{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cloudflare-web-search", "name": "Cloudflare Web Search API", "vendor": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.cloudflare.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "Cloudflare's web search endpoint, in open beta since 2 October 2026, routes a query through AI Gateway to Ceramic.ai, Exa or Linkup and returns results in one format, by REST or from a Worker's AI binding.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-web-search", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-web-search.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-web-search.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-web-search.json", "dns": "cloudflare-web-search.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "Proprietary service under Cloudflare's terms. Each search provider's own terms are linked from the providers page", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A Cloudflare API token as a Bearer header, with Account \u003e Workers AI \u003e Read and Account \u003e AI Gateway \u003e Read. Inside a Worker the `AI` binding needs no token. Provider keys stored on the gateway (BYOK) are selected by `byokAlias` and never sent in the request. The OpenAPI operation also accepts the legacy global API key with an email header.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Billed per search from prepaid AI Gateway credits at the provider's list price, Ceramic.ai $0.25, Linkup $5.00 and Exa $7.00 per 1,000 requests. Credits carry a 5 per cent purchase fee and need a payment method on the account. With a stored provider key the provider bills you directly. No free allowance found (https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/providers/, checked 2026-10-05).", "priceSummary": "$0.25 / 1k req", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "AI Gateway Machine Payments (x402, beta since 30 September 2026) covers only POST /ai/run for four open models, US accounts with a card on file. The Web Search API pages, the providers page and the OpenAPI operation mention no x402, MPP or L402 (https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/features/machine-payments/, checked 2026-10-05).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-05" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cloudflare/api-schemas/main/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "web.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "beta", "openapi", "llms-txt", "typescript", "status-page", "bug-bounty" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-02", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 347, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 20, "reliability": 77, "schema": 81, "security": 74, "transparency": 73 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-02" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One endpoint that sends a search to Ceramic.ai, Exa or Linkup and returns results in one format, logged and billed through AI Gateway, whose status shows no incidents in 90 days. Ceramic.ai costs $0.25 per 1,000 searches. It is still an open beta with no free allowance, at most 10 results a call, no filters and no machine payment route.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Three providers behind one request shape, switched by the `provider` parameter", "Ceramic.ai at $0.25 per 1,000 searches, at the provider's list price", "Every search lands in AI Gateway logs, with per-request headers to skip storing payloads", "Typed error body with category, code and a `retryable` flag", "Providers commit to verified-bot crawling and a source link on every result", "AI Gateway, which carries every search, shows no incident days in the 90 days to 2 November 2026 on Cloudflare's status page" ], "weaknesses": [ "Open beta, with no SLA found for AI Gateway", "Credits need a payment method and carry a 5 per cent purchase fee. No free allowance", "At most 10 results a call, with no pagination, domain or date filters", "No x402. Machine Payments covers only /ai/run", "The changelog and the providers page disagree on whether Exa searches have Zero Data Retention", "The Cloudflare TypeScript SDK (7.3.0) still has no web search method a month after launch" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `options.gateway.id`. Every account has a gateway named `default`", "Pass `provider` explicitly. It defaults to Ceramic.ai, whose descriptions can run to 8,000 characters a result", "Set `limit` to the results you'll read, between 1 and 10", "Set `byokAlias` when you mean to use a stored provider key, so a missing key fails with 400 instead of spending credits", "Send `cf-aig-collect-log-payload: false` if queries shouldn't be stored in gateway logs" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 66.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 20, "reliability": 77, "schema": 81, "security": 74, "transparency": 50 }, "provenanceScore": 96, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-02", "maintenance": "2026-11-02", "payments": "2026-11-02", "reliability": "2026-11-02", "schema": "2026-11-02", "security": "2026-11-02", "transparency": "2026-11-02" }, "last": "2026-11-02", "lastMoved": "2026-11-02", "oldest": "2026-11-02", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID/ai/websearch/ \\\n --request POST \\\n --header \"Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN\" \\\n --header \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n --data '{\n \"query\": \"What are some fun things to do in Salt Lake City as fall approaches?\",\n \"provider\": \"ceramic\",\n \"limit\": 5,\n \"options\": {\n \"gateway\": { \"id\": \"default\" }\n }\n }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cloudflare-web-search" }, "sameCompany": [ "cloudflare-ai-gateway", "cloudflare-workers-ai", "cloudflare-sandbox-sdk", "cloudflare-workers-oauth-provider", "cloudflare-clairic", "cloudflare-ai-search", "cloudflare-cli", "cloudflare-mcp", "cloudflare-email-service", "cloudflare-r2", "cloudflare-clef" ], "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Search, Ceramic.ai", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.25 }, { "item": "Search, Linkup", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5 }, { "item": "Search, Exa", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 7 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "domain": "cloudflare.com", "domainRegistered": "2009-02-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://cloudflare.com/terms/", "privacy": "https://cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/", "statusPage": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "changelog": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/changelog/", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-02", "notes": [ "Legal entity, domain date, terms and privacy follow the Cloudflare MCP listing's check. We didn't re-read them for this listing.", "www.cloudflare.com/.well-known/security.txt, re-read on 2 November 2026, names HackerOne and a disclosure policy and carries no Expires field.", "The endpoint is on api.cloudflare.com. Searches are forwarded to Ceramic.ai, Exa or Linkup.", "www.cloudflarestatus.com shows AI Gateway with no days with incidents in its 90-day bar on 2 November 2026. Web search has no component of its own." ], "score": 96 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-web-search.json", "live": { "slug": "cloudflare-web-search", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "indicator": "major", "summary": "Partial System Outage", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:47.915928753Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cloudflare.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:23.467095484Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:32:08.979342215Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "cloudflare.com", "registered": "2009-02-17", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/cloudflare.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:18:56.122446983Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:29.967269806Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:04:13.791253735Z", "fingerprint": "aaad1064978c" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:47.915928753Z" } }, "answer": "NewsCatcher and Cloudflare Web Search API score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.5 (B) and 66.9 (B). Cloudflare Web Search API leads on reliability and security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "newscatcher", "name": "NewsCatcher", "vendor": "NewsCatcher, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "NewsCatcher's API searches the last 30 days of news in every language, grouped into stories, and runs a background agent that builds tables of events or company news, through REST and a hosted MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/newscatcher.json", "dns": "newscatcher.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/Newscatcher/newscatcher-mcp", "transports": [ "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "API key from the NewsCatcher platform after a browser signup, sent in the `x-api-key` header. One key works for the News API and the agent; several keys can be made and revoked in the platform. The MCP server also accepts `Authorization: Bearer` or `?apiKey=` in the URL; OAuth is announced as coming soon. No scopes found.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Prepaid credits at $1 per 1,000 (top-ups from $25, valid 12 months). Search costs 1, 5 or 10 credits by effort, a story 1, `/articles` 5 per call. Agent runs 1,000 to 6,000 credits. 10,000 free credits every 30 days. Failed and refused requests aren't charged.", "priceSummary": "$1 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in llms.txt, the docs, the pricing page or the OpenAPI specs (checked 2026-11-06). An empty balance returns 402 with no payment requirements; top-ups go through the platform.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 15, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/get-started/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://github.com/NewscatcherAPI/docs/blob/main/api-reference/news-api/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "search.news", "search.research", "web.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage", "prepaid", "free-tier", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "openapi", "llms-txt", "status-page", "yc" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 321, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 84, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 30, "reliability": 67, "schema": 94, "security": 45, "transparency": 79 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One key and one credit balance cover a ranked news search, a background research agent and a hosted MCP server with toolsets and annotated tools, under OpenAPI 3.1 specs and a dated changelog. The current API launched on 30 October 2026, the MCP server accepts the key in its URL, and no SLA is published below Enterprise.", "bestFor": "Agents that need current news across languages, grouped into stories, or tables of events and company news on a schedule.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1 specs for the News API and the agent, llms.txt, Markdown pages and a docs MCP server", "Hosted MCP server with 15 tools in four toolsets, selectable with `?tools=`, and read-only, destructive and idempotent hints on every tool", "Documented errors with retry advice per status, 429 with Retry-After, and refused or failed requests never charged", "Published credit prices, $1 per 1,000 credits, and 10,000 free credits every 30 days", "Terms say inputs and generated data are never used to train models, with a dated sub-processor list" ], "weaknesses": [ "The current News API and agent launched on 30 October 2026 and the MCP repository went public on 6 November 2026", "The MCP server documents `?apiKey=` in the URL for clients without headers, and keys have no scopes found", "No SLA below a signed Enterprise agreement; the status page monitors one News API component", "API logs, which can include query text, are archived indefinitely after 90 days", "The pricing page and the docs disagree on whether empty agent runs are charged and on the price of `/articles`" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key in the `x-api-key` header, and use a separate key for the MCP server so it can be revoked alone", "Call `start_research` with `dry_run` first, since agent runs cost 1,000 to 6,000 credits", "Use `effort=low` for quick lookups; the default `medium` costs five times as much", "Use `/articles` or `list_articles` for news older than 30 days or exact counts; `/search` covers 30 days only", "On 429 or 503 wait for Retry-After, and quote the Correlation-ID header to support" ], "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": 67.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 84, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 30, "reliability": 67, "schema": 94, "security": 45, "transparency": 73 }, "provenanceScore": 85, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST \"https://api.newscatcherapi.com/news-api/search\" \\\n -H \"x-api-key: $NEWSCATCHER_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"q\": \"hurricane recovery florida\", \"limit\": 5}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http newscatcher https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp --header \"x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "newscatcher": { "headers": { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" }, "url": "https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/search.news", "tool": "https://letme.dev/newscatcher" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "News search, low effort", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1, "note": "1 credit a search at $1 per 1,000 credits" }, { "item": "News search, medium effort (default)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5, "note": "5 credits" }, { "item": "News search, high effort", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 10, "note": "10 credits" }, { "item": "Articles listing", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5, "note": "5 credits a call per the docs; the pricing page says 15 a page" }, { "item": "Agent event research, fast run", "unit": "tx", "usd": 1, "note": "1,000 credits, 50 rows included; standard $3, max $6" }, { "item": "Credit", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.001, "note": "Top-ups from $25 for 25,000 credits, valid 12 months" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "NewsCatcher, Inc.", "domain": "newscatcherapi.com", "domainRegistered": "2020-02-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/company/legal/terms-and-conditions", "privacy": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/company/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.newscatcherapi.com/", "changelog": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "The service terms (Terms and Conditions) and the website Terms of Service are both dated 2 November 2026 and name NewsCatcher, Inc. under Delaware law.", "The website Terms of Service forbid using the site or its content 'to spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, or scrape'. Recorded as a fact; only public pages were read, within robots.txt.", "www.newscatcherapi.com/robots.txt disallows /~gitbook, /*?ref= and /api/ for all agents; none of the pages read is under those paths. status.newscatcherapi.com allows all.", "/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. The MCP repository's SECURITY.md takes private reports through GitHub with a 3-business-day acknowledgement target.", "Status page on Hyperping with one News API component, 99.820% uptime for August to November 2026 and one incident in the 90 days, on 1 September 2026.", "RDAP gives newscatcherapi.com a registration date of 16 February 2020." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher.json", "live": { "slug": "newscatcher", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:41.854849144Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 305, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 167, "p95ms24h": 346, "samples24h": 200, "samples30d": 200, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 13, "ok": 13 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 187, "ok": 187 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.newscatcherapi.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T04:48:15.638845153Z" }, "githubStars": 0, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://newscatcherapi.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:58.85886795Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:33:19.853404264Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:32:00.60078463Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "849b66383503" }, { "url": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/company/legal/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:31:56.385466242Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "818e0cf9f82d" }, { "url": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/company/legal/terms-and-conditions", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:31:58.548719689Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "79f84eff4353" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:46:25.078047109Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:46:25.078047109Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:41.854849144Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 29, "category": "security", "leads": "cloudflare-web-search", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Cloudflare API tokens are scoped by permission and revocable, and web search needs only Workers AI Read and AI Gateway Read. Permission is per account, not per gateway or provider. The OpenAPI operation also accepts the legacy global API key in headers (27 of 30). Every call reads. Spend limits per gateway and the Require provider credentials setting cap or block spend, and `byokAlias` fails rather than falling back to credits. Read permission is enough to spend credits (14 of 20). Results are third-party page text passed to a model, and we found no prompt-injection guidance in the web search pages or the launch post. AI Gateway Guardrails aren't documented for web search (0 of 15). Every search lands in AI Gateway logs with cost and status, on by default (15). security.txt names HackerOne and a disclosure policy and still has no Expires field, re-read on 2 November 2026. Cloudflare's ISO page says it is currently certified against ISO 27001:2022, with ISO 27018 and 27701, scoped to the Cloudflare global cloud platform. 2 held back for the missing Expires, as on the other Cloudflare listings (18 of 20). 27 + 14 + 0 + 15 + 18 = 74.", "b": "API keys in the `x-api-key` header, several per account, revocable in the platform, with advice to keep one per application. A 403 for 'a key that may not use this API' suggests per-key API access, but no scopes are documented (20). The MCP server documents `?apiKey=` on the server URL for Claude.ai custom connectors, with a warning, so less 10 (10 of 30). The MCP repository's SECURITY.md says URL keys are rejected unless the operator enables them, which the hosted server does per the docs. Toolsets let an operator load only the read-only `news` tools, write tools carry destructiveHint, and the server tells the assistant to confirm large or hourly agent jobs (14 of 20). Results are third-party article text and summaries, and no prompt-injection guidance was found in the docs or the MCP server's instructions (0 of 15). Every response carries a Correlation-ID, `GET /subscription` shows usage and balance, and runs are listed in the platform. No per-call audit log for the customer was found (7 of 15). The security page and footer claim SOC 2 Type II and link a trust centre on Oneleet, which wasn't read. A vulnerability disclosure policy covers the MCP server. No security.txt (404) and no bug bounty found (14 of 20). 10 + 14 + 0 + 7 + 14 = 45." }, "scores": { "a": 74, "b": 45 } }, { "by": 21, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "newscatcher", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Results are small by default (URL, title, description), and `limit` caps them at 1 to 10. The default provider, Ceramic.ai, returns descriptions of up to 8,000 characters a result with no parameter to shorten them (15 of 25). `limit` is the only control. No pagination, offset, domain, date, country or freshness filters (6 of 20). Errors come back with `category` (gateway, credential, provider, internal), `code`, `status`, `retryable` and `gatewayRequestId`. The codes themselves aren't listed (16 of 20). Searches only read, the error body says whether a retry helps, and gateways can retry upstream failures up to five times. No idempotency keys, which a read doesn't need (16 of 20). Only `query` and the gateway ID are required. The Workers binding is TypeScript, and the Cloudflare TypeScript SDK 7.3.0 of 3 October has no web search method. We didn't check the Python or Go SDKs (10 of 15).", "b": "15 MCP tools in four toolsets, chosen per connection with `?tools=`, and tools return compact text rather than the full JSON. 15 for 11 to 30 tools plus 7 for toolsets (22 of 25). `limit`, `search_window`, effort, language, country, publisher, coverage and content-type filters, sorting, and paging on `/articles`; agent tables come back up to 200 rows at a time over MCP (20). Every status is documented with whether to retry; the agent returns stable `code` values, while the News API body has a `status_code` and a message meant for people (17 of 20). Every tool carries readOnlyHint and idempotentHint, writes carry destructiveHint, `start_research` has a free `dry_run`, and refused or failed calls aren't charged. No idempotency key for starting runs (17 of 20). Only `q` is required, with medium effort and a 7-day window as defaults. No official SDK for the current API was found; the docs show raw HTTP in three languages (8 of 15). 22 + 20 + 17 + 17 + 8 = 84." }, "scores": { "a": 63, "b": 84 } }, { "by": 13, "category": "schema", "leads": "newscatcher", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Cloudflare's public OpenAPI has `/accounts/{account_id}/ai/websearch` with a typed body, `additionalProperties: false` and typed 200, 400, 403 and 502 responses. `provider` is a free string there where the docs give an enum (22 of 25). llms.txt for the product and Markdown for every page (10). The providers page says which provider suits which job, such as Ceramic.ai for agents that run many searches and Exa for short query-relevant excerpts. Nothing says when not to use the endpoint, and the OpenAPI description is one line (12 of 20). `query` 1 to 1,024 characters, `limit` 1 to 10, `provider` enum in the docs, `byokAlias` with a pattern (14 of 15). curl and Worker examples, a response example, and a typed error body with category, code and `retryable`. No catalogue of error codes or messages found (11 of 15). Dated launch entry in the AI Gateway changelog, still the only web search entry on 2 November 2026. The API path carries v4 for the whole Cloudflare API, nothing specific to web search (12 of 15). The OpenAPI operation, re-read from a clone on 2 November, is unchanged.", "b": "OpenAPI 3.1 for the News API (version 1.3.9, 4 paths) and the agent (version 1.5.1, 33 paths), linked from llms.txt, and typed JSON Schema on every MCP tool through Pydantic (25). llms.txt, a Markdown copy of every page and a docs MCP server (10). MCP tool descriptions say when to use each and which tool to use instead, such as `list_articles` for older news; the REST reference explains each endpoint and the 'Choose an API' page compares them (17 of 20). Inputs are typed with enums for effort, mode and dimensions, length and range limits such as a 500-character query and limit 1 to 100, and required fields marked (13 of 15). Runnable examples in curl, Python and JavaScript, and an error table with retry advice for every status. The agent spec carries no response examples (14 of 15). Versioned APIs with a dated changelog, the latest entries on 4 November 2026, and separate changelogs for the v3 News API and CatchAll (15). 25 + 10 + 17 + 13 + 14 + 15 = 94." }, "scores": { "a": 81, "b": 94 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "reliability", "leads": "cloudflare-web-search", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Scored as a hosted API. www.cloudflarestatus.com lists AI Gateway, Workers AI and AI Search among its services, each with 30-day and 90-day incident bars (20). Web search has no component of its own and runs through AI Gateway. On 2 November 2026 the services page showed AI Gateway with no days with incidents in 90 days. The five Workers AI incident days (13 and 19 August, 9 September, 15 and 27 October) name model errors, a model outage and AI Security for Apps, not AI Gateway or web search, so a clean record (30). The 5 October reading from the status page's JSON feed is struck. 200 requests per 60 seconds per gateway on Unified Billing credentials, and 1,200 requests per five minutes per Cloudflare API token (15). The Cloudflare API returns 429 with `retry-after` and `Ratelimit` headers, and the error body carries a `retryable` flag. Searches have no side effects, but 429 isn't among the responses the OpenAPI operation lists (12 of 15). No SLA for AI Gateway found (0). The docs still label it open beta on 2 November, although the OpenAPI operation is tagged generally-available. We scored from the docs (0). 20 + 30 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 0 = 77.", "b": "Read with the hosted lines, for the News API, the agent and the hosted MCP server. status.newscatcherapi.com (Hyperping) shows one News API component with 99.820% uptime from August to November 2026 and an incident history. The agent and the MCP server have no component of their own (20). In the 90 days from 8 August, one incident, on 1 September 2026, when the vendor wrote that for about four hours a higher-than-usual number of requests to the production News API timed out because of one client's queries. Read as one major (10). Rate limits published per plan, 1 request a second free and up to 10 on pay as you go, with exact limits from the free `GET /subscription` (15). 429 carries Retry-After with instructions to retry the same request, 503 carries Retry-After, and failed or refused requests are not charged. Agent runs and monitor creation have no idempotency keys (12 of 15). An uptime SLA exists only in signed Enterprise agreements; none is published (0). Generally available since 30 October 2026, with OAuth for the MCP server announced as coming soon (10). 20 + 10 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 67." }, "scores": { "a": 77, "b": 67 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "payments", "leads": "newscatcher", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 on /ai/websearch. AI Gateway Machine Payments covers only /ai/run for four open models (0, Machine Payments page unchanged since 30 September and still limited to `/ai/run`). Per-search prices published without a login, $0.25, $5.00 and $7.00 per 1,000 by provider. The 5 per cent fee on credit purchases sits on the Unified Billing page, not the providers page (20). No free allowance found. Credits need a payment method, and the BYOK route needs an account with the provider (0). A person signs up for Cloudflare in a browser and buys credits or stores a provider key (0). 0 + 20 + 0 + 0 = 20.", "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Credit prices per call published without login, and credits cost $1 per 1,000 through top-ups from $25 (20). 10,000 free credits every 30 days on a $0 plan, and the first top-up moves an account to pay as you go. No page says whether a card is needed to open the free plan, so half (10). A person signs up in the platform in a browser to get a key (0). NewsMCP's keyless tier belongs to a separate product and isn't counted. 0 + 20 + 10 + 0 = 30." }, "scores": { "a": 20, "b": 30 } }, { "by": 6, "category": "transparency", "leads": "newscatcher", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service under Cloudflare's terms, with each provider's terms linked from the providers page (15 of 30). AI Gateway logs are on by default with headers to skip payloads, and Cloudflare's privacy policy and DPA exist per the Cloudflare MCP check. The providers page gives Zero Data Retention for Ceramic.ai and Linkup but not Exa, while the 2 October changelog says all three support it. No retention period for web search logs on the pages we read (15 of 30). No deprecation policy found. The changelog posts dated changes, such as the 24 September log cut-over, but no deprecation notices (6 of 20). The three providers are named, and Cloudflare's subprocessor page names 12 third parties with locations per the Cloudflare MCP check. Where searches are processed isn't stated (14 of 20). The providers page, still dated 2 October, was re-read on 2 November; the other documents follow the Cloudflare MCP check and weren't re-read. 15 + 15 + 6 + 14 = 50.", "b": "The API is closed under terms of 2 November 2026 naming NewsCatcher, Inc., and the MCP server is MIT, so between the two bands (20 of 30). The terms say inputs and generated data are not used to train models, a DPA applies automatically, and the privacy policy gives retention periods (server logs 7 days, API logs with query text 90 days, then archived indefinitely, billing records about seven years). They agree with each other, but indefinite archives of query logs hold it back (22 of 30). The terms promise 30 days' email notice before a paid product or API version is discontinued, with refunds of unused credits, and the v3 News API has a migration guide (15 of 20). A sub-processor list dated 2 November 2026 with each provider's location and the data it handles. The MCP repository deploys to Vercel and can send pseudonymised analytics to PostHog, and neither appears on the list (16 of 20). 20 + 22 + 15 + 16 = 73." }, "scores": { "a": 73, "b": 79 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "b": "NewsCatcher, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$0.25 per 1,000 requests", "b": "$1 per 1,000 requests", "name": "Price for web search" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Cloudflare's terms. Each search provider's own terms are linked from the providers page", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "15", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-02", "b": "2026-11-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-09-12", "b": "2026-11-02", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-11-02", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "NewsCatcher and Cloudflare Web Search API score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.5 (B) and 66.9 (B). Cloudflare Web Search API leads on reliability and security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare Web Search API or NewsCatcher?" }, { "answer": "Cloudflare Web Search API, at $0.25 per 1,000 requests against $1 per 1,000 requests for NewsCatcher. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.", "question": "Which is cheaper for web search, Cloudflare Web Search API or NewsCatcher?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Cloudflare Web Search API and NewsCatcher need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Cloudflare Web Search API. NewsCatcher has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call Cloudflare Web Search API and NewsCatcher without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 77 against 67", "Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 45" ], "also": [ "Cheaper for web search, $0.25 against $1 per 1,000 requests" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "cloudflare-web-search", "watchFor": "Open beta, with no SLA found for AI Gateway" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 94 against 81", "Agent ergonomics, 84 against 63", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 76 against 71", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 79 against 73" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Agents that need current news across languages, grouped into stories, or tables of events and company news on a schedule.", "slug": "newscatcher", "watchFor": "The current News API and agent launched on 30 October 2026 and the MCP repository went public on 6 November 2026" } ], "history": { "cloudflare-web-search": [ { "causes": [ "evidence" ], "date": "2026-11-02", "delta": 5, "from": 61.9, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 66.9, "toGrade": "B" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-08", "delta": -0.2, "from": 62.1, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 61.9, "toGrade": "C" } ], "newscatcher": null }, "job": { "capability": "web.search", "name": "Web search" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-cloudflare-web-search.json", "title": "Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Cloudflare Web Search API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-cloudflare-web-search" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-newscatcher.json", "title": "Web 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-serpkite.json", "title": "NewsCatcher vs SerpKite", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-serpkite" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-tavily-mcp.json", "title": "NewsCatcher vs Tavily API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-tavily-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-valyu.json", "title": "NewsCatcher vs Valyu", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-valyu" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-you-com-api.json", "title": "NewsCatcher vs You.com APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-you-com-api" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 10, "cloudflare-web-search": 77, "edge": "cloudflare-web-search", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "newscatcher": 67, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 13, "cloudflare-web-search": 81, "edge": "newscatcher", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "newscatcher": 94, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 21, "cloudflare-web-search": 63, "edge": "newscatcher", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "newscatcher": 84, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 29, "cloudflare-web-search": 74, "edge": "cloudflare-web-search", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "newscatcher": 45, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 10, "cloudflare-web-search": 20, "edge": "newscatcher", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "newscatcher": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 5, "cloudflare-web-search": 71, "edge": "newscatcher", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "newscatcher": 76, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 6, "cloudflare-web-search": 73, "edge": "newscatcher", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "newscatcher": 79, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "NewsCatcher and Cloudflare Web Search API score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.5 (B) and 66.9 (B). Cloudflare Web Search API leads on reliability and security \u0026 auth. Both do web search. Cloudflare Web Search API is cheaper for web search, $0.25 against $1 per 1,000 requests.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "cloudflare-web-search": "One endpoint that sends a search to Ceramic.ai, Exa or Linkup and returns results in one format, logged and billed through AI Gateway, whose status shows no incidents in 90 days. Ceramic.ai costs $0.25 per 1,000 searches. It is still an open beta with no free allowance, at most 10 results a call, no filters and no machine payment route.", "newscatcher": "One key and one credit balance cover a ranked news search, a background research agent and a hosted MCP server with toolsets and annotated tools, under OpenAPI 3.1 specs and a dated changelog. The current API launched on 30 October 2026, the MCP server accepts the key in its URL, and no SLA is published below Enterprise." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-newscatcher", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-newscatcher.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-newscatcher.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-newscatcher.min.md" }, "markdown": "NewsCatcher and Cloudflare Web Search API score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.5 (B) and 66.9 (B). Cloudflare Web Search API leads on reliability and security \u0026 auth. Both do web search. Cloudflare Web Search API is cheaper for web search, $0.25 against $1 per 1,000 requests.\n\n- Cloudflare Web Search API: grade B, 66.9/100, rank #347 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-web-search.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-web-search.json\n- NewsCatcher: grade B, 67.5/100, rank #321 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/newscatcher.json\n- Best web search APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/search/index.md\n- All 308 search comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/search/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Cloudflare Web Search API (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 77 against 67\n- Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Cheaper for web search, $0.25 against $1 per 1,000 requests\n\nWatch for: Open beta, with no SLA found for AI Gateway\n\n### NewsCatcher (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that need current news across languages, grouped into stories, or tables of events and company news on a schedule.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 94 against 81\n- Agent ergonomics, 84 against 63\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 76 against 71\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 79 against 73\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: The current News API and agent launched on 30 October 2026 and the MCP repository went public on 6 November 2026\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Cloudflare Web Search API +29\n\n- Cloudflare Web Search API (74): Cloudflare API tokens are scoped by permission and revocable, and web search needs only Workers AI Read and AI Gateway Read. Permission is per account, not per gateway or provider. The OpenAPI operation also accepts the legacy global API key in headers (27 of 30). Every call reads. Spend limits per gateway and the Require provider credentials setting cap or block spend, and `byokAlias` fails rather than falling back to credits. Read permission is enough to spend credits (14 of 20). Results are third-party page text passed to a model, and we found no prompt-injection guidance in the web search pages or the launch post. AI Gateway Guardrails aren't documented for web search (0 of 15). Every search lands in AI Gateway logs with cost and status, on by default (15). security.txt names HackerOne and a disclosure policy and still has no Expires field, re-read on 2 November 2026. Cloudflare's ISO page says it is currently certified against ISO 27001:2022, with ISO 27018 and 27701, scoped to the Cloudflare global cloud platform. 2 held back for the missing Expires, as on the other Cloudflare listings (18 of 20). 27 + 14 + 0 + 15 + 18 = 74.\n- NewsCatcher (45): API keys in the `x-api-key` header, several per account, revocable in the platform, with advice to keep one per application. A 403 for 'a key that may not use this API' suggests per-key API access, but no scopes are documented (20). The MCP server documents `?apiKey=` on the server URL for Claude.ai custom connectors, with a warning, so less 10 (10 of 30). The MCP repository's SECURITY.md says URL keys are rejected unless the operator enables them, which the hosted server does per the docs. Toolsets let an operator load only the read-only `news` tools, write tools carry destructiveHint, and the server tells the assistant to confirm large or hourly agent jobs (14 of 20). Results are third-party article text and summaries, and no prompt-injection guidance was found in the docs or the MCP server's instructions (0 of 15). Every response carries a Correlation-ID, `GET /subscription` shows usage and balance, and runs are listed in the platform. No per-call audit log for the customer was found (7 of 15). The security page and footer claim SOC 2 Type II and link a trust centre on Oneleet, which wasn't read. A vulnerability disclosure policy covers the MCP server. No security.txt (404) and no bug bounty found (14 of 20). 10 + 14 + 0 + 7 + 14 = 45.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: NewsCatcher +21\n\n- Cloudflare Web Search API (63): Results are small by default (URL, title, description), and `limit` caps them at 1 to 10. The default provider, Ceramic.ai, returns descriptions of up to 8,000 characters a result with no parameter to shorten them (15 of 25). `limit` is the only control. No pagination, offset, domain, date, country or freshness filters (6 of 20). Errors come back with `category` (gateway, credential, provider, internal), `code`, `status`, `retryable` and `gatewayRequestId`. The codes themselves aren't listed (16 of 20). Searches only read, the error body says whether a retry helps, and gateways can retry upstream failures up to five times. No idempotency keys, which a read doesn't need (16 of 20). Only `query` and the gateway ID are required. The Workers binding is TypeScript, and the Cloudflare TypeScript SDK 7.3.0 of 3 October has no web search method. We didn't check the Python or Go SDKs (10 of 15).\n- NewsCatcher (84): 15 MCP tools in four toolsets, chosen per connection with `?tools=`, and tools return compact text rather than the full JSON. 15 for 11 to 30 tools plus 7 for toolsets (22 of 25). `limit`, `search_window`, effort, language, country, publisher, coverage and content-type filters, sorting, and paging on `/articles`; agent tables come back up to 200 rows at a time over MCP (20). Every status is documented with whether to retry; the agent returns stable `code` values, while the News API body has a `status_code` and a message meant for people (17 of 20). Every tool carries readOnlyHint and idempotentHint, writes carry destructiveHint, `start_research` has a free `dry_run`, and refused or failed calls aren't charged. No idempotency key for starting runs (17 of 20). Only `q` is required, with medium effort and a 7-day window as defaults. No official SDK for the current API was found; the docs show raw HTTP in three languages (8 of 15). 22 + 20 + 17 + 17 + 8 = 84.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: NewsCatcher +13\n\n- Cloudflare Web Search API (81): Cloudflare's public OpenAPI has `/accounts/{account_id}/ai/websearch` with a typed body, `additionalProperties: false` and typed 200, 400, 403 and 502 responses. `provider` is a free string there where the docs give an enum (22 of 25). llms.txt for the product and Markdown for every page (10). The providers page says which provider suits which job, such as Ceramic.ai for agents that run many searches and Exa for short query-relevant excerpts. Nothing says when not to use the endpoint, and the OpenAPI description is one line (12 of 20). `query` 1 to 1,024 characters, `limit` 1 to 10, `provider` enum in the docs, `byokAlias` with a pattern (14 of 15). curl and Worker examples, a response example, and a typed error body with category, code and `retryable`. No catalogue of error codes or messages found (11 of 15). Dated launch entry in the AI Gateway changelog, still the only web search entry on 2 November 2026. The API path carries v4 for the whole Cloudflare API, nothing specific to web search (12 of 15). The OpenAPI operation, re-read from a clone on 2 November, is unchanged.\n- NewsCatcher (94): OpenAPI 3.1 for the News API (version 1.3.9, 4 paths) and the agent (version 1.5.1, 33 paths), linked from llms.txt, and typed JSON Schema on every MCP tool through Pydantic (25). llms.txt, a Markdown copy of every page and a docs MCP server (10). MCP tool descriptions say when to use each and which tool to use instead, such as `list_articles` for older news; the REST reference explains each endpoint and the 'Choose an API' page compares them (17 of 20). Inputs are typed with enums for effort, mode and dimensions, length and range limits such as a 500-character query and limit 1 to 100, and required fields marked (13 of 15). Runnable examples in curl, Python and JavaScript, and an error table with retry advice for every status. The agent spec carries no response examples (14 of 15). Versioned APIs with a dated changelog, the latest entries on 4 November 2026, and separate changelogs for the v3 News API and CatchAll (15). 25 + 10 + 17 + 13 + 14 + 15 = 94.\n\n### Reliability: Cloudflare Web Search API +10\n\n- Cloudflare Web Search API (77): Scored as a hosted API. www.cloudflarestatus.com lists AI Gateway, Workers AI and AI Search among its services, each with 30-day and 90-day incident bars (20). Web search has no component of its own and runs through AI Gateway. On 2 November 2026 the services page showed AI Gateway with no days with incidents in 90 days. The five Workers AI incident days (13 and 19 August, 9 September, 15 and 27 October) name model errors, a model outage and AI Security for Apps, not AI Gateway or web search, so a clean record (30). The 5 October reading from the status page's JSON feed is struck. 200 requests per 60 seconds per gateway on Unified Billing credentials, and 1,200 requests per five minutes per Cloudflare API token (15). The Cloudflare API returns 429 with `retry-after` and `Ratelimit` headers, and the error body carries a `retryable` flag. Searches have no side effects, but 429 isn't among the responses the OpenAPI operation lists (12 of 15). No SLA for AI Gateway found (0). The docs still label it open beta on 2 November, although the OpenAPI operation is tagged generally-available. We scored from the docs (0). 20 + 30 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 0 = 77.\n- NewsCatcher (67): Read with the hosted lines, for the News API, the agent and the hosted MCP server. status.newscatcherapi.com (Hyperping) shows one News API component with 99.820% uptime from August to November 2026 and an incident history. The agent and the MCP server have no component of their own (20). In the 90 days from 8 August, one incident, on 1 September 2026, when the vendor wrote that for about four hours a higher-than-usual number of requests to the production News API timed out because of one client's queries. Read as one major (10). Rate limits published per plan, 1 request a second free and up to 10 on pay as you go, with exact limits from the free `GET /subscription` (15). 429 carries Retry-After with instructions to retry the same request, 503 carries Retry-After, and failed or refused requests are not charged. Agent runs and monitor creation have no idempotency keys (12 of 15). An uptime SLA exists only in signed Enterprise agreements; none is published (0). Generally available since 30 October 2026, with OAuth for the MCP server announced as coming soon (10). 20 + 10 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 67.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: NewsCatcher +10\n\n- Cloudflare Web Search API (20): No x402, MPP or L402 on /ai/websearch. AI Gateway Machine Payments covers only /ai/run for four open models (0, Machine Payments page unchanged since 30 September and still limited to `/ai/run`). Per-search prices published without a login, $0.25, $5.00 and $7.00 per 1,000 by provider. The 5 per cent fee on credit purchases sits on the Unified Billing page, not the providers page (20). No free allowance found. Credits need a payment method, and the BYOK route needs an account with the provider (0). A person signs up for Cloudflare in a browser and buys credits or stores a provider key (0). 0 + 20 + 0 + 0 = 20.\n- NewsCatcher (30): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Credit prices per call published without login, and credits cost $1 per 1,000 through top-ups from $25 (20). 10,000 free credits every 30 days on a $0 plan, and the first top-up moves an account to pay as you go. No page says whether a card is needed to open the free plan, so half (10). A person signs up in the platform in a browser to get a key (0). NewsMCP's keyless tier belongs to a separate product and isn't counted. 0 + 20 + 10 + 0 = 30.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: NewsCatcher +6\n\n- Cloudflare Web Search API (73): Closed service under Cloudflare's terms, with each provider's terms linked from the providers page (15 of 30). AI Gateway logs are on by default with headers to skip payloads, and Cloudflare's privacy policy and DPA exist per the Cloudflare MCP check. The providers page gives Zero Data Retention for Ceramic.ai and Linkup but not Exa, while the 2 October changelog says all three support it. No retention period for web search logs on the pages we read (15 of 30). No deprecation policy found. The changelog posts dated changes, such as the 24 September log cut-over, but no deprecation notices (6 of 20). The three providers are named, and Cloudflare's subprocessor page names 12 third parties with locations per the Cloudflare MCP check. Where searches are processed isn't stated (14 of 20). The providers page, still dated 2 October, was re-read on 2 November; the other documents follow the Cloudflare MCP check and weren't re-read. 15 + 15 + 6 + 14 = 50.\n- NewsCatcher (79): The API is closed under terms of 2 November 2026 naming NewsCatcher, Inc., and the MCP server is MIT, so between the two bands (20 of 30). The terms say inputs and generated data are not used to train models, a DPA applies automatically, and the privacy policy gives retention periods (server logs 7 days, API logs with query text 90 days, then archived indefinitely, billing records about seven years). They agree with each other, but indefinite archives of query logs hold it back (22 of 30). The terms promise 30 days' email notice before a paid product or API version is discontinued, with refunds of unused credits, and the v3 News API has a migration guide (15 of 20). A sub-processor list dated 2 November 2026 with each provider's location and the data it handles. The MCP repository deploys to Vercel and can send pseudonymised analytics to PostHog, and neither appears on the list (16 of 20). 20 + 22 + 15 + 16 = 73.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cloudflare Web Search API | NewsCatcher | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 77 | 67 | Cloudflare Web Search API +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 94 | NewsCatcher +13 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 84 | NewsCatcher +21 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 45 | Cloudflare Web Search API +29 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | NewsCatcher +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 76 | NewsCatcher +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 79 | NewsCatcher +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.9 · B** | **67.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cloudflare Web Search API | NewsCatcher |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | NewsCatcher, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP | Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| Price for web search | $0.25 per 1,000 requests | $1 per 1,000 requests |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Cloudflare's terms. Each search provider's own terms are linked from the providers page | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 15 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-11-06 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | 2026-11-02 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-11-02 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Cloudflare Web Search API\n\n- +5.0 on 2 November 2026 (C to B): new evidence\n- -0.2 on 8 October 2026 (B to C): checklist\n\n### NewsCatcher\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cloudflare Web Search API.** One endpoint that sends a search to Ceramic.ai, Exa or Linkup and returns results in one format, logged and billed through AI Gateway, whose status shows no incidents in 90 days. Ceramic.ai costs $0.25 per 1,000 searches. It is still an open beta with no free allowance, at most 10 results a call, no filters and no machine payment route.\n\n**NewsCatcher.** One key and one credit balance cover a ranked news search, a background research agent and a hosted MCP server with toolsets and annotated tools, under OpenAPI 3.1 specs and a dated changelog. The current API launched on 30 October 2026, the MCP server accepts the key in its URL, and no SLA is published below Enterprise.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cloudflare Web Search API\n\n1. Set `options.gateway.id`. Every account has a gateway named `default`\n2. Pass `provider` explicitly. It defaults to Ceramic.ai, whose descriptions can run to 8,000 characters a result\n3. Set `limit` to the results you'll read, between 1 and 10\n4. Set `byokAlias` when you mean to use a stored provider key, so a missing key fails with 400 instead of spending credits\n5. Send `cf-aig-collect-log-payload: false` if queries shouldn't be stored in gateway logs\n\n### NewsCatcher\n\n1. Send the key in the `x-api-key` header, and use a separate key for the MCP server so it can be revoked alone\n2. Call `start_research` with `dry_run` first, since agent runs cost 1,000 to 6,000 credits\n3. Use `effort=low` for quick lookups; the default `medium` costs five times as much\n4. Use `/articles` or `list_articles` for news older than 30 days or exact counts; `/search` covers 30 days only\n5. On 429 or 503 wait for Retry-After, and quote the Correlation-ID header to support\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare Web Search API or NewsCatcher?\n\nNewsCatcher and Cloudflare Web Search API score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.5 (B) and 66.9 (B). Cloudflare Web Search API leads on reliability and security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Which is cheaper for web search, Cloudflare Web Search API or NewsCatcher?\n\nCloudflare Web Search API, at $0.25 per 1,000 requests against $1 per 1,000 requests for NewsCatcher. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Do Cloudflare Web Search API and NewsCatcher need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Cloudflare Web Search API and NewsCatcher without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Cloudflare Web Search API. 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