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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": "Arcmira scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Kagi Search API's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Kagi Search API leads on transparency \u0026 trust.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "kagi-search",
      "name": "Kagi Search API",
      "vendor": "Kagi",
      "vendorUrl": "https://kagi.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "search",
      "summary": "Kagi's Search API returns results from the Kagi search engine for web, image, video, news and podcast queries, with optional Markdown extraction of the top pages. It is a paid HTTP API in public preview, with a hosted MCP server.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kagi-search",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kagi-search.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kagi-search.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kagi-search.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/kagisearch/kagimcp",
      "license": "Proprietary service under the Kagi API Terms of Service. The MCP server is MIT and the OpenAPI file states Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://kagi.com/api/v1/search",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "kagimcp"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve API key from the portal at kagi.com/api, sent as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e` per the OpenAPI file. Each key can be limited to chosen products and to IP addresses or ranges, and deleted to revoke it. On Family and Team plans only the account owner can open the portal. The hosted MCP server takes the same key as a Bearer header, with no OAuth yet.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "$12 per 1,000 searches and $4 per 1,000 extracted pages, pay as you go, invoiced every 30 days or when usage reaches $100. Prepaid credit and a spending cap are available. No free tier or sandbox. The quick start asks for a Kagi account and a payment method first. Enterprise volume prices are by quote (https://kagi.com/api/pricing, checked 2026-10-09).",
      "priceSummary": "$12 / 1k req",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI file, the API docs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 535,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-09"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://help.kagi.com/kagi/api/overview.html",
      "openapi": "https://kagi.com/api/docs/_spec/openapi.yaml",
      "capabilities": [
        "web.search",
        "web.fetch",
        "web.extract",
        "search.news",
        "search.images"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "hosted",
        "api-key",
        "closed-source",
        "usage-based",
        "openapi",
        "preview",
        "mcp",
        "ip-allowlist",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "go",
        "rust"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-08-21",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 48.7,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 970,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1227,
        "categoryRank": 18,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 75,
          "maintenance": 41,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 8,
          "schema": 71,
          "security": 64,
          "transparency": 70
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-09"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "A public OpenAPI file, typed filters and API keys that can be limited by product and IP address make the API simple to call, at $12 per 1,000 searches. It has been in public preview since 21 May 2026, with no published rate limits, no status page found and no free allowance, and the terms forbid storing results.",
        "bestFor": "An owner who already pays for Kagi and wants its ranking, lenses and domain rules inside an agent, with page text in the same call.",
        "strengths": [
          "Public OpenAPI 3.0 file for `POST /search` and `POST /extract`, with enums, ranges and request and response examples",
          "Each API key can be limited to chosen products and to IP addresses or ranges, and the billing page sets a spending cap in USD",
          "Per-unit prices are public, $12 per 1,000 searches and $4 per 1,000 extracted pages, with pay-as-you-go billing",
          "Searches can carry an inline lens, domain block, lower, raise and pin rules, date and region filters, and extraction of up to 10 result pages",
          "The privacy policy has an API section with retention periods, and says queries are not stored against the account"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Public preview since 21 May 2026. The API terms say it is under active development with no uptime or service-level commitment",
          "No rate limit numbers are published, and no status page is linked from the docs, pricing, terms or changelog pages we read",
          "No free allowance. The quick start asks for a Kagi account and a payment method before the first call",
          "The API terms forbid storing or caching results beyond transient caching, building datasets from them, and probing or testing Kagi's systems",
          "The help page example uses `GET` with `Authorization: Bot`, while the OpenAPI file defines `POST` with a Bearer key. The TypeScript client's README names an npm package that returned 404"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send `POST https://kagi.com/api/v1/search` with a JSON body and `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`, as the OpenAPI file defines. Only `query` is required",
          "Set `limit` to cap results returned. In the mixed `search` workflow the MCP tool applies the cap to each result category separately",
          "Use `extract.count` (1 to 10) only when page text is needed. Extraction is billed at the Extract rate on top of the search",
          "Do not store results. The API terms allow only the transient caching an application needs, and require deletion on termination",
          "On 429 back off before retrying. The response covers both rate limiting and an exhausted usage limit, and no `Retry-After` header is documented"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.7",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 48.7
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 75,
          "maintenance": 41,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 8,
          "schema": 71,
          "security": 64,
          "transparency": 54
        },
        "provenanceScore": 85,
        "checked": {
          "categories": {
            "ergonomics": "2026-10-09",
            "maintenance": "2026-10-09",
            "payments": "2026-10-09",
            "reliability": "2026-10-09",
            "schema": "2026-10-09",
            "security": "2026-10-09",
            "transparency": "2026-10-09"
          },
          "last": "2026-10-09",
          "lastMoved": "2026-10-27",
          "oldest": "2026-10-09",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "uvx kagimcp",
        "http": "curl -X POST https://kagi.com/api/v1/search \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $KAGI_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"query\":\"steve jobs\",\"workflow\":\"search\"}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add kagi https://mcp.kagi.com/mcp --transport http --header \"Authorization: Bearer $(read -sp 'API key: ' k; echo $k)\" --scope user",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "kagi": {
              "args": [
                "kagimcp"
              ],
              "command": "uvx",
              "env": {
                "KAGI_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/kagi-search"
      },
      "area": "web-data",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Search",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 12,
          "note": "page extraction inside a search is billed at the Extract rate on top"
        },
        {
          "item": "Extract",
          "unit": "1k-pages",
          "usd": 4,
          "note": "up to 10 URLs a request"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Kagi Inc.",
        "domain": "kagi.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1993-11-18",
        "domainNote": "kagi.com was registered in 1993, long before Kagi Inc. was founded in 2018.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://kagi.com/privacy/api",
        "privacy": "https://kagi.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://kagi.com/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-10-09",
        "notes": [
          "The Kagi API Terms of Service (effective and last updated 22 September 2026) govern the Search API and incorporate the privacy policy and a Data Processing Addendum that is not yet published.",
          "The privacy policy at kagi.com/privacy has a Kagi API section added on 22 September 2026. The same page also holds the general Terms of Service.",
          "The API terms do not name a legal entity. The docs' company page gives Kagi Inc., and the privacy page describes Kagi as a Delaware public benefit corporation.",
          "kagi.com/.well-known/security.txt gives security@kagi.com and a bug bounty with a safe harbour policy, and has no Expires field. It is recorded as valid, although RFC 9116 asks for that field.",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kagi-search.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kagi-search.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- Reliability, 40 against 8\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 71\n- Agent ergonomics, 91 against 75\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 55 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 41\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### Kagi Search API (D)\n\nGood for: An owner who already pays for Kagi and wants its ranking, lenses and domain rules inside an agent, with page text in the same call.\n\nAhead on:\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 70 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- No incidents deducted, where Arcmira loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Public preview since 21 May 2026. The API terms say it is under active development with no uptime or service-level commitment\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Arcmira | Kagi Search API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 8 | Arcmira +32 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 71 | Arcmira +16 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 75 | Arcmira +16 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 64 | Kagi Search API +3 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 55 | 20 | Arcmira +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 41 | Arcmira +43 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 70 | Kagi Search API +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.2 · B** | **48.7 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Arcmira | Kagi Search API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Arcmira, Inc. | Kagi |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.arcmira.com/mcp` | `https://kagi.com/api/v1/search` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP, HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| Price for web search | $0.001 per credit | $12 per 1,000 requests |\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 the Kagi API Terms of Service. The MCP server is MIT and the OpenAPI file states Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 4 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.arcmira/arcmira` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-08-21 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-13 | 2026-09-22 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-02 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\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 | 535 stars |\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**Kagi Search API.** A public OpenAPI file, typed filters and API keys that can be limited by product and IP address make the API simple to call, at $12 per 1,000 searches. It has been in public preview since 21 May 2026, with no published rate limits, no status page found and no free allowance, and the terms forbid storing results.\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### Kagi Search API\n\n1. Send `POST https://kagi.com/api/v1/search` with a JSON body and `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`, as the OpenAPI file defines. Only `query` is required\n2. Set `limit` to cap results returned. In the mixed `search` workflow the MCP tool applies the cap to each result category separately\n3. Use `extract.count` (1 to 10) only when page text is needed. Extraction is billed at the Extract rate on top of the search\n4. Do not store results. The API terms allow only the transient caching an application needs, and require deletion on termination\n5. On 429 back off before retrying. The response covers both rate limiting and an exhausted usage limit, and no `Retry-After` header is documented\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Arcmira or Kagi Search API?\n\nArcmira scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Kagi Search API's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Kagi Search API leads on transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Arcmira and Kagi Search API need an API key?\n\nArcmira takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Kagi Search API needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Arcmira and Kagi Search API without installing anything?\n\nYes. Arcmira has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.arcmira.com/mcp and Kagi Search API at https://kagi.com/api/v1/search.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-kagi-search.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-kagi-search.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"arcmira\", \"b\": \"kagi-search\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare arcmira kagi-search`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/arcmira.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kagi-search.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Arcmira or Kagi Search API\n\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Arcmira](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-arcmira.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Kagi Search API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-kagi-search.md)\n- [Arcmira vs Brave Search API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-brave-search-mcp.md)\n- [Arcmira vs Cloudflare Web Search API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-cloudflare-web-search.md)\n- [Arcmira vs DeepSeek Search and Fetch API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-deepseek-search-api.md)\n- [Arcmira vs Firecrawl MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-firecrawl-mcp.md)\n- [Arcmira vs SearchAPI.io](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-searchapi-io.md)\n- [Arcmira vs SerpApi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-serpapi.md)\n- [Arcmira vs Serper](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-serper.md)\n- [Arcmira vs SerpKite](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-serpkite.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs Kagi Search API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-kagi-search.md)\n- [Cloudflare Web Search API vs Kagi Search API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-kagi-search.md)\n- [DeepSeek Search and Fetch API vs Kagi Search API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-kagi-search.md)\n- [Exa API + MCP vs Kagi Search API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/exa-mcp-vs-kagi-search.md)\n- [Firecrawl MCP vs Kagi Search API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-kagi-search.md)\n- [Grep AI vs Kagi Search API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-kagi-search.md)\n- [Kagi Search API vs Linkup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kagi-search-vs-linkup.md)\n- [Kagi Search API vs Parallel Search and Task APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kagi-search-vs-parallel-search-api.md)\n- [Kagi Search API vs SearchAPI.io](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kagi-search-vs-searchapi-io.md)\n- [Kagi Search API vs SerpApi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kagi-search-vs-serpapi.md)\n- [Kagi Search API vs Serper](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kagi-search-vs-serper.md)\n- [Kagi Search API vs SerpKite](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kagi-search-vs-serpkite.md)\n- [Kagi Search API vs Tavily API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kagi-search-vs-tavily-mcp.md)\n- [Kagi Search API vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kagi-search-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Kagi Search API vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kagi-search-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Kagi Search API vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kagi-search-vs-you-com-api.md)\n- [Arcmira vs Exa API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-exa-mcp.md)\n- [Arcmira vs Grep AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-grep-ai.md)\n- [Arcmira vs Linkup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-linkup.md)\n- [Arcmira vs Parallel Search and Task APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-parallel-search-api.md)\n- [Arcmira vs Tavily API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-tavily-mcp.md)\n- [Arcmira vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Arcmira vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Arcmira vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-you-com-api.md)\n- [Fetch (MCP reference server) vs Kagi Search API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-kagi-search.md)\n",
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