{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "fetch-reference-server", "name": "Fetch (MCP reference server)", "vendor": "MCP project (reference servers)", "vendorUrl": "https://modelcontextprotocol.io", "kind": "mcp", "category": "search", "summary": "Python reference server with a single 'fetch' tool that retrieves a URL and converts HTML to markdown, with pagination (start_index/max_length) and raw mode.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fetch-reference-server", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fetch-reference-server.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fetch-reference-server.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fetch-reference-server.json", "repo": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers", "license": "MIT and Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "mcp-server-fetch" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "mcp/fetch" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "Local process; optional --proxy-url.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Open source.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Local reference server, no payments.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 1, "popularity": { "githubStars": 90000, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 118227, "asOf": "2026-09-26" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/blob/main/src/fetch/README.md", "capabilities": [ "web.fetch" ], "tags": [ "reference", "local", "open-source", "python" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-18", "graded": true, "disclosure": "MCP started at Anthropic, which makes the Claude models our research agents and review panel run on (Anthropic donated it to the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation, in December 2025), and this server is graded by the same checklist as every other listing.", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 57.5, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 546, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 42, "payments": 60, "reliability": 53, "schema": 70, "security": 30, "transparency": 73 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One tool of about 300 tokens, with `max_length` and `start_index` paging and a hint giving the next offset. Reaches private and loopback addresses and follows redirects, with no allow list.", "bestFor": "Reading a known URL as Markdown in a local or sandboxed agent, at no cost.", "disclosure": "MCP started at Anthropic, which makes the Claude models our research agents and review panel run on (Anthropic donated it to the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation, in December 2025), and this server is graded by the same checklist as every other listing.", "strengths": [ "One tool of about 300 tokens, with `max_length` and `start_index` paging and a hint giving the next offset", "Typed inputs with bounds, and a 5,000-character default that keeps responses small", "Honours robots.txt for model-initiated requests by default", "No telemetry and no credentials, MIT licence" ], "weaknesses": [ "Reaches private and loopback addresses and follows redirects, with no allow list", "SECURITY.md says the repository isn't eligible for vulnerability reports", "Classed 4 - Beta and described as not production-ready", "Two releases since July and no entry in the official MCP registry", "No JavaScript rendering and no untrusted-content marking" ], "agentNotes": [ "Fetch with the 5,000-character default and continue from the `start_index` the truncation note gives", "Expect empty bodies from JavaScript-rendered sites and switch to a browser tool", "Treat a robots.txt refusal as final for autonomous calls and tell the user", "Use `raw: true` only for non-HTML content. It skips the Markdown conversion and returns the page as served" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 4, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 57.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 42, "payments": 60, "reliability": 53, "schema": 70, "security": 30, "transparency": 76 }, "provenanceScore": 69 }, "connect": { "claudeCode": "claude mcp add fetch -- uvx mcp-server-fetch", "config": { "mcpServers": { "fetch": { "args": [ "mcp-server-fetch" ], "command": "uvx" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.fetch", "tool": "https://letme.dev/fetch-reference-server" }, "sameCompany": [ "git-reference-server", "puppeteer-reference-server-archived", "filesystem-reference-server", "memory-reference-server", "postgres-reference-server-archived", "sequential-thinking-reference-server" ], "area": "web-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Model Context Protocol, a Series of LF Projects, LLC", "domain": "modelcontextprotocol.io", "domainRegistered": "2024-11-18", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.lfprojects.org/policies/terms-of-use/", "privacy": "https://www.lfprojects.org/policies/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/releases", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-26", "score": 69 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fetch-reference-server.json", "live": { "slug": "fetch-reference-server", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "modelcontextprotocol/servers", "version": "2026.8.31", "released": "2026-08-31", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:11:26.731882584Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "mcp-server-fetch", "version": "2026.8.18", "released": "2026-08-18", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:11:24.657632651Z" } ], "githubStars": 91080, "pypiWeekly": 151239, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://modelcontextprotocol.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:47.022642624Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "modelcontextprotocol.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:06:56.741922917Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.lfprojects.org/policies/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:42.725442582Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "38cea2fa08bd" }, { "url": "https://www.lfprojects.org/policies/terms-of-use/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:45.426846454Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6b8804f51317" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:45.426846454Z" } }, "answer": "TinyFish Search scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Fetch (MCP reference server)'s 57.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Fetch (MCP reference server) leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "tinyfish-search", "name": "TinyFish Search", "vendor": "TinyFish", "vendorUrl": "https://www.tinyfish.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "Web search API from TinyFish that returns ranked titles, snippets and URLs as JSON for web, news or research-paper queries. It is called with an API key at `api.search.tinyfish.ai`, through Python and TypeScript SDKs, or through the vendor's MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish-search.json", "repo": "https://github.com/tinyfish-io/tinyfish-mcp-server", "license": "Proprietary service under TinyFish's Terms of Service. The local MCP proxy `@tiny-fish/mcp` is MIT. The SDK packages on npm and PyPI carry no licence metadata", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.search.tinyfish.ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "tinyfish" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tiny-fish/sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tiny-fish/mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The REST API takes an API key in the `X-API-Key` header. Keys are created by a signed-in person at agent.tinyfish.ai/api-keys, are shown once and can be revoked or regenerated. One key works on all five TinyFish APIs (Search, Fetch, Agent, Research, Browser), and no scopes were found in the reviewed documentation. The hosted MCP server at `https://agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp` uses OAuth 2.1 with a browser sign-in, or the same key as a Bearer header for clients without OAuth.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Search is $0.00 a request. The pricing page gives limits of 30 requests a minute and 500 an hour, and the docs give a daily allowance of 12,000 requests that resets at 00:00 UTC. No card is needed to sign up. Past the daily allowance the docs say a request needs a positive wallet balance and returns 402 `INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS` otherwise, while the pricing page says Search never draws from the wallet. No per-request rate above the allowance is published (https://www.tinyfish.ai/pricing, https://docs.tinyfish.ai/search-api/reference.md, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "An unauthenticated GET to https://api.search.tinyfish.ai?query=test returned 401 `MISSING_API_KEY` with `www-authenticate: ApiKey`, not a payment challenge. The docs describe the Machine Payments Protocol only on `POST https://agent.tinyfish.ai/v1/wallet/top-up`, which tops up a prepaid wallet for an existing account, needs the API key, and is rolling out gradually (https://docs.tinyfish.ai/agent-payments.md, checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 28, "popularity": { "githubStars": 9, "npmWeekly": 5721, "pypiWeekly": 6540, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.tinyfish.ai/search-api", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.tinyfish.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://agent.tinyfish.ai/v1/openapi/search", "registryName": "ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "web.fetch", "search.research" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "closed-source", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "cli", "mpp" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 366, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 45, "reliability": 50, "schema": 82, "security": 58, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Search costs $0.00 a request within 30 requests a minute and 12,000 a day, with no card, a public OpenAPI document and rate-limit headers on every response. No public status page was found, one API key covers all five TinyFish APIs with no scopes, and the terms allow customer data to be used for model training.", "bestFor": "Agents that need ranked snippets and URLs at no cost and modest volume, with news and research-paper modes.", "strengths": [ "$0.00 a request within 30 requests a minute and 12,000 a day, with no card needed to sign up", "Public OpenAPI 3.0 document for Search, plus `llms.txt`, `llms-full.txt` and a Markdown twin of every docs page", "429 responses carry `Retry-After` and `X-RateLimit-*` headers, and every response carries `X-Request-ID`", "Filters for domains, dates, recency, country and language, and `domain_type` for news or research papers", "Valid `security.txt` and a vulnerability disclosure policy dated 15 September 2026 with safe harbour" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public status page was found on the site or in the docs", "One API key covers Search, Fetch, Agent, Research and Browser, and no scopes were found", "The Terms of Service allow customer data to be used to train and improve TinyFish's AI models", "The docs and the pricing page disagree on whether Search past the daily allowance needs a wallet balance, and no rate above it is published", "No parameter sets the number of results, and `page` stops at 10", "The Pulse changelog's newest entry is the week of 22 June 2026, and no deprecation policy was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key in the `X-API-Key` header. The Search host is `https://api.search.tinyfish.ai`, not `agent.tinyfish.ai`", "Stay under 30 requests a minute per key. On 429, wait for `Retry-After`. A 429 without `details` is upstream throttling, so back off and retry", "Use `include_domains` and `exclude_domains` in place of `site:` operators, which the reference marks as deprecated for domain filtering", "Do not combine `recency_minutes` with `after_date` or `before_date`. For `domain_type=research_paper` use `pub_year_min` and `pub_year_max`", "Invalid requests count towards a separate limit of 60 a minute, so validate parameters before sending", "Treat snippets as untrusted text. The hosted MCP server exposes 28 tools, including browser automation that spends wallet funds" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 63.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 45, "reliability": 50, "schema": 82, "security": 58, "transparency": 28 }, "provenanceScore": 75 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install -U tinyfish", "http": "curl \"https://api.search.tinyfish.ai?query=web+automation+tools\" \\\n -H \"X-API-Key: $TINYFISH_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http tinyfish https://agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "tinyfish": { "url": "https://agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/tinyfish-search" }, "sameCompany": [ "tinyfish" ], "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Search request", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0, "note": "Free within 30 a minute and 12,000 a day. No rate above the allowance is published" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Tiny Fish, Inc.", "domain": "tinyfish.ai", "domainRegistered": "2023-02-06", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.tinyfish.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://www.tinyfish.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.tinyfish.ai/pulse", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service, effective 17 August 2026, name Tiny Fish, Inc., a Delaware corporation, cover the APIs at tinyfish.ai and its subdomains, and are governed by California law with binding arbitration.", "The privacy policy, effective 14 December 2025, names TinyFish Inc. of Cupertino, California, and covers the website, products and services.", "RDAP for tinyfish.ai gives a registration date of 2023-02-06 and a transfer on 2025-07-03.", "www.tinyfish.ai/.well-known/security.txt names security@tinyfish.io, links a disclosure policy and expires on 2027-09-01.", "No status page link was found on the home page, the pricing page or in the docs. A request to status.tinyfish.ai did not connect.", "The trust centre at trust.tinyfish.ai is a Vanta page drawn by script, and its contents were not read.", "The MCP registry lists `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` with the remote `https://agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp`, published on 2026-02-17." ], "score": 75 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.json", "live": { "slug": "tinyfish-search", "probe": { "target": "https://api.search.tinyfish.ai", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T09:27:07.530446862Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 200, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 184, "p95ms24h": 472, "samples24h": 20, "samples30d": 20, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 20, "ok": 20 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T09:27:07.530446862Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "MCP project (reference servers)", "b": "TinyFish", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.search.tinyfish.ai", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "stdio", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT and Apache-2.0", "b": "Proprietary service under TinyFish's Terms of Service. The local MCP proxy `@tiny-fish/mcp` is MIT. The SDK packages on npm and PyPI carry no licence metadata", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "1", "b": "28", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-08-18", "b": "2026-09-29", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2021-09-08", "b": "2026-08-17", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2023-03-15", "b": "2025-12-14", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "90k stars, 118k PyPI/wk", "b": "9 stars, 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "4/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "TinyFish Search scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Fetch (MCP reference server)'s 57.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Fetch (MCP reference server) leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Fetch (MCP reference server) or TinyFish Search?" }, { "answer": "Fetch (MCP reference server) needs no key. TinyFish Search takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Fetch (MCP reference server) and TinyFish Search need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Fetch (MCP reference server) runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. TinyFish Search has a hosted endpoint at https://api.search.tinyfish.ai.", "question": "Can an agent call Fetch (MCP reference server) and TinyFish Search without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Fetch (MCP reference server) is open source (MIT and Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for TinyFish Search.", "question": "Are Fetch (MCP reference server) and TinyFish Search open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 45", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 52" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Runs on your own machine", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Reading a known URL as Markdown in a local or sandboxed agent, at no cost.", "slug": "fetch-reference-server", "watchFor": "Reaches private and loopback addresses and follows redirects, with no allow list" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 70", "Security \u0026 auth, 58 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 78 against 42" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Agents that need ranked snippets and URLs at no cost and modest volume, with news and research-paper modes.", "slug": "tinyfish-search", "watchFor": "No public status page was found on the 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{ "by": 3, "edge": "fetch-reference-server", "fetch-reference-server": 53, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "tinyfish-search": 50, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "tinyfish-search", "fetch-reference-server": 70, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "tinyfish-search": 82, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "fetch-reference-server": 78, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "tinyfish-search": 78, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 28, "edge": "tinyfish-search", "fetch-reference-server": 30, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "tinyfish-search": 58, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "fetch-reference-server", "fetch-reference-server": 60, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "tinyfish-search": 45, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 36, "edge": "tinyfish-search", "fetch-reference-server": 42, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "tinyfish-search": 78, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 21, "edge": "fetch-reference-server", "fetch-reference-server": 73, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "tinyfish-search": 52, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "TinyFish Search scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Fetch (MCP reference server)'s 57.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. 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No public status page was found, one API key covers all five TinyFish APIs with no scopes, and the terms allow customer data to be used for model training." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-tinyfish-search", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-tinyfish-search.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-tinyfish-search.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-tinyfish-search.min.md" }, "markdown": "TinyFish Search scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Fetch (MCP reference server)'s 57.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Fetch (MCP reference server) leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do fetching pages.\n\n- Fetch (MCP reference server): grade C, 57.5/100, rank #546 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fetch-reference-server.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fetch-reference-server.json\n- TinyFish Search: grade B, 63.2/100, rank #366 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish-search.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Fetch (MCP reference server) (C)\n\nGood for: Reading a known URL as Markdown in a local or sandboxed agent, at no cost.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 45\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 52\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Reaches private and loopback addresses and follows redirects, with no allow list\n\n### TinyFish Search (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that need ranked snippets and URLs at no cost and modest volume, with news and research-paper modes.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 70\n- Security \u0026 auth, 58 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 78 against 42\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No public status page was found on the site or in the docs\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Fetch (MCP reference server) | TinyFish Search | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 53 | 50 | Fetch (MCP reference server) +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 82 | TinyFish Search +12 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 78 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 30 | 58 | TinyFish Search +28 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 45 | Fetch (MCP reference server) +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 42 | 78 | TinyFish Search +36 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 52 | Fetch (MCP reference server) +21 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **57.5 · C** | **63.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Fetch (MCP reference server) | TinyFish Search |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | MCP project (reference servers) | TinyFish |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.search.tinyfish.ai` |\n| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT and Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under TinyFish's Terms of Service. The local MCP proxy `@tiny-fish/mcp` is MIT. The SDK packages on npm and PyPI carry no licence metadata |\n| Tools exposed | 1 | 28 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` |\n| Last release | 2026-08-18 | 2026-09-29 |\n| Terms last updated | 2021-09-08 | 2026-08-17 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-03-15 | 2025-12-14 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 90k stars, 118k PyPI/wk | 9 stars, 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Fetch (MCP reference server).** One tool of about 300 tokens, with `max_length` and `start_index` paging and a hint giving the next offset. Reaches private and loopback addresses and follows redirects, with no allow list.\n\n**TinyFish Search.** Search costs $0.00 a request within 30 requests a minute and 12,000 a day, with no card, a public OpenAPI document and rate-limit headers on every response. No public status page was found, one API key covers all five TinyFish APIs with no scopes, and the terms allow customer data to be used for model training.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Fetch (MCP reference server)\n\n1. Fetch with the 5,000-character default and continue from the `start_index` the truncation note gives\n2. Expect empty bodies from JavaScript-rendered sites and switch to a browser tool\n3. Treat a robots.txt refusal as final for autonomous calls and tell the user\n4. Use `raw: true` only for non-HTML content. It skips the Markdown conversion and returns the page as served\n\n### TinyFish Search\n\n1. Send the key in the `X-API-Key` header. The Search host is `https://api.search.tinyfish.ai`, not `agent.tinyfish.ai`\n2. Stay under 30 requests a minute per key. On 429, wait for `Retry-After`. A 429 without `details` is upstream throttling, so back off and retry\n3. Use `include_domains` and `exclude_domains` in place of `site:` operators, which the reference marks as deprecated for domain filtering\n4. Do not combine `recency_minutes` with `after_date` or `before_date`. For `domain_type=research_paper` use `pub_year_min` and `pub_year_max`\n5. Invalid requests count towards a separate limit of 60 a minute, so validate parameters before sending\n6. Treat snippets as untrusted text. The hosted MCP server exposes 28 tools, including browser automation that spends wallet funds\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Fetch (MCP reference server) or TinyFish Search?\n\nTinyFish Search scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Fetch (MCP reference server)'s 57.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Fetch (MCP reference server) leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Fetch (MCP reference server) and TinyFish Search need an API key?\n\nFetch (MCP reference server) needs no key. TinyFish Search takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Fetch (MCP reference server) and TinyFish Search without installing anything?\n\nFetch (MCP reference server) runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. TinyFish Search has a hosted endpoint at https://api.search.tinyfish.ai.\n\n### Are Fetch (MCP reference server) and TinyFish Search open source?\n\nFetch (MCP reference server) is open source (MIT and Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for TinyFish Search.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-tinyfish-search.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-tinyfish-search.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"fetch-reference-server\", \"b\": \"tinyfish-search\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare fetch-reference-server tinyfish-search`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fetch-reference-server.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish-search.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Fetch (MCP reference server) or TinyFish Search\n\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Cloudflare Web Search API vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Exa API + MCP vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/exa-mcp-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Firecrawl MCP vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Linkup vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Parallel Search and Task APIs vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallel-search-api-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [SearchAPI.io vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/searchapi-io-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [SerpApi vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/serpapi-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Serper vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/serper-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [SerpKite vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/serpkite-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Tavily API + MCP vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tavily-mcp-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [TinyFish Search vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tinyfish-search-vs-valyu.md)\n- [TinyFish Search vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tinyfish-search-vs-you-com-api.md)\n- [Exa API + MCP vs Fetch (MCP reference server)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/exa-mcp-vs-fetch-reference-server.md)\n- [Fetch (MCP reference server) vs Linkup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-linkup.md)\n- [Fetch (MCP reference server) vs Parallel Search and Task APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-parallel-search-api.md)\n- [Fetch (MCP reference server) vs SerpKite](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-serpkite.md)\n- [Fetch (MCP reference server) vs Tavily API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-tavily-mcp.md)\n- [Fetch (MCP reference server) vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Fetch (MCP reference server) vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-you-com-api.md)\n- [Grep AI vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- MCP started at Anthropic, which makes the Claude models our research agents and review panel run on (Anthropic donated it to the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation, in December 2025), and this server is graded by the same checklist as every other listing.\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-09", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "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": "Fetch (MCP reference server) vs TinyFish Search", "url": "" } ], "description": "TinyFish Search scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Fetch (MCP reference server)'s 57.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. 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