{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "grep-ai", "name": "Grep AI", "vendor": "Parcha Labs, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://grep.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "Grep is a hosted platform from Parcha Labs for building and running research agents that return cited reports and structured output. Outside agents reach it through a REST API, a remote MCP server, an A2A endpoint and two SDKs.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grep-ai", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grep-ai.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grep-ai.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grep-ai.json", "dns": "grep-ai.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/Parcha-ai/grepai-skills", "license": "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", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/runs", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@parcha/agentrun" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "parcha-agentrun" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "grep-research-skills" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A Bearer credential on every call except the public agent list and publicly shared runs. Self-serve API keys (`parcha-` prefix) are created in the developer dashboard or at POST /api/v2/keys, and can be listed and revoked. The MCP server and delegated integrations take OAuth access tokens issued by Descope, with scopes research:read, research:write, billing:read, experts:read and experts:write. An agent with an AgentMail inbox can sign in through AgentID with an Ed25519 key and no human account. No partner or sales approval is documented for the self-serve plans.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Credits, with a medium-effort task counted as 20. The Free Trial has 100 one-time credits and the pricing table marks it without API access, while the 4 October 2026 changelog says new personal accounts start with 500 Wallet credits. Pay As You Go tops up a wallet from $20, also marked without API access. Pro is $200 a month for 1,500 credits and Ultra $500 for 4,500, both with API access. Team plans go through sales. The page says $20 buys 200 credits and its Markdown twin says 100. Whether signup needs a card isn't stated (https://grep.ai/pricing, checked 2026-11-02).", "priceSummary": "$200 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Not available. The changelog entry of 8 May 2026 announces x402 and MPP payments for API research, but GET https://api.grep.ai/mpp/v1/api returned 503 `gateway_disabled` (\"MPP gateway is disabled on this deployment\") on 8 October and 2 November 2026, and the grep-research-skills README says the wallet path returns once the gateway is generally available (checked 2026-11-02).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 137, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 334, "pypiWeekly": 52, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://grep.ai/developers", "llmsTxt": "https://grep.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "search.research", "search.answer", "kyc.business", "kyc.screening", "kyc.documents" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "async-jobs", "webhooks", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-20", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 533, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 17, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 74, "payments": 40, "reliability": 50, "schema": 83, "security": 64, "transparency": 61 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-02" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The public API has a 128-operation OpenAPI document, scoped OAuth and API keys, idempotency keys with documented replay rules and a per-run cost cap. No rate limit is published, the MCP server lists 137 tools, the whole service went down twice in the 90 days to 2 November, and API access starts at the $200 a month Pro plan.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI document with 128 operations, llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every developer page", "OAuth with five scopes, plus API keys that can be minted, scoped and revoked through the API", "`Idempotency-Key` on run creation, with body-hash matching, a 24-hour replay window and named 409 codes", "`max_cost_usd` per run, quota pre-flight and batch cost estimates before billable work starts", "Documented agent sign-in through AgentID with no human account, and 500 free credits for an owner's first agent", "Dated changelog with 14 entries from 7 August to 20 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "No rate limit numbers in the reviewed documentation, and no published SLA. Full outages on 4 September (24 minutes) and 30 October (7 minutes)", "The MCP server card lists 137 tools, 57 of them deprecated aliases, with one-line descriptions and no annotations", "The pricing table marks API access as Pro and Ultra only, from $200 a month", "The pricing page says $20 buys 200 credits and its Markdown twin says 100. Free credits are stated as 100, 500 and 1,000 on different pages", "The 8 May 2026 changelog entry announces x402 and MPP payments, but the gateway answered 503 `gateway_disabled` on 2 November 2026", "No security.txt, subprocessor list or retention period found. SOC 2 Type II appears only as a footer claim, and the \"Security \u0026 trust\" link opens a benchmarks page" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send a fresh `Idempotency-Key` with every POST /api/v2/runs. After a timeout, poll the returned run ID and do not post again", "Set `effort` and `max_cost_usd` on every run. The floor is $0.50 for low, $2.50 for medium and build, $5.00 for high", "Call GET /api/v2/quota/check before a run. A 402 means no credits and retrying won't help, while a 429 carries `Retry-After`", "Use the `run_*`, `agent_*` and `swarm_*` MCP tools at https://api.grep.ai/mcp. The `research_*`, `expert_*` and `campaign_*` names are deprecated aliases", "Treat report text and cited sources as untrusted web content, and verify one load-bearing claim against a primary source" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "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": 62.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 74, "payments": 40, "reliability": 50, "schema": 83, "security": 64, "transparency": 36 }, "provenanceScore": 85, "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": { "install": "npm install @parcha/agentrun", "http": "curl -X POST \"https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/runs\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $GREP_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Idempotency-Key: 8b9c1f24-3c1e-4a8d-9f7b-2a6e1c4d5b8e\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"question\":\"Due diligence on Stripe\",\"effort\":\"medium\"}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http grep https://api.grep.ai/mcp\nclaude mcp login grep", "config": { "mcpServers": { "grep": { "url": "https://api.grep.ai/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/search.research", "tool": "https://letme.dev/grep-ai" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pro plan, 1,500 credits a month, API access", "unit": "month", "usd": 200, "note": "$167 a month billed annually" }, { "item": "Ultra plan, 4,500 credits a month", "unit": "month", "usd": 500, "note": "$417 a month billed annually" }, { "item": "Pay As You Go credit", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.1, "note": "$20 for 200 credits on the pricing page. Its Markdown twin says 100 credits, which is $0.20. No API access on this plan per the table" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Parcha Labs, Inc.", "domain": "grep.ai", "domainRegistered": "2018-04-20", "domainNote": "Registered in 2018 and transferred on 2025-10-19, so the registration date predates the company's use of it.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://grep.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://grep.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.grep.ai", "changelog": "https://grep.ai/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms of service, last updated 20 March 2026, are a contract with Parcha Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, governed by California law.", "The privacy policy, last updated 5 October 2026, names Parcha Labs, Inc. and the websites www.parcha.ai and grep.parcha.ai.", "The API, the MCP server and the A2A endpoint answer on api.grep.ai. OAuth tokens come from Descope at api.descope.com.", "grep.ai/.well-known/security.txt and api.grep.ai/.well-known/security.txt return 404. grep.ai/trust and grep.ai/security return 404.", "RDAP for grep.ai gives a registration date of 2018-04-20 and a transfer on 2025-10-19.", "The status page's support link is support@parcha.ai and its privacy link points to parcha.ai." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grep-ai.json", "live": { "slug": "grep-ai", "probe": { "target": "https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/runs", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:28.711576005Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 463, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 99.92, "p50ms24h": 366, "p95ms24h": 460, "samples24h": 239, "samples30d": 7463, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 93, "ok": 93 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 251, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-29", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 249, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-11-03", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 246, "ok": 246 }, { "date": "2026-11-05", "probes": 185, "ok": 183 }, { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 241, "ok": 241 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 187, "ok": 187 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.grep.ai", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T18:21:13.873754405Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "Parcha-ai/grepai-skills", "version": "v0.2.0", "released": "2026-08-04", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:31:17.343670403Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@parcha/agentrun", "version": "0.3.6", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:31:15.147980263Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "grep-research-skills", "version": "0.2.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:31:16.618593403Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "parcha-agentrun", "version": "0.2.1", "released": "2026-09-30", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:31:16.377788056Z" } ], "githubStars": 2, "npmWeekly": 336, "pypiWeekly": 21, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://grep.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:30.039104122Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://grep.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:32:39.189807584Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "grep.ai", "registered": "2018-04-20", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/grep.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:26:20.014848352Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://grep.ai/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:10:39.133932414Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T13:32:44.195749968Z", "fingerprint": "b2c46460857a" }, { "url": "https://grep.ai/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:10:41.715097295Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T13:32:46.726727473Z", "fingerprint": "b50267997523" }, { "url": "https://grep.ai/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:10:43.416139624Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T13:32:48.542806474Z", "fingerprint": "61f7ae5ed58d" }, { "url": "https://grep.ai/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:10:45.461789114Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T13:32:50.740021371Z", "fingerprint": "b92beb6db8a5" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://api.grep.ai/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:45:17.533792685Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:45:17.533792685Z" }, "github": { "repo": "parcha-ai/grepai-skills", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T09:14:59.133383273Z", "stars": 3, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-11-02T06:32:53Z", "openIssues": 1, "openPRs": 1, "issuesOpened90d": 0, "issuesClosed90d": 0, "prsMerged90d": 2, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 2, "success": 2, "failure": 0, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-09-30T18:10:13Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 1, "unanswered": 1 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:21:13.873754405Z" } }, "answer": "NewsCatcher scores 67.5 (B) on agent readiness against Grep AI's 62.9 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Grep AI leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "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": 19, "category": "security", "leads": "grep-ai", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "OAuth through Descope with five scopes, and API keys that can be created with a subset of scopes, listed and revoked through the API (30). Read scopes, `validate_only` and `dry_run` on agent changes, a per-run `max_cost_usd` and versioned restores. No confirmation step for deletes or for making a run public (14). Reports are built from untrusted web pages. The docs describe an SSRF-guarded fetch for context files, and no prompt-injection guidance for callers was found (3). Each run has a timeline of execution events, and billing transactions and usage are readable through the API (12). The footer claims SOC 2 Type II with no report linked, and its \"Security \u0026 trust\" link opens a performance benchmarks page. security.txt returns 404, and no disclosure policy or bug bounty was found, so this is a bare SOC 2 claim, which this run reads as 5 (5). Webhooks are signed with the API key itself.", "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": 64, "b": 45 } }, { "by": 18, "category": "transparency", "leads": "newscatcher", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service with published terms, written as an order-form contract that still points to grep.parcha.ai. The SDK packages state no licence, and the skills package is MIT (12). Section 12 of the terms says AI providers retain nothing and customer data isn't used for training. Section 4.2 grants a perpetual licence to use customer data to improve the platform, and the privacy policy gives retention only as \"as long as needed\". No DPA found (12). v1 is marked deprecated, /research answers with a `deprecation: true` header and a successor link, and 31 MCP tools are labelled deprecated, all without dates or a written policy (8). The privacy policy names Google Analytics and PostHog and says data may be processed in any country. No subprocessor list found (4).", "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": 61, "b": 79 } }, { "by": 17, "category": "reliability", "leads": "newscatcher", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Graded on the hosted API and MCP server. status.grep.ai runs on incident.io, and since 30 October 2026 it has an API component beside Website (20). Two incidents in the 90 days from 4 August, read from the page's feed and incident pages. On 4 September \"Grep.ai currently unavailable\" said Grep.ai was \"experiencing an outage\" for 24 minutes, and on 30 October the Website and API components were both in full outage from 17:17 to 17:24 UTC after an infrastructure provider's failure. Each is a full outage of the whole service, which this run reads as a major however short, so two majors (5). The 8 October check read the September outage as minor by its length. No rate limit numbers found in the docs or the OpenAPI document (0). 429 `rate_limited` carries `Retry-After`, and run creation takes an `Idempotency-Key` with documented replay rules (15). The FAQ mentions SLA guarantees for enterprise customers, and no SLA is published (0). API v2 and the MCP server carry no beta label. The SDKs are at 0.2.1 per the 8 October check, and PyPI classified the Python one as Alpha then (10).", "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": 50, "b": 67 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "newscatcher", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "The MCP server card lists 137 tools, 57 of them deprecated aliases, with no documented toolsets. Reports default to plain Markdown and large files come back as signed URLs, so some credit back (8). Cursor pagination with `limit` on runs, timelines and transactions, and server-side filters on the skill and tool lists (18). One error envelope with stable codes and a `request_id`, and 402 for credits kept apart from 429 for rate (20). `Idempotency-Key` with body-hash matching and a 24-hour replay window. The server card shows no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations, and the live tool list wasn't read (12). Only `question` is required and `effort` defaults to low. TypeScript and Python SDKs exist, though one docs page still calls the release pending and names a PyPI package that returns 404 (12).", "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": 70, "b": 84 } }, { "by": 11, "category": "schema", "leads": "newscatcher", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Public OpenAPI document at api.grep.ai/api/v2/openapi.json, now 128 operations on 98 paths and 159 schemas (25). llms.txt and a Markdown twin of each developer page (10). Most operations carry a description, and the `effort` field says what each tier returns and how long it takes. 19 operations have none, and the MCP server card gives each of its 137 tools one line. The MCP input schemas need OAuth and weren't read (12). 75 enums, numeric bounds and `additionalProperties: false` on the run request (12). Curl examples and an 11-code error registry in the docs, but the OpenAPI document has no examples and documents only 200 and 422 responses (9). The path is versioned, v1 and 42 v2 operations are marked deprecated, and the dated changelog now runs to v3.71 on 20 October 2026, with 14 entries since 4 August (15).", "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": 83, "b": 94 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "payments", "leads": "grep-ai", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No machine payment protocol on the live endpoints. The changelog of 8 May 2026 announces x402 and MPP, and the gateway answered 503 `gateway_disabled` on 8 October and again on 2 November 2026 (0). Plan and credit prices are public, but only the medium tier's credit cost is published and the page and its Markdown twin disagree on credits per dollar (10). 100 free trial credits on the pricing page, 500 Wallet credits for new personal accounts in the 4 October changelog entry, and 500 for an owner's first agent through AgentID. The pricing page doesn't say whether a card is needed, and its table marks the trial without API access (15). AgentID sign-in is documented as needing no human account, but it depends on an AgentMail inbox and a browser step, and we didn't run it (15).", "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": 40, "b": 30 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Parcha Labs, Inc.", "b": "NewsCatcher, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/runs", "b": "https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "not published", "b": "$1 per transaction", "name": "Price for research search" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "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", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "137", "b": "15", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-20", "b": "2026-11-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-03-20", "b": "2026-11-02", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-21", "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": "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": "334 npm/wk, 52 PyPI/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (4)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "NewsCatcher scores 67.5 (B) on agent readiness against Grep AI's 62.9 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Grep AI leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Grep AI or NewsCatcher?" }, { "answer": "Grep AI takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. NewsCatcher needs an API key.", "question": "Do Grep AI and NewsCatcher need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Grep AI has a hosted endpoint at https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/runs and NewsCatcher at https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call Grep AI and NewsCatcher without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 45", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "grep-ai", "watchFor": "No rate limit numbers in the reviewed documentation, and no published SLA. Full outages on 4 September (24 minutes) and 30 October (7 minutes)" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 67 against 50", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 94 against 83", "Agent ergonomics, 84 against 70", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 79 against 61" ], "also": null, "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": { "grep-ai": [ { "causes": [ "reliability", "product", "correction" ], "date": "2026-11-02", "delta": -1.7, "from": 64.6, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 62.9, "toGrade": "B" }, { "causes": [ "evidence" ], "date": "2026-10-27", "delta": 0.2, "from": 64.4, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 64.6, "toGrade": "B" } ], "newscatcher": null }, "job": { "capability": "search.research", "name": "Research search" }, "others": [ { "json": 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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/grep-ai-vs-newscatcher", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-newscatcher.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-newscatcher.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-newscatcher.min.md" }, "markdown": "NewsCatcher scores 67.5 (B) on agent readiness against Grep AI's 62.9 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Grep AI leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do research search.\n\n- Grep AI: grade B, 62.9/100, rank #533 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grep-ai.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grep-ai.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### Grep AI (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 45\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n\nWatch for: No rate limit numbers in the reviewed documentation, and no published SLA. Full outages on 4 September (24 minutes) and 30 October (7 minutes)\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- Reliability, 67 against 50\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 94 against 83\n- Agent ergonomics, 84 against 70\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 79 against 61\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: Grep AI +19\n\n- Grep AI (64): OAuth through Descope with five scopes, and API keys that can be created with a subset of scopes, listed and revoked through the API (30). Read scopes, `validate_only` and `dry_run` on agent changes, a per-run `max_cost_usd` and versioned restores. No confirmation step for deletes or for making a run public (14). Reports are built from untrusted web pages. The docs describe an SSRF-guarded fetch for context files, and no prompt-injection guidance for callers was found (3). Each run has a timeline of execution events, and billing transactions and usage are readable through the API (12). The footer claims SOC 2 Type II with no report linked, and its \"Security \u0026 trust\" link opens a performance benchmarks page. security.txt returns 404, and no disclosure policy or bug bounty was found, so this is a bare SOC 2 claim, which this run reads as 5 (5). Webhooks are signed with the API key itself.\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### Transparency \u0026 trust: NewsCatcher +18\n\n- Grep AI (61): Closed service with published terms, written as an order-form contract that still points to grep.parcha.ai. The SDK packages state no licence, and the skills package is MIT (12). Section 12 of the terms says AI providers retain nothing and customer data isn't used for training. Section 4.2 grants a perpetual licence to use customer data to improve the platform, and the privacy policy gives retention only as \"as long as needed\". No DPA found (12). v1 is marked deprecated, /research answers with a `deprecation: true` header and a successor link, and 31 MCP tools are labelled deprecated, all without dates or a written policy (8). The privacy policy names Google Analytics and PostHog and says data may be processed in any country. No subprocessor list found (4).\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### Reliability: NewsCatcher +17\n\n- Grep AI (50): Graded on the hosted API and MCP server. status.grep.ai runs on incident.io, and since 30 October 2026 it has an API component beside Website (20). Two incidents in the 90 days from 4 August, read from the page's feed and incident pages. On 4 September \"Grep.ai currently unavailable\" said Grep.ai was \"experiencing an outage\" for 24 minutes, and on 30 October the Website and API components were both in full outage from 17:17 to 17:24 UTC after an infrastructure provider's failure. Each is a full outage of the whole service, which this run reads as a major however short, so two majors (5). The 8 October check read the September outage as minor by its length. No rate limit numbers found in the docs or the OpenAPI document (0). 429 `rate_limited` carries `Retry-After`, and run creation takes an `Idempotency-Key` with documented replay rules (15). The FAQ mentions SLA guarantees for enterprise customers, and no SLA is published (0). API v2 and the MCP server carry no beta label. The SDKs are at 0.2.1 per the 8 October check, and PyPI classified the Python one as Alpha then (10).\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### Agent ergonomics: NewsCatcher +14\n\n- Grep AI (70): The MCP server card lists 137 tools, 57 of them deprecated aliases, with no documented toolsets. Reports default to plain Markdown and large files come back as signed URLs, so some credit back (8). Cursor pagination with `limit` on runs, timelines and transactions, and server-side filters on the skill and tool lists (18). One error envelope with stable codes and a `request_id`, and 402 for credits kept apart from 429 for rate (20). `Idempotency-Key` with body-hash matching and a 24-hour replay window. The server card shows no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations, and the live tool list wasn't read (12). Only `question` is required and `effort` defaults to low. TypeScript and Python SDKs exist, though one docs page still calls the release pending and names a PyPI package that returns 404 (12).\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 +11\n\n- Grep AI (83): Public OpenAPI document at api.grep.ai/api/v2/openapi.json, now 128 operations on 98 paths and 159 schemas (25). llms.txt and a Markdown twin of each developer page (10). Most operations carry a description, and the `effort` field says what each tier returns and how long it takes. 19 operations have none, and the MCP server card gives each of its 137 tools one line. The MCP input schemas need OAuth and weren't read (12). 75 enums, numeric bounds and `additionalProperties: false` on the run request (12). Curl examples and an 11-code error registry in the docs, but the OpenAPI document has no examples and documents only 200 and 422 responses (9). The path is versioned, v1 and 42 v2 operations are marked deprecated, and the dated changelog now runs to v3.71 on 20 October 2026, with 14 entries since 4 August (15).\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### Payments \u0026 pricing: Grep AI +10\n\n- Grep AI (40): No machine payment protocol on the live endpoints. The changelog of 8 May 2026 announces x402 and MPP, and the gateway answered 503 `gateway_disabled` on 8 October and again on 2 November 2026 (0). Plan and credit prices are public, but only the medium tier's credit cost is published and the page and its Markdown twin disagree on credits per dollar (10). 100 free trial credits on the pricing page, 500 Wallet credits for new personal accounts in the 4 October changelog entry, and 500 for an owner's first agent through AgentID. The pricing page doesn't say whether a card is needed, and its table marks the trial without API access (15). AgentID sign-in is documented as needing no human account, but it depends on an AgentMail inbox and a browser step, and we didn't run it (15).\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## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Grep AI | NewsCatcher | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 67 | NewsCatcher +17 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 94 | NewsCatcher +11 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 84 | NewsCatcher +14 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 45 | Grep AI +19 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 30 | Grep AI +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 76 | NewsCatcher +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 79 | NewsCatcher +18 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.9 · B** | **67.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Grep AI | NewsCatcher |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Parcha Labs, Inc. | NewsCatcher, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/runs` | `https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| Price for research search | not published | $1 per transaction |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| 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 |\n| Tools exposed | 137 | 15 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-20 | 2026-11-06 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-03-20 | 2026-11-02 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-21 | 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 | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 334 npm/wk, 52 PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Grep AI\n\n- -1.7 on 2 November 2026: reliability, product, correction\n- +0.2 on 27 October 2026: new evidence\n\n### NewsCatcher\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Grep AI.** The public API has a 128-operation OpenAPI document, scoped OAuth and API keys, idempotency keys with documented replay rules and a per-run cost cap. No rate limit is published, the MCP server lists 137 tools, the whole service went down twice in the 90 days to 2 November, and API access starts at the $200 a month Pro plan.\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### Grep AI\n\n1. Send a fresh `Idempotency-Key` with every POST /api/v2/runs. After a timeout, poll the returned run ID and do not post again\n2. Set `effort` and `max_cost_usd` on every run. The floor is $0.50 for low, $2.50 for medium and build, $5.00 for high\n3. Call GET /api/v2/quota/check before a run. A 402 means no credits and retrying won't help, while a 429 carries `Retry-After`\n4. Use the `run_*`, `agent_*` and `swarm_*` MCP tools at https://api.grep.ai/mcp. The `research_*`, `expert_*` and `campaign_*` names are deprecated aliases\n5. Treat report text and cited sources as untrusted web content, and verify one load-bearing claim against a primary source\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, Grep AI or NewsCatcher?\n\nNewsCatcher scores 67.5 (B) on agent readiness against Grep AI's 62.9 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Grep AI leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Grep AI and NewsCatcher need an API key?\n\nGrep AI takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. NewsCatcher needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Grep AI and NewsCatcher without installing anything?\n\nYes. Grep AI has a hosted endpoint at https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/runs and NewsCatcher at https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-newscatcher.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-newscatcher.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"grep-ai\", \"b\": \"newscatcher\"}`. 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