{ "data": { "a": { "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" }, "negative": 0, "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", "probe": { "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, "uptime24h": 0, "uptime30d": 0, "p50ms24h": 0, "p95ms24h": 0, "samples24h": 24, "samples30d": 24, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 21, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 3, "ok": 0 } ], "outages": [ { "start": "2026-10-17T22:04:33.041450753Z", "end": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "note": "invalid character \"{\" in host name" } ] }, "mcpTools": { "url": "https://{gateway-id}.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.{region}.amazonaws.com/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:39:39.250816744Z", "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" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:27.322866826Z" } }, "answer": "Parallel Search and Task APIs and Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 75 (BB) and 74.3 (BB). Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore leads on reliability, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "parallel-search-api", "name": "Parallel Search and Task APIs", "vendor": "Parallel Web Systems", "vendorUrl": "https://parallel.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "Parallel's web APIs for agents, covering search, page extraction, asynchronous research tasks and an OpenAI-compatible Responses endpoint, with hosted Search and Task MCP servers.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parallel-search-api.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "parallel-web" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "parallel-web" } ], "auth": "mixed", "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. Image Search $1 (fast) or $5 (advanced) per 1,000, up to 20 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).", "priceSummary": "$1 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "partial", "evidence": "Not on api.parallel.ai. A separate gateway at parallelmpp.dev takes x402 (USDC on Base) and MPP (Stripe or Tempo) for search and extract at $0.01 and an ultra task at $0.30. An unauthenticated POST to /api/search returned 402 with an x402 v2 challenge for 10000 base units on eip155:8453 (checked 2026-09-30) (https://docs.parallel.ai/integrations/agentic-payments).", "endpoints": [ { "url": "https://parallelmpp.dev/api/search", "priceUsd": 0.01, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://parallelmpp.dev/api/extract", "priceUsd": 0.01, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://parallelmpp.dev/api/task", "priceUsd": 0.3, "network": "eip155:8453" } ] }, "toolCount": 6, "popularity": { "githubStars": 28, "npmWeekly": 249803, "pypiWeekly": 994376, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.parallel.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.parallel.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.parallel.ai/public-openapi.json", "registryName": "ai.parallel/search-mcp", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "web.fetch", "web.extract", "search.answer", "search.research" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "x402", "python", "typescript", "async-jobs", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 75, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 63, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 87, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 75, "reliability": 75, "schema": 94, "security": 45, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Fast-mode search at $1 per 1,000 with 10 excerpted results, and a keyless two-tool Search MCP annotated read-only. Search defaults to advanced mode at $5 per 1,000 when `mode` is left out, and the Customer Terms allow training on inputs and outputs.", "bestFor": "Agents that mix quick search with long research or enrichment jobs and want one vendor and one bill.", "strengths": [ "Fast-mode search at $1 per 1,000 with 10 excerpted results, and Extract at $1 per 1,000 URLs", "Task runs billed only on success, and documented limits of 600 searches and 2,000 task creations a minute", "Keyless hosted Search MCP with two tools annotated read-only and idempotent, plus Bearer and OAuth endpoints", "Public OpenAPI, llms.txt and an errors table that says which codes to retry and how", "SDK releases several times a month, with CI and a breaking-change check on the Python SDK" ], "weaknesses": [ "Search defaults to advanced mode at $5 per 1,000 when `mode` is left out", "SDKs retry Task creation on 429 and 5xx with no idempotency key", "x402 and MPP only through parallelmpp.dev at a flat $0.01, not on api.parallel.ai", "Customer Terms let Parallel train on inputs and outputs, and no retention period is stated outside the EU endpoint", "No prompt-injection guidance, no security.txt and no public subprocessor list" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pass `mode: \"fast\"` on every API search. Without it you pay the advanced rate. On an authenticated MCP connection, pin it with `?mode=fast`", "Create Task runs with `max_retries=0` and check for an existing run before retrying", "Give an `objective` plus two or three short `search_queries`. That's what ranks the excerpts", "On 402, check available balance rather than total. Running tasks reserve credit", "Ask for zero data retention or use the EU endpoint before sending private queries. The default terms allow training on them" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 8, "avgRating": 3.6, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 75 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 87, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 75, "reliability": 75, "schema": 94, "security": 45, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 85 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search -H \"x-api-key: $PARALLEL_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"mode\":\"fast\",\"objective\":\"Latest Parallel Web Systems announcements\",\"search_queries\":[\"Parallel Web Systems news\"]}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http parallel-search https://search.parallel.ai/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "parallel-search": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${PARALLEL_API_KEY}" }, "url": "https://search.parallel.ai/mcp" } } }, "x402": "curl -i -X POST https://parallelmpp.dev/api/search -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{\"query\":\"test\"}'\n# 402 -\u003e pay $0.01 USDC on eip155:8453 (or MPP via Stripe/Tempo) -\u003e resend" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/parallel-search-api" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Search, turbo or fast", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1, "note": "10 results included" }, { "item": "Search, basic or advanced", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5, "note": "advanced is the default mode" }, { "item": "Extract", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 1 }, { "item": "Task, lite processor", "unit": "1k-calls", "usd": 5 }, { "item": "Task, pro processor", "unit": "1k-calls", "usd": 100 }, { "item": "Responses, medium effort", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 50 }, { "item": "x402 search via gateway", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.01, "note": "parallelmpp.dev" } ], 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"edge": "agentcore-web-search", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "parallel-search-api": 75, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "agentcore-web-search": 78, "by": 16, "edge": "parallel-search-api", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "parallel-search-api": 94, "weight": 13 }, { "agentcore-web-search": 69, "by": 18, "edge": "parallel-search-api", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "parallel-search-api": 87, "weight": 13 }, { "agentcore-web-search": 85, "by": 40, "edge": "agentcore-web-search", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "parallel-search-api": 45, "weight": 14 }, { "agentcore-web-search": 30, "by": 45, "edge": "parallel-search-api", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "parallel-search-api": 75, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "agentcore-web-search": 80, "by": 7, "edge": 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Search defaults to advanced mode at $5 per 1,000 when `mode` is left out, and the Customer Terms allow training on inputs and outputs." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-parallel-search-api", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-parallel-search-api.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-parallel-search-api.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-parallel-search-api.min.md" }, "markdown": "Parallel Search and Task APIs and Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 75 (BB) and 74.3 (BB). Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore leads on reliability, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do web search. Parallel Search and Task APIs is cheaper for web search, $1 against $7 per 1,000 requests.\n\n- Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: grade BB, 74.3/100, rank #76 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcore-web-search.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agentcore-web-search.json\n- Parallel Search and Task APIs: grade BB, 75/100, rank #63 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parallel-search-api.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 75\n- Security \u0026 auth, 85 against 45\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 77 against 65\n\nAlso in its favour:\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### Parallel Search and Task APIs (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents that mix quick search with long research or enrichment jobs and want one vendor and one bill.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 94 against 78\n- Agent ergonomics, 87 against 69\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 75 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 80\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Cheaper for web search, $1 against $7 per 1,000 requests\n\nWatch for: Search defaults to advanced mode at $5 per 1,000 when `mode` is left out\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | Parallel Search and Task APIs | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 75 | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +15 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 94 | Parallel Search and Task APIs +16 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 87 | Parallel Search and Task APIs +18 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 85 | 45 | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +40 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 75 | Parallel Search and Task APIs +45 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 87 | Parallel Search and Task APIs +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 65 | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **74.3 · BB** | **75 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | Parallel Search and Task APIs |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Parallel Web Systems |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://{gateway-id}.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.{region}.amazonaws.com/mcp` | `https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| Price for web search | $7 per 1,000 requests | $1 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 | none |\n| Tools exposed | 1 | 6 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.parallel/search-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-08-11 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Popularity | none | 28 stars, 250k npm/wk, 994k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 3.6/5 (8) |\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**Parallel Search and Task APIs.** Fast-mode search at $1 per 1,000 with 10 excerpted results, and a keyless two-tool Search MCP annotated read-only. Search defaults to advanced mode at $5 per 1,000 when `mode` is left out, and the Customer Terms allow training on inputs and outputs.\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### Parallel Search and Task APIs\n\n1. Pass `mode: \"fast\"` on every API search. Without it you pay the advanced rate. On an authenticated MCP connection, pin it with `?mode=fast`\n2. Create Task runs with `max_retries=0` and check for an existing run before retrying\n3. Give an `objective` plus two or three short `search_queries`. That's what ranks the excerpts\n4. On 402, check available balance rather than total. Running tasks reserve credit\n5. Ask for zero data retention or use the EU endpoint before sending private queries. The default terms allow training on them\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore or Parallel Search and Task APIs?\n\nParallel Search and Task APIs and Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 75 (BB) and 74.3 (BB). Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore leads on reliability, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Which is cheaper for web search, Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore or Parallel Search and Task APIs?\n\nParallel Search and Task APIs, at $1 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 Parallel Search and Task APIs 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 Parallel Search and Task APIs 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 Parallel Search and Task APIs at https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-parallel-search-api.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-parallel-search-api.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"agentcore-web-search\", \"b\": \"parallel-search-api\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare agentcore-web-search parallel-search-api`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agentcore-web-search.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parallel-search-api.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore or Parallel Search and Task APIs\n\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Brave Search API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-brave-search-mcp.md)\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 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Serper](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallel-search-api-vs-serper.md)\n- [Parallel Search and Task APIs vs SerpKite](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallel-search-api-vs-serpkite.md)\n- [Parallel Search and Task APIs vs Tavily API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallel-search-api-vs-tavily-mcp.md)\n- [Parallel Search and Task APIs vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallel-search-api-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Parallel Search and Task APIs vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallel-search-api-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Parallel Search and Task APIs vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallel-search-api-vs-you-com-api.md)\n- [Fetch (MCP reference server) vs Parallel Search and Task APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-parallel-search-api.md)\n- [Grep AI vs Parallel Search and Task APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-parallel-search-api.md)\n", 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