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          "http"
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            "name": "@tavily/core"
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            "registry": "pypi",
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            "registry": "npm",
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        "pricingNotes": "Free 1,000 credits a month, no card. Project $30 a month (4,000 credits), Bootstrap $100 (15,000), Startup $220 (38,000), Growth $500 (100,000), pay as you go $0.008 a credit. Basic search 1 credit, advanced 2, extract 1 per 5 URLs (advanced 2), map 1 per 10 pages, crawl is map plus extract, research 4 to 250 credits by model. Failed extracts and maps aren't charged (https://www.tavily.com/pricing).",
        "priceSummary": "$7.50 / 1k req",
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              "url": "https://x402.tavily.com/search",
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              "network": "eip155:8453"
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        "openapi": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/openapi.json",
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          "search.images"
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          "official",
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          "local",
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          "freemium",
          "llms-txt",
          "no-card",
          "free-tier",
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          "python",
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          "enterprise",
          "mcp"
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        "graded": true,
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          "agentReady": true,
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          "ranked": true,
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            "Public OpenAPI, llms.txt and an error table that tells plan limits (432) from pay-as-you-go limits (433)",
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            "Hosted MCP docs lead with `?tavilyApiKey=` in the URL query string",
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            "Privacy policy lets query data improve future responses unless a contract says otherwise, with no zero-retention option found",
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            "On 429, wait for `Retry-After`. A 432 or 433 means a spend limit, and retrying won't help",
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                "tasks"
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                  "openWorldHint": true,
                  "readOnlyHint": true
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              },
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                        "markdown",
                        "text"
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                    "include_favicon": {
                      "default": false,
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                      "default": "",
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                    },
                    "limit": {
                      "default": 50,
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                      "minimum": 1,
                      "type": "integer"
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                    "max_breadth": {
                      "default": 20,
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                      "minimum": 1,
                      "type": "integer"
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                    "max_depth": {
                      "default": 1,
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                      "minimum": 1,
                      "type": "integer"
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                    "select_domains": {
                      "default": [],
                      "description": "Regex patterns to restrict crawling to specific domains or subdomains (e.g., ^docs\\.example\\.com$)",
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                        "type": "string"
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                      "type": "array"
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                    "select_paths": {
                      "default": [],
                      "description": "Regex patterns to select only URLs with specific path patterns (e.g., /docs/.*, /api/v1.*)",
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                        "type": "string"
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                      "type": "array"
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                    "url": {
                      "description": "The root URL to begin the crawl",
                      "type": "string"
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                  },
                  "required": [
                    "url"
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                  "type": "object"
                },
                "outputSchema": {
                  "additionalProperties": true,
                  "type": "object"
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                "annotations": {
                  "destructiveHint": false,
                  "idempotentHint": false,
                  "openWorldHint": true,
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              },
              {
                "name": "tavily_map",
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                        "type": "string"
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                      "type": "array"
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                        "type": "string"
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                      "type": "array"
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                      "description": "The root URL to begin the mapping",
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                  },
                  "required": [
                    "url"
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                  "type": "object"
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                "outputSchema": {
                  "additionalProperties": true,
                  "type": "object"
                },
                "annotations": {
                  "destructiveHint": false,
                  "idempotentHint": false,
                  "openWorldHint": true,
                  "readOnlyHint": true
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              },
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                "name": "tavily_research",
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                "description": "Perform comprehensive research on a given topic or question. Use this tool when you need to gather information from multiple sources, including web pages, documents, and other resources, to answer a question or complete a task. Returns a detailed response based on the research findings. Rate limit: 20 requests per minute.",
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                  "additionalProperties": false,
                  "properties": {
                    "input": {
                      "description": "A comprehensive description of the research task",
                      "type": "string"
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                    "model": {
                      "default": "auto",
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                        "mini",
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                        "auto"
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                "outputSchema": {
                  "additionalProperties": true,
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                "annotations": {
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                  "idempotentHint": false,
                  "openWorldHint": true,
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              }
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                "note": 0,
                "warn": 1
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              "findings": [
                {
                  "rule": "TC14",
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          },
          "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T22:35:32.09079729Z"
        }
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      {
        "slug": "you-com-api",
        "name": "You.com APIs",
        "vendor": "You.com",
        "vendorUrl": "https://you.com",
        "kind": "http-api",
        "category": "search",
        "summary": "Web Search, Contents, Answer, Research and Finance Research APIs, plus a hosted MCP server with six tools.",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api",
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        "transports": [
          "http",
          "streamable-http",
          "stdio"
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        "remoteUrl": "https://api.you.com/v1/search",
        "packages": [
          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "youdotcom"
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          {
            "registry": "npm",
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          {
            "registry": "npm",
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        "authNotes": "API key in the `X-API-Key` header (env `YDC_API_KEY`). The hosted MCP also takes a Bearer key or OAuth 2.1, and `?profile=free` needs no key. Web Search and Finance Research take x402 (`PAYMENT-SIGNATURE`) or MPP (`Authorization: Payment`) instead of a key.",
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        "pricingNotes": "$100 free credit for new accounts, no card, then prepaid credits. Web Search $5 per 1,000 calls (up to 100 results a call), live page extraction $1 per 1,000 pages, Contents $1 per 1,000 pages, Answer $5 per 1,000. Research per 1,000 by effort, lite $12, standard $50, deep $100, exhaustive $450, frontier $1,200. Finance Research $110 (deep) or $500 (exhaustive) per 1,000. x402 prices match credit prices, MPP rounds Web Search up to $0.01 (https://you.com/docs/administration/billing).",
        "priceSummary": "$5 / 1k req",
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          "endpoints": [
            {
              "url": "https://api.you.com/v1/search",
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              "network": "eip155:8453"
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            {
              "url": "https://api.you.com/v1/finance_research",
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        "docsUrl": "https://you.com/docs/welcome",
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            "confidence": "medium",
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            "x402 and MPP on Web Search and Finance Research, with no account needed",
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            "For unattended runs call GET https://api.you.com/v1/search, handle the 402 and pay with x402. It's half the MPP price for search",
            "Use `https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free` to try search with no key (100 queries a day)",
            "Send Answer, Research and Finance Research to api.you.com. On ydc-index.io they fail with 'Missing Authentication Token'",
            "Pass `?tools=` with only the tools you need to keep the MCP tool list short",
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          "x402": "curl -si 'https://api.you.com/v1/search?query=test'\n# HTTP/2 402 with PAYMENT-REQUIRED (x402, 5000 base units of USDC) and WWW-Authenticate: Payment (MPP on Tempo)\n# retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: \u003cbase64 signed authorization\u003e"
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            "Web Search and Contents are documented on ydc-index.io, a separate domain. api.you.com also serves /v1/search.",
            "status.you.com is a Rootly page with Search/Index, Live News and AI Search components. It returned 403 on 30 September and loaded on 1 October.",
            "trust.you.com links a vulnerability disclosure page and a subprocessor list, but renders only with JavaScript."
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        "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api.json",
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                "ok": 35
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          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "parallel-web"
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        "authNotes": "API key in the `x-api-key` header. The Search MCP at search.parallel.ai/mcp works anonymously at lower limits, takes a Bearer key, and /mcp-oauth adds OAuth. An OAuth provider can issue keys on behalf of your users.",
        "pricing": "freemium",
        "pricingNotes": "Up to 5,000 free requests a month, with $5 of free credit monthly and up to $80 at signup. Search $1 per 1,000 requests in turbo or fast, $5 in basic or advanced, 10 results included and $1 per 1,000 extra results. Extract $1 per 1,000 URLs. Task $5 (lite) to $2,400 (ultra8x) per 1,000 successful runs. Responses $10 to $250 per 1,000 by reasoning effort. Failed runs aren't billed (https://parallel.ai/pricing).",
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              "network": "eip155:8453"
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            {
              "url": "https://parallelmpp.dev/api/extract",
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        "summary": "REST API over Brave's independent index with web, news, image, video and local search, an LLM Context endpoint with pre-extracted page content and an Answers endpoint with citations.",
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        "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp.md",
        "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp.min.md",
        "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/brave-search-mcp.json",
        "repo": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
        "license": "MIT",
        "transports": [
          "stdio",
          "streamable-http",
          "http"
        ],
        "remoteUrl": "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search",
        "packages": [
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@brave/brave-search-mcp-server"
          },
          {
            "registry": "oci",
            "name": "mcp/brave-search"
          }
        ],
        "auth": "mixed",
        "authNotes": "API key in the `X-Subscription-Token` header. The x402 proxy at search.agent.s.brave.app takes a signed payment instead of a key. An `Api-Version` header pins dated response versions. MCP server: BRAVE_API_KEY (or BRAVE_API_KEY_FILE) environment variable.",
        "pricing": "usage",
        "pricingNotes": "Search plan $5 per 1,000 requests with $5 free credit a month, 50 QPS. Answers plan $4 per 1,000 requests plus $5 per million tokens, $5 free credit a month, 2 QPS. A card is required for the free credit. Storing results needs an Enterprise plan with storage rights. Enterprise custom (https://brave.com/search/api/).",
        "priceSummary": "$5 / 1k req",
        "where": "both",
        "x402": {
          "level": "partial",
          "evidence": "Brave's docs link a pay-per-request proxy at search.agent.s.brave.app. Web, LLM Context, news, video, image and local paths cost $0.005 in USDC on Base. Answers, Suggest and Spellcheck aren't sold. An unpaid web search returned 402 with a PAYMENT-REQUIRED header on 2026-09-30 (https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/guides/agent-payments)",
          "endpoints": [
            {
              "url": "https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/web/search",
              "priceUsd": 0.005,
              "network": "eip155:8453"
            },
            {
              "url": "https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/llm/context",
              "priceUsd": 0.005,
              "network": "eip155:8453"
            }
          ]
        },
        "toolCount": 8,
        "popularity": {
          "githubStars": 1400,
          "npmWeekly": 22398,
          "pypiWeekly": null,
          "asOf": "2026-09-30"
        },
        "docsUrl": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation",
        "llmsTxt": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/llms.txt",
        "registryName": "io.github.brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
        "capabilities": [
          "web.search",
          "web.extract",
          "search.answer",
          "search.news",
          "search.images"
        ],
        "tags": [
          "official",
          "local",
          "open-source",
          "usage-priced",
          "hosted",
          "card-required",
          "x402",
          "llms-txt",
          "enterprise",
          "mcp"
        ],
        "lastRelease": "2026-09-17",
        "graded": true,
        "anchor": {
          "graded": true,
          "score": 68.1,
          "grade": "B",
          "agentReady": false,
          "rank": 132,
          "ranked": true,
          "rankOf": 452,
          "categoryRank": 5,
          "methodology": "0.3",
          "run": "2026-10-01",
          "scores": {
            "ergonomics": 72,
            "maintenance": 87,
            "payments": 70,
            "reliability": 55,
            "schema": 72,
            "security": 58,
            "transparency": 82
          },
          "pending": [
            "performance",
            "tasks"
          ],
          "assessment": {
            "confidence": "medium",
            "date": "2026-10-01"
          },
          "negative": 0,
          "verdict": "x402 proxy sells web, LLM Context, news, video, image and local search at $0.005 a call, and a failed search isn't charged. The status page marks the Search API \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history.",
          "strengths": [
            "x402 proxy sells web, LLM Context, news, video, image and local search at $0.005 a call, and a failed search isn't charged",
            "$5 per 1,000 searches at 50 QPS on the self-serve Search plan",
            "SOC 2 Type II, a HackerOne bounty and a valid security.txt",
            "Dated response versions through the `Api-Version` header",
            "MIT MCP server with five releases since July, tests in CI and a GitHub-verified registry entry"
          ],
          "weaknesses": [
            "The status page marks the Search API \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history",
            "A card is required even for the $5 monthly credit",
            "No public OpenAPI for the keyed API and no API changelog",
            "No SLA on self-serve plans, and Answers is limited to 2 QPS",
            "No prompt-injection guidance, though LLM Context returns raw page text"
          ],
          "agentNotes": [
            "Call /res/v1/llm/context when you need page text rather than links. It saves a separate fetch",
            "Treat \"No web results found\" from the MCP server as an empty result, not an outage",
            "On 429, wait for `X-RateLimit-Reset` seconds. There's no `Retry-After` header",
            "Skip `brave_summarizer`. The Summarizer is deprecated and the x402 proxy doesn't sell it",
            "Pin `Api-Version` to a date, since requests without it get the latest version"
          ],
          "metrics": {
            "kind": "local",
            "measured": false
          },
          "reviewCount": 2,
          "avgRating": 3.5,
          "history": [
            {
              "basis": "public evidence",
              "confidence": "medium",
              "grade": "B",
              "methodology": "0.3",
              "pending": [
                "performance",
                "tasks"
              ],
              "run": "2026-10-01",
              "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
              "score": 68.1
            }
          ],
          "editorialScores": {
            "ergonomics": 72,
            "maintenance": 87,
            "payments": 70,
            "reliability": 55,
            "schema": 72,
            "security": 58,
            "transparency": 63
          },
          "provenanceScore": 100
        },
        "connect": {
          "http": "curl \"https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=brave+search\u0026count=5\" \\\n  -H \"Accept: application/json\" -H \"X-Subscription-Token: $BRAVE_API_KEY\"",
          "claudeCode": "claude mcp add brave-search -e BRAVE_API_KEY=${BRAVE_API_KEY} -- npx -y @brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
          "config": {
            "mcpServers": {
              "brave-search": {
                "args": [
                  "-y",
                  "@brave/brave-search-mcp-server"
                ],
                "command": "npx",
                "env": {
                  "BRAVE_API_KEY": "${BRAVE_API_KEY}"
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "x402": "purl --max-amount 5000 'https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/web/search?q=rust'\n# unpaid requests get HTTP 402 with a PAYMENT-REQUIRED header, USDC on eip155:8453"
        },
        "letme": {
          "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search",
          "tool": "https://letme.dev/brave-search-mcp"
        },
        "area": "web-data",
        "unitPrices": [
          {
            "item": "Search plan",
            "unit": "1k-requests",
            "usd": 5
          },
          {
            "item": "Answers plan",
            "unit": "1k-requests",
            "usd": 4,
            "note": "plus $5 per million tokens"
          },
          {
            "item": "x402 search, per call",
            "unit": "call",
            "usd": 0.005,
            "note": "USDC on Base, no account"
          }
        ],
        "provenance": {
          "legalEntity": "Brave Software, Inc.",
          "domain": "brave.com",
          "domainRegistered": "1995-09-18",
          "domainNote": "brave.com was registered in 1995, before Brave bought it.",
          "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
          "terms": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/terms-of-service",
          "privacy": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/privacy-policy",
          "statusPage": "https://status.brave.app",
          "changelog": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server/releases",
          "securityTxt": "valid",
          "checked": "2026-10-01",
          "notes": [
            "The x402 proxy runs on search.agent.s.brave.app, not brave.com. Brave's API docs link it as official.",
            "status.brave.app lists the Brave Search API but marks it \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history. The API docs keep a separate status log whose last entry is 27 March 2025 (https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/status-updates/)."
          ],
          "score": 100
        },
        "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp.json",
        "live": {
          "slug": "brave-search-mcp",
          "probe": {
            "target": "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search",
            "method": "get",
            "lastAt": "2026-10-04T22:35:20.252390229Z",
            "lastOk": true,
            "lastStatus": 422,
            "lastMs": 396,
            "authRequired": false,
            "uptime24h": 100,
            "uptime30d": 100,
            "p50ms24h": 395,
            "p95ms24h": 423,
            "samples24h": 272,
            "samples30d": 1086,
            "days": [
              {
                "date": "2026-09-30",
                "probes": 35,
                "ok": 35
              },
              {
                "date": "2026-10-01",
                "probes": 276,
                "ok": 276
              },
              {
                "date": "2026-10-02",
                "probes": 248,
                "ok": 248
              },
              {
                "date": "2026-10-03",
                "probes": 271,
                "ok": 271
              },
              {
                "date": "2026-10-04",
                "probes": 256,
                "ok": 256
              }
            ]
          },
          "vendorStatus": {
            "page": "https://status.brave.app",
            "indicator": "unknown",
            "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:39:52.323054222Z"
          },
          "versions": [
            {
              "registry": "github",
              "name": "brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
              "version": "v2.1.4",
              "released": "2026-09-17",
              "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:22:44.217062681Z"
            },
            {
              "registry": "mcp-registry",
              "name": "io.github.brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
              "version": "2.1.3",
              "seenAt": "2026-10-03T23:29:28.630222764Z"
            },
            {
              "registry": "npm",
              "name": "@brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
              "version": "2.1.4",
              "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:22:43.730484655Z"
            }
          ],
          "githubStars": 1484,
          "npmWeekly": 30874,
          "securityTxt": {
            "url": "https://brave.com/.well-known/security.txt",
            "state": "valid",
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:38.826160997Z"
          },
          "llmsTxt": {
            "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/llms.txt",
            "ok": true,
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:21.910433141Z"
          },
          "domain": {
            "domain": "brave.com",
            "registered": "1995-09-18",
            "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/brave.com",
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:28.958526087Z"
          },
          "pages": [
            {
              "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/privacy-policy",
              "kind": "privacy",
              "status": 200,
              "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:09.246937639Z",
              "changedAt": "2026-09-30T13:09:37.196019706Z",
              "fingerprint": "8c41a50b5a60"
            },
            {
              "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/terms-of-service",
              "kind": "terms",
              "status": 200,
              "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:11.393064605Z",
              "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
              "fingerprint": "e74eb26bd7c7"
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          ],
          "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T22:35:20.252390229Z"
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      },
      {
        "slug": "exa-mcp",
        "name": "Exa API + MCP",
        "vendor": "Exa",
        "vendorUrl": "https://exa.ai",
        "kind": "mcp",
        "category": "search",
        "summary": "Exa's REST API over its own web index, with the official MCP server in front of it.",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/exa-mcp",
        "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/exa-mcp.md",
        "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/exa-mcp.min.md",
        "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/exa-mcp.json",
        "repo": "https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server",
        "license": "MIT",
        "transports": [
          "stdio",
          "streamable-http",
          "http"
        ],
        "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp",
        "packages": [
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "exa-js"
          },
          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "exa-py"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "exa-mcp-server"
          }
        ],
        "auth": "mixed",
        "authNotes": "API key as `Authorization: Bearer` or `x-api-key` header, created at dashboard.exa.ai. POST /search and /contents also accept an x402 `PAYMENT-SIGNATURE` header instead of a key. MCP server: Anonymous use with rate limits; optional API key via ?exaApiKey=, Authorization: Bearer or x-api-key header; OAuth login at https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp?login.",
        "pricing": "freemium",
        "pricingNotes": "$10 free credit a month (resets on the 1st) plus a one-time $10 sign-up bonus, no card. Pay as you go per 1,000 requests, instant search $4, fast and auto $7, deep-lite and deep $12, deep-reasoning $15, each with up to 10 results and $1 per 1,000 extra results. Contents $1 per 1,000 pages per content type, answer $5 per 1,000, monitors $15 per 1,000. Agent API $0.012 to $1.00 a run by effort. Enterprise volume pricing by quote (https://exa.ai/pricing).",
        "priceSummary": "$0.007 / call",
        "where": "both",
        "x402": {
          "level": "yes",
          "evidence": "Official 'Pay with x402' guide. POST /search and /contents accept x402 with USDC on Base (eip155:8453) or Solana. An unpaid POST /search returned 402 on 2026-09-30 (https://exa.ai/docs/integrations/payments/x402/quickstart.md)",
          "endpoints": [
            {
              "url": "https://api.exa.ai/search",
              "priceUsd": 0.007,
              "network": "eip155:8453"
            },
            {
              "url": "https://api.exa.ai/contents",
              "priceUsd": 0.001,
              "network": "eip155:8453"
            }
          ]
        },
        "toolCount": 4,
        "popularity": {
          "githubStars": 4900,
          "npmWeekly": 1076635,
          "pypiWeekly": 1406207,
          "asOf": "2026-09-30"
        },
        "docsUrl": "https://exa.ai/docs",
        "llmsTxt": "https://exa.ai/docs/llms.txt",
        "openapi": "https://exa.ai/docs/exa-spec.yaml",
        "registryName": "ai.exa/exa",
        "capabilities": [
          "web.search",
          "web.fetch",
          "web.extract",
          "search.answer",
          "search.research",
          "search.news"
        ],
        "tags": [
          "official",
          "hosted",
          "local",
          "open-source",
          "x402",
          "freemium",
          "llms-txt",
          "no-card",
          "openapi",
          "python",
          "typescript",
          "enterprise",
          "webhooks",
          "mcp"
        ],
        "lastRelease": "2026-10-01",
        "graded": true,
        "anchor": {
          "graded": true,
          "score": 66.1,
          "grade": "B",
          "agentReady": false,
          "rank": 163,
          "ranked": true,
          "rankOf": 452,
          "categoryRank": 6,
          "methodology": "0.3",
          "run": "2026-10-01",
          "scores": {
            "ergonomics": 96,
            "maintenance": 88,
            "payments": 90,
            "reliability": 67,
            "schema": 86,
            "security": 43,
            "transparency": 65
          },
          "pending": [
            "performance",
            "tasks"
          ],
          "assessment": {
            "confidence": "medium",
            "date": "2026-10-01"
          },
          "negative": -9,
          "negativeNotes": [
            "2026-04-15. Exa's own fix (#292) says Agnost analytics on the hosted MCP captured headers, query parameters and full URLs from every request and sent them to api.agnost.ai, which leaked user API keys passed as `x-api-key` or `?exaApiKey=`. Fixed the same day, but disclosed only in the commit message, with no advisory or rotation notice that we found. Decayed for the fix, so -6 (https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server/commit/49797a5376217da506853b12163f21db9f9c95b8)",
            "2026-10-01. The MCP server calls Agnost's `trackMCP` on startup in both the hosted and the npm stdio builds, with no README mention and no opt-out. Inputs, outputs and errors are switched off, so the events are tool names and timings. -3 (https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server/blob/main/src/mcp-handler.ts)"
          ],
          "verdict": "x402 on /search and /contents in USDC on Base or Solana, so an agent can pay per call with no account. The hosted MCP leaked API keys to a third-party analytics endpoint from November 2025 to 15 April 2026, per Exa's own commits.",
          "strengths": [
            "x402 on /search and /contents in USDC on Base or Solana, so an agent can pay per call with no account",
            "Two default MCP tools with about 1,250 characters of descriptions, and every tool marked read-only and idempotent",
            "Keys can be minted by API with their own rate limit and budget",
            "Public OpenAPI, llms.txt, an error-codes page and current Python and TypeScript SDKs",
            "$10 of credit a month with no card"
          ],
          "weaknesses": [
            "The hosted MCP leaked API keys to a third-party analytics endpoint from November 2025 to 15 April 2026, per Exa's own commits",
            "Agnost usage analytics in the MCP server with no disclosure or opt-out",
            "The privacy policy says query data trains Exa's models and gives no retention period",
            "No security.txt, no SECURITY.md and no prompt-injection guidance",
            "Agents API had 4 hours 56 minutes of elevated run failures on 21 to 22 September"
          ],
          "agentNotes": [
            "Send the key as `x-api-key` or a Bearer header, never `?exaApiKey=` in the MCP URL",
            "Ask for highlights rather than full text, and cap `maxCharacters` on `web_fetch_exa`",
            "Request only the results you'll read. More than 10 costs extra, and x402 calls stop at 10",
            "On 429, honour `Retry-After`. The QPS limit is shared by every key on the team",
            "Add `?tools=web_search_advanced_exa` for domain and date filters instead of packing them into the query"
          ],
          "metrics": {
            "kind": "remote",
            "measured": false
          },
          "reviewCount": 2,
          "avgRating": 4.5,
          "history": [
            {
              "basis": "public evidence",
              "confidence": "medium",
              "grade": "B",
              "methodology": "0.3",
              "pending": [
                "performance",
                "tasks"
              ],
              "run": "2026-10-01",
              "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
              "score": 66.1
            }
          ],
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            "ergonomics": 96,
            "maintenance": 88,
            "payments": 90,
            "reliability": 67,
            "schema": 86,
            "security": 43,
            "transparency": 44
          },
          "provenanceScore": 86
        },
        "connect": {
          "http": "curl -s -X POST https://api.exa.ai/search \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $EXA_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"query\":\"recent techniques for improving retrieval in RAG systems\",\"type\":\"auto\",\"contents\":{\"highlights\":true}}'",
          "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http exa https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp",
          "config": {
            "mcpServers": {
              "exa": {
                "url": "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp"
              }
            }
          },
          "x402": "curl -s https://api.exa.ai/search -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{\"query\":\"x402 facilitators\",\"numResults\":5}' -i\n# HTTP/1.1 402 Payment Required\n# PAYMENT-REQUIRED: \u003cbase64 JSON: accepts[{scheme:\"exact\",network:\"eip155:8453\",amount:\"7000\",asset:USDC,payTo:...}]\u003e\n# retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: \u003cbase64 signed authorization\u003e"
        },
        "letme": {
          "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search",
          "tool": "https://letme.dev/exa-mcp"
        },
        "area": "web-data",
        "unitPrices": [
          {
            "item": "Search, fast and auto",
            "unit": "1k-requests",
            "usd": 7,
            "note": "up to 10 results"
          },
          {
            "item": "Search, instant",
            "unit": "1k-requests",
            "usd": 4
          },
          {
            "item": "Search, deep",
            "unit": "1k-requests",
            "usd": 12
          },
          {
            "item": "Contents",
            "unit": "1k-pages",
            "usd": 1,
            "note": "per content type"
          },
          {
            "item": "Answer",
            "unit": "1k-requests",
            "usd": 5
          }
        ],
        "provenance": {
          "legalEntity": "Exa Labs Inc.",
          "domain": "exa.ai",
          "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16",
          "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
          "terms": "https://exa.ai/assets/Exa_Labs_Terms_of_Service.pdf",
          "privacy": "https://exa.ai/privacy-policy",
          "statusPage": "https://status.exa.ai",
          "changelog": "https://exa.ai/docs/changelog",
          "securityTxt": "none",
          "checked": "2026-09-30",
          "score": 86
        },
        "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/exa-mcp.json",
        "live": {
          "slug": "exa-mcp",
          "probe": {
            "target": "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp",
            "method": "mcp-initialize",
            "lastAt": "2026-10-04T22:35:22.968973308Z",
            "lastOk": true,
            "lastStatus": 200,
            "lastMs": 188,
            "lastNote": "initialize answered",
            "authRequired": false,
            "uptime24h": 97.79,
            "uptime30d": 99.71,
            "p50ms24h": 193,
            "p95ms24h": 269,
            "samples24h": 272,
            "samples30d": 2040,
            "days": [
              {
                "date": "2026-09-27",
                "probes": 132,
                "ok": 132
              },
              {
                "date": "2026-09-28",
                "probes": 285,
                "ok": 285
              },
              {
                "date": "2026-09-29",
                "probes": 286,
                "ok": 286
              },
              {
                "date": "2026-09-30",
                "probes": 286,
                "ok": 286
              },
              {
                "date": "2026-10-01",
                "probes": 276,
                "ok": 276
              },
              {
                "date": "2026-10-02",
                "probes": 248,
                "ok": 248
              },
              {
                "date": "2026-10-03",
                "probes": 271,
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            "Read `serpapi://engines/\u003cengine\u003e` before calling a new engine, since `params` isn't typed",
            "Add `json_restrictor` or `output=md` to cut tokens, and `mode: compact` on the MCP",
            "A 429 means either the hourly limit or an empty balance. Check the account before retrying",
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            "name": "mcp-server-fetch"
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          {
            "registry": "oci",
            "name": "mcp/fetch"
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        "authNotes": "Local process; optional --proxy-url.",
        "pricing": "free",
        "pricingNotes": "Open source.",
        "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
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        "docsUrl": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/blob/main/src/fetch/README.md",
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            "SECURITY.md says the repository isn't eligible for vulnerability reports",
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            "Expect empty bodies from JavaScript-rendered sites and switch to a browser tool",
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          "memory-reference-server",
          "postgres-reference-server-archived",
          "sequential-thinking-reference-server"
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        "name": "SearchAPI.io",
        "vendor": "SearchApi",
        "vendorUrl": "https://www.searchapi.io",
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        "category": "search",
        "summary": "SERP scraping API returning parsed JSON from Google and its verticals, Bing, Baidu, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, YouTube, Amazon, TikTok, ad libraries and travel sites, over 150 engine endpoints behind one GET URL.",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io",
        "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io.md",
        "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io.min.md",
        "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/searchapi-io.json",
        "transports": [
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          "streamable-http"
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        "packages": [],
        "auth": "mixed",
        "authNotes": "API key as the `api_key` query parameter or `Authorization: Bearer`. The hosted MCP uses OAuth in the browser, or an `X-MCP-Token` header for programmatic clients.",
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          {
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            "Pair it with a fetcher. Serper returns links and snippets, not page text",
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Tavily API + MCP, BB (77.2)\n\nTavily's REST API for web search, URL extraction, site mapping, crawling and cited research reports, with the official MCP server hosted at mcp.tavily.com or run locally from npm. Keyless search and extract, plus a free 1,000 credits a month with no card. x402 covers advanced search only, not extract, map, crawl or research.\n\n- Page: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tavily-mcp · Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tavily-mcp.md · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tavily-mcp.json\n- Capabilities: web.search, web.extract, web.crawl, web.fetch, search.answer, search.research, search.news, search.images · endpoint: `https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/?tavilyApiKey=\u003ckey\u003e`\n\n### 24. You.com APIs, BB (76.9)\n\nWeb Search, Contents, Answer, Research and Finance Research APIs, plus a hosted MCP server with six tools. x402 and MPP on Web Search and Finance Research, with no account needed. Two API hosts. Answer and Research return 'Missing Authentication Token' on ydc-index.io.\n\n- Page: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api · Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api.md · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/you-com-api.json\n- Capabilities: web.search, web.fetch, web.extract, search.answer, search.research, search.news · endpoint: `https://api.you.com/v1/search`\n\n### 51. Parallel Search and Task APIs, BB (74.1)\n\nParallel's web APIs for agents. Fast-mode search at $1 per 1,000 with 10 excerpted results, and Extract at $1 per 1,000 URLs. Search defaults to advanced mode at $5 per 1,000 when `mode` is left out.\n\n- Page: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api · Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api.md · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parallel-search-api.json\n- Capabilities: web.search, web.fetch, web.extract, search.answer, search.research · endpoint: `https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search`\n\n### 116. Linkup, B (69.1)\n\nWeb search API for agents with four depths (flash, fast, standard, deep) and three output types (ranked sources, a cited answer, or JSON matching your schema). Per-call prices from $0.005, and no credit taken for errors, missing parameters or empty results. 429 covers both exhausted credit and rate limiting, with no `Retry-After`.\n\n- Page: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linkup · Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linkup.md · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/linkup.json\n- Capabilities: web.search, web.fetch, search.answer, search.research, web.extract, search.images · endpoint: `https://api.linkup.so/v1/search`\n\n### 132. Brave Search API + MCP, B (68.1)\n\nREST API over Brave's independent index with web, news, image, video and local search, an LLM Context endpoint with pre-extracted page content and an Answers endpoint with citations. x402 proxy sells web, LLM Context, news, video, image and local search at $0.005 a call, and a failed search isn't charged. The status page marks the Search API \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history.\n\n- Page: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp · Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp.md · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/brave-search-mcp.json\n- Capabilities: web.search, web.extract, search.answer, search.news, search.images · endpoint: `https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search`\n\n### 163. Exa API + MCP, B (66.1)\n\nExa's REST API over its own web index, with the official MCP server in front of it. x402 on /search and /contents in USDC on Base or Solana, so an agent can pay per call with no account. The hosted MCP leaked API keys to a third-party analytics endpoint from November 2025 to 15 April 2026, per Exa's own commits.\n\n- Page: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/exa-mcp · Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/exa-mcp.md · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/exa-mcp.json\n- Capabilities: web.search, web.fetch, web.extract, search.answer, search.research, search.news · endpoint: `https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp`\n\n### 179. Valyu, B (64.6)\n\nSearch API that covers the web plus specialised sources (arXiv, PubMed, SEC filings, market data, patents, clinical trials, genomics). Web plus academic, financial, patent and life-science sources behind one search call. No published rate limits and no Retry-After or backoff guidance.\n\n- Page: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu · Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.md · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/valyu.json\n- Capabilities: web.search, web.fetch, web.extract, search.answer, search.research, search.news · endpoint: `https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search`\n\n### 216. SerpApi, B (62.6)\n\nScrapes live results pages from Google, Bing, Baidu, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Amazon, YouTube and about 20 other engines and returns them as parsed JSON or markdown. Over 100 engines behind one GET URL, with `json_restrictor` field selection and `output=md`. 25 incidents on the status feed from July to 1 October 2026, including an outage across all APIs on 10 September.\n\n- Page: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/serpapi · Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/serpapi.md · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/serpapi.json\n- Capabilities: web.search, search.serp, search.news, search.images · endpoint: `https://serpapi.com/search`\n\n### 290. Fetch (MCP reference server), C (57.6)\n\nPython reference server with a single 'fetch' tool that retrieves a URL and converts HTML to markdown, with pagination (start_index/max_length) and raw mode. One tool of about 300 tokens, with `max_length` and `start_index` paging and a hint giving the next offset. Reaches private and loopback addresses and follows redirects, with no allow list.\n\n- Page: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fetch-reference-server · Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fetch-reference-server.md · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fetch-reference-server.json\n- Capabilities: web.fetch\n\n### 351. SearchAPI.io, D (51.4)\n\nSERP scraping API returning parsed JSON from Google and its verticals, Bing, Baidu, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, YouTube, Amazon, TikTok, ad libraries and travel sites, over 150 engine endpoints behind one GET URL. 99.9% SLA on every plan and no incidents on the status page since August. MCP exposes over 100 tools with no toolsets.\n\n- Page: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io · Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io.md · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/searchapi-io.json\n- Capabilities: web.search, search.serp, search.news, search.images · endpoint: `https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search`\n\n### 446. Serper, F (24.3)\n\nAPI for retrieving Google search results. $0.30 to $1.00 per 1,000 queries on prepaid packs, with no subscription. No status page, SLA or incident history.\n\n- Page: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/serper · Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/serper.md · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/serper.json\n- Capabilities: web.search, search.serp, search.news, search.images · endpoint: `https://google.serper.dev/search`\n\n## Indexed, not reviewed (12)\n\nSorted into this category from public catalogues, with facts and our own checks but no score, grade or rank (https://www.anchorterminal.com/indexed/index.md).\n\n| Listing | Kind | What it does | Why it's here |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| [GoAnyAPI MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/goanyapi-mcp.md) | MCP server | GoAnyAPI SEO MCP: traffic, DR, backlinks, keywords, Google/Bing SERP/autocomplete, Ads Transparency. | vendor's own |\n| [MotiBlog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/motiblog-mcp.md) | MCP server | Agent-first SEO research and publishing: competitors, SERPs, internal links, and Search Console. | vendor's own |\n| [Nimrod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchis-nimrod.md) | MCP server | Web search with quality scores; web pages are read on your computer by the local server. | vendor's own |\n| [Perplexity API Platform](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-mcp-server.md) | MCP server | Real-time web search, reasoning, and research through Perplexity's API | vendor's own, widely used |\n| [SERP Agent SEO](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/serp-agent-seo.md) | MCP server | Full-cycle SEO automation for AI agents: technical audits, SEO articles, machine-readable pricing. | vendor's own |\n| [SERPdive Web Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/serpdive-mcp.md) | MCP server | AI-agent web search, answer-ready content. 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No API keys. | vendor's own |\n| [Trawlia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trawlia-mcp.md) | MCP server | Web search and page extraction for agents, returned as readable text rather than raw JSON. | vendor's own |\n| [web-search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groundroute-web-search.md) | MCP server | Web search for AI agents — one tool across 6 engines, routed to the cheapest + cached. | vendor's own |\n| [web-search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/keenable-web-search.md) | MCP server | Live web search and clean-markdown page fetch over the Keenable web index. | vendor's own |\n\n",
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