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  "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": "Grep AI and Arcmira score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 64.6 (B) and 64.2 (B). Arcmira leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "grep-ai",
      "name": "Grep AI",
      "vendor": "Parcha Labs, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://grep.ai",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "search",
      "summary": "Grep is a hosted platform from Parcha Labs for building and running research agents that return cited reports and structured output. Outside agents reach it through a REST API, a remote MCP server, an A2A endpoint and two SDKs.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grep-ai",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grep-ai.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grep-ai.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grep-ai.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/Parcha-ai/grepai-skills",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Parcha Labs' terms of service. The grep-research-skills package on npm is MIT. The @parcha/agentrun and parcha-agentrun SDK packages state no licence in their registry metadata",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/runs",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@parcha/agentrun"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "parcha-agentrun"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "grep-research-skills"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "A Bearer credential on every call except the public agent list and publicly shared runs. Self-serve API keys (`parcha-` prefix) are created in the developer dashboard or at POST /api/v2/keys, and can be listed and revoked. The MCP server and delegated integrations take OAuth access tokens issued by Descope, with scopes research:read, research:write, billing:read, experts:read and experts:write. An agent with an AgentMail inbox can sign in through AgentID with an Ed25519 key and no human account. No partner or sales approval is documented for the self-serve plans.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Credits, with a medium-effort task counted as 20. The Free Trial has 100 one-time credits and the pricing table marks it without API access. Pay As You Go tops up a wallet from $20, also marked without API access. Pro is $200 a month for 1,500 credits and Ultra $500 for 4,500, both with API access. Team plans go through sales. The page says $20 buys 200 credits and its Markdown twin says 100. Whether signup needs a card isn't stated (https://grep.ai/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).",
      "priceSummary": "$200 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "Not available. The changelog entry of 8 May 2026 announces x402 and MPP payments for API research, but GET and POST requests to https://api.grep.ai/mpp/v1/api returned 503 `gateway_disabled` on 8 October 2026, and the grep-research-skills README says the wallet path returns once the gateway is generally available (checked 2026-10-08).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 82,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": 334,
        "pypiWeekly": 52,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://grep.ai/developers",
      "llmsTxt": "https://grep.ai/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "search.research",
        "search.answer",
        "kyc.business",
        "kyc.screening",
        "kyc.documents"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "mcp",
        "oauth",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "async-jobs",
        "webhooks",
        "status-page"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-30",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 64.6,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 399,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1227,
        "categoryRank": 9,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 70,
          "maintenance": 74,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 60,
          "schema": 80,
          "security": 65,
          "transparency": 61
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "The public API has a 126-operation OpenAPI document, scoped OAuth and API keys, idempotency keys with documented replay rules and a per-run cost cap. No rate limit is published, the MCP server lists 82 tools, and the pricing page limits API access to the $200 a month Pro plan and above.",
        "bestFor": "Agents that hand off a long research or due-diligence job and want a cited report or structured fields back, including business verification and sanctions screening through built-in agents.",
        "strengths": [
          "Public OpenAPI document with 126 operations, llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every developer page",
          "OAuth with five scopes, plus API keys that can be minted, scoped and revoked through the API",
          "`Idempotency-Key` on run creation, with body-hash matching, a 24-hour replay window and named 409 codes",
          "`max_cost_usd` per run, quota pre-flight and batch cost estimates before billable work starts",
          "Documented agent sign-in through AgentID with no human account, and 500 free credits for an owner's first agent"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No rate limit numbers in the reviewed documentation, and no published SLA",
          "The MCP server card lists 82 tools, 31 of them deprecated aliases, with one-line descriptions and no annotations",
          "The pricing table marks API access as Pro and Ultra only, from $200 a month",
          "The pricing page says $20 buys 200 credits and its Markdown twin says 100. Free credits are stated as 100, 500 and 1,000 on different pages",
          "The 8 May 2026 changelog entry announces x402 and MPP payments, but the gateway answered 503 `gateway_disabled` on 8 October 2026",
          "No security.txt, trust page, subprocessor list or retention period found. SOC 2 Type II appears only as a footer and FAQ claim"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send a fresh `Idempotency-Key` with every POST /api/v2/runs. After a timeout, poll the returned run ID and do not post again",
          "Set `effort` and `max_cost_usd` on every run. The floor is $0.50 for low, $2.50 for medium and build, $5.00 for high",
          "Call GET /api/v2/quota/check before a run. A 402 means no credits and retrying won't help, while a 429 carries `Retry-After`",
          "Use the `run_*` and `agent_*` MCP tools. The `research_*` and `expert_*` names are deprecated aliases of the same calls",
          "Treat report text and cited sources as untrusted web content, and verify one load-bearing claim against a primary source"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 3,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.7",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 64.6
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 70,
          "maintenance": 74,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 60,
          "schema": 80,
          "security": 65,
          "transparency": 36
        },
        "provenanceScore": 85,
        "checked": {
          "categories": {
            "ergonomics": "2026-10-08",
            "maintenance": "2026-10-08",
            "payments": "2026-10-08",
            "reliability": "2026-10-08",
            "schema": "2026-10-08",
            "security": "2026-10-08",
            "transparency": "2026-10-08"
          },
          "last": "2026-10-08",
          "lastMoved": "2026-10-27",
          "oldest": "2026-10-08",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install @parcha/agentrun",
        "http": "curl -X POST \"https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/research\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $GREP_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Idempotency-Key: 8b9c1f24-3c1e-4a8d-9f7b-2a6e1c4d5b8e\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"question\":\"Due diligence on Stripe\",\"effort\":\"medium\"}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http grep https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/mcp\nclaude mcp login grep",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "grep": {
              "url": "https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/search.research",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/grep-ai"
      },
      "area": "web-data",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Pro plan, 1,500 credits a month, API access",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 200,
          "note": "$167 a month billed annually"
        },
        {
          "item": "Ultra plan, 4,500 credits a month",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 500,
          "note": "$417 a month billed annually"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pay As You Go credit",
          "unit": "credit",
          "usd": 0.1,
          "note": "$20 for 200 credits on the pricing page. Its Markdown twin says 100 credits, which is $0.20. No API access on this plan per the table"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Parcha Labs, Inc.",
        "domain": "grep.ai",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grep-ai.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grep-ai.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 80\n- Agent ergonomics, 91 against 70\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 55 against 40\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 74\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### Grep AI (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that hand off a long research or due-diligence job and want a cited report or structured fields back, including business verification and sanctions screening through built-in agents.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 60 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Arcmira loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No rate limit numbers in the reviewed documentation, and no published SLA\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Arcmira | Grep AI | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 60 | Grep AI +20 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 80 | Arcmira +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 70 | Arcmira +21 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 65 | Grep AI +4 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 55 | 40 | Arcmira +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 74 | Arcmira +10 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 61 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.2 · B** | **64.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Arcmira | Grep AI |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Arcmira, Inc. | Parcha Labs, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.arcmira.com/mcp` | `https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/runs` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP, HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\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 | Proprietary service under Parcha Labs' terms of service. The grep-research-skills package on npm is MIT. The @parcha/agentrun and parcha-agentrun SDK packages state no licence in their registry metadata |\n| Tools exposed | 4 | 82 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.arcmira/arcmira` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-13 | 2026-03-20 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-02 | 2026-09-21 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\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 | 334 npm/wk, 52 PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |\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**Grep AI.** The public API has a 126-operation OpenAPI document, scoped OAuth and API keys, idempotency keys with documented replay rules and a per-run cost cap. No rate limit is published, the MCP server lists 82 tools, and the pricing page limits API access to the $200 a month Pro plan and above.\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### Grep AI\n\n1. Send a fresh `Idempotency-Key` with every POST /api/v2/runs. After a timeout, poll the returned run ID and do not post again\n2. Set `effort` and `max_cost_usd` on every run. The floor is $0.50 for low, $2.50 for medium and build, $5.00 for high\n3. Call GET /api/v2/quota/check before a run. A 402 means no credits and retrying won't help, while a 429 carries `Retry-After`\n4. Use the `run_*` and `agent_*` MCP tools. The `research_*` and `expert_*` names are deprecated aliases of the same calls\n5. Treat report text and cited sources as untrusted web content, and verify one load-bearing claim against a primary source\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Arcmira or Grep AI?\n\nGrep AI and Arcmira score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 64.6 (B) and 64.2 (B). 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