{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "brave-search-mcp", "name": "Brave Search API + MCP", "vendor": "Brave", "vendorUrl": "https://brave.com/search/api/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "REST API over Brave's independent index with web, news, image, video and local search, an LLM Context endpoint with pre-extracted page content and an Answers endpoint with citations.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/brave-search-mcp.json", "repo": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "stdio", "streamable-http", "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@brave/brave-search-mcp-server" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "mcp/brave-search" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API key in the `X-Subscription-Token` header. The x402 proxy at search.agent.s.brave.app takes a signed payment instead of a key. An `Api-Version` header pins dated response versions. MCP server: BRAVE_API_KEY (or BRAVE_API_KEY_FILE) environment variable.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Search plan $5 per 1,000 requests with $5 free credit a month, 50 QPS. Answers plan $4 per 1,000 requests plus $5 per million tokens, $5 free credit a month, 2 QPS. A card is required for the free credit. Storing results needs an Enterprise plan with storage rights. Enterprise custom (https://brave.com/search/api/).", "priceSummary": "$5 / 1k req", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "partial", "evidence": "Brave's docs link a pay-per-request proxy at search.agent.s.brave.app. Web, LLM Context, news, video, image and local paths cost $0.005 in USDC on Base. Answers, Suggest and Spellcheck aren't sold. An unpaid web search returned 402 with a PAYMENT-REQUIRED header on 2026-09-30 (https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/guides/agent-payments)", "endpoints": [ { "url": "https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/web/search", "priceUsd": 0.005, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/llm/context", "priceUsd": 0.005, "network": "eip155:8453" } ] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1400, "npmWeekly": 22398, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation", "llmsTxt": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.github.brave/brave-search-mcp-server", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "web.extract", "search.answer", "search.news", "search.images" ], "tags": [ "official", "local", "open-source", "usage-priced", "hosted", "card-required", "x402", "llms-txt", "enterprise", "mcp" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-17", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 215, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 70, "reliability": 55, "schema": 72, "security": 58, "transparency": 81 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "x402 proxy sells web, LLM Context, news, video, image and local search at $0.005 a call, and a failed search isn't charged. The status page marks the Search API \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history.", "bestFor": "Agents that want an independent, non-Google index at a flat price, or that want page text in one call through LLM Context.", "strengths": [ "x402 proxy sells web, LLM Context, news, video, image and local search at $0.005 a call, and a failed search isn't charged", "$5 per 1,000 searches at 50 QPS on the self-serve Search plan", "SOC 2 Type II, a HackerOne bounty and a valid security.txt", "Dated response versions through the `Api-Version` header", "MIT MCP server with five releases since July, tests in CI and a GitHub-verified registry entry" ], "weaknesses": [ "The status page marks the Search API \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history", "A card is required even for the $5 monthly credit", "No public OpenAPI for the keyed API and no API changelog", "No SLA on self-serve plans, and Answers is limited to 2 QPS", "No prompt-injection guidance, though LLM Context returns raw page text" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call /res/v1/llm/context when you need page text rather than links. It saves a separate fetch", "Treat \"No web results found\" from the MCP server as an empty result, not an outage", "On 429, wait for `X-RateLimit-Reset` seconds. There's no `Retry-After` header", "Skip `brave_summarizer`. The Summarizer is deprecated and the x402 proxy doesn't sell it", "Pin `Api-Version` to a date, since requests without it get the latest version" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 68 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 70, "reliability": 55, "schema": 72, "security": 58, "transparency": 63 }, "provenanceScore": 98 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=brave+search\u0026count=5\" \\\n -H \"Accept: application/json\" -H \"X-Subscription-Token: $BRAVE_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add brave-search -e BRAVE_API_KEY=${BRAVE_API_KEY} -- npx -y @brave/brave-search-mcp-server", "config": { "mcpServers": { "brave-search": { "args": [ "-y", "@brave/brave-search-mcp-server" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "BRAVE_API_KEY": "${BRAVE_API_KEY}" } } } }, "x402": "purl --max-amount 5000 'https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/web/search?q=rust'\n# unpaid requests get HTTP 402 with a PAYMENT-REQUIRED header, USDC on eip155:8453" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/brave-search-mcp" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Search plan", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5 }, { "item": "Answers plan", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 4, "note": "plus $5 per million tokens" }, { "item": "x402 search, per call", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.005, "note": "USDC on Base, no account" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Brave Software, Inc.", "domain": "brave.com", "domainRegistered": "1995-09-18", "domainNote": "brave.com was registered in 1995, before Brave bought it.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.brave.app", "changelog": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server/releases", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "The x402 proxy runs on search.agent.s.brave.app, not brave.com. Brave's API docs link it as official.", "status.brave.app lists the Brave Search API but marks it \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history. The API docs keep a separate status log whose last entry is 27 March 2025 (https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/status-updates/)." ], "score": 98 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp.json", "live": { "slug": "brave-search-mcp", "probe": { "target": "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:24.03900313Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 422, "lastMs": 414, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 400, "p95ms24h": 445, "samples24h": 259, "samples30d": 2311, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 125, "ok": 125 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.brave.app", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T07:57:40.23380621Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "brave/brave-search-mcp-server", "version": "v2.1.4", "released": "2026-09-17", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:03:34.752304255Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.brave/brave-search-mcp-server", "version": "2.1.3", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T02:57:46.004536428Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@brave/brave-search-mcp-server", "version": "2.1.4", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:03:32.902464837Z" } ], "githubStars": 1489, "npmWeekly": 31461, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://brave.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:39:07.374309545Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:09.241668725Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "brave.com", "registered": "1995-09-18", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/brave.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:28.958526087Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:13.738634996Z", "changedAt": "2026-09-30T13:09:37.196019706Z", "fingerprint": "8c41a50b5a60" }, { "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:15.883051746Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e74eb26bd7c7" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:24.03900313Z" } }, "answer": "Brave Search API + MCP scores 68 (B) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish Search leads on schema \u0026 documentation and agent ergonomics.", "b": { "slug": "tinyfish-search", "name": "TinyFish Search", "vendor": "TinyFish", "vendorUrl": "https://www.tinyfish.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "Web search API from TinyFish that returns ranked titles, snippets and URLs as JSON for web, news or research-paper queries. It is called with an API key at `api.search.tinyfish.ai`, through Python and TypeScript SDKs, or through the vendor's MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish-search.json", "repo": "https://github.com/tinyfish-io/tinyfish-mcp-server", "license": "Proprietary service under TinyFish's Terms of Service. The local MCP proxy `@tiny-fish/mcp` is MIT. The SDK packages on npm and PyPI carry no licence metadata", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.search.tinyfish.ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "tinyfish" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tiny-fish/sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tiny-fish/mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The REST API takes an API key in the `X-API-Key` header. Keys are created by a signed-in person at agent.tinyfish.ai/api-keys, are shown once and can be revoked or regenerated. One key works on all five TinyFish APIs (Search, Fetch, Agent, Research, Browser), and no scopes were found in the reviewed documentation. The hosted MCP server at `https://agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp` uses OAuth 2.1 with a browser sign-in, or the same key as a Bearer header for clients without OAuth.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Search is $0.00 a request. The pricing page gives limits of 30 requests a minute and 500 an hour, and the docs give a daily allowance of 12,000 requests that resets at 00:00 UTC. No card is needed to sign up. Past the daily allowance the docs say a request needs a positive wallet balance and returns 402 `INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS` otherwise, while the pricing page says Search never draws from the wallet. No per-request rate above the allowance is published (https://www.tinyfish.ai/pricing, https://docs.tinyfish.ai/search-api/reference.md, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "An unauthenticated GET to https://api.search.tinyfish.ai?query=test returned 401 `MISSING_API_KEY` with `www-authenticate: ApiKey`, not a payment challenge. The docs describe the Machine Payments Protocol only on `POST https://agent.tinyfish.ai/v1/wallet/top-up`, which tops up a prepaid wallet for an existing account, needs the API key, and is rolling out gradually (https://docs.tinyfish.ai/agent-payments.md, checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 28, "popularity": { "githubStars": 9, "npmWeekly": 5721, "pypiWeekly": 6540, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.tinyfish.ai/search-api", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.tinyfish.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://agent.tinyfish.ai/v1/openapi/search", "registryName": "ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "web.fetch", "search.research" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "closed-source", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "cli", "mpp" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 366, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 45, "reliability": 50, "schema": 82, "security": 58, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Search costs $0.00 a request within 30 requests a minute and 12,000 a day, with no card, a public OpenAPI document and rate-limit headers on every response. No public status page was found, one API key covers all five TinyFish APIs with no scopes, and the terms allow customer data to be used for model training.", "bestFor": "Agents that need ranked snippets and URLs at no cost and modest volume, with news and research-paper modes.", "strengths": [ "$0.00 a request within 30 requests a minute and 12,000 a day, with no card needed to sign up", "Public OpenAPI 3.0 document for Search, plus `llms.txt`, `llms-full.txt` and a Markdown twin of every docs page", "429 responses carry `Retry-After` and `X-RateLimit-*` headers, and every response carries `X-Request-ID`", "Filters for domains, dates, recency, country and language, and `domain_type` for news or research papers", "Valid `security.txt` and a vulnerability disclosure policy dated 15 September 2026 with safe harbour" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public status page was found on the site or in the docs", "One API key covers Search, Fetch, Agent, Research and Browser, and no scopes were found", "The Terms of Service allow customer data to be used to train and improve TinyFish's AI models", "The docs and the pricing page disagree on whether Search past the daily allowance needs a wallet balance, and no rate above it is published", "No parameter sets the number of results, and `page` stops at 10", "The Pulse changelog's newest entry is the week of 22 June 2026, and no deprecation policy was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key in the `X-API-Key` header. The Search host is `https://api.search.tinyfish.ai`, not `agent.tinyfish.ai`", "Stay under 30 requests a minute per key. On 429, wait for `Retry-After`. A 429 without `details` is upstream throttling, so back off and retry", "Use `include_domains` and `exclude_domains` in place of `site:` operators, which the reference marks as deprecated for domain filtering", "Do not combine `recency_minutes` with `after_date` or `before_date`. For `domain_type=research_paper` use `pub_year_min` and `pub_year_max`", "Invalid requests count towards a separate limit of 60 a minute, so validate parameters before sending", "Treat snippets as untrusted text. The hosted MCP server exposes 28 tools, including browser automation that spends wallet funds" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 63.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 45, "reliability": 50, "schema": 82, "security": 58, "transparency": 28 }, "provenanceScore": 75 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install -U tinyfish", "http": "curl \"https://api.search.tinyfish.ai?query=web+automation+tools\" \\\n -H \"X-API-Key: $TINYFISH_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http tinyfish https://agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "tinyfish": { "url": "https://agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/tinyfish-search" }, "sameCompany": [ "tinyfish" ], "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Search request", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0, "note": "Free within 30 a minute and 12,000 a day. No rate above the allowance is published" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Tiny Fish, Inc.", "domain": "tinyfish.ai", "domainRegistered": "2023-02-06", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.tinyfish.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://www.tinyfish.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.tinyfish.ai/pulse", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service, effective 17 August 2026, name Tiny Fish, Inc., a Delaware corporation, cover the APIs at tinyfish.ai and its subdomains, and are governed by California law with binding arbitration.", "The privacy policy, effective 14 December 2025, names TinyFish Inc. of Cupertino, California, and covers the website, products and services.", "RDAP for tinyfish.ai gives a registration date of 2023-02-06 and a transfer on 2025-07-03.", "www.tinyfish.ai/.well-known/security.txt names security@tinyfish.io, links a disclosure policy and expires on 2027-09-01.", "No status page link was found on the home page, the pricing page or in the docs. A request to status.tinyfish.ai did not connect.", "The trust centre at trust.tinyfish.ai is a Vanta page drawn by script, and its contents were not read.", "The MCP registry lists `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` with the remote `https://agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp`, published on 2026-02-17." ], "score": 75 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.json", "live": { "slug": "tinyfish-search", "probe": { "target": "https://api.search.tinyfish.ai", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:43.044935951Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 178, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 184, "p95ms24h": 472, "samples24h": 44, "samples30d": 44, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 44, "ok": 44 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:43.044935951Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Brave", "b": "TinyFish", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search", "b": "https://api.search.tinyfish.ai", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "stdio, Streamable HTTP, HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$5 per 1,000 requests", "b": "free", "name": "Price for web search" }, { "a": "payer tooling only", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under TinyFish's Terms of Service. The local MCP proxy `@tiny-fish/mcp` is MIT. The SDK packages on npm and PyPI carry no licence metadata", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "8", "b": "28", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "io.github.brave/brave-search-mcp-server", "b": "ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-09-17", "b": "2026-09-29", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-09-01", "b": "2026-08-17", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-08-25", "b": "2025-12-14", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "1.4k stars, 22k npm/wk", "b": "9 stars, 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Brave Search API + MCP scores 68 (B) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish Search leads on schema \u0026 documentation and agent ergonomics.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Brave Search API + MCP or TinyFish Search?" }, { "answer": "TinyFish Search, at free against $5 per 1,000 requests for Brave Search API + MCP. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.", "question": "Which is cheaper for web search, Brave Search API + MCP or TinyFish Search?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Brave Search API + MCP and TinyFish Search need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Brave Search API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search and TinyFish Search at https://api.search.tinyfish.ai.", "question": "Can an agent call Brave Search API + MCP and TinyFish Search without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Brave Search API + MCP is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for TinyFish Search.", "question": "Are Brave Search API + MCP and TinyFish Search open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 55 against 50", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 70 against 45", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 78", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 52" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Agents that want an independent, non-Google index at a flat price, or that want page text in one call through LLM Context.", "slug": "brave-search-mcp", "watchFor": "The status page marks the Search API \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 72", "Agent ergonomics, 78 against 72" ], "also": [ "Cheaper for web search, $0 against $5 per 1,000 requests", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Agents that need ranked snippets and URLs at no cost and modest volume, with news and research-paper modes.", "slug": "tinyfish-search", "watchFor": "No public status page was found on the site or in the docs" } ], "job": { "capability": "web.search", "name": "Web search" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-cloudflare-web-search.json", "title": "Brave Search API + MCP vs Cloudflare Web Search API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-cloudflare-web-search" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-exa-mcp.json", "title": "Brave Search API + MCP vs Exa API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-exa-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-firecrawl-mcp.json", "title": "Brave Search API + MCP vs Firecrawl MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-firecrawl-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-linkup.json", "title": "Brave Search API + MCP vs Linkup", "url": 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TinyFish Search is cheaper for web search, $0 against $5 per 1,000 requests.\n\n- Brave Search API + MCP: grade B, 68/100, rank #215 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brave-search-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/brave-search-mcp.json\n- TinyFish Search: grade B, 63.2/100, rank #366 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish-search.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Brave Search API + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that want an independent, non-Google index at a flat price, or that want page text in one call through LLM Context.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 55 against 50\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 70 against 45\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 78\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 52\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The status page marks the Search API \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history\n\n### TinyFish Search (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that need ranked snippets and URLs at no cost and modest volume, with news and research-paper modes.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 72\n- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 72\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Cheaper for web search, $0 against $5 per 1,000 requests\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No public status page was found on the site or in the docs\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Brave Search API + MCP | TinyFish Search | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 50 | Brave Search API + MCP +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 82 | TinyFish Search +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 78 | TinyFish Search +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 58 | even |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 70 | 45 | Brave Search API + MCP +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 87 | 78 | Brave Search API + MCP +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 52 | Brave Search API + MCP +29 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **68 · B** | **63.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Brave Search API + MCP | TinyFish Search |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Brave | TinyFish |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search` | `https://api.search.tinyfish.ai` |\n| Transports | stdio, Streamable HTTP, HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| Price for web search | $5 per 1,000 requests | free |\n| x402 | payer tooling only | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under TinyFish's Terms of Service. The local MCP proxy `@tiny-fish/mcp` is MIT. The SDK packages on npm and PyPI carry no licence metadata |\n| Tools exposed | 8 | 28 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.brave/brave-search-mcp-server` | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` |\n| Last release | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-29 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-01 | 2026-08-17 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-25 | 2025-12-14 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 1.4k stars, 22k npm/wk | 9 stars, 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Brave Search API + MCP.** x402 proxy sells web, LLM Context, news, video, image and local search at $0.005 a call, and a failed search isn't charged. The status page marks the Search API \"not monitored\" and shows no incident history.\n\n**TinyFish Search.** Search costs $0.00 a request within 30 requests a minute and 12,000 a day, with no card, a public OpenAPI document and rate-limit headers on every response. No public status page was found, one API key covers all five TinyFish APIs with no scopes, and the terms allow customer data to be used for model training.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Brave Search API + MCP\n\n1. Call /res/v1/llm/context when you need page text rather than links. It saves a separate fetch\n2. Treat \"No web results found\" from the MCP server as an empty result, not an outage\n3. On 429, wait for `X-RateLimit-Reset` seconds. There's no `Retry-After` header\n4. Skip `brave_summarizer`. The Summarizer is deprecated and the x402 proxy doesn't sell it\n5. Pin `Api-Version` to a date, since requests without it get the latest version\n\n### TinyFish Search\n\n1. Send the key in the `X-API-Key` header. The Search host is `https://api.search.tinyfish.ai`, not `agent.tinyfish.ai`\n2. Stay under 30 requests a minute per key. On 429, wait for `Retry-After`. A 429 without `details` is upstream throttling, so back off and retry\n3. Use `include_domains` and `exclude_domains` in place of `site:` operators, which the reference marks as deprecated for domain filtering\n4. Do not combine `recency_minutes` with `after_date` or `before_date`. For `domain_type=research_paper` use `pub_year_min` and `pub_year_max`\n5. Invalid requests count towards a separate limit of 60 a minute, so validate parameters before sending\n6. Treat snippets as untrusted text. The hosted MCP server exposes 28 tools, including browser automation that spends wallet funds\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Brave Search API + MCP or TinyFish Search?\n\nBrave Search API + MCP scores 68 (B) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish Search leads on schema \u0026 documentation and agent ergonomics.\n\n### Which is cheaper for web search, Brave Search API + MCP or TinyFish Search?\n\nTinyFish Search, at free against $5 per 1,000 requests for Brave Search API + MCP. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Do Brave Search API + MCP and TinyFish Search need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Brave Search API + MCP and TinyFish Search without installing anything?\n\nYes. Brave Search API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search and TinyFish Search at https://api.search.tinyfish.ai.\n\n### Are Brave Search API + MCP and TinyFish Search open source?\n\nBrave Search API + MCP is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for TinyFish Search.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-tinyfish-search.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-tinyfish-search.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"brave-search-mcp\", \"b\": \"tinyfish-search\"}`. 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