# Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs TinyFish Search

> Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore scores 74.3 (BB) to TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B) for web search. TinyFish Search is cheaper for web search, $0 against $7 per 1,000 requests. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- 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
- TinyFish Search: grade B, 63.2/100, rank #445 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish-search.json
- Best web search APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/search/index.md
- All 163 search comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/search/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (BB)

Good 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | TinyFish Search | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 50 | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +40 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 82 | TinyFish Search +4 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 78 | TinyFish Search +9 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 85 | 58 | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +27 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 45 | TinyFish Search +15 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 78 | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +2 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 52 | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +25 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **74.3 · BB** | **63.2 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | TinyFish Search |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | TinyFish |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://{gateway-id}.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.{region}.amazonaws.com/mcp` | `https://api.search.tinyfish.ai` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Price for web search | $7 per 1,000 requests | free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement and Service Terms, with an acceptable-use section on the tool's documentation page | Proprietary 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 exposed | 1 | 28 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-08-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2025-12-14 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 9 stars, 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (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.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-tinyfish-search.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-tinyfish-search.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "agentcore-web-search", "b": "tinyfish-search"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare agentcore-web-search tinyfish-search`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agentcore-web-search.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish-search.json

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