# Grep AI vs TinyFish Search (slim)

> Grep AI scores 64.4 (B) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish Search leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do search research. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Grep AI scores 64.4 (B) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish Search leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do search research.

- Grep AI: B 64.4, rank #316 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grep-ai.min.md
- TinyFish Search: B 63.2, rank #366 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.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 Reliability, 60 against 50; Security & auth, 65 against 58; Transparency & trust, 59 against 52.
- TinyFish Search, good for Agents that need ranked snippets and URLs at no cost and modest volume, with news and research-paper modes. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 78 against 70; Payments & pricing, 45 against 40. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Grep AI | TinyFish Search |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 45 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 74 | 78 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 52 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Grep AI | TinyFish Search |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Parcha Labs, Inc. | TinyFish |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/runs` | `https://api.search.tinyfish.ai` |
| 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 | 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 |
| Tools exposed | 82 | 28 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-20 | 2026-08-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-21 | 2025-12-14 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 334 npm/wk, 52 PyPI/wk | 9 stars, 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk |