# Cloudflare Web Search API vs Grep AI (slim)

> Grep AI scores 64.4 (B) to Cloudflare Web Search's 61.9 (C) for web search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Grep AI scores 64.4 (B) on agent readiness against Cloudflare Web Search API's 61.9 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cloudflare Web Search API leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do web search.

- Cloudflare Web Search API: C 61.9, rank #450 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-web-search.min.md
- Grep AI: B 64.4, rank #352 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grep-ai.min.md
- Cloudflare Web Search API, good for Agents and apps already on Cloudflare Workers or AI Gateway that want cheap snippet search ($0.25 per 1,000 with Ceramic.ai) on the same bill and logs as their inference. Ahead on Security & auth, 71 against 65; Transparency & trust, 73 against 59.
- Grep AI, good for Agents that hand off a long research or due-diligence job and want a cited report or structured fields back, including business verification and sanctions screening through built-in agents. Ahead on Reliability, 60 against 55; Agent ergonomics, 70 against 63; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Cloudflare Web Search API | Grep AI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 71 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 71 | 74 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 73 | 59 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cloudflare Web Search API | Grep AI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | Parcha Labs, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/runs` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Price for web search | $0.25 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cloudflare's terms. Each search provider's own terms are linked from the providers page | Proprietary service under Parcha Labs' terms of service. The grep-research-skills package on npm is MIT. The @parcha/agentrun and parcha-agentrun SDK packages state no licence in their registry metadata |
| Tools exposed | none | 82 |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | 2026-03-20 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-09-21 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 334 npm/wk, 52 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |