# Square Appointments (Bookings API) vs TheFork B2B API (slim)

> Square Appointments scores 68.1 (B) to TheFork B2B's 43.6 (E) for booking availability. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Square Appointments (Bookings API) scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against TheFork B2B API's 43.6 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do booking availability.

- Square Appointments (Bookings API): B 68.1, rank #245 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/square-appointments.min.md
- TheFork B2B API: E 43.6, rank #966 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thefork.min.md
- Square Appointments (Bookings API), good for Venue-side appointment booking for salons, clinics and other service businesses already on Square. Ahead on Reliability, 55 against 35; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 56; Security & auth, 70 against 42; Payments & pricing, 40 against 5; Maintenance & community, 71 against 15; Transparency & trust, 70 against 47. Also Runs on your own machine.
- TheFork B2B API, good for CRM, PMS and AI phone-agent vendors and restaurant groups that run on TheFork Manager, mainly in Europe.

| Category | Square Appointments (Bookings API) | TheFork B2B API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 89 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 56 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 70 | 42 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 5 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 71 | 15 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 70 | 47 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Square Appointments (Bookings API) | TheFork B2B API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Block, Inc. | TheFork (La Fourchette SAS) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://connect.squareup.com/v2/bookings` | `https://api.thefork.io/manager` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Freemium | Your plan |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Square Developer Terms of Service. The OpenAPI specification and MCP server are Apache 2.0 | Proprietary service under TheFork Partners API Terms of Use (La Fourchette SAS) and any core agreement with TheFork |
| Tools exposed | 3 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-16 | none |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-10 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-15 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |