# Tock > 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. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tock - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tock.md (~4,700 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tock.min.md (~1,030 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tock.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 · 12.4/100 · rank #1062 of 1076 · #8 in Restaurant & local bookings · not agent-ready · not for agents · confidence low** ## Assessment 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. ## Facts | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | Tock (American Express) (https://www.exploretock.com) | | Kind | Platform | | Category | Restaurant & local bookings (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/local-bookings) | | Auth | API key · 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 (Paid) · 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). | | x402 | No · No x402, MPP or L402 on api.exploretock.com or the Tock terms (checked 2026-10-14). | | Licence | Proprietary service under the Tock Terms of Use (effective 12 February 2026) and merchant terms | | Docs | https://api.exploretock.com/docs/latest/reservation.html | | llms.txt | not found | | Surface listed | Tock, read from api.exploretock.com (data models and robots.txt), the Tock Terms of Use, privacy policy and merchant terms, and the Resy announcement on 14 October 2026. The exploretock.com home page answered 403 and was not read | | Diner or venue | Both, for people. Diners book on exploretock.com and Resy. Venues use the Tock Dashboard | | Outside agent access | None in public. Only data models are published, with no endpoints | | Related listing | Resy. Tock is now part of the Resy network (see the resy listing) | | Company | Tock LLC, owned by American Express (https://www.exploretock.com/privacy) | | Capabilities | booking.reservations, booking.venue | | Tags | not-for-agents, sales-led, hosted, closed-source, partner-only, restaurants | | JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tock.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: low. 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 | 25 | 5.0 | | Performance | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Schema & documentation | 13% | 16.2 | 5 | 0.8 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% | 16.2 | 0 | 0.0 | | Security & auth | 14% | 17.5 | 0 | 0.0 | | Payments & pricing | 10% | 12.5 | 0 | 0.0 | | Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Maintenance & community | 7% | 8.8 | 23 | 2.0 | | Transparency & trust (editorial 33, provenance 71) | 7% | 8.8 | 52 | 4.5 | | Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 | | **Total** | | | | **12.4 → F** | ### Why each score - Reliability 25: Read with the hosted lines. status.exploretock.com exists but loads by script and showed no components to our reader (10 of 20). No readable history (5). No published limits or retry guidance for an outside agent (0, 0). No SLA (0). The service is not labelled beta (10). Total 25. - 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 5: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. api.exploretock.com publishes data models with a Swagger 2.0 file of 33 definitions and no paths, and its docs index says docs are coming soon. A data model without endpoints earns a little of the contract line (5 of 25). No llms.txt, endpoint descriptions, examples or changelog (0 on the other lines). Total 5. - Agent ergonomics 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. No endpoints are published, so every line scores nothing (0). This says nothing about the service for people. - Security & auth 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none in public, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). www.exploretock.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification was found on the pages we could read (0 of 20). Total 0. - Payments & pricing 0: Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). The home page answered 403 and no price was read (0). No free tier confirmed (0). Venues sign up through sales (0). Total 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 23: Read for a closed service. Tock's venues joined the Resy app on 11 August 2026, a dated change within 90 days (20). Fewer than three dated changes found (0). The data model lists eng@tockhq.com as a contact, untested (3 of 15). No SDK (0). No package to judge (0). Total 23. - Transparency & trust 52: Closed service under dated Terms of Use, effective 12 February 2026, naming Tock LLC (15). The privacy policy, effective 24 November 2025, describes collection, sharing with service providers and deletion rights, without retention periods (15 of 30). No deprecation policy found (0). Service providers are described by category only (3 of 20). Total 33. Fix list for a coding agent, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (15 items): https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/tock.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/tock.json) ### What we couldn't check - unchecked: www.exploretock.com home page and robots.txt, which answered 403, and any pricing page - unchecked: status.exploretock.com history, which loads by script - Whether Tock's data export or webhook endpoints exist for venues and how keys are issued. Third-party pages describe them, but no first-hand page does - How long Tock will run as a separate product now that its venues are on Resy ### Sources - API docs index: (seen 2026-10-14) - reservation data model: (seen 2026-10-14) - reservation Swagger file: (seen 2026-10-14) - Terms of Use: (seen 2026-10-14) - privacy policy: (seen 2026-10-14) - merchant terms: (seen 2026-10-14) - Resy and Tock announcement: (seen 2026-10-14) ## Who's behind it (provenance 71/100, checked 2026-10-14) | Check | Finding | Points | | --- | --- | --- | | Legal entity named | Tock LLC | 20/20 | | Domain age | exploretock.com, registered 2017-03-22 (9 years) | 11/15 | | Endpoint on the vendor's domain | exploretock.com | 15/15 | | 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 | status.exploretock.com | 10/10 | | Changelog | not found | 0/10 | | security.txt | not found | 0/10 | 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. ### 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.exploretock.com/terms), read 2026-10-14, dated 2026-02-12, states 6 of the 7 things a reader expects. - To know. Restricts automated access (costs points). "Robots, spiders, scripts, scrapers, crawlers, and all similar technologies are strictly prohibited." - To know. Says the terms or the service can change without notice (costs points). "We reserve the right to change, suspend or discontinue, or terminate, restrict or disable your use of or access to, parts or all of the Services or their functionality at any time at our sole discretion and without notice." - To know. Says access can be ended without notice or for any reason. "We reserve the right to change, suspend or discontinue, or terminate, restrict or disable your use of or access to, parts or all of the Services or their functionality at any time at our sole discretion and without notice." - To know. Requires arbitration or waives class actions. "THEY INCLUDE IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, AND COVER AREAS SUCH AS WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS, LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY, THE RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES BY ARBITRATION AND A CLASS ACTION WAIVER." - Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2026-02-12. - Names the governing law or courts. The law of the State of New York. - States a limit on its liability. Capped at the greater of $20 and the fees paid in the 3 months before the claim. - Says how changes to the terms are announced. Changes are posted, with no other notice named. - Not found in the text. Refers to a service level or uptime commitment. - Also in the text (2026-10-14). Tock's total liability is capped at the greater of 20 US dollars or the amounts paid to Tock in the three months before the claim. "in no event shall the aggregate liability of Tock for all claims arising out of or related to the Services and this Agreement exceed the greater of twenty dollars ($20) or the amounts paid by you to Tock" - Also in the text (2026-10-14). Anyone the user authorises to use the service on their behalf is covered, and that person's actions count as the user's own. "all actions taken by such person on your behalf are deemed to be actions taken by you" - Also in the text (2026-10-14). Users grant Tock a perpetual, irrevocable and sublicensable licence over reviews, photos and other content they submit, usable in any media. "you grant Tock a nonexclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable (through multiple tiers, including to restaurants, partners and other third party websites and feeds) right to use" **Privacy policy** (https://www.exploretock.com/privacy), read 2026-10-14, dated 2025-11-24, states 8 of the 8 things a reader expects. - To know. Says it sells personal data or shares it for advertising. "We share personal information with third parties so they and we can provide you with tailored advertising and measure and monitor its effectiveness." - Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2025-11-24. - Says how long data is kept. For as long as needed, with no period named. - Gives a privacy contact. privacy@tockhq.com. - Says where data is transferred or stored. Relies on standard contractual clauses. ## Live (updated 2026-10-14 08:54 UTC) - Vendor status page: unknown, no machine-readable status found - Always current: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/live/tock.json ## 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 - 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 ## Before you call it (notes for agents) 1. Don't plan to call Tock from another agent. Hand the booking to the person on exploretock.com or in the Resy app 2. Do not script the Tock website, which the Terms of Use forbid. A venue wanting data should ask Tock through its dashboard account ## 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TableCheck API | C | 57.1 | 661 | booking.reservations, booking.venue | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tablecheck.md | | Eat App Partner API | D | 53.4 | 752 | booking.reservations, booking.venue | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/eat-app.md | | TheFork B2B API | E | 43.6 | 951 | booking.reservations, booking.venue | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thefork.md | | OpenTable APIs | E | 38.6 | 994 | booking.reservations, booking.venue | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/opentable.md | | SevenRooms | F | 17.7 | 1043 | booking.venue, booking.reservations | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sevenrooms.md | | Resy | F | 10.3 | 1068 | booking.reservations, booking.venue | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/resy.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 Reservation Data Model page links a Swagger 2.0 file, version 2.7, with 33 definitions and no paths, so it describes data rather than callable endpoints (source: ) - https://api.exploretock.com/docs answers "Nothing here. Docs coming soon." (source: ) - The Terms of Use forbid robots, scripts and any automated system on the site, except software Tock licenses (source: ) - The Terms let a person authorise a concierge to book on their behalf under separate Concierge Terms (source: ) - Tock's venues joined the Resy app on 11 August 2026 (source: ) - #8 of 9 in Best restaurant reservation and local appointment APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/local-bookings/index.md - All 36 bookings comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/local-bookings/index.md ## Compare - [Chope vs Tock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chope-vs-tock.md): F 13.3 vs F 12.4 - [Eat App Partner API vs Tock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eat-app-vs-tock.md): D 53.4 vs F 12.4 - [OpenTable APIs vs Tock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opentable-vs-tock.md): E 38.6 vs F 12.4 - [Resy vs Tock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/resy-vs-tock.md): F 10.3 vs F 12.4 - [TableCheck API vs Tock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tablecheck-vs-tock.md): C 57.1 vs F 12.4 - [TheFork B2B API vs Tock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thefork-vs-tock.md): E 43.6 vs F 12.4 - [SevenRooms vs Tock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sevenrooms-vs-tock.md): F 17.7 vs F 12.4 - [Square Appointments (Bookings API) vs Tock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/square-appointments-vs-tock.md): B 68.1 vs F 12.4 ## Verify this listing For the vendor. The badge or a plain link to this page verifies the listing, from a page on exploretock.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": "tock", "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 Tock on Anchor Terminal ``` Markdown badge, for a README: ```markdown [![Tock on Anchor Terminal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/tock.svg)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tock) ``` Plain link: ```html Tock on Anchor Terminal ``` ## Share this listing For the vendor. 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