# Grep AI vs Linkup (slim)

> Linkup scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against Grep AI's 64.4 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Grep AI leads on security & auth. Both do search research. Linkup accepts x402. Grep AI doesn't. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Linkup scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against Grep AI's 64.4 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Grep AI leads on security & auth. Both do search research. Linkup accepts x402. Grep AI doesn't.

- Grep AI: B 64.4, rank #252 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grep-ai.min.md
- Linkup: B 68.9, rank #160 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linkup.min.md
- Grep AI, good for Agents that hand off a long research or due-diligence job and want a cited report or structured fields back, including business verification and sanctions screening through built-in agents. Ahead on Security & auth, 65 against 32.
- Linkup, good for Agents that want a cited answer or schema-shaped output from one search call at a fixed price, and for European buyers who want a French vendor with zero retention on request. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 60; Schema & documentation, 88 against 80; Agent ergonomics, 76 against 70; Payments & pricing, 80 against 40; Maintenance & community, 83 against 74. Also An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account; Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Grep AI | Linkup |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 76 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 32 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 80 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 74 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Grep AI | Linkup |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Parcha Labs, Inc. | Linkup |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/runs` | `https://api.linkup.so/v1/search` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Price for search research | not published | $0.25 per call |
| x402 | no | yes, from $0.01/call |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Parcha Labs' terms of service. The grep-research-skills package on npm is MIT. The @parcha/agentrun and parcha-agentrun SDK packages state no licence in their registry metadata | none |
| Tools exposed | 82 | 4 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `so.linkup.mcp/linkup-mcp-server` |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-20 | 2025-08-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-21 | 2025-04-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 334 npm/wk, 52 PyPI/wk | 29 stars, 54k npm/wk, 84k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |