# Square vs Vendure (slim)

> Vendure scores 70.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Square's 69.2 (B), and leads in 4 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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Vendure scores 70.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Square's 69.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Square leads on agent ergonomics. Both do commerce products.

- Square: B 69.2, rank #166 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/square.min.md
- Vendure: BB 70.9, rank #123 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vendure.min.md
- 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 68. Also Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Vendure loses 3 points for them.
- Vendure, good for TypeScript teams that want a typed GraphQL commerce server and will host it. Ahead on Reliability, 89 against 58; Payments & pricing, 45 against 40. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Open source.

| Category | Square | Vendure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 58 | 89 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 91 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 83 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 45 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 81 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 70 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Square | Vendure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Block, Inc. | Vendure (Elevantiq GmbH) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.squareup.com/mcp` | `https://readonlydemo.vendure.io/shop-api` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | 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 | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Tools exposed | 3 | none |
| Last release | 2026-09-16 | 2026-09-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-10 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-15 | no date given |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 454k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk | 8.5k stars, 30k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |