{ "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": "Parallel Search and Task APIs scores 75.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Arcmira's 64.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Arcmira leads on security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "parallel-search-api", "name": "Parallel Search and Task APIs", "vendor": "Parallel Web Systems", "vendorUrl": "https://parallel.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "Parallel's web APIs for agents, covering search, page extraction, asynchronous research tasks, closed-ended decisions answered from current web evidence and an OpenAI-compatible Responses endpoint, with hosted Search and Task MCP servers.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parallel-search-api.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "parallel-web" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "parallel-web" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API key in the `x-api-key` header. The Search MCP at search.parallel.ai/mcp works anonymously at lower limits, takes a Bearer key, and /mcp-oauth adds OAuth. An OAuth provider can issue keys on behalf of your users.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Up to 5,000 free requests a month, with $5 of free credit monthly and up to $80 at signup. Search $1 per 1,000 requests in turbo or fast, $5 in basic or advanced, 10 results included and $1 per 1,000 extra results. Image Search $1 (fast) or $5 (advanced) per 1,000, up to 20 results. Extract $1 per 1,000 URLs. Task $5 (lite) to $2,400 (ultra8x) per 1,000 successful runs. Responses $10 to $250 per 1,000 by reasoning effort. Decisions $0.001 a request, with 5,000 free requests to try it, per Parallel's launch announcement on 27 October. Failed runs aren't billed (https://parallel.ai/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$1 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "partial", "evidence": "Not on api.parallel.ai. A separate gateway at parallelmpp.dev takes x402 (USDC on Base) and MPP (Stripe or Tempo) for search and extract at $0.01 and an ultra task at $0.30. An unauthenticated POST to /api/search returned 402 with an x402 v2 challenge for 10000 base units on eip155:8453 (checked 2026-09-30) (https://docs.parallel.ai/integrations/agentic-payments).", "endpoints": [ { "url": "https://parallelmpp.dev/api/search", "priceUsd": 0.01, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://parallelmpp.dev/api/extract", "priceUsd": 0.01, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://parallelmpp.dev/api/task", "priceUsd": 0.3, "network": "eip155:8453" } ] }, "toolCount": 6, "popularity": { "githubStars": 28, "npmWeekly": 249803, "pypiWeekly": 994376, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.parallel.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.parallel.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.parallel.ai/public-openapi.json", "registryName": "ai.parallel/search-mcp", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "web.fetch", "web.extract", "search.answer", "search.research" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "x402", "python", "typescript", "async-jobs", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-26", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 75.1, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 63, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1227, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 87, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 75, "reliability": 75, "schema": 94, "security": 45, "transparency": 66 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Fast-mode search at $1 per 1,000 with 10 excerpted results, and a keyless two-tool Search MCP annotated read-only. Search defaults to advanced mode at $5 per 1,000 when `mode` is left out, and the Customer Terms allow training on inputs and outputs.", "bestFor": "Agents that mix quick search with long research or enrichment jobs and want one vendor and one bill.", "strengths": [ "Fast-mode search at $1 per 1,000 with 10 excerpted results, and Extract at $1 per 1,000 URLs", "Task runs billed only on success, and documented limits of 600 searches and 2,000 task creations a minute", "Keyless hosted Search MCP with two tools annotated read-only and idempotent, plus Bearer and OAuth endpoints", "Public OpenAPI, llms.txt and an errors table that says which codes to retry and how", "SDK releases several times a month, with CI and a breaking-change check on the Python SDK" ], "weaknesses": [ "Search defaults to advanced mode at $5 per 1,000 when `mode` is left out", "SDKs retry Task creation on 429 and 5xx with no idempotency key", "x402 and MPP only through parallelmpp.dev at a flat $0.01, not on api.parallel.ai", "Customer Terms let Parallel train on inputs and outputs, and no retention period is stated outside the EU endpoint", "No prompt-injection guidance, no security.txt and no public subprocessor list" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pass `mode: \"fast\"` on every API search. Without it you pay the advanced rate. On an authenticated MCP connection, pin it with `?mode=fast`", "Create Task runs with `max_retries=0` and check for an existing run before retrying", "Give an `objective` plus two or three short `search_queries`. That's what ranks the excerpts", "On 402, check available balance rather than total. Running tasks reserve credit", "Ask for zero data retention or use the EU endpoint before sending private queries. The default terms allow training on them", "On Decisions, check each answer's `type` before reading it. A refusal is a 200, not an error, and a predicate is a probability you threshold yourself" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 8, "avgRating": 3.6, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 75.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 87, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 75, "reliability": 75, "schema": 94, "security": 45, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 87, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-17", "maintenance": "2026-10-17", "payments": "2026-10-17", "reliability": "2026-10-17", "schema": "2026-10-17", "security": "2026-10-17", "transparency": "2026-10-17" }, "last": "2026-10-17", "lastMoved": "2026-10-27", "oldest": "2026-10-17", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search -H \"x-api-key: $PARALLEL_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"mode\":\"fast\",\"objective\":\"Latest Parallel Web Systems announcements\",\"search_queries\":[\"Parallel Web Systems news\"]}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http parallel-search https://search.parallel.ai/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "parallel-search": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${PARALLEL_API_KEY}" }, "url": "https://search.parallel.ai/mcp" } } }, "x402": "curl -i -X POST https://parallelmpp.dev/api/search -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{\"query\":\"test\"}'\n# 402 -\u003e pay $0.01 USDC on eip155:8453 (or MPP via Stripe/Tempo) -\u003e resend" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/parallel-search-api" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Search, turbo or fast", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1, "note": "10 results included" }, { "item": "Search, basic or advanced", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5, "note": "advanced is the default mode" }, { "item": "Extract", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 1 }, { "item": "Task, lite processor", "unit": "1k-calls", "usd": 5 }, { "item": "Task, pro processor", "unit": "1k-calls", "usd": 100 }, { "item": "Responses, medium effort", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 50 }, { "item": "Decisions, up to 100 questions a request", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1, "note": "launch price, not yet read on the pricing page" }, { "item": "x402 search via gateway", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.01, "note": "parallelmpp.dev" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Parallel Web Systems Inc.", "domain": "parallel.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16", "domainNote": "Registered in 2017 and transferred on 2024-07-01, so the registration date predates the company's use of it.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://parallel.ai/customer-terms", "privacy": "https://parallel.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.parallel.ai", "changelog": "https://docs.parallel.ai/resources/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "score": 87 }, "requirements": { "agentAlone": true, "card": "unknown", "freeTier": true, "minutes": 5, "credential": "mixed", "hosting": [ "US", "EU" ], "euResidency": "enterprise", "trainsOnData": "unknown", "zeroRetention": "enterprise", "certifications": [ "GDPR" ], "dpa": true, "selfHost": "no" }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api.json", "live": { "slug": "parallel-search-api", "probe": { "target": "https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-30T17:21:45.938617421Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 1143, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 1143, "p95ms24h": 1204, "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", 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-parallel-search-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-parallel-search-api.json", "title": "Fetch (MCP reference server) vs Parallel Search and Task APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-parallel-search-api" } ], "scores": [ { "arcmira": 40, "by": 35, "edge": "parallel-search-api", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "parallel-search-api": 75, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "arcmira": 87, "by": 7, "edge": "parallel-search-api", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "parallel-search-api": 94, "weight": 13 }, { "arcmira": 91, "by": 4, "edge": "arcmira", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "parallel-search-api": 87, "weight": 13 }, { "arcmira": 61, "by": 16, "edge": "arcmira", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", 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Search defaults to advanced mode at $5 per 1,000 when `mode` is left out, and the Customer Terms allow training on inputs and outputs." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-parallel-search-api", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-parallel-search-api.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-parallel-search-api.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-parallel-search-api.min.md" }, "markdown": "Parallel Search and Task APIs scores 75.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Arcmira's 64.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Arcmira leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do research 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- Parallel Search and Task APIs: grade BB, 75.1/100, rank #63 of 1227. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parallel-search-api.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- Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 45\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### Parallel Search and Task APIs (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents that mix quick search with long research or enrichment jobs and want one vendor and one bill.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 75 against 40\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 94 against 87\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 75 against 55\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 66 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- No incidents deducted, where Arcmira loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Search defaults to advanced mode at $5 per 1,000 when `mode` is left out\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Arcmira | Parallel Search and Task APIs | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 75 | Parallel Search and Task APIs +35 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 94 | Parallel Search and Task APIs +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 87 | Arcmira +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 45 | Arcmira +16 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 55 | 75 | Parallel Search and Task APIs +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 87 | Parallel Search and Task APIs +3 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 66 | Parallel Search and Task APIs +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.2 · B** | **75.1 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Arcmira | Parallel Search and Task APIs |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Arcmira, Inc. | Parallel Web Systems |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.arcmira.com/mcp` | `https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP, HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\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 | none |\n| Tools exposed | 4 | 6 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.arcmira/arcmira` | `ai.parallel/search-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-26 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-13 | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-02 | 2026-08-11 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | |\n| Popularity | 78 stars | 28 stars, 250k npm/wk, 994k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.6/5 (8) |\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**Parallel Search and Task APIs.** Fast-mode search at $1 per 1,000 with 10 excerpted results, and a keyless two-tool Search MCP annotated read-only. Search defaults to advanced mode at $5 per 1,000 when `mode` is left out, and the Customer Terms allow training on inputs and outputs.\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### Parallel Search and Task APIs\n\n1. Pass `mode: \"fast\"` on every API search. Without it you pay the advanced rate. On an authenticated MCP connection, pin it with `?mode=fast`\n2. Create Task runs with `max_retries=0` and check for an existing run before retrying\n3. Give an `objective` plus two or three short `search_queries`. That's what ranks the excerpts\n4. On 402, check available balance rather than total. Running tasks reserve credit\n5. Ask for zero data retention or use the EU endpoint before sending private queries. The default terms allow training on them\n6. On Decisions, check each answer's `type` before reading it. A refusal is a 200, not an error, and a predicate is a probability you threshold yourself\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Arcmira or Parallel Search and Task APIs?\n\nParallel Search and Task APIs scores 75.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Arcmira's 64.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Arcmira leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Arcmira and Parallel Search and Task APIs need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Arcmira and Parallel Search and Task APIs without installing anything?\n\nYes. Arcmira has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.arcmira.com/mcp and Parallel Search and Task APIs at https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-parallel-search-api.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-parallel-search-api.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"arcmira\", \"b\": \"parallel-search-api\"}`. 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