{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "arcmira", "name": "Arcmira", "vendor": "Arcmira, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://arcmira.com", "kind": "mcp", "category": "search", "summary": "Arcmira indexes YouTube and podcast transcripts and returns timestamped passages, entity mentions, channel sponsors and mention alerts through a remote MCP server, a REST API at api.arcmira.com/v1, a CLI and TypeScript and Python SDKs.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arcmira", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arcmira.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arcmira.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/arcmira.json", "repo": "https://github.com/arcmira/mcp", "license": "Proprietary service under Arcmira's Terms of Service. The MCP server's source is public under an all-rights-reserved notice; the Claude Code plugin, the arcmira TypeScript SDK and CLI and the Python SDK are Apache-2.0, and the Famous rankings are CC BY 4.0", "transports": [ "streamable-http", "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.arcmira.com/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "arcmira" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "arcmira" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The MCP server at https://mcp.arcmira.com/mcp answers an unauthenticated request with 401 and OAuth protected-resource metadata; hosts sign in through api.arcmira.com with the authorization code flow, PKCE S256, dynamic client registration and refresh tokens, and the consent screen grants read access plus, if allowed, monitor changes (scopes read, monitors:write, trackers:write, recommendations:read). Any client can instead send an account key as `Authorization: Bearer arc_sk_...`. Dashboard keys carry all four scopes and show once; a key minted from `POST /v1/signups` and `/v1/signups/verify` (an email and a six-digit code, no browser) carries `read` only and never expires. Keys are disabled on the API keys page and take effect at once; hosts are revoked under Dashboard, Integrations. Plan gates, not scopes, decide Premium transcripts, fresh media and sponsor rows.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 1,000 credits a month, 2 monitored names and no card, which withholds the newest 30 days of media and the pages past the first. Pro $20 a month for 20,000 credits (7-day trial, card required), Pro+ $60 for 60,000 with sponsor and recommendation rows, Ultra $200 for 400,000, Enterprise by contract; yearly billing 20 per cent less. A search passage, mention or list row costs 4 credits past the first 5 of a request, a momentum call 10, a sponsor row 40, a monitor alert 25, captions 4 per started 15 minutes and a Premium transcript 300 per started 15 minutes of the whole video, once. Past the plan, on-demand usage costs $0.002 a credit up to a budget an admin sets; repeating a request within 7 days and failed Premium transcripts cost nothing (https://arcmira.com/docs/usage-and-billing.md, checked 2026-10-30).", "priceSummary": "$0.001 / credit", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI file, llms.txt, developers.md, the docs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-30). Paid plans and on-demand usage are billed to a card through Stripe from the dashboard.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 4, "popularity": { "githubStars": 78, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://arcmira.com/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://arcmira.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.arcmira.com/v1/openapi.json", "registryName": "io.github.arcmira/arcmira", "capabilities": [ "search.research", "audio.transcribe", "social.analytics" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "oauth", "cli", "typescript", "python", "webhooks", "free-tier", "no-card", "freemium", "pre-1.0", "agent-skills", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 420, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1227, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 91, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 55, "reliability": 40, "schema": 87, "security": 61, "transparency": 61 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-30" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "Between 5 and 8 October 2026 the v1 API retired POST /v1/trackers (410 tracker_create_retired) and six tracker delivery fields for the team account model. The changelog says the first seven rows can break a client, and its entry is dated 8 October, the day the change finished, with no advance notice found. Documented the same day with typed codes, a 410 and a migration table, so deducted at the low end (-3). https://arcmira.com/docs/changelog.md" ], "verdict": "Four code-mode tools over a documented v1 API, OAuth 2.1 with four scopes, a read-only sign-up key from two API calls and no card, and a 1,000-credit free month. No status page, SLA or security.txt, breaking v1 changes shipped in October with same-day notice, the server is at 0.10.7, and the index covers the shows Arcmira transcribes.", "bestFor": "Agents answering what was said on YouTube shows and podcasts, who was mentioned or appeared where, which brands sponsor a show and how a name's mentions are trending, with timestamped source links, through one connection on a free monthly allowance.", "strengths": [ "OAuth 2.1 for MCP hosts with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, refresh tokens, revocation and four scopes, plus bearer keys that are read-only when minted from the API", "A public OpenAPI 3.1 file of 35 operations, an error catalogue of about 60 codes with `unlock.url` and `details.limit`, `Idempotency-Key` on every write and a request id on every response", "Four tools whose programs run in an isolate that never holds the key, bounded to 40 API calls, 30 seconds and 12,000 characters, with all four annotations declared", "Free plan of 1,000 credits a month without a card, prices in credits per read published on one page, and a key from two API calls with an email and a code", "Published limits of 60, 240 and 600 requests a minute by plan, `RateLimit-*` headers on every response and `Retry-After` on 429, and HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks with secret rotation" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, incident history or SLA was found; the terms disclaim uninterrupted service and Enterprise lists priority support without an uptime commitment", "No security.txt on any of the three hosts, no disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification, and the terms forbid probing for vulnerabilities", "The v1 API retired `POST /v1/trackers` and six tracker fields between 5 and 8 October 2026 with the changelog entry dated the day the change finished; the quickstart says routes arrive without notice", "The MCP server is at 0.10.7 after 30 releases in six weeks and two rounds of tool renames; the Free plan withholds the newest 30 days of media and pages past the first", "Every tool call, including the first 4,000 characters of the program and the agent's intent, is logged to the vendor's analytics with no opt-out, and the privacy policy states no retention periods", "Results are third-party speech with no prompt-injection guidance beyond checking the linked source, and support is one email address with no community channel" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `arcmira_describe` once per session and write one program per question for `arcmira_execute_read`; return only the fields the answer needs, since output is cut at 12,000 characters and 3,000 per string.", "Resolve names with `arcmira.resolve` (free) before any `about`, `by`, `entity_ids` or `channel` filter; a name in a filter fails with `id_required`. Plain keyword search needs no resolver call.", "Check `arcmira.status()` or GET /v1/me for the plan, scopes and `usage.credits.available` before metered reads; on Free, media newer than 30 days and pages past the first fail with `freshness_requires_paid` and `pagination_gated`.", "A Premium read of an untranscribed video starts a transcription that uses credits (300 per started 15 minutes) and may return `pending`; read the same video again later, which is never charged twice, and send `retry: true` only when the user asks.", "Over HTTP send `Authorization: Bearer arc_sk_...`, an `Idempotency-Key` on every POST and PATCH, honour `Retry-After` on 429, and switch on `error.code`, following `unlock.url` on 402 and 403 rather than re-authenticating.", "Use `arcmira_execute_write` only after listing the user's monitors; it creates, follows and pauses but never deletes, and a connection made before server 0.9.0 answers `insufficient_scope` until reconnected." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 91, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 55, "reliability": 40, "schema": 87, "security": 61, "transparency": 48 }, "provenanceScore": 73, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-30", "maintenance": "2026-10-30", "payments": "2026-10-30", "reliability": "2026-10-30", "schema": "2026-10-30", "security": "2026-10-30", "transparency": "2026-10-30" }, "last": "2026-10-30", "lastMoved": "2026-10-30", "oldest": "2026-10-30", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install arcmira", "http": "curl 'https://api.arcmira.com/v1/search?q=corporate%20cards\u0026limit=5' -H \"Authorization: Bearer $ARCMIRA_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http --scope user arcmira https://mcp.arcmira.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "arcmira": { "url": "https://mcp.arcmira.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/search.research", "tool": "https://letme.dev/arcmira" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Search passage, mention or list row (Pro plan credit)", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.001, "note": "a plan credit on Pro and Pro+; a passage, mention or list row costs 4 credits past the first 5 of a request, so a request of 5 or fewer rows costs nothing; $0.0005 a credit on Ultra" }, { "item": "On-demand credit", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.002, "note": "usage past the plan's credits, up to an admin-set monthly budget, invoiced in steps from $20" }, { "item": "Premium transcript, 15 minutes", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.3, "note": "300 credits per started 15 minutes of the whole video, once per account, at $0.001 a Pro plan credit; $0.60 on-demand, $0.15 on Ultra" }, { "item": "Monitor alert", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.025, "note": "25 credits at $0.001 a Pro plan credit; $0.05 on-demand" }, { "item": "Sponsor or commercial row", "unit": "record", "usd": 0.04, "note": "40 credits, Pro+ and above only, at $0.001 a plan credit" }, { "item": "Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 20, "note": "20,000 credits a month, 10 monitored names, 7-day trial with a card; Pro+ $60 for 60,000, Ultra $200 for 400,000; yearly billing 20 per cent less" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Arcmira, Inc.", "domain": "arcmira.com", "domainRegistered": "2014-06-05", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://arcmira.com/terms", "privacy": "https://arcmira.com/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://arcmira.com/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-30", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (effective 13 October 2026) and the privacy policy (effective 2 October 2026) name Arcmira, Inc., a company based in San Francisco, California, governed by California law with AAA consumer arbitration in San Francisco County. The contact address on both is contact@arcmira.com; support is hi@arcmira.com and sales is sales@arcmira.com.", "RDAP for arcmira.com gives a registration date of 2014-06-05 and a last change on 2024-09-10, the month the GitHub organisation was created (23 September 2024). The Wayback Machine holds captures of the domain from 2011 under earlier owners, so the registration date says nothing about the product's age.", "firstReleased is 2026-08-22, when the arcmira npm package was first published and the arcmira/arcmira repository's history begins. The vendor's docs changelog dates the first public API (v1.0.0) to April 2026 without a day, so the product is older than this date shows. The MCP server's first registry version, 0.3.0, is dated 4 September 2026.", "https://arcmira.com/.well-known/security.txt, https://api.arcmira.com/.well-known/security.txt and https://mcp.arcmira.com/.well-known/security.txt answer 404. https://arcmira.com/status, /about, /blog and /changelog answer 403 with 'Your request was blocked'; the static sitemap lists none of them.", "robots.txt on the three arcmira.com hosts disallows ClaudeBot, Claude-Web and anthropic-ai and allows Claude-User and Claude-SearchBot by name; the 30 October 2026 batch file records the decision to research on that basis. Paths disallowed for every agent (/api/, /dashboard, /search, /chat, /monitors and others) were not fetched." ], "score": 73 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arcmira.json", "live": { "slug": "arcmira", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.arcmira.com/mcp", "method": "mcp-initialize", "lastAt": "2026-10-30T17:21:26.033779545Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 128, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 281, "p95ms24h": 465, "samples24h": 18, "samples30d": 18, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 18, "ok": 18 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-30T17:21:26.033779545Z" } }, "answer": "Brave Search API + MCP scores 68 (B) on agent readiness against Arcmira's 64.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Arcmira leads on schema \u0026 documentation and agent ergonomics.", "b": { "slug": "brave-search-mcp", "name": "Brave Search API + MCP", "vendor": "Brave", "vendorUrl": "https://brave.com/search/api/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "REST API over Brave's independent index with web, news, image, video and local search, an LLM Context endpoint with pre-extracted page content and an Answers endpoint with citations.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/brave-search-mcp.json", "repo": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "stdio", "streamable-http", "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@brave/brave-search-mcp-server" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "mcp/brave-search" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API key in the `X-Subscription-Token` header. The x402 proxy at search.agent.s.brave.app takes a signed payment instead of a key. An `Api-Version` header pins dated response versions. MCP server: BRAVE_API_KEY (or BRAVE_API_KEY_FILE) environment variable.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Search plan $5 per 1,000 requests with $5 free credit a month, 50 QPS. Answers plan $4 per 1,000 requests plus $5 per million tokens, $5 free credit a month, 2 QPS. A card is required for the free credit. Storing results needs an Enterprise plan with storage rights. Enterprise custom (https://brave.com/search/api/).", "priceSummary": "$5 / 1k req", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "partial", "evidence": "Brave's docs link a pay-per-request proxy at search.agent.s.brave.app. Web, LLM Context, news, video, image and local paths cost $0.005 in USDC on Base. Answers, Suggest and Spellcheck aren't sold. An unpaid web search returned 402 with a PAYMENT-REQUIRED header on 2026-09-30 (https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/guides/agent-payments)", "endpoints": [ { "url": "https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/web/search", "priceUsd": 0.005, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/llm/context", "priceUsd": 0.005, "network": "eip155:8453" } ] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1400, "npmWeekly": 22398, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation", "llmsTxt": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.github.brave/brave-search-mcp-server", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "web.extract", "search.answer", "search.news", "search.images" ], "tags": [ "official", "local", "open-source", "usage-priced", "hosted", "card-required", "x402", "llms-txt", "enterprise", "mcp" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-17", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 267, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1227, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 70, "reliability": 55, "schema": 72, "security": 58, "transparency": 81 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "x402 proxy sells web, LLM Context, news, video, image and local search at $0.005 a call, and a failed search isn't charged. The status page marks the Search API \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history.", "bestFor": "Agents that want an independent, non-Google index at a flat price, or that want page text in one call through LLM Context.", "strengths": [ "x402 proxy sells web, LLM Context, news, video, image and local search at $0.005 a call, and a failed search isn't charged", "$5 per 1,000 searches at 50 QPS on the self-serve Search plan", "SOC 2 Type II, a HackerOne bounty and a valid security.txt", "Dated response versions through the `Api-Version` header", "MIT MCP server with five releases since July, tests in CI and a GitHub-verified registry entry" ], "weaknesses": [ "The status page marks the Search API \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history", "A card is required even for the $5 monthly credit", "No public OpenAPI for the keyed API and no API changelog", "No SLA on self-serve plans, and Answers is limited to 2 QPS", "No prompt-injection guidance, though LLM Context returns raw page text" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call /res/v1/llm/context when you need page text rather than links. It saves a separate fetch", "Treat \"No web results found\" from the MCP server as an empty result, not an outage", "On 429, wait for `X-RateLimit-Reset` seconds. There's no `Retry-After` header", "Skip `brave_summarizer`. The Summarizer is deprecated and the x402 proxy doesn't sell it", "Pin `Api-Version` to a date, since requests without it get the latest version" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 68 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 70, "reliability": 55, "schema": 72, "security": 58, "transparency": 63 }, "provenanceScore": 98, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-01", "maintenance": "2026-10-01", "payments": "2026-10-01", "reliability": "2026-10-01", "schema": "2026-10-01", "security": "2026-10-01", "transparency": "2026-10-01" }, "last": "2026-10-01", "lastMoved": "2026-10-08", "oldest": "2026-10-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=brave+search\u0026count=5\" \\\n -H \"Accept: application/json\" -H \"X-Subscription-Token: $BRAVE_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add brave-search -e BRAVE_API_KEY=${BRAVE_API_KEY} -- npx -y @brave/brave-search-mcp-server", "config": { "mcpServers": { "brave-search": { "args": [ "-y", "@brave/brave-search-mcp-server" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "BRAVE_API_KEY": "${BRAVE_API_KEY}" } } } }, "x402": "purl --max-amount 5000 'https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/web/search?q=rust'\n# unpaid requests get HTTP 402 with a PAYMENT-REQUIRED header, USDC on eip155:8453" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/brave-search-mcp" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Search plan", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5 }, { "item": "Answers plan", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 4, "note": "plus $5 per million tokens" }, { "item": "x402 search, per call", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.005, "note": "USDC on Base, no account" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Brave Software, Inc.", "domain": "brave.com", "domainRegistered": "1995-09-18", "domainNote": "brave.com was registered in 1995, before Brave bought it.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.brave.app", "changelog": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server/releases", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "The x402 proxy runs on search.agent.s.brave.app, not brave.com. Brave's API docs link it as official.", "status.brave.app lists the Brave Search API but marks it \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history. The API docs keep a separate status log whose last entry is 27 March 2025 (https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/status-updates/)." ], "score": 98 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp.json", "live": { "slug": "brave-search-mcp", "probe": { "target": "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-30T17:21:28.48977094Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 422, "lastMs": 410, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 407, "p95ms24h": 470, "samples24h": 250, "samples30d": 7631, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", 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The status page marks the Search API \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-brave-search-mcp", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-brave-search-mcp.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-brave-search-mcp.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-brave-search-mcp.min.md" }, "markdown": "Brave Search API + MCP scores 68 (B) on agent readiness against Arcmira's 64.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Arcmira leads on schema \u0026 documentation and agent ergonomics. Both do web search.\n\n- Arcmira: grade B, 64.2/100, rank #420 of 1227. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arcmira.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/arcmira.json\n- Brave Search API + MCP: grade B, 68/100, rank #267 of 1227. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/brave-search-mcp.json\n- Best web search APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/search/index.md\n- All 182 search comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/search/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Arcmira (B)\n\nGood for: Agents answering what was said on YouTube shows and podcasts, who was mentioned or appeared where, which brands sponsor a show and how a name's mentions are trending, with timestamped source links, through one connection on a free monthly allowance.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 72\n- Agent ergonomics, 91 against 72\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history or SLA was found; the terms disclaim uninterrupted service and Enterprise lists priority support without an uptime commitment\n\n### Brave Search API + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that want an independent, non-Google index at a flat price, or that want page text in one call through LLM Context.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 55 against 40\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 70 against 55\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n- No incidents deducted, where Arcmira loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: The status page marks the Search API \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Arcmira | Brave Search API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 55 | Brave Search API + MCP +15 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 72 | Arcmira +15 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 72 | Arcmira +19 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 58 | Arcmira +3 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 55 | 70 | Brave Search API + MCP +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 87 | Brave Search API + MCP +3 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 81 | Brave Search API + MCP +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.2 · B** | **68 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Arcmira | Brave Search API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Arcmira, Inc. | Brave |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.arcmira.com/mcp` | `https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP, HTTP | stdio, Streamable HTTP, HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| Price for web search | $0.001 per credit | $5 per 1,000 requests |\n| x402 | no | payer tooling only |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Arcmira's Terms of Service. The MCP server's source is public under an all-rights-reserved notice; the Claude Code plugin, the arcmira TypeScript SDK and CLI and the Python SDK are Apache-2.0, and the Famous rankings are CC BY 4.0 | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 4 | 8 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.arcmira/arcmira` | `io.github.brave/brave-search-mcp-server` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-09-17 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-13 | 2026-09-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-02 | 2026-08-25 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 78 stars | 1.4k stars, 22k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Arcmira.** Four code-mode tools over a documented v1 API, OAuth 2.1 with four scopes, a read-only sign-up key from two API calls and no card, and a 1,000-credit free month. No status page, SLA or security.txt, breaking v1 changes shipped in October with same-day notice, the server is at 0.10.7, and the index covers the shows Arcmira transcribes.\n\n**Brave Search API + MCP.** x402 proxy sells web, LLM Context, news, video, image and local search at $0.005 a call, and a failed search isn't charged. The status page marks the Search API \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Arcmira\n\n1. Call `arcmira_describe` once per session and write one program per question for `arcmira_execute_read`; return only the fields the answer needs, since output is cut at 12,000 characters and 3,000 per string.\n2. Resolve names with `arcmira.resolve` (free) before any `about`, `by`, `entity_ids` or `channel` filter; a name in a filter fails with `id_required`. Plain keyword search needs no resolver call.\n3. Check `arcmira.status()` or GET /v1/me for the plan, scopes and `usage.credits.available` before metered reads; on Free, media newer than 30 days and pages past the first fail with `freshness_requires_paid` and `pagination_gated`.\n4. A Premium read of an untranscribed video starts a transcription that uses credits (300 per started 15 minutes) and may return `pending`; read the same video again later, which is never charged twice, and send `retry: true` only when the user asks.\n5. Over HTTP send `Authorization: Bearer arc_sk_...`, an `Idempotency-Key` on every POST and PATCH, honour `Retry-After` on 429, and switch on `error.code`, following `unlock.url` on 402 and 403 rather than re-authenticating.\n6. Use `arcmira_execute_write` only after listing the user's monitors; it creates, follows and pauses but never deletes, and a connection made before server 0.9.0 answers `insufficient_scope` until reconnected.\n\n### Brave Search API + MCP\n\n1. Call /res/v1/llm/context when you need page text rather than links. It saves a separate fetch\n2. Treat \"No web results found\" from the MCP server as an empty result, not an outage\n3. On 429, wait for `X-RateLimit-Reset` seconds. There's no `Retry-After` header\n4. Skip `brave_summarizer`. The Summarizer is deprecated and the x402 proxy doesn't sell it\n5. Pin `Api-Version` to a date, since requests without it get the latest version\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Arcmira or Brave Search API + MCP?\n\nBrave Search API + MCP scores 68 (B) on agent readiness against Arcmira's 64.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Arcmira leads on schema \u0026 documentation and agent ergonomics.\n\n### Do Arcmira and Brave Search API + MCP need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Arcmira and Brave Search API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. Arcmira has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.arcmira.com/mcp and Brave Search API + MCP at https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search.\n\n### Are Arcmira and Brave Search API + MCP open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Arcmira. Brave Search API + MCP is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-brave-search-mcp.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-brave-search-mcp.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"arcmira\", \"b\": \"brave-search-mcp\"}`. 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