# Saleor API + MCP vs Square (slim)

> Square and Saleor API + MCP score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 69.2 (B) and 68.6 (B). Saleor API + MCP leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do commerce products. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Square and Saleor API + MCP score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 69.2 (B) and 68.6 (B). Saleor API + MCP leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do commerce products.

- Saleor API + MCP: B 68.6, rank #175 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/saleor.min.md
- Square: B 69.2, rank #166 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/square.min.md
- Saleor API + MCP, good for Teams that want an open-source GraphQL backend with multi-channel pricing and an agent that reads store data safely. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 45 against 40; Transparency & trust, 76 against 70. Also Open source.
- Square, good for Agents working for a seller already on Square, on catalogue, inventory, orders, payment links and customers, online and in person. Ahead on Reliability, 58 against 50. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Saleor API + MCP | Square |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 58 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 89 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 86 | 83 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 71 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 45 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Saleor API + MCP | Square |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Saleor | Block, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.squareup.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause | Proprietary service under the Square Developer Terms of Service. The MCP server and the OpenAPI specification on GitHub are Apache 2.0, and the Node.js SDK is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 8 | 3 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-16 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-09-10 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-09-15 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 23k stars, 7.3k npm/wk | 454k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |