# Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs You.com APIs (slim)

> You.com scores 75.7 (BB) to Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's 74.3 (BB) for web search. You.com is cheaper for web search, $5 against $7 per 1,000 requests. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: BB 74.3, rank #76 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcore-web-search.min.md
- You.com APIs: BB 75.7, rank #48 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api.min.md
- Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, 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 80; Security & auth, 85 against 57; Transparency & trust, 77 against 58.
- You.com APIs, good 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 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.

| Category | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | You.com APIs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 81 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 85 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 88 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | You.com APIs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | You.com |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://{gateway-id}.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.{region}.amazonaws.com/mcp` | `https://api.you.com/v1/search` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Price for web search | $7 per 1,000 requests | $5 per 1,000 requests |
| x402 | no | payer tooling only |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement and Service Terms, with an acceptable-use section on the tool's documentation page | none |
| Tools exposed | 1 | 6 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.youdotcom-oss/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-14 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2024-08-27 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-09-22 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 4.4k npm/wk, 92k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 3.8/5 (8) |