edge": "opentable", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "opentable": 69, "tock": 0, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 33, "edge": "opentable", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "opentable": 33, "tock": 0, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "opentable", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "opentable": 5, "tock": 0, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 18, "edge": "tock", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "opentable": 5, "tock": 23, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "tock", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "opentable": 42, "tock": 52, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "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 \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do restaurant reservations.", "verdicts": { "opentable": "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-tock", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-tock.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-tock.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-tock.min.md" }, "markdown": "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 \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do restaurant reservations.\n\n- OpenTable APIs: grade E, 38.6/100, rank #994 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/opentable.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/opentable.json\n- Tock: grade F, 12.4/100, rank #1062 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tock.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tock.json\n- Best restaurant reservation and local appointment APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/local-bookings/index.md\n- All 36 bookings comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/local-bookings/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### OpenTable APIs (E)\n\nGood for: Approved affiliates, restaurant groups and voice AI vendors that need to book into OpenTable restaurants.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 35 against 25\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 61 against 5\n- Agent ergonomics, 69 against 0\n- Security \u0026 auth, 33 against 0\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 5 against 0\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Access needs an application, review by the partnerships team and an agreement, with no self-serve credentials\n\n### Tock (F)\n\nGood for: Restaurants and wineries taking reservations and experience bookings, and for diners booking in person.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 23 against 5\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 52 against 42\n\nWatch for: No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call. The docs index reads \"Docs coming soon\"\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | OpenTable APIs | Tock | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 25 | OpenTable APIs +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 61 | 5 | OpenTable APIs +56 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 0 | OpenTable APIs +69 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 33 | 0 | OpenTable APIs +33 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 5 | 0 | OpenTable APIs +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 5 | 23 | Tock +18 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 42 | 52 | Tock +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **38.6 · E** | **12.4 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | OpenTable APIs | Tock |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Platform |\n| Vendor | OpenTable | Tock (American Express) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://platform.opentable.com` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | |\n| Auth | OAuth | API key |\n| Pricing | Your plan | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under each partner's agreement with OpenTable and the Platform Policy published in the API documentation | Proprietary service under the Tock Terms of Use (effective 12 February 2026) and merchant terms |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-02-12 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2025-11-24 |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### OpenTable APIs\n\n1. Lock the slot before calling Make Reservation, since the lock and its reservation_token expire within 5 minutes\n2. Send a unique X-Request-Id on every POST, PUT and PATCH so a retried booking is not duplicated\n3. Fetch booking and cancellation policies before booking and show any deposit, hold or service fee to the diner\n4. Use the Consumer API for diner bookings and the In-House Booking API only for a restaurant's own voice or phone channel\n5. Ask the OpenTable representative for the rate limit of each endpoint before going live\n\n### Tock\n\n1. Don't plan to call Tock from another agent. Hand the booking to the person on exploretock.com or in the Resy app\n2. Do not script the Tock website, which the Terms of Use forbid. A venue wanting data should ask Tock through its dashboard account\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, OpenTable APIs or Tock?\n\nOpenTable 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 \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Can an agent call OpenTable APIs and Tock without installing anything?\n\nOpenTable APIs has a hosted endpoint at https://platform.opentable.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Tock.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-tock.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-tock.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"opentable\", \"b\": \"tock\"}`. 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