# ROOK vs Validic Inform (slim)

> Validic Inform scores 57.9 (C) 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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Validic Inform scores 57.9 (C) on agent readiness against ROOK's 54.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do wearable and health app data.

- ROOK: C 54.9, rank #718 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rook.min.md
- Validic Inform: C 57.9, rank #628 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/validic.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.
- Validic Inform, good 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. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 40 against 25; Transparency & trust, 71 against 55.

| Category | ROOK | Validic Inform |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 75 | 73 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 74 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 49 | 50 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 32 | 30 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 73 | 74 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 55 | 71 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ROOK | Validic Inform |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Rookeries Development Corp. | Validic, Inc. (ChartSpan) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under ROOK's Terms and Conditions for ROOK services | Proprietary service under Validic's Online Service Agreement for Inform (last updated 13 August 2025). The inform-quickstart sample apps are MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-12 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-01 | 2025-08-13 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-28 | 2026-01-20 |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |