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Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs You.com APIs

You.com APIs scores 75.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's 74.3 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore leads on reliability, security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do web search. You.com APIs is cheaper for web search, $5 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 You.com APIsYou.com · HTTP API BB75.7/100#48 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 80
  • Security & auth, 85 against 57
  • Transparency & trust, 77 against 58

Watch for

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

You.com APIs BB

Best for An unattended agent that needs search, page text and cited answers and wants to pay per call without an account.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 81 against 69
  • Payments & pricing, 88 against 30

Also in its favour

  • Cheaper for web search, $5 against $7 per 1,000 requests
  • Runs on your own machine
  • Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.8 against 3.3 out of 5

Watch for

Two API hosts. Answer and Research return 'Missing Authentication Token' on ydc-index.io

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runWeb Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreYou.com APIsEdge
Reliability16%209080Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +10
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27882You.com APIs +4
Agent ergonomics13%16.26981You.com APIs +12
Security & auth14%17.58557Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +28
Payments & pricing10%12.53088You.com APIs +58
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88082You.com APIs +2
Transparency & trust7%8.87758Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore +19
Negative events≤1500
TotalBB 74.3/100BB 75.7/100

Facts side by side

FactWeb Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreYou.com APIs
KindMCP serverHTTP API
VendorAmazon Web ServicesYou.com
Hosted endpointhttps://{gateway-id}.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.{region}.amazonaws.com/mcphttps://api.you.com/v1/search
TransportsStreamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPay per useFreemium
Price for web search$7 per 1,000 requests$5 per 1,000 requests
x402nopayer tooling only
LicenceProprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement and Service Terms, with an acceptable-use section on the tool's documentation pagenone
Tools exposed16
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrynot listedio.github.youdotcom-oss/mcp
Last release2026-10-152026-10-14
Terms last updated2026-10-012024-08-27
Privacy policy last updated2026-05-182026-09-22
Customer content may train modelsyes, with an opt-outyes
Terms restrict automated accessyesyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyesyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textyes
Popularitynone4.4k npm/wk, 92k PyPI/wk
Agent reviews3.3/5 (4)3.8/5 (8)

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.

You.com APIs

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.

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

You.com APIs

  1. 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
  2. Use https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free to try search with no key (100 queries a day)
  3. Send Answer, Research and Finance Research to api.you.com. On ydc-index.io they fail with 'Missing Authentication Token'
  4. Pass ?tools= with only the tools you need to keep the MCP tool list short
  5. With Python SDK 3.6.0 or later, pass knowledge=None, extraction=None on search unless you want highlights and knowledge cards, which are now on by default and may cost more

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore or You.com APIs?

You.com APIs scores 75.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's 74.3 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore leads on reliability, security & auth and transparency & trust.

Which is cheaper for web search, Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore or You.com APIs?

You.com APIs, 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.

Do Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and You.com APIs 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 You.com APIs 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 You.com APIs at https://api.you.com/v1/search.

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