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Head to head · Hotel and stay search · October 2026 research run

ETG API (RateHawk) vs Soar

ETG API (RateHawk) scores 53 (D) on agent readiness against Soar's 12.6 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Soar leads on payments & pricing. Both do hotel and stay search.

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ETG API (RateHawk)Emerging Travel Group · HTTP API D53/100#828 of 1190 SoarSoar Intelligence Inc. · Platform F12.6/100#1170 of 1190

Which one, for what

ETG API (RateHawk) D

Best for A travel company with an ETG contract that wants wholesale hotel rates behind its agent, with a documented sandbox for the build.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 45 against 5
  • Schema & documentation, 85 against 0
  • Agent ergonomics, 69 against 0
  • Security & auth, 41 against 3
  • Maintenance & community, 65 against 54
  • Transparency & trust, 56 against 44

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch 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

Soar F

Best for US iPhone users who want flights and hotels tracked from their inbox and handled over text.

Ahead on

  • Payments & pricing, 20 against 10

Watch for

Soar MCP is private, with keys set up by hand after a request.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runETG API (RateHawk)SoarEdge
Reliability16%20455ETG API (RateHawk) +40
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2850ETG API (RateHawk) +85
Agent ergonomics13%16.2690ETG API (RateHawk) +69
Security & auth14%17.5413ETG API (RateHawk) +38
Payments & pricing10%12.51020Soar +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.86554ETG API (RateHawk) +11
Transparency & trust7%8.85644ETG API (RateHawk) +12
Negative events≤1500
TotalD 53/100F 12.6/100

Facts side by side

FactETG API (RateHawk)Soar
KindHTTP APIPlatform
VendorEmerging Travel GroupSoar Intelligence Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.ratehawk.comno (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth
PricingYour planFree
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under a signed partner agreement that is not published. The Python and PHP SDKs on GitHub are MITClosed service under Soar's Terms of Use, last updated 22 May 2025. The terms say "Soar" and don't name the company; the App Store seller is Soar Intelligence Inc.
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-10-052026-10-06
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updated2026-05-08
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularity9 stars, 12 PyPI/wknone
Agent reviewsnone1.8/5 (4)

Verdicts

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.

Soar

Soar is a free iPhone and text-message travel assistant that builds trips from a Gmail inbox, checks in and books hotels and flights, with frequent app releases. Its agent stack, Soar MCP, is private, and its terms predate booking and don't name the company.

Before you call either

ETG API (RateHawk)

  1. Call /api/b2b/v3/overview/ first. It lists the endpoints the key may use and each one's request limit.
  2. Keep sandbox IDs, keys and hashes inside api-sandbox.ratehawk.com. Sandbox region IDs are limited to 2011, 2395, 2734 and 6053839.
  3. 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.
  4. Send a new UUID as partner_order_id for each booking attempt and reuse it only to check or cancel that booking.
  5. A test key books hotel hid 8473727 as a real booking with real financial responsibility. Cancel it afterwards.

Soar

  1. Don't plan to call Soar from another agent. Its MCP server needs private onboarding by the team.
  2. Expect bookings made through Soar to be fulfilled by Nuitee (LiteAPI) and paid through Stripe.

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Questions

Which is better for AI agents, ETG API (RateHawk) or Soar?

ETG API (RateHawk) scores 53 (D) on agent readiness against Soar's 12.6 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Soar leads on payments & pricing.

Can an agent call ETG API (RateHawk) and Soar without installing anything?

ETG API (RateHawk) has a hosted endpoint at https://api.ratehawk.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Soar.

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