# ROOK vs Terra API (slim)

> Terra scores 65.9 (B) to ROOK's 54.9 (C) for wearable and health app data. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Terra API scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against ROOK's 54.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ROOK leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do wearable and health app data.

- ROOK: C 54.9, rank #718 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rook.min.md
- Terra API: B 65.9, rank #327 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/terra.min.md
- ROOK, good for A wellness, insurance, corporate wellness or remote monitoring product that wants normalised wearable data pushed to its backend, with plan prices it can see up front. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 67; Payments & pricing, 25 against 20.
- Terra API, good for A fitness, wellness, insurance or research product whose users connect consumer wearables and apps, and an agent that needs to read one user's sleep, activity or body data through MCP. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 89 against 74; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 49; Security & auth, 65 against 32. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | ROOK | Terra API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 75 | 67 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 74 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 49 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 32 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 73 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 55 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ROOK | Terra API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Rookeries Development Corp. | Terra Enabling Developers Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://access.tryterra.co/api/v2/mcp/<user_id>` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |
| Licence | Proprietary service under ROOK's Terms and Conditions for ROOK services | Proprietary service under Terra's terms of service. The OpenAPI specs repository is Apache 2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 6 |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-13 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-01 | 2026-05-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-28 | 2023-04-20 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 13k npm/wk, 11k PyPI/wk |