{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "thefork", "name": "TheFork B2B API", "vendor": "TheFork (La Fourchette SAS)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.thefork.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "local-bookings", "summary": "TheFork's B2B API lets restaurants and their software partners, such as CRM vendors and AI phone agents, read availability and create, change and cancel reservations in TheFork Manager, with webhooks, reviews and customer data.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thefork", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thefork.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thefork.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/thefork.json", "license": "Proprietary service under TheFork Partners API Terms of Use (La Fourchette SAS) and any core agreement with TheFork", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.thefork.io/manager", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "Partner approval required. Credentials are requested from the integrations team at integrations@thefork.com with a company name and use case. TheFork sends a client_id and client_secret through a secure channel, and the client exchanges them at https://auth.thefork.io/oauth/token (OAuth 2.0 client credentials, audience https://api.thefork.io) for a Bearer token that lasts 8,600 seconds. Nine scopes limit each client, from full access (tfm-restaurant) to read-only availability. restaurantUuid and groupUuid values for each restaurant come from TheFork, as no endpoint lists them.", "pricing": "byo-plan", "pricingNotes": "No API prices are published. Access follows a partnership with TheFork, and the rate limit is set by contract. The API terms mention test data for pre-launch testing. No sandbox host or self-serve tier is documented (https://docs.thefork.io/getting-started).", "priceSummary": "Your plan", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer portal, llms.txt or OpenAPI schema (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.thefork.io/B2B-API/introduction", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.thefork.io/B2B-API/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.thefork.io/manager/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "booking.reservations", "booking.availability", "booking.venue", "crm.records", "events.webhooks-send" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "partner-only", "rest", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "eu", "restaurants" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 43.6, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 951, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 5, "reliability": 35, "schema": 87, "security": 42, "transparency": 47 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A venue-side API with a generated OpenAPI 3.1 schema, an llms.txt written for agents and nine OAuth scopes down to read-only availability. It acts for restaurants and their vendors, not diners, needs partner approval, cannot take card guarantees, and has no public status page, changelog or published prices.", "bestFor": "CRM, PMS and AI phone-agent vendors and restaurant groups that run on TheFork Manager, mainly in Europe.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1 schema generated from the deployed code, with 19 operations, enums, examples and error responses", "llms.txt for the B2B API covers scopes per endpoint, time zones, reservation statuses and error formats", "Nine OAuth scopes, including read-only availability and a separate scope for unrestricted bookings that is off by default", "Business error codes such as NO_AVAILABILITY, DOUBLE_BOOKING and RESERVATION_NOT_FOUND", "Written versioning policy with 6 months of support for the previous version" ], "weaknesses": [ "Venue-side only. Credentials cover the restaurants that granted access, and no endpoint lists restaurants", "Credentials come from the integrations team by email after approval, with no self-serve route", "Timeslots that need a payment guarantee cannot be booked through the API", "The status page at status.thefork.io redirects to a private Rootly page that needs a sign-in", "No changelog, idempotency key or published production rate limit" ], "agentNotes": [ "Read hasPaymentGuaranteeRequirement in the timeslots response before booking, since the API cannot take a card", "Check the status field after creating a reservation and treat REQUESTED as unconfirmed", "Send the timeslot datetime unchanged as mealDate, because times are the restaurant's local time", "Check for an existing reservation before retrying a failed POST, as no idempotency key exists and 409 signals DOUBLE_BOOKING", "Cache the access token for its 8,600 seconds and do not request a new one while it is valid" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 43.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 5, "reliability": 35, "schema": 87, "security": 42, "transparency": 33 }, "provenanceScore": 60 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://auth.thefork.io/oauth/token -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' -d 'audience=https://api.thefork.io\u0026grant_type=client_credentials\u0026client_id=CLIENT_ID\u0026client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/booking.reservations", "tool": "https://letme.dev/thefork" }, "area": "everyday", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "La Fourchette SAS", "domain": "thefork.io", "domainRegistered": "2016-05-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://docs.thefork.io/pdf/LaFourchette-Partners-API-Licence-2.pdf", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The developer portal footer links the TheFork Partners API Terms of Use, a PDF naming La Fourchette SAS, 70 rue Saint Lazare, Paris, company number 494 447 949, where no core agreement exists.", "www.thefork.com answered with a bot check (403), so its privacy policy and terms were not read and no privacy URL is recorded.", "status.thefork.io redirects to a private Rootly status page that needs a sign-in, so no public status page is recorded.", "www.thefork.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404 and docs.thefork.io/.well-known/security.txt returns 403.", "No changelog was found. docs.thefork.io/changelog returns 403.", "RDAP gives thefork.io a registration date of 2016-05-30 and thefork.com 1998-11-04." ], "score": 60 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thefork.json", "live": { "slug": "thefork", "probe": { "target": "https://api.thefork.io/manager", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T09:42:10.255461561Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 57, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 56, "p95ms24h": 119, "samples24h": 17, "samples30d": 17, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 17, "ok": 17 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T09:42:10.255461561Z" } }, "answer": "TheFork B2B API scores 43.6 (E) on agent readiness against Tock's 12.4 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Tock leads on maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "tock", "name": "Tock", "vendor": "Tock (American Express)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.exploretock.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "local-bookings", "summary": "Tock is a reservation and experience booking platform for restaurants, wineries and other venues, owned by American Express and now part of the Resy network. Venues run it through the Tock Dashboard, and diners book on exploretock.com and Resy.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tock", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tock.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tock.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tock.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the Tock Terms of Use (effective 12 February 2026) and merchant terms", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "No public agent access. api.exploretock.com publishes data models for reservation exports, but its docs index reads \"Docs coming soon\" and no endpoints, base URL or key request process are published there.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No prices were read. The Tock home page answered 403 to our reader, and no pricing page was reached. Venue terms are in the Tock Merchant Terms of Service (https://www.exploretock.com/merchant-terms).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on api.exploretock.com or the Tock terms (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://api.exploretock.com/docs/latest/reservation.html", "capabilities": [ "booking.reservations", "booking.venue" ], "tags": [ "not-for-agents", "sales-led", "hosted", "closed-source", "partner-only", "restaurants" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 12.4, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1062, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 23, "payments": 0, "reliability": 25, "schema": 5, "security": 0, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Tock takes reservations and experience bookings for restaurants and wineries and now feeds its venues into Resy. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. api.exploretock.com publishes reservation data models without endpoints, and the Terms of Use forbid automated access to the site.", "bestFor": "Restaurants and wineries taking reservations and experience bookings, and for diners booking in person.", "strengths": [ "Reservation data model published with a Swagger 2.0 file of 33 definitions", "Terms of Use (February 2026) and privacy policy (November 2025) are dated and name Tock LLC", "Venues also reach diners through the Resy app since 11 August 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call. The docs index reads \"Docs coming soon\"", "The Terms of Use forbid robots, scripts and automated systems on the site", "No prices could be read, and the home page answered 403 to our reader", "No security.txt or disclosure policy found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to call Tock from another agent. Hand the booking to the person on exploretock.com or in the Resy app", "Do not script the Tock website, which the Terms of Use forbid. A venue wanting data should ask Tock through its dashboard account" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 12.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 23, "payments": 0, "reliability": 25, "schema": 5, "security": 0, "transparency": 33 }, "provenanceScore": 71 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/booking.reservations", "tool": "https://letme.dev/tock" }, "area": "everyday", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Tock LLC", "domain": "exploretock.com", "domainRegistered": "2017-03-22", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.exploretock.com/terms", "privacy": "https://www.exploretock.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.exploretock.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The Terms of Use (effective 12 February 2026) and privacy policy (effective 24 November 2025) name Tock LLC and say Tock is owned by American Express.", "www.exploretock.com/robots.txt and the home page answered 403. The terms, privacy and merchant terms pages answered 200.", "www.exploretock.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "status.exploretock.com loads by script and showed no components or history to our reader.", "RDAP gives exploretock.com a registration date of 2017-03-22." ], "score": 71 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tock.json", "live": { "slug": "tock", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.exploretock.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T08:54:01.394581552Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T08:54:01.394581552Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "TheFork (La Fourchette SAS)", "b": "Tock (American Express)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.thefork.io/manager", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Your plan", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under TheFork Partners API Terms of Use (La Fourchette SAS) and any core agreement with TheFork", "b": "Proprietary service under the Tock Terms of Use (effective 12 February 2026) and merchant terms", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "", "b": "2026-02-12", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2025-11-24", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "TheFork B2B API scores 43.6 (E) on agent readiness against Tock's 12.4 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Tock leads on maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, TheFork B2B API or Tock?" }, { "answer": "TheFork B2B API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.thefork.io/manager. No hosted endpoint is listed for Tock.", "question": "Can an agent call TheFork B2B API and Tock without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 35 against 25", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 5", "Agent ergonomics, 56 against 0", "Security \u0026 auth, 42 against 0", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 5 against 0" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "CRM, PMS and AI phone-agent vendors and restaurant groups that run on TheFork Manager, mainly in Europe.", "slug": "thefork", "watchFor": "Venue-side only. Credentials cover the restaurants that granted access, and no endpoint lists restaurants" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Maintenance \u0026 community, 23 against 15", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 52 against 47" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Restaurants and wineries taking reservations and experience bookings, and for diners booking in person.", "slug": "tock", "watchFor": "No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call. The docs index reads \"Docs coming soon\"" } ], "job": { "capability": "booking.reservations", "name": "Restaurant reservations" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-thefork.json", "title": "Chope vs TheFork B2B API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-thefork" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-tock.json", "title": "Chope vs Tock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-tock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eat-app-vs-thefork.json", "title": "Eat App Partner API vs TheFork B2B API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eat-app-vs-thefork" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eat-app-vs-tock.json", "title": "Eat App Partner API vs Tock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eat-app-vs-tock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-tock.json", "title": "OpenTable APIs vs Tock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-tock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/resy-vs-thefork.json", "title": "Resy vs TheFork B2B API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/resy-vs-thefork" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/resy-vs-tock.json", "title": "Resy vs Tock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/resy-vs-tock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tablecheck-vs-tock.json", "title": "TableCheck API vs Tock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tablecheck-vs-tock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-thefork.json", "title": "OpenTable APIs vs TheFork B2B API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-thefork" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/square-appointments-vs-thefork.json", "title": "Square Appointments (Bookings API) vs TheFork B2B API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/square-appointments-vs-thefork" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tablecheck-vs-thefork.json", "title": "TableCheck API vs TheFork B2B API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tablecheck-vs-thefork" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sevenrooms-vs-thefork.json", "title": "SevenRooms vs TheFork B2B API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sevenrooms-vs-thefork" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sevenrooms-vs-tock.json", "title": "SevenRooms vs Tock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sevenrooms-vs-tock" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/square-appointments-vs-tock.json", "title": "Square Appointments (Bookings API) vs Tock", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/square-appointments-vs-tock" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 10, "edge": "thefork", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "thefork": 35, "tock": 25, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 82, "edge": "thefork", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "thefork": 87, "tock": 5, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 56, "edge": "thefork", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "thefork": 56, "tock": 0, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 42, "edge": "thefork", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "thefork": 42, "tock": 0, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "thefork", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "thefork": 5, "tock": 0, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "tock", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "thefork": 15, "tock": 23, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "tock", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "thefork": 47, "tock": 52, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "TheFork B2B API scores 43.6 (E) on agent readiness against Tock's 12.4 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Tock leads on maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do restaurant reservations.", "verdicts": { "thefork": "A venue-side API with a generated OpenAPI 3.1 schema, an llms.txt written for agents and nine OAuth scopes down to read-only availability. It acts for restaurants and their vendors, not diners, needs partner approval, cannot take card guarantees, and has no public status page, changelog or published prices.", "tock": "Tock takes reservations and experience bookings for restaurants and wineries and now feeds its venues into Resy. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. api.exploretock.com publishes reservation data models without endpoints, and the Terms of Use forbid automated access to the site." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thefork-vs-tock", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thefork-vs-tock.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thefork-vs-tock.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thefork-vs-tock.min.md" }, "markdown": "TheFork B2B API scores 43.6 (E) on agent readiness against Tock's 12.4 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Tock leads on maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do restaurant reservations.\n\n- TheFork B2B API: grade E, 43.6/100, rank #951 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thefork.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/thefork.json\n- Tock: grade F, 12.4/100, rank #1062 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tock.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tock.json\n- Best restaurant reservation and local appointment APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/local-bookings/index.md\n- All 36 bookings comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/local-bookings/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### TheFork B2B API (E)\n\nGood for: CRM, PMS and AI phone-agent vendors and restaurant groups that run on TheFork Manager, mainly in Europe.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 35 against 25\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 5\n- Agent ergonomics, 56 against 0\n- Security \u0026 auth, 42 against 0\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 5 against 0\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Venue-side only. Credentials cover the restaurants that granted access, and no endpoint lists restaurants\n\n### Tock (F)\n\nGood for: Restaurants and wineries taking reservations and experience bookings, and for diners booking in person.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 23 against 15\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 52 against 47\n\nWatch for: No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call. The docs index reads \"Docs coming soon\"\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | TheFork B2B API | Tock | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 25 | TheFork B2B API +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 5 | TheFork B2B API +82 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 0 | TheFork B2B API +56 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 42 | 0 | TheFork B2B API +42 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 5 | 0 | TheFork B2B API +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 15 | 23 | Tock +8 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 47 | 52 | Tock +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **43.6 · E** | **12.4 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | TheFork B2B API | Tock |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Platform |\n| Vendor | TheFork (La Fourchette SAS) | Tock (American Express) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.thefork.io/manager` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | |\n| Auth | OAuth | API key |\n| Pricing | Your plan | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under TheFork Partners API Terms of Use (La Fourchette SAS) and any core agreement with TheFork | Proprietary service under the Tock Terms of Use (effective 12 February 2026) and merchant terms |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Terms last updated | | 2026-02-12 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2025-11-24 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**TheFork B2B API.** A venue-side API with a generated OpenAPI 3.1 schema, an llms.txt written for agents and nine OAuth scopes down to read-only availability. It acts for restaurants and their vendors, not diners, needs partner approval, cannot take card guarantees, and has no public status page, changelog or published prices.\n\n**Tock.** Tock takes reservations and experience bookings for restaurants and wineries and now feeds its venues into Resy. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. api.exploretock.com publishes reservation data models without endpoints, and the Terms of Use forbid automated access to the site.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### TheFork B2B API\n\n1. Read hasPaymentGuaranteeRequirement in the timeslots response before booking, since the API cannot take a card\n2. Check the status field after creating a reservation and treat REQUESTED as unconfirmed\n3. Send the timeslot datetime unchanged as mealDate, because times are the restaurant's local time\n4. Check for an existing reservation before retrying a failed POST, as no idempotency key exists and 409 signals DOUBLE_BOOKING\n5. Cache the access token for its 8,600 seconds and do not request a new one while it is valid\n\n### Tock\n\n1. Don't plan to call Tock from another agent. Hand the booking to the person on exploretock.com or in the Resy app\n2. Do not script the Tock website, which the Terms of Use forbid. A venue wanting data should ask Tock through its dashboard account\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, TheFork B2B API or Tock?\n\nTheFork B2B API scores 43.6 (E) on agent readiness against Tock's 12.4 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Tock leads on maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Can an agent call TheFork B2B API and Tock without installing anything?\n\nTheFork B2B API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.thefork.io/manager. No hosted endpoint is listed for Tock.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thefork-vs-tock.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thefork-vs-tock.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"thefork\", \"b\": \"tock\"}`. 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