# Shopware vs Square (slim)

> Shopware scores 71.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Square's 69.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Square leads on agent ergonomics. Both do commerce products. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Shopware scores 71.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Square's 69.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Square leads on agent ergonomics. Both do commerce products.

- Shopware: BB 71.4, rank #107 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shopware.min.md
- Square: B 69.2, rank #156 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/square.min.md
- Shopware, good for A merchant already on Shopware, or a team that wants an MIT PHP backend with a built-in MCP server for back-office work. Ahead on Reliability, 83 against 58; Security & auth, 73 against 67; Payments & pricing, 50 against 40; Maintenance & community, 87 against 81; Transparency & trust, 76 against 70. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; 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 Agent ergonomics, 83 against 78. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Shopware loses 5 points for them.

| Category | Shopware | Square |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 83 | 58 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 83 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 73 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Shopware | Square |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | shopware AG | 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 | MIT for the Community Edition core. Paid plans add proprietary extensions under shopware AG's general terms | 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 | 14 | 3 |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-09-16 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-10 | 2026-09-10 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-09-15 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 3.4k stars, 31k npm/wk | 454k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk |