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      "slug": "agentcore-web-search",
      "name": "Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore",
      "vendor": "Amazon Web Services",
      "vendorUrl": "https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/",
      "kind": "mcp",
      "category": "search",
      "summary": "Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is AWS's managed web search for agents, backed by an Amazon-operated index and knowledge graph. It runs as a connector on an AgentCore Gateway and is called as an MCP tool.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcore-web-search",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcore-web-search.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcore-web-search.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agentcore-web-search.json",
      "license": "Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement and Service Terms, with an acceptable-use section on the tool's documentation page",
      "transports": [
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://{gateway-id}.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.{region}.amazonaws.com/mcp",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Calls go to the owner's AgentCore Gateway, which takes OAuth JWT bearer tokens from a configured identity provider with allowed scopes, or IAM SigV4 with `bedrock-agentcore:InvokeGateway` on the gateway ARN. A no-authorisation mode exists, which AWS says not to use in production. The gateway's service role needs `bedrock-agentcore:InvokeWebSearch` on `arn:aws:bedrock-agentcore:\u003cregion\u003e:aws:tool/web-search.v1`. The agent holds no search credentials. Self-serve once an AWS account exists, with no partner or sales approval.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "$7.00 per 1,000 queries, billed per query with no minimum, plus the Gateway's $0.005 per 1,000 invocations for each `tools/call`. No allowance specific to Web Search. New AWS accounts get up to $200 in Free Tier credits, and the Free Tier FAQ says a payment method isn't required to sign up for most new customers (https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/pricing/, https://aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs/, checked 2026-10-17).",
      "priceSummary": "$7 / 1k req",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the Gateway or the Web Search Tool, in the docs or on the pricing page. AgentCore payments, a separate component, lets a customer's agents pay third parties over x402 and MPP and is not a way to pay AWS (checked 2026-10-17).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 1,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-17"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/gateway-target-connector-web-search-tool.html",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "web.search"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "usage-priced",
        "closed-source",
        "enterprise",
        "llms-txt",
        "mcp",
        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "status-page",
        "soc2"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-15",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 74.3,
        "grade": "BB",
        "agentReady": true,
        "rank": 76,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1133,
        "categoryRank": 4,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 69,
          "maintenance": 80,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 90,
          "schema": 78,
          "security": 85,
          "transparency": 77
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-17"
        },
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        "verdict": "One compact MCP tool returns ranked snippets with URLs, titles and published dates from an Amazon-operated index, with domain and date filters from connector 1.2.0, at $7 per 1,000 queries. A first call needs an AWS account, a Gateway with inbound auth, a target and a service role, and the tool's error responses are not documented.",
        "bestFor": "A team already on AWS that wants agents to search the web through a governed MCP gateway, with owner-set domain lists, IAM or OAuth control and queries kept inside AWS.",
        "strengths": [
          "One tool with three inputs, `query`, `maxResults` and `filters`, of which only `query` is required, returning snippet text, URL, title and published date",
          "Domain include and exclude lists of up to 100 domains, set by the owner on the target, which the agent cannot relax, and per request from connector 1.2.0 with published-date bounds",
          "$7.00 per 1,000 queries is published without a login, plus $0.005 per 1,000 Gateway invocations",
          "Gateway inbound auth is OAuth JWT with allowed scopes or IAM SigV4, and the service role's `InvokeWebSearch` permission names one service-owned ARN",
          "Connector versions follow semver with release dates and a lifecycle from available to retired, and a pinned target keeps its version when the default changes"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No error responses for the tool are documented. The only response example has `isError` false",
          "The default connector version is 1.1.0, so request-level domain and date filters work only on a target pinned to 1.2.0",
          "Available in seven Regions, four of them added on 15 October 2026",
          "Results are third-party page text, and the Web Search pages give no prompt-injection guidance. Gateway guardrail policies are documented separately",
          "No retention period for queries was found. The docs say queries are served inside AWS and not sent to a third-party search engine"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Call `tools/list` on the gateway and take the tool's name from it. AWS's call examples name gateway tools by target and tool",
          "Keep `query` to 200 characters and `maxResults` between 1 and 25 (default 10). The published schema states these limits only in descriptions",
          "Check the target's connector version before sending `filters`. Version 1.1.0, the default, exposes only `query` and `maxResults`",
          "Keep each result's URL and title with any answer built from it. AWS's acceptable-use terms require shown citations and bar storing results in bulk",
          "On a throttled request, wait the `retryAfter` seconds in the error body. The default quota is 10 Web Search requests a second, adjustable"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 3.3,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "BB",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 74.3
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 69,
          "maintenance": 80,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 90,
          "schema": 78,
          "security": 85,
          "transparency": 60
        },
        "provenanceScore": 93
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "agentcore add gateway-target --name MyWebSearchTarget --type connector --connector web-search --gateway MyGateway \u0026\u0026 agentcore deploy",
        "http": "curl -X POST \"https://$GATEWAY_ID.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/mcp\" \\\n  -H \"Accept: application/json, text/event-stream\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN\" \\\n  -H \"MCP-Protocol-Version: 2025-11-25\" \\\n  -d '{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":\"1\",\"method\":\"tools/call\",\"params\":{\"name\":\"\u003cWebSearch tool name from tools/list\u003e\",\"arguments\":{\"query\":\"Python 3.13 release date\",\"maxResults\":5}}}'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/agentcore-web-search"
      },
      "sameCompany": [
        "amazon-nova-embeddings",
        "amazon-bedrock-guardrails",
        "amazon-transcribe",
        "amazon-polly",
        "agentcore-memory",
        "agentcore-identity",
        "aws-secrets-manager",
        "aws-mcp-servers",
        "amazon-ses",
        "amazon-location",
        "amazon-translate",
        "amazon-ads-api",
        "amazon-creators-api"
      ],
      "area": "web-data",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Search query",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 7,
          "note": "Plus $0.005 per 1,000 Gateway invocations for the `tools/call` itself"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Amazon Web Services, Inc. (regional AWS entities by account location)",
        "domain": "amazon.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1994-11-01",
        "domainNote": "The service pages are under aws.amazon.com and the gateway endpoints on amazonaws.com, an AWS domain. The registration date is the one on our other AWS listings and was not looked up again on 17 October 2026.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/",
        "privacy": "https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status",
        "changelog": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/release-notes.html",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-10-17",
        "notes": [
          "aws.amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt carries Expires 2027-10-16T16:25:03.000Z, read on 17 October 2026, so it has been renewed since our AgentCore listings of 8 October found it expired. It points to the vulnerability disclosure programme on HackerOne and the policy at vdp.aws.security.",
          "The AWS Service Terms show Last Updated 13 October 2026. No clause names Web Search, and section 50.3, which lets AWS use content from named AI services for improvement, does not list Bedrock or AgentCore.",
          "The Web Search Tool page carries its own acceptable-use section. Users must keep and show the source citations and links with any output that uses a search result, and may not extract, store or reproduce results in bulk or build a competing index.",
          "The AWS Privacy Notice shows Last Updated 18 May 2026 and the sub-processor page 28 July 2026.",
          "The dashboard's history file, read on 17 October 2026, lists one event naming Bedrock AgentCore in the last 90 days, packet loss in one zone of eu-south-2 on 4 October 2026, a Region where Web Search is not sold.",
          "AgentCore release notes carry a month for each entry, not a day. Dated launches are on AWS What's New, and the connector versions page gives a release date for each version."
        ],
        "score": 93
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcore-web-search.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "agentcore-web-search",
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          "target": "https://{gateway-id}.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.{region}.amazonaws.com/mcp",
          "method": "mcp-initialize",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:27.322866826Z",
          "lastOk": false,
          "lastStatus": 0,
          "lastMs": 0,
          "lastNote": "invalid character \"{\" in host name",
          "authRequired": false,
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          "uptime30d": 0,
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          "p95ms24h": 0,
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              "date": "2026-10-17",
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              "date": "2026-10-18",
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            {
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              "end": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
              "note": "invalid character \"{\" in host name"
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          ]
        },
        "mcpTools": {
          "url": "https://{gateway-id}.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.{region}.amazonaws.com/mcp",
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          "status": "error",
          "note": "parse \"https://{gateway-id}.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.{region}.amazonaws.com/mcp\": invalid character \"{\" in host name",
          "changedAt": "2026-10-17T22:37:09.365200504Z"
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      }
    },
    "answer": "Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore scores 74.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Brave Search API + MCP's 68 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Brave Search API + MCP leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "brave-search-mcp",
      "name": "Brave Search API + MCP",
      "vendor": "Brave",
      "vendorUrl": "https://brave.com/search/api/",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "search",
      "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.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp",
      "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"
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        ]
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        "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,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 254,
        "ranked": true,
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        "categoryRank": 6,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 72,
          "maintenance": 87,
          "payments": 70,
          "reliability": 55,
          "schema": 72,
          "security": 58,
          "transparency": 81
        },
        "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.",
        "bestFor": "Agents that want an independent, non-Google index at a flat price, or that want page text in one call through LLM Context.",
        "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": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
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          "maintenance": 87,
          "payments": 70,
          "reliability": 55,
          "schema": 72,
          "security": 58,
          "transparency": 63
        },
        "provenanceScore": 98
      },
      "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": 98
      },
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/brave-search-mcp.json\n- Best web search APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/search/index.md\n- All 163 search comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/search/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (BB)\n\nGood for: A team already on AWS that wants agents to search the web through a governed MCP gateway, with owner-set domain lists, IAM or OAuth control and queries kept inside AWS.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 90 against 55\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 78 against 72\n- Security \u0026 auth, 85 against 58\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No error responses for the tool are documented. The only response example has `isError` false\n\n### Brave Search API + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that want an independent, non-Google index at a flat price, or that want page text in one call through LLM Context.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 70 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 80\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Cheaper for web search, $5 against $7 per 1,000 requests\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The status page marks the Search API \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | Brave Search API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 55 | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +35 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 72 | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 72 | Brave Search API + MCP +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 85 | 58 | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +27 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 70 | Brave Search API + MCP +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 87 | Brave Search API + MCP +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 81 | Brave Search API + MCP +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **74.3 · BB** | **68 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | Brave Search API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Brave |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://{gateway-id}.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.{region}.amazonaws.com/mcp` | `https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP | stdio, Streamable HTTP, HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| Price for web search | $7 per 1,000 requests | $5 per 1,000 requests |\n| x402 | no | payer tooling only |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement and Service Terms, with an acceptable-use section on the tool's documentation page | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 1 | 8 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.brave/brave-search-mcp-server` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-09-17 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-08-25 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 1.4k stars, 22k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.** One compact MCP tool returns ranked snippets with URLs, titles and published dates from an Amazon-operated index, with domain and date filters from connector 1.2.0, at $7 per 1,000 queries. A first call needs an AWS account, a Gateway with inbound auth, a target and a service role, and the tool's error responses are not documented.\n\n**Brave Search API + MCP.** 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## Before you call either\n\n### Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore\n\n1. Call `tools/list` on the gateway and take the tool's name from it. AWS's call examples name gateway tools by target and tool\n2. Keep `query` to 200 characters and `maxResults` between 1 and 25 (default 10). The published schema states these limits only in descriptions\n3. Check the target's connector version before sending `filters`. Version 1.1.0, the default, exposes only `query` and `maxResults`\n4. Keep each result's URL and title with any answer built from it. AWS's acceptable-use terms require shown citations and bar storing results in bulk\n5. On a throttled request, wait the `retryAfter` seconds in the error body. The default quota is 10 Web Search requests a second, adjustable\n\n### Brave Search API + MCP\n\n1. Call /res/v1/llm/context when you need page text rather than links. It saves a separate fetch\n2. Treat \"No web results found\" from the MCP server as an empty result, not an outage\n3. On 429, wait for `X-RateLimit-Reset` seconds. There's no `Retry-After` header\n4. Skip `brave_summarizer`. The Summarizer is deprecated and the x402 proxy doesn't sell it\n5. Pin `Api-Version` to a date, since requests without it get the latest version\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore or Brave Search API + MCP?\n\nWeb Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore scores 74.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Brave Search API + MCP's 68 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Brave Search API + MCP leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Which is cheaper for web search, Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore or Brave Search API + MCP?\n\nBrave Search API + MCP, at $5 per 1,000 requests against $7 per 1,000 requests for Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Do Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Brave Search API + MCP need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Brave Search API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore has a hosted endpoint at https://{gateway-id}.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.{region}.amazonaws.com/mcp and Brave Search API + MCP at https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search.\n\n### Are Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Brave Search API + MCP open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Brave Search API + MCP is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-brave-search-mcp.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-brave-search-mcp.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"agentcore-web-search\", \"b\": \"brave-search-mcp\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare agentcore-web-search brave-search-mcp`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agentcore-web-search.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/brave-search-mcp.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore or Brave Search API + MCP\n\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Cloudflare Web Search API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-cloudflare-web-search.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs DeepSeek Search and Fetch API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-deepseek-search-api.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Exa API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-exa-mcp.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Firecrawl MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-firecrawl-mcp.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Grep AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-grep-ai.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Kagi Search API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-kagi-search.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Linkup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-linkup.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Parallel Search and Task APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-parallel-search-api.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs SearchAPI.io](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-searchapi-io.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs SerpApi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-serpapi.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Serper](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-serper.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs SerpKite](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-serpkite.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Tavily API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-tavily-mcp.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-you-com-api.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs Cloudflare Web Search API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-cloudflare-web-search.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs DeepSeek Search and Fetch API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-deepseek-search-api.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs Exa API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-exa-mcp.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs Firecrawl MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-firecrawl-mcp.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs Kagi Search API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-kagi-search.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs Linkup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-linkup.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs Parallel Search and Task APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-parallel-search-api.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs SearchAPI.io](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-searchapi-io.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs SerpApi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-serpapi.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs Serper](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-serper.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs SerpKite](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-serpkite.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs Tavily API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-tavily-mcp.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-you-com-api.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs Grep AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-grep-ai.md)\n",
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