{ "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", "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": 62.1, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 226, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 460, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 20, "reliability": 55, "schema": 81, "security": 71, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-05" }, "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. Ceramic.ai costs $0.25 per 1,000 searches. It's 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 $0.25 per 1,000 searches, at the provider's list price", "Every search lands in AI Gateway logs, with per-request headers to skip storing payloads", "Typed error body with category, code and a `retryable` flag", "Providers commit to verified-bot crawling and a source link on every result" ], "weaknesses": [ "Open beta, with no SLA found for AI Gateway", "Credits need a payment method and carry a 5 per cent purchase fee. No free allowance", "At most 10 results a call, with no pagination, domain or date filters", "No x402. Machine Payments covers only /ai/run", "The changelog and the providers page disagree on whether Exa searches have Zero Data Retention" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `options.gateway.id`. Every account has a gateway named `default`", "Pass `provider` explicitly. It defaults to Ceramic.ai, whose descriptions can run to 8,000 characters a result", "Set `limit` to the results you'll read, between 1 and 10", "Set `byokAlias` when you mean to use a stored provider key, so a missing key fails with 400 instead of spending credits", "Send `cf-aig-collect-log-payload: false` if queries shouldn't be stored in gateway logs" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 20, "reliability": 55, "schema": 81, "security": 71, "transparency": 50 }, "provenanceScore": 100 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$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-sandbox-sdk", "cloudflare-mcp", "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": "2026-10-05", "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, read on 5 October 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." ], "score": 100 }, "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": "2026-10-06T01:47:08.690984366Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-06T01:47:08.690984366Z" } }, "answer": "Valyu scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Cloudflare Web Search API's 62.1 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cloudflare Web Search API leads on security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "valyu", "name": "Valyu", "vendor": "Valyu", "vendorUrl": "https://www.valyu.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "Search API that covers the web plus specialised sources (arXiv, PubMed, SEC filings, market data, patents, clinical trials, genomics).", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/valyu.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "valyu-js" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "valyu" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API key in the `x-api-key` header. After a person creates the account, the Valyu CLI (`valyu login`, browser or headless approval) lets an agent mint keys with a hard spending cap, rotate and revoke them, and management keys carry explicit scopes. The hosted MCP at mcp.valyu.ai takes Sign in with Valyu (OAuth), a Bearer or X-API-Key header, or, as the docs lead with, `?valyuApiKey=` in the URL.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "New accounts get $10 of credit ($20 with a work email). Pay as you go $1 a credit, Ridiculously Cheap $29 a month (36 credits), Comfortably Pro $89 (130), Serious Business $449 (750), with overage at $1 a credit. Search and Answer bill per 1,000 results retrieved, $0.50 open databases, $1.50 web, $8 financial data, $30 to $50 proprietary. Contents $0.001 a URL. Answer adds $12 per million tokens. DeepResearch $0.10 (fast) to $15 (max) a task (https://www.valyu.ai/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$1.50 / 1k pages", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 in llms.txt, llms-full.txt or pricing docs (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 6, "popularity": { "githubStars": 19, "npmWeekly": 6664, "pypiWeekly": 7097, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.valyu.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.valyu.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.valyu.ai/api-reference/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "web.fetch", "web.extract", "search.answer", "search.research", "search.news" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "async-jobs", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-12", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.6, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 182, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 460, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 45, "reliability": 53, "schema": 87, "security": 44, "transparency": 79 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Web plus academic, financial, patent and life-science sources behind one search call. No published rate limits and no Retry-After or backoff guidance.", "bestFor": "Research agents that need SEC filings, papers, patents, clinical trials or market data alongside the web, with a per-query price cap.", "strengths": [ "Web plus academic, financial, patent and life-science sources behind one search call", "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 with 26 paths, tight parameter constraints and a 206 partial-success code", "Spend-capped, rotatable keys from the CLI, and scoped management keys", "Queries deleted within 24 to 72 hours and not used for training, per the privacy policy", "Failed requests are free, and `max_price` caps spend per query" ], "weaknesses": [ "No published rate limits and no Retry-After or backoff guidance", "Web results cost $1.50 per 1,000 results retrieved, so a 10-result search is $0.015", "MCP docs lead with `?valyuApiKey=` in the URL query string", "No prompt-injection guidance for the full page text it returns", "Platform changelog hasn't had an entry since 30 June 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `max_price` and `max_num_results` on every search to bound cost", "Mint a spend-capped key with the Valyu CLI rather than reusing the account's main key", "Call `valyu_search`. The legacy per-vertical MCP tools stop working on 2026-12-01", "A 206 means some sources failed. Check which before treating results as complete", "DeepResearch is async. Poll `valyu_deepresearch_status` rather than waiting in one call" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 4.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 45, "reliability": 53, "schema": 87, "security": 44, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 92 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search -H \"x-api-key: $VALYU_API_KEY\" -H 'content-type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\"query\":\"What is quantum computing?\",\"max_num_results\":5}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http valyu https://mcp.valyu.ai/mcp --header \"x-api-key: $VALYU_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "valyu": { "headers": { "x-api-key": "${VALYU_API_KEY}" }, "url": "https://mcp.valyu.ai/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/valyu" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Web search, per 1,000 results retrieved", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 1.5, "note": "priced per result, not per query" }, { "item": "Open databases, per 1,000 results", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 0.5 }, { "item": "Contents extraction", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 1, "note": "failed URLs free" }, { "item": "DeepResearch, standard mode", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.5, "note": "fast $0.10, heavy $2.50, max $15" }, { "item": "Ridiculously Cheap plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 29, "note": "36 credits" }, { "item": "Comfortably Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 89, "note": "130 credits" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Valyu.Network Ltd", "domain": "valyu.ai", "domainRegistered": "2024-09-03", "domainNote": "The older valyu.network (registered 2022-09-17) redirects to valyu.ai, which is the current domain.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.valyu.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://www.valyu.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.valyu.ai", "changelog": "https://docs.valyu.ai/changelog/platform", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-30", "score": 92 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.json", "live": { "slug": "valyu", "probe": { "target": "https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-06T01:46:37.838785022Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 403, "lastMs": 242, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 254, "p95ms24h": 338, "samples24h": 273, "samples30d": 1395, "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": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.valyu.ai", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-06T01:26:24.069076174Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "valyu-js", "version": "2.10.2", "seenAt": "2026-10-05T17:08:28.670772986Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "valyu", "version": "2.12.2", "released": "2026-09-12", "seenAt": "2026-10-05T17:08:29.075578439Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 6625, "pypiWeekly": 6252, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://valyu.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-03-10T00:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T15:16:07.56663496Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.valyu.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T15:19:33.978958749Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "valyu.ai", "registered": "2024-09-03", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/valyu.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:06:17.130036603Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.valyu.ai/changelog/platform", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T15:56:30.853843125Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "35bc7870472f" }, { "url": "https://docs.valyu.ai/integrations/mcp-server", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T15:56:33.10243741Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "63cfb3d58b79" }, { "url": "https://www.valyu.ai/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T16:04:58.749242464Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "456a079afccb" }, { "url": "https://www.valyu.ai/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T16:05:01.029154917Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b6b4aa4fc051" }, { "url": "https://www.valyu.ai/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T16:05:03.031421098Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "fef72d613a0e" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-06T01:46:37.838785022Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cloudflare, Inc.", "b": "Valyu", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$0.25 per 1,000 requests", "b": "$1.50 per 1,000 pages", "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": "6", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-02", "b": "2026-09-12", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "none", "b": "19 stars, 6.7k npm/wk, 7.1k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "4.5/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Valyu scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Cloudflare Web Search API's 62.1 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cloudflare Web Search API leads on security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare Web Search API or Valyu?" }, { "answer": "Cloudflare Web Search API needs an API key. Valyu takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Cloudflare Web Search API and Valyu need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Cloudflare Web Search API. Valyu has a hosted endpoint at https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search.", "question": "Can an agent call Cloudflare Web Search API and Valyu without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 44" ], "also": null, "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, 87 against 81", "Agent ergonomics, 78 against 63", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 45 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 71" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 4.5 against 3.0 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "Research agents that need SEC filings, papers, patents, clinical trials or market data alongside the web, with a per-query price cap.", "slug": "valyu", "watchFor": "No published rate limits and no Retry-After or backoff guidance" } ], "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-valyu.json", "title": "Brave Search API + MCP vs Valyu", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-valyu" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-exa-mcp.json", "title": "Cloudflare Web Search API vs Exa API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-exa-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-firecrawl-mcp.json", "title": "Cloudflare Web Search API vs Firecrawl 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No published rate limits and no Retry-After or backoff guidance." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-valyu", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-valyu.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-valyu.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-valyu.min.md" }, "markdown": "Valyu scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Cloudflare Web Search API's 62.1 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cloudflare Web Search API leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do web search.\n\n- Cloudflare Web Search API: grade B, 62.1/100, rank #226 of 460. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-web-search.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-web-search.json\n- Valyu: grade B, 64.6/100, rank #182 of 460. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/valyu.json\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- Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 44\n\nWatch for: Open beta, with no SLA found for AI Gateway\n\n### Valyu (B)\n\nGood for: Research agents that need SEC filings, papers, patents, clinical trials or market data alongside the web, with a per-query price cap.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 81\n- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 63\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 45 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 71\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 4.5 against 3.0 out of 5\n\nWatch for: No published rate limits and no Retry-After or backoff guidance\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cloudflare Web Search API | Valyu | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 53 | Cloudflare Web Search API +2 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 87 | Valyu +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 78 | Valyu +15 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 71 | 44 | Cloudflare Web Search API +27 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 45 | Valyu +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 80 | Valyu +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 79 | Valyu +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.1 · B** | **64.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cloudflare Web Search API | Valyu |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | Valyu |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| Price for web search | $0.25 per 1,000 requests | $1.50 per 1,000 pages |\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 | 6 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-09-12 |\n| Popularity | none | 19 stars, 6.7k npm/wk, 7.1k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 4.5/5 (2) |\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. Ceramic.ai costs $0.25 per 1,000 searches. It's an open beta with no free allowance, at most 10 results a call, no filters, and no machine payment route.\n\n**Valyu.** Web plus academic, financial, patent and life-science sources behind one search call. No published rate limits and no Retry-After or backoff guidance.\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### Valyu\n\n1. Set `max_price` and `max_num_results` on every search to bound cost\n2. Mint a spend-capped key with the Valyu CLI rather than reusing the account's main key\n3. Call `valyu_search`. The legacy per-vertical MCP tools stop working on 2026-12-01\n4. A 206 means some sources failed. Check which before treating results as complete\n5. DeepResearch is async. Poll `valyu_deepresearch_status` rather than waiting in one call\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare Web Search API or Valyu?\n\nValyu scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Cloudflare Web Search API's 62.1 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cloudflare Web Search API leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Cloudflare Web Search API and Valyu need an API key?\n\nCloudflare Web Search API needs an API key. Valyu takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Cloudflare Web Search API and Valyu without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Cloudflare Web Search API. Valyu has a hosted endpoint at https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-valyu.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-valyu.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cloudflare-web-search\", \"b\": \"valyu\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare cloudflare-web-search valyu`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-web-search.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/valyu.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Cloudflare Web Search API or Valyu\n\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs Cloudflare Web Search API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-cloudflare-web-search.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Cloudflare Web Search API vs Exa API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-exa-mcp.md)\n- [Cloudflare Web Search API vs Firecrawl MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-firecrawl-mcp.md)\n- [Cloudflare Web Search API vs Linkup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-linkup.md)\n- [Cloudflare Web Search API vs Parallel Search and Task APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-parallel-search-api.md)\n- [Cloudflare Web Search API vs SearchAPI.io](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-searchapi-io.md)\n- [Cloudflare Web Search API vs SerpApi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-serpapi.md)\n- [Cloudflare Web Search API vs Serper](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-serper.md)\n- [Cloudflare Web Search API vs SerpKite](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-serpkite.md)\n- [Cloudflare Web Search API vs Tavily API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-tavily-mcp.md)\n- [Cloudflare Web Search API vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-you-com-api.md)\n- [Exa API + MCP vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/exa-mcp-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Firecrawl MCP vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Linkup vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Parallel Search and Task APIs vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallel-search-api-vs-valyu.md)\n- [SearchAPI.io vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/searchapi-io-vs-valyu.md)\n- [SerpApi vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/serpapi-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Serper vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/serper-vs-valyu.md)\n- [SerpKite vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/serpkite-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Tavily API + MCP vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tavily-mcp-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Valyu vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/valyu-vs-you-com-api.md)\n- [Fetch (MCP reference server) vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-valyu.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-06", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.3", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Cloudflare Web Search API vs Valyu", "url": "" } ], "description": "Valyu scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Cloudflare Web Search API's 62.1 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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