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      "summary": "DeepSeek's Search and Fetch API gives agents live web results from DeepSeek's in-house search engine and single pages as Markdown, through two REST endpoints on an ordinary DeepSeek API key, billed per successful request.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api",
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      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "$0.75 per 1,000 successful requests for Search and the same for Fetch, from a prepaid balance. Only an HTTP 200 with a result is billed, and `count` doesn't change the price. Server-side search through DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code or Codex is free until 31 October 2026 at 16:00 UTC (https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.75 / 1k req",
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        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Search and Fetch guide, the API reference or the pricing page, and an unauthenticated POST to both endpoints returned 401 `authentication_error` with no payment challenge (checked 2026-10-17).",
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
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        "web.search",
        "web.fetch"
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        "hosted",
        "prepaid",
        "usage-priced",
        "status-page"
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        "graded": true,
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          "maintenance": 42,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 65,
          "schema": 55,
          "security": 38,
          "transparency": 60
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          "tasks"
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-17"
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        "verdict": "Search returns up to 50 results with a model-length summary, an authority tier and optional full text, and only successful non-empty calls are billed, at $0.75 per 1,000. It opened on 17 October 2026, with 5 requests a second per account, no OpenAPI file, no free tier, and data held in the PRC under a policy that permits training.",
        "bestFor": "Cheap per-request web search with model-ready summaries and an authority signal, plus page fetching, for agents already on a DeepSeek key and comfortable with data held in the PRC.",
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          "$0.75 per 1,000 successful requests for each endpoint, and failed calls, empty results and timeouts aren't billed",
          "Each result has a 100 to 200 character snippet, a 600 to 800 character summary for models, and full text on request",
          "Site, language, date and phrase operators in the query string, and up to 50 results a call",
          "Error table with ten status codes and when to retry, and both endpoints documented as read-only"
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          "Opened on 17 October 2026, with no service record of its own and no component for it on the status page",
          "5 requests a second per account for each endpoint, plus an unpublished per-domain limit on Fetch",
          "No OpenAPI file, no llms.txt, no official SDKs and no free tier for direct calls",
          "One unscoped key for search and models, no security.txt, and no prompt-injection guidance for returned page text",
          "Data stored in the PRC, used for training unless the customer opts out by email, and no retention period stated"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Keep `query` to 128 characters and put filters in it as operators, such as `site:github.com lang:en after:2026-01-01`",
          "Leave `need_content` false and read `summary` first, then call Fetch on the URLs you keep",
          "Stay under 5 requests a second per account across all keys. On 408, 429 or 5xx wait and retry, since no Retry-After is documented",
          "Don't retry a Fetch 403 or 404 unchanged. The page is blocked by policy, unreachable or has no Markdown",
          "Don't send private queries or an end user's IP in `localization`. Data is stored in the PRC"
        ],
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          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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        "avgRating": 3,
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            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
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            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 53.2
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        ],
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          "maintenance": 42,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 65,
          "schema": 55,
          "security": 38,
          "transparency": 35
        },
        "provenanceScore": 84
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl https://api.deepseek.com/v1/tools/search \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $DEEPSEEK_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"query\":\"DeepSeek V4 release\",\"count\":5,\"need_content\":true}'"
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/deepseek-search-api"
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      "sameCompany": [
        "deepseek-api"
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      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Search",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.75,
          "note": "Successful non-empty results only. 1 to 50 results at the same price"
        },
        {
          "item": "Fetch",
          "unit": "1k-pages",
          "usd": 0.75,
          "note": "One URL per request, billed only when page content comes back"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd.",
        "domain": "deepseek.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2000-08-13",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-open-platform-terms-of-service.html",
        "privacy": "https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-privacy-policy.html",
        "statusPage": "https://status.deepseek.com",
        "changelog": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-17",
        "notes": [
          "deepseek.com was registered in 2000, long before the company, so domain age flatters it (per the deepseek-api listing).",
          "The Open Platform terms (effective 29 April 2026) are governed by PRC law and assign Outputs to the customer. The privacy policy (10 February 2026) names Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd.",
          "www.deepseek.com/.well-known/security.txt and deepseek.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 17 October 2026, and api-docs.deepseek.com answers every path with the docs page.",
          "www.deepseek.com/robots.txt allows all user agents. api-docs.deepseek.com has no robots.txt. platform.deepseek.com answered with a 202 holding page and wasn't read.",
          "The status page has a Search Service component, grouped under Chat Service, and no component named for the Search or Fetch API."
        ],
        "score": 84
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-search-api.json",
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        "slug": "deepseek-search-api",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.deepseek.com/v1/tools/search",
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-18",
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              "ok": 3
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.deepseek.com",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:50:57.753702183Z"
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:36.047087455Z"
      }
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    "answer": "Valyu scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against DeepSeek Search and Fetch API's 53.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. DeepSeek Search and Fetch API leads on reliability.",
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      "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).",
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      "openapi": "https://docs.valyu.ai/api-reference/openapi.json",
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        "web.search",
        "web.fetch",
        "web.extract",
        "search.answer",
        "search.research",
        "search.news"
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        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "async-jobs",
        "enterprise"
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          "schema": 87,
          "security": 44,
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
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        "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"
        ],
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          "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",
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          "Platform changelog hasn't had an entry since 30 June 2026"
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          "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"
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        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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        "avgRating": 4.5,
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          "reliability": 53,
          "schema": 87,
          "security": 44,
          "transparency": 65
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        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search -H \"x-api-key: $VALYU_API_KEY\" -H 'content-type: application/json' \\\n  -d '{\"query\":\"What is quantum computing?\",\"max_num_results\":5}'",
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                "x-api-key": "${VALYU_API_KEY}"
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          "note": "failed URLs free"
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          "item": "DeepResearch, standard mode",
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          "note": "36 credits"
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/valyu.json\n- Best web search APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/search/index.md\n- All 163 search comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/search/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### DeepSeek Search and Fetch API (D)\n\nGood for: Cheap per-request web search with model-ready summaries and an authority signal, plus page fetching, for agents already on a DeepSeek key and comfortable with data held in the PRC.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 65 against 53\n\nWatch for: Opened on 17 October 2026, with no service record of its own and no component for it on the status page\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 55\n- Security \u0026 auth, 44 against 38\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 45 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 42\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 78 against 60\n\nAlso in its favour:\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 | DeepSeek Search and Fetch API | Valyu | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 53 | DeepSeek Search and Fetch API +12 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 87 | Valyu +32 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 78 | DeepSeek Search and Fetch API +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 38 | 44 | Valyu +6 |\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) | 42 | 80 | Valyu +38 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 78 | Valyu +18 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **53.2 · D** | **64.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | DeepSeek Search and Fetch API | Valyu |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | DeepSeek | Valyu |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.deepseek.com/v1/tools/search` | `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 | $0.75 per 1,000 requests | $1.50 per 1,000 pages |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Tools exposed | none | 6 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-17 | 2026-09-12 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2025-10-20 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2025-10-20 |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 19 stars, 6.7k npm/wk, 7.1k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 4.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**DeepSeek Search and Fetch API.** Search returns up to 50 results with a model-length summary, an authority tier and optional full text, and only successful non-empty calls are billed, at $0.75 per 1,000. It opened on 17 October 2026, with 5 requests a second per account, no OpenAPI file, no free tier, and data held in the PRC under a policy that permits training.\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### DeepSeek Search and Fetch API\n\n1. Keep `query` to 128 characters and put filters in it as operators, such as `site:github.com lang:en after:2026-01-01`\n2. Leave `need_content` false and read `summary` first, then call Fetch on the URLs you keep\n3. Stay under 5 requests a second per account across all keys. On 408, 429 or 5xx wait and retry, since no Retry-After is documented\n4. Don't retry a Fetch 403 or 404 unchanged. The page is blocked by policy, unreachable or has no Markdown\n5. Don't send private queries or an end user's IP in `localization`. Data is stored in the PRC\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, DeepSeek Search and Fetch API or Valyu?\n\nValyu scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against DeepSeek Search and Fetch API's 53.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. DeepSeek Search and Fetch API leads on reliability.\n\n### Do DeepSeek Search and Fetch API and Valyu need an API key?\n\nDeepSeek Search and Fetch API needs an API key. Valyu takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call DeepSeek Search and Fetch API and Valyu without installing anything?\n\nYes. DeepSeek Search and Fetch API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.deepseek.com/v1/tools/search and Valyu at https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-valyu.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-valyu.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"deepseek-search-api\", \"b\": \"valyu\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare deepseek-search-api valyu`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepseek-search-api.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/valyu.json\n\n## Other comparisons with DeepSeek Search and Fetch API or Valyu\n\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs DeepSeek Search and Fetch API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-deepseek-search-api.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs DeepSeek Search and Fetch API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-deepseek-search-api.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 DeepSeek Search and Fetch API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-deepseek-search-api.md)\n- [Cloudflare Web Search API vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-valyu.md)\n- [DeepSeek Search and Fetch API vs Exa API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-exa-mcp.md)\n- [DeepSeek Search and Fetch API vs Firecrawl MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-firecrawl-mcp.md)\n- [DeepSeek Search and Fetch API vs Grep AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-grep-ai.md)\n- [DeepSeek Search and Fetch API vs Kagi Search API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-kagi-search.md)\n- [DeepSeek Search and Fetch API vs Linkup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-linkup.md)\n- [DeepSeek Search and Fetch API vs Parallel Search and Task APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-parallel-search-api.md)\n- [DeepSeek Search and Fetch API vs SearchAPI.io](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-searchapi-io.md)\n- [DeepSeek Search and Fetch API vs SerpApi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-serpapi.md)\n- [DeepSeek Search and Fetch API vs Serper](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-serper.md)\n- [DeepSeek Search and Fetch API vs SerpKite](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-serpkite.md)\n- [DeepSeek Search and Fetch API vs Tavily API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-tavily-mcp.md)\n- [DeepSeek Search and Fetch API vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [DeepSeek Search and Fetch API vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-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- [Kagi Search API vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kagi-search-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- [TinyFish Search vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tinyfish-search-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Valyu vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/valyu-vs-you-com-api.md)\n- [DeepSeek Search and Fetch API vs Fetch (MCP reference server)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-search-api-vs-fetch-reference-server.md)\n- [Fetch (MCP reference server) vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Grep AI vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-valyu.md)\n",
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