# Houzz

> Houzz is a home design and remodelling platform where homeowners browse photos and find, review and contact architects, designers and builders. Houzz Pro is its business software for those professionals.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/houzz
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/houzz.md (~4,350 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/houzz.min.md (~980 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/houzz.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 · 13.1/100 · rank #1058 of 1076 · #6 in Home services & local trades · not agent-ready · not for agents · confidence medium**


## Assessment

Houzz is a large design and remodelling platform for finding and reviewing professionals, with iOS releases every few weeks. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. houzz.com/api asks for a token with no public documentation, and the terms forbid robots, scraping and AI training on its content.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | Houzz Inc. (https://www.houzz.com) |
| Kind | Platform |
| Category | Home services & local trades (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/home-services) |
| Auth | OAuth or key · A Houzz account on houzz.com or in the apps. Houzz Pro is a separate app for professionals. houzz.com/api answers "Authentication Required. Please provide a valid token" in XML, and no public documentation for it was found. |
| Pricing | Freemium (Freemium) · The Houzz app is free on the App Store. No price for homeowners or for Houzz Pro was found in the pages read. Shop Houzz purchases after 5 August 2025 are run by Cart.com Holdings 2, LLC under licence (https://www.houzz.com/termsOfUse, checked 14 October 2026). |
| x402 | No · No x402, MPP or L402 found on houzz.com or in its terms, checked 14 October 2026. |
| Licence | Closed service under the Houzz Terms of Use (Houzz Inc.). |
| llms.txt | not found |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 |
| Surface listed | The Houzz website and app for homeowners, read from houzz.com, the about page, terms of use, privacy policy, robots.txt and the App Store on 14 October 2026. No account was created. |
| Outside agent access | None public. houzz.com/api requires a token, and no documentation or sign-up for it was found. |
| Apps | Houzz 26.10.2 (1 October 2026) and Houzz Pro 26.10.13 (13 October 2026) on the App Store, both from Houzz Inc. |
| Scale | More than 3 million professionals and over 70 million homeowners and enthusiasts, per Houzz |
| Capabilities | home.pros, home.reviews |
| Tags | hosted, official, closed-source, not-for-agents, ios, android |
| JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/houzz.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 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% | 16.2 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Security & auth | 14% | 17.5 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% | 12.5 | 10 | 1.2 |
| Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a |
| Maintenance & community | 7% | 8.8 | 54 | 4.7 |
| Transparency & trust (editorial 32, provenance 61) | 7% | 8.8 | 47 | 4.1 |
| Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 |
| **Total** | | | | **13.1 → F** |

### Why each score

- Reliability 15: Read with the hosted lines. No status page found, and status.houzz.com returns 404 (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 service and its apps are generally available, 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 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. Houzz has no public API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an agent, so the contract, description, typed-input, example and versioning lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). No llms.txt was found (www.houzz.com/llms.txt returns 404) (0). This is a statement about agent access, not about the service for people.
- Agent ergonomics 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. Houzz has none, so context cost, pagination, errors, retries and defaults have nothing to score (0 on each line). This says nothing about the service for people.
- Security & auth 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for Houzz, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). The security programme line doesn't need an interface and is scored. security.txt returns 404, and no disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification was found in the pages read (0 of 20).
- Payments & pricing 10: Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). No price published for homeowners or, in the pages read, for professionals (0). The app is free on the App Store, a free option we could not check beyond the download (10 of 20). A person signs up on the website or in the 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. Houzz 26.10.2 on 1 October 2026 (30). Three iOS releases in the last 90 days, 13 August, 4 September and 1 October (20). No changelog. A help centre with a contact form, which we did not test (4 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0).
- Transparency & trust 47: Closed service under terms naming Houzz Inc., with no date found (15). The privacy policy, also undated, describes AI and machine-learning personalisation and keeps data for as long as necessary, with no periods (12 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (2 of 20). Service providers by category only, with no names or regions (3 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/houzz.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/houzz.json)

### What we couldn't check

- What houzz.com/api serves and who can get a token
- Dates of the terms and privacy policy
- Houzz Pro prices

### Sources

- terms of use: <https://www.houzz.com/termsOfUse> (seen 2026-10-14)
- privacy policy: <https://www.houzz.com/privacyPolicy> (seen 2026-10-14)
- about page: <https://www.houzz.com/aboutUs> (seen 2026-10-14)
- token-gated endpoint: <https://www.houzz.com/api> (seen 2026-10-14)
- robots.txt: <https://www.houzz.com/robots.txt> (seen 2026-10-14)
- App Store, Houzz: <https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id399563465> (seen 2026-10-14)

## Who's behind it (provenance 61/100, checked 2026-10-14)

| Check | Finding | Points |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Legal entity named | Houzz Inc. | 20/20 |
| Domain age | houzz.com, registered 2006-10-29 (19 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 1 clause that costs points | 7.1/10 |
| 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 |

No date was found on the terms of use or the privacy policy.

www.houzz.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. status.houzz.com returns 404.

RDAP gives a registration date of 2006-10-29 for houzz.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.houzz.com/termsOfUse), read 2026-10-14, dated 2026-10-06, states 6 of the 7 things a reader expects.

- To know. Restricts automated access (costs points). "You are expressly prohibited from any use of data mining, robots, scraping, or similar data gathering and extraction tools in your use of the Houzz Platform."
- To know. Says access can be ended without notice or for any reason. "How Houzz can terminate your account: For all accounts, we may permanently or temporarily suspend your use of the Houzz Platform at any time for any reason, without any notice or liability to you."
- To know. Requires arbitration or waives class actions. "We have a specific process for dispute resolution, and these Terms include an arbitration agreement, a class action waiver, and a jury trial waiver that affect your rights, unless you choose to opt out, as described in Section 10."
- Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2026-10-06.
- Names the governing law or courts. The law of the State of California.
- States a limit on its liability. Capped at the fees paid in the 6 months before the claim or USD$100.
- 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). Houzz may use content users submit in any manner it deems appropriate, under a perpetual and irrevocable licence. "You further agree that we may use Your Content in any manner that we deem appropriate or necessary."
- Also in the text (2026-10-14). Users who identify themselves grant a perpetual, irrevocable permission to publish their name, voice and likeness worldwide without compensation. "If you identify yourself by name or provide a picture or audio or video recording of yourself, you further authorize us and our affiliates, licensees and sublicensees, without compensation to you or others, to reproduce, print, publish and disseminate"
- Also in the text (2026-10-14). Input to the AI tools, including personal data, may be shared with third-party providers to run the tools and to improve their services. "You acknowledge that–subject to applicable law–any Input you provide, including personal data you choose to include in that Input, may be shared with third party service providers Houzz engages with to enable functionality of these Automated Tools, as well as to improve their services."

**Privacy policy** (https://www.houzz.com/privacyPolicy), read 2026-10-14, dated 2026-10-06, states 8 of the 8 things a reader expects.

- To know. Says it sells personal data or shares it for advertising. "We share or sell information with third-party partners to display targeted advertising."
- Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2026-10-06.
- Says how long data is kept. For as long as needed, with no period named.
- Gives a privacy contact. conx-privacy@houzz.com.
- Says where data is transferred or stored. Relies on the Data Privacy Framework.

## 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

- Three iOS releases between 13 August and 1 October 2026
- Terms and privacy policy published in full on houzz.com
- Houzz Pro gives professionals separate business software

## Weaknesses

- No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call
- The terms forbid robots, scraping and training AI on platform content
- No status page, security.txt or dated terms found

## Before you call it (notes for agents)

1. Don't plan to call Houzz from another agent. Hand the search or contact to the person on houzz.com or in the Houzz app
2. Don't fetch /proMatch/ or review-writing paths. robots.txt disallows them for Claude agents

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Checkatrade | E | 43.9 | 946 | home.pros, home.reviews | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/checkatrade.md |
| Bark | F | 16.5 | 1048 | home.pros, home.reviews | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bark.md |
| Rated People | F | 15.9 | 1050 | home.pros, home.reviews | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rated-people.md |
| Angi (including HomeAdvisor, now Angi Leads) | F | 12.7 | 1061 | home.pros, home.reviews | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/angi.md |
| TrustATrader | F | 12.1 | 1063 | home.pros, home.reviews | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trustatrader.md |
| Airtasker | F | 36.8 | 1007 | home.pros | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/airtasker.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

- Houzz says it has more than 3 million building, remodelling and design professionals and over 70 million homeowners and enthusiasts (source: <https://www.houzz.com/aboutUs>)
- The terms forbid data mining, robots, scraping or similar tools, and use of platform content to train AI without permission (source: <https://www.houzz.com/termsOfUse>)
- Since 5 August 2025 Shop Houzz is operated by Cart.com Holdings 2, LLC under licence from Houzz (source: <https://www.houzz.com/termsOfUse>)
- houzz.com/api returns an XML error asking for a valid token, with no public documentation found (source: <https://www.houzz.com/api>)
- robots.txt has a section for ClaudeBot and Claude-User that disallows paths such as /proMatch/* and /writeReview2/* but not the pages read

- #6 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

- [Airtasker vs Houzz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/airtasker-vs-houzz.md): F 36.8 vs F 13.1
- [Angi (including HomeAdvisor, now Angi Leads) vs Houzz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/angi-vs-houzz.md): F 12.7 vs F 13.1
- [Bark vs Houzz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bark-vs-houzz.md): F 16.5 vs F 13.1
- [Checkatrade vs Houzz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/checkatrade-vs-houzz.md): E 43.9 vs F 13.1
- [Handy vs Houzz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/handy-vs-houzz.md): F 10 vs F 13.1
- [Houzz vs Rated People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/houzz-vs-rated-people.md): F 13.1 vs F 15.9
- [Houzz vs TrustATrader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/houzz-vs-trustatrader.md): F 13.1 vs F 12.1
- [Houzz vs Urban Company](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/houzz-vs-urban-company.md): F 13.1 vs F 11.8

## Verify this listing

For the vendor. The badge or a plain link to this page verifies the listing, from a page on houzz.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": "houzz", "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
<a href="https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/houzz"><img src="https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/houzz.svg" alt="Houzz on Anchor Terminal" height="20"></a>
```

Markdown badge, for a README:

```markdown
[![Houzz on Anchor Terminal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/houzz.svg)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/houzz)
```

Plain link:

```html
<a href="https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/houzz">Houzz on Anchor Terminal</a>
```

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- Light: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/share/houzz-light.png
- Create a video and download its frames: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/listing-video/index.html?listing=houzz