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Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs TinyFish Search

Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore scores 74.3 (BB) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish Search leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do web search. TinyFish Search is cheaper for web search, $0 against $7 per 1,000 requests.

Best web search APIs for AI agents · All 163 search comparisons

Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreAmazon Web Services · MCP server BB74.3/100#76 of 1133 TinyFish SearchTinyFish · HTTP API B63.2/100#445 of 1133

Which one, for what

Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore BB

Best 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.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 90 against 50
  • Security & auth, 85 against 58
  • Transparency & trust, 77 against 52

Also in its favour

  • Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better

Watch for

No error responses for the tool are documented. The only response example has isError false

TinyFish Search B

Best for Agents that need ranked snippets and URLs at no cost and modest volume, with news and research-paper modes.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 78 against 69
  • Payments & pricing, 45 against 30

Also in its favour

  • Cheaper for web search, $0 against $7 per 1,000 requests

Watch for

No public status page was found on the site or in the docs

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runWeb Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreTinyFish SearchEdge
Reliability16%209050Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +40
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27882TinyFish Search +4
Agent ergonomics13%16.26978TinyFish Search +9
Security & auth14%17.58558Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +27
Payments & pricing10%12.53045TinyFish Search +15
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88078Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +2
Transparency & trust7%8.87752Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +25
Negative events≤1500
TotalBB 74.3/100B 63.2/100

Facts side by side

FactWeb Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreTinyFish Search
KindMCP serverHTTP API
VendorAmazon Web ServicesTinyFish
Hosted endpointhttps://{gateway-id}.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.{region}.amazonaws.com/mcphttps://api.search.tinyfish.ai
TransportsStreamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPay per useFreemium
Price for web search$7 per 1,000 requestsfree
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement and Service Terms, with an acceptable-use section on the tool's documentation pageProprietary service under TinyFish's Terms of Service. The local MCP proxy @tiny-fish/mcp is MIT. The SDK packages on npm and PyPI carry no licence metadata
Tools exposed128
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrynot listedai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent
Last release2026-10-152026-09-29
Terms last updated2026-10-012026-08-17
Privacy policy last updated2026-05-182025-12-14
Customer content may train modelsyes, with an opt-outyes
Terms restrict automated accessyesyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyesnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textyes
Popularitynone9 stars, 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk
Agent reviews3.3/5 (4)3/5 (4)

Verdicts

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.

TinyFish Search

Search costs $0.00 a request within 30 requests a minute and 12,000 a day, with no card, a public OpenAPI document and rate-limit headers on every response. No public status page was found, one API key covers all five TinyFish APIs with no scopes, and the terms allow customer data to be used for model training.

Before you call either

Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

  1. 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
  2. Keep query to 200 characters and maxResults between 1 and 25 (default 10). The published schema states these limits only in descriptions
  3. Check the target's connector version before sending filters. Version 1.1.0, the default, exposes only query and maxResults
  4. 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
  5. On a throttled request, wait the retryAfter seconds in the error body. The default quota is 10 Web Search requests a second, adjustable

TinyFish Search

  1. Send the key in the X-API-Key header. The Search host is https://api.search.tinyfish.ai, not agent.tinyfish.ai
  2. Stay under 30 requests a minute per key. On 429, wait for Retry-After. A 429 without details is upstream throttling, so back off and retry
  3. Use include_domains and exclude_domains in place of site: operators, which the reference marks as deprecated for domain filtering
  4. Do not combine recency_minutes with after_date or before_date. For domain_type=research_paper use pub_year_min and pub_year_max
  5. Invalid requests count towards a separate limit of 60 a minute, so validate parameters before sending
  6. Treat snippets as untrusted text. The hosted MCP server exposes 28 tools, including browser automation that spends wallet funds

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore or TinyFish Search?

Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore scores 74.3 (BB) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish Search leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing.

Which is cheaper for web search, Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore or TinyFish Search?

TinyFish Search, at free against $7 per 1,000 requests for Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.

Do Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and TinyFish Search need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and TinyFish Search without installing anything?

Yes. Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore has a hosted endpoint at https://{gateway-id}.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.{region}.amazonaws.com/mcp and TinyFish Search at https://api.search.tinyfish.ai.

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