# Bark > Bark is a services marketplace where customers describe a job and local professionals, from cleaners and gardeners to tutors and accountants, buy the lead with credits and send quotes. It runs on the web and in apps. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark.md (~5,000 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark.min.md (~1,230 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - Updated: 2026-10-14 ## Overview **Grade F · 16.5/100 · rank #1048 of 1076 · #4 in Home services & local trades · not agent-ready · not for agents · confidence medium** ## Assessment Bark matches customers with local professionals across home, events, lessons and business services, free for customers, with professionals paying in credits to respond. There is no public API or MCP server that acts for a household. A Bark app on Zapier lets a professional's automations search requests, buy leads and send quotes. ## Facts | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | Bark.com Global Limited (https://www.bark.com) | | Kind | Platform | | Category | Home services & local trades (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/home-services) | | Auth | OAuth or key · Customers and professionals use Bark accounts on the website or apps. The Bark app on Zapier connects a professional's Bark account. The connection method is not described on the Zapier page we read. No API key, OAuth app or developer access was found (checked 2026-10-14). | | Pricing | Freemium (Freemium) · Free for customers, whose home page promises free quotes (https://www.bark.com/en/gb/). Professionals receive leads free and pay credits to contact a customer. The credit cost of a lead depends on the service, the job value and local demand, credits last 3 months, and no credit pack price is published on the pricing page (https://www.bark.com/en/gb/sellers/pricing/). | | x402 | No · No x402, MPP or L402 found on bark.com, its terms or the Bark app on Zapier (checked 2026-10-14). | | Licence | Closed service under Bark's terms and conditions (Bark.com Global Limited) | | Docs | https://zapier.com/apps/bark/integrations | | llms.txt | not found | | Last release | 2026-10-13 | | Surface listed | The Bark website and customer app, and the Bark app on Zapier, read from bark.com (home page, terms, privacy notice, pricing for professionals, app page), the Zapier app page and the App Store listing on 14 October 2026. No account was created. | | Outside agent access | None for a household. The Zapier app acts for a professional's account only. | | Zapier app | BarkCLIAPI 1.7.0. Triggers New Bark, New Purchased Bark, New Review. Actions Purchase Bark, Set Note on Bark, Set Quote on Bark, Skip Bark, Update Bark's Status. Searches Find a Bark, Find a Purchased Bark, Search Barks (by category, location and request age), Get Your Credit Balance | | How it works | A customer describes a job, matching professionals see it and pay credits to get the contact details and respond, and further messages are free (https://www.bark.com/en/gb/sellers/pricing/). | | Company | Bark.com Global Limited, company 10614196, 5th Floor, 167-169 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5PF. App Store provider eTender Inc. | | Coverage | Country sites include the UK, US, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, France, Germany and India, per bark.com's robots.txt paths | | Capabilities | home.jobs, home.quotes, home.pros, home.reviews | | Tags | not-for-agents, hosted, official, closed-source, freemium, ios, android, uk | | JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bark.json | ## Score breakdown (methodology v0.4, October 2026 research run) Assessed 2026-10-14 from public evidence against the published checklist (https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/#checklist). Confidence: medium. Performance and Task success pending (no score, not in the total); the total is Σ(score × weight) ÷ 80 over the 7 assessed categories. "This run" is each category's share of the 100 points. | Category | Weight | This run | Score (0–100) | Points | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% | 20 | 15 | 3.0 | | Performance | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Schema & documentation | 13% | 16.2 | 7 | 1.1 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% | 16.2 | 5 | 0.8 | | Security & auth | 14% | 17.5 | 0 | 0.0 | | Payments & pricing | 10% | 12.5 | 20 | 2.5 | | Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Maintenance & community | 7% | 8.8 | 54 | 4.7 | | Transparency & trust (editorial 38, provenance 59) | 7% | 8.8 | 49 | 4.3 | | Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 | | **Total** | | | | **16.5 → F** | ### Why each score - Reliability 15: Read with the hosted lines. No status page found, and status.bark.com does not resolve (0). No readable incident history (5). No limits published, and no interface for an outside agent (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA (0). The website and apps are in general use, not labelled beta (10). - Performance: Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes. - Schema & documentation 7: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, which for Bark is only the Zapier app acting for a professional. No contract is published (0 of 25). www.bark.com/llms.txt returns 404 (0). Each Zapier trigger, action and search has a one-line description, with no when-not-to-use guidance (5 of 20). Field types and constraints are not shown on the public page (0 of 15). No examples or error responses (0 of 15). Zapier shows BarkCLIAPI 1.7.0 with no changelog (2 of 15). - Agent ergonomics 5: Graded on the Zapier app. Context cost can't be judged without the field definitions (0 of 25). Search Barks filters by category, location and request age, with no documented limits or pagination (5 of 20). No errors documented (0). Purchase Bark spends credits, with no idempotency or retry guidance (0). No SDK (0). - Security & auth 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. The Zapier connection method isn't described on the page read (0 of 30). Purchase Bark spends a professional's credits, with no documented confirmation (0 of 20). Lead text is written by customers, with no injection guidance (0 of 15). No audit log found (0 of 15). www.bark.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification was found (0 of 20). - Payments & pricing 20: Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Credits are priced per lead by service, job value and demand, with no credit pack price published (0). Free for customers, and professionals see leads free (20). A person signs up on the website or in an app (0). - Task success: Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored. - Maintenance & community 54: Read for a closed service. Customer app 1.78.1 on 13 October 2026 (30). Twelve versions from 30 June to 13 October (20). A help centre with a support contact article, no changelog (4 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0). - Transparency & trust 49: Closed service under customer terms last updated 5 September 2025, naming Bark.com Global Limited with company number, office and VAT number (15). The privacy notice of 9 February 2026 names the controller, says data is kept no longer than necessary and then deleted or deidentified, describes transfers outside the EEA and processor categories, without retention periods (18 of 30). Changes are notified by updating the date, with no deprecation policy (0). Processors by category, with two add-on partners named (Synup Inc, Cyberstaff Limited) (5 of 20). Fix list for a coding agent, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (14 items): https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/bark.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/bark.json) ### What we couldn't check - Credit pack prices and the credit cost of a typical lead. - Who built and maintains the Bark app on Zapier, and how it authenticates. - Whether Bark's privacy notice reference to users who reach Bark through APIs means a partner API exists. ### Sources - Bark app on Zapier, triggers, actions and searches: (seen 2026-10-14) - customer terms, 5 September 2025: (seen 2026-10-14) - privacy notice, 9 February 2026: (seen 2026-10-14) - pricing for professionals: (seen 2026-10-14) - App Store listing and version history: (seen 2026-10-14) - robots.txt: (seen 2026-10-14) - security.txt, 404: (seen 2026-10-14) ## Who's behind it (provenance 59/100, checked 2026-10-14) | Check | Finding | Points | | --- | --- | --- | | Legal entity named | Bark.com Global Limited | 20/20 | | Domain age | bark.com, registered 1999-12-02 (26 years) | 15/15 | | Endpoint on the vendor's domain | no hosted endpoint | n/a | | Terms of service | read, states 6 of the 7 things a reader expects, and has 2 clauses that cost points | 5.1/10 | | Privacy policy | read, states 8 of the 8 things a reader expects | 10/10 | | Status page | not found | 0/10 | | Changelog | not found | 0/10 | | security.txt | not found | 0/10 | The customer terms (last updated 5 September 2025) name Bark.com Global Limited, company 10614196, VAT GB428734965. The privacy notice was last updated 9 February 2026. www.bark.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and status.bark.com does not resolve. The Zapier app page doesn't say who built the integration. RDAP gives a registration date of 1999-12-02 for bark.com. ### Terms and privacy, as read A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. Not legal advice. **Terms of service** (https://www.bark.com/en/gb/terms/), read 2026-10-14, dated 2025-09-05, states 6 of the 7 things a reader expects. - To know. Restricts benchmarking or competitive use (costs points). "access all or any part of the Website in order to build a product or service which competes with the Facilitation Services;" - To know. Says the terms or the service can change without notice (costs points). "We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last updated” date of these Terms of Use, and you waive any right to receive specific notice of each such change." - To know. Requires arbitration or waives class actions. "…you opt out pursuant to the instructions in the arbitration provision, the exclusive use of final and binding arbitration on an individual basis to resolve disputes between you and us, including any claims that arose or were asserted before you agreed to this Agreement." - Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2025-09-05. - Names the governing law or courts. The law of the State of New York. - States a limit on its liability. Rules out indirect and consequential losses, with no cap named in this sentence. - Says how changes to the terms are announced. Says it gives notice of a change. - Not found in the text. Refers to a service level or uptime commitment. - Also in the text (2026-10-14). Customers may use the facilitation service only for domestic and private use, and agree not to use it for commercial or business purposes. "Please note that we only provide Facilitation Services to consumers for domestic and private use. You agree not to use the Facilitation Service for any commercial or business purposes" - Also in the text (2026-10-14). A professional who breaches the seller code of conduct may be charged up to five times the price of the lead, taken automatically from the registered payment method. "In the event that you breach the seller code of conduct, we reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to charge you an additional fee up to five (5) times the price of the lead you have responded to." - Also in the text (2026-10-14). Professionals grant Bark a perpetual licence over uploaded content and agree that Bark may show their profile in its marketing. "You agree that we may publish or display your profile on any marketing that we produce in order to promote the Website." **Privacy policy** (https://www.bark.com/en/gb/privacy/), read 2026-10-14, dated 2026-02-09, states 8 of the 8 things a reader expects. - To know. Says it sells personal data or shares it for advertising. "We may share a common account identifier (such as a hashed email address or user ID) with our third-party advertising partners to help link the personal data we and our third-party partners collect to the same person, or otherwise target advertising to an individual on a third-party website or platform." - Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2026-02-09. - Gives a privacy contact. privacy@bark.com. ## Probe metrics Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. Live uptime, where we poll the endpoint, is under Live and doesn't change the score. ## Strengths - Free for customers, and professionals see leads free before paying to respond - Customer app released 12 times between 30 June and 13 October 2026 - Terms and privacy notice are dated and name Bark.com Global Limited with its company number - A Zapier app lets a professional automate searching, buying and quoting on leads ## Weaknesses - No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call for a household - No credit pack prices published, and a lead's credit cost depends on job value and demand - The Zapier app's Purchase Bark action spends credits, with no documented confirmation step - No status page, security.txt or developer documentation found ## Before you call it (notes for agents) 1. Don't plan to call Bark for a household. Hand the request to the person on bark.com or the app 2. For a professional's own leads, use the Bark app on Zapier, and ask before any Purchase Bark step, which spends credits 3. Tell a professional that credits expire 3 months after purchase ## Similar tools Ranked by shared capabilities, then score. Same-category tools with no shared capability key are listed last. | Tool | Grade | Score | Rank | Shared capabilities | x402 | Markdown | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rated People | F | 15.9 | 1050 | home.jobs, home.quotes, home.pros, home.reviews | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rated-people.md | | Checkatrade | E | 43.9 | 946 | home.jobs, home.pros, home.reviews | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/checkatrade.md | | Airtasker | F | 36.8 | 1007 | home.jobs, home.quotes, home.pros | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtasker.md | | Angi (including HomeAdvisor, now Angi Leads) | F | 12.7 | 1061 | home.jobs, home.pros, home.reviews | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/angi.md | | Taskrabbit Partner API | E | 44.3 | 942 | home.quotes, home.jobs | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/taskrabbit.md | | Houzz | F | 13.1 | 1058 | home.pros, home.reviews | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/houzz.md | ## Panel reviews (0) Reviewed by the Anchor panel (https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviewers/index.md): . Desk reviews, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. For a desk review, the outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material: success, partial or failure. How reviews work: https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviews/how-it-works.md ## Notable - The Bark app on Zapier (BarkCLIAPI 1.7.0) has triggers for a new Bark, a purchased Bark and a new review, and actions to search Barks, purchase a Bark, set a quote, set a note, skip a Bark, update status and read the credit balance (source: ) - Every Zapier action works for a professional's account. None posts a request or reads quotes for a customer - Terms for customers last updated 5 September 2025, with Bark.com Global Limited, company 10614196 (source: ) - The privacy notice of 9 February 2026 covers users who reach Bark through APIs and third parties (source: ) - Customer app 1.78.1 on the App Store on 13 October 2026, provider eTender Inc, rated 4.7 from 754 ratings (source: ) - #4 of 10 in Best home service and local trades marketplaces for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/home-services/index.md - All 43 home services comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/home-services/index.md ## Compare - [Bark vs Handy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-handy.md): F 16.5 vs F 10 - [Bark vs Houzz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-houzz.md): F 16.5 vs F 13.1 - [Bark vs TrustATrader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-trustatrader.md): F 16.5 vs F 12.1 - [Bark vs Urban Company](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-urban-company.md): F 16.5 vs F 11.8 - [Airtasker vs Bark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtasker-vs-bark.md): F 36.8 vs F 16.5 - [Angi (including HomeAdvisor, now Angi Leads) vs Bark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/angi-vs-bark.md): F 12.7 vs F 16.5 - [Bark vs Checkatrade](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-checkatrade.md): F 16.5 vs E 43.9 - [Bark vs Rated People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-rated-people.md): F 16.5 vs F 15.9 - [Bark vs Taskrabbit Partner API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-taskrabbit.md): F 16.5 vs E 44.3 ## Verify this listing For the vendor. The badge or a plain link to this page verifies the listing, from a page on bark.com or one of its subdomains. It shows the listing is the vendor's and that the vendor knows it's here, and it never changes a grade, rank or review. The vendor sends the page's address to `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` as `{"slug": "bark", "url": "…"}`, or calls the `verify_listing` tool at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp. We fetch the page once, then again every week; two failed checks in a row and the verification lapses, and a later pass restores it. What we check: https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/index.md#verify HTML badge: ```html Bark on Anchor Terminal ``` Markdown badge, for a README: ```markdown [![Bark on Anchor Terminal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/bark.svg)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark) ``` Plain link: ```html Bark on Anchor Terminal ``` ## Share this listing For the vendor. Sharing assets for social media, two PNGs of 1200 × 630 that say Bark is listed on Anchor Terminal, with the vendor's logo and this page's address and no grade or score. - Dark: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/share/bark-dark.png - Light: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/share/bark-light.png - Create a video and download its frames: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/listing-video/index.html?listing=bark