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    "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",
      "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. 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 2026-10-08).",
      "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 and POST requests to https://api.grep.ai/mpp/v1/api returned 503 `gateway_disabled` on 8 October 2026, and the grep-research-skills README says the wallet path returns once the gateway is generally available (checked 2026-10-08).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 82,
      "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": "2026-09-30",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 64.4,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 252,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 629,
        "categoryRank": 9,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 70,
          "maintenance": 74,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 60,
          "schema": 80,
          "security": 65,
          "transparency": 59
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "The public API has a 126-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 82 tools, and the pricing page limits API access to the $200 a month Pro plan and above.",
        "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 126 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"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No rate limit numbers in the reviewed documentation, and no published SLA",
          "The MCP server card lists 82 tools, 31 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 8 October 2026",
          "No security.txt, trust page, subprocessor list or retention period found. SOC 2 Type II appears only as a footer and FAQ claim"
        ],
        "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_*` and `agent_*` MCP tools. The `research_*` and `expert_*` names are deprecated aliases of the same calls",
          "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": 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": 64.4
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 70,
          "maintenance": 74,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 60,
          "schema": 80,
          "security": 65,
          "transparency": 36
        },
        "provenanceScore": 82
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install @parcha/agentrun",
        "http": "curl -X POST \"https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/research\" \\\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/api/v2/mcp\nclaude mcp login grep",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "grep": {
              "url": "https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/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": 82
      },
      "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": "2026-10-08T18:20:31.107787042Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 401,
          "lastMs": 186,
          "lastNote": "asks for credentials",
          "authRequired": true,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 382,
          "p95ms24h": 533,
          "samples24h": 33,
          "samples30d": 33,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-10-08",
              "probes": 33,
              "ok": 33
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.grep.ai",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:02.684990095Z"
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "Parcha-ai/grepai-skills",
            "version": "v0.2.0",
            "released": "2026-08-04",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:15:07.589068505Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@parcha/agentrun",
            "version": "0.2.1",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:15:03.929041874Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "grep-research-skills",
            "version": "0.2.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:15:07.371903924Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "parcha-agentrun",
            "version": "0.2.1",
            "released": "2026-09-30",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:15:07.178365237Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 2,
        "npmWeekly": 334,
        "pypiWeekly": 52,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://grep.ai/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:56.474115574Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://grep.ai/changelog",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:43.809396033Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "5f4c7902b1e3"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://grep.ai/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:46.272067131Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "a9ffcdfc713c"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://grep.ai/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:48.076387468Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "68d0ef896769"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://grep.ai/terms",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:50.381060662Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "5c21afb05a2d"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:02.684990095Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Valyu and Grep AI score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 64.6 (B) and 64.4 (B). Grep AI leads on reliability and security \u0026 auth.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "valyu",
      "name": "Valyu",
      "vendor": "Valyu",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.valyu.ai",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "search",
      "summary": "Search API that covers the web plus specialised sources (arXiv, PubMed, SEC filings, market data, patents, clinical trials, genomics).",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/valyu.json",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "valyu-js"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "valyu"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "API key in the `x-api-key` header. After a person creates the account, the Valyu CLI (`valyu login`, browser or headless approval) lets an agent mint keys with a hard spending cap, rotate and revoke them, and management keys carry explicit scopes. The hosted MCP at mcp.valyu.ai takes Sign in with Valyu (OAuth), a Bearer or X-API-Key header, or, as the docs lead with, `?valyuApiKey=` in the URL.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "New accounts get $10 of credit ($20 with a work email). Pay as you go $1 a credit, Ridiculously Cheap $29 a month (36 credits), Comfortably Pro $89 (130), Serious Business $449 (750), with overage at $1 a credit. Search and Answer bill per 1,000 results retrieved, $0.50 open databases, $1.50 web, $8 financial data, $30 to $50 proprietary. Contents $0.001 a URL. Answer adds $12 per million tokens. DeepResearch $0.10 (fast) to $15 (max) a task (https://www.valyu.ai/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$1.50 / 1k pages",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 in llms.txt, llms-full.txt or pricing docs (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
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        "npmWeekly": 6664,
        "pypiWeekly": 7097,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
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      "docsUrl": "https://docs.valyu.ai",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.valyu.ai/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://docs.valyu.ai/api-reference/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "web.search",
        "web.fetch",
        "web.extract",
        "search.answer",
        "search.research",
        "search.news"
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      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "async-jobs",
        "enterprise"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-09-12",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 64.6,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 250,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 629,
        "categoryRank": 8,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 80,
          "payments": 45,
          "reliability": 53,
          "schema": 87,
          "security": 44,
          "transparency": 78
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
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        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Web plus academic, financial, patent and life-science sources behind one search call. No published rate limits and no Retry-After or backoff guidance.",
        "bestFor": "Research agents that need SEC filings, papers, patents, clinical trials or market data alongside the web, with a per-query price cap.",
        "strengths": [
          "Web plus academic, financial, patent and life-science sources behind one search call",
          "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 with 26 paths, tight parameter constraints and a 206 partial-success code",
          "Spend-capped, rotatable keys from the CLI, and scoped management keys",
          "Queries deleted within 24 to 72 hours and not used for training, per the privacy policy",
          "Failed requests are free, and `max_price` caps spend per query"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No published rate limits and no Retry-After or backoff guidance",
          "Web results cost $1.50 per 1,000 results retrieved, so a 10-result search is $0.015",
          "MCP docs lead with `?valyuApiKey=` in the URL query string",
          "No prompt-injection guidance for the full page text it returns",
          "Platform changelog hasn't had an entry since 30 June 2026"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Set `max_price` and `max_num_results` on every search to bound cost",
          "Mint a spend-capped key with the Valyu CLI rather than reusing the account's main key",
          "Call `valyu_search`. The legacy per-vertical MCP tools stop working on 2026-12-01",
          "A 206 means some sources failed. Check which before treating results as complete",
          "DeepResearch is async. Poll `valyu_deepresearch_status` rather than waiting in one call"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 4.5,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 64.6
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
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          "maintenance": 80,
          "payments": 45,
          "reliability": 53,
          "schema": 87,
          "security": 44,
          "transparency": 65
        },
        "provenanceScore": 90
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      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search -H \"x-api-key: $VALYU_API_KEY\" -H 'content-type: application/json' \\\n  -d '{\"query\":\"What is quantum computing?\",\"max_num_results\":5}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http valyu https://mcp.valyu.ai/mcp --header \"x-api-key: $VALYU_API_KEY\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "valyu": {
              "headers": {
                "x-api-key": "${VALYU_API_KEY}"
              },
              "url": "https://mcp.valyu.ai/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search",
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      "area": "web-data",
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        {
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          "unit": "1k-pages",
          "usd": 1.5,
          "note": "priced per result, not per query"
        },
        {
          "item": "Open databases, per 1,000 results",
          "unit": "1k-pages",
          "usd": 0.5
        },
        {
          "item": "Contents extraction",
          "unit": "1k-pages",
          "usd": 1,
          "note": "failed URLs free"
        },
        {
          "item": "DeepResearch, standard mode",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.5,
          "note": "fast $0.10, heavy $2.50, max $15"
        },
        {
          "item": "Ridiculously Cheap plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 29,
          "note": "36 credits"
        },
        {
          "item": "Comfortably Pro plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 89,
          "note": "130 credits"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Valyu.Network Ltd",
        "domain": "valyu.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2024-09-03",
        "domainNote": "The older valyu.network (registered 2022-09-17) redirects to valyu.ai, which is the current domain.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.valyu.ai/terms",
        "privacy": "https://www.valyu.ai/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.valyu.ai",
        "changelog": "https://docs.valyu.ai/changelog/platform",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "score": 90
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "valyu",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:42.841472642Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 403,
          "lastMs": 253,
          "lastNote": "asks for credentials",
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          "p95ms24h": 336,
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          "samples30d": 2126,
          "days": [
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              "date": "2026-09-30",
              "probes": 35,
              "ok": 35
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 276,
              "ok": 276
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-06",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-07",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-08",
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              "ok": 208
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          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.valyu.ai",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/valyu.json\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- Reliability, 60 against 53\n- Security \u0026 auth, 65 against 44\n\nWatch for: No rate limit numbers in the reviewed documentation, and no published SLA\n\n### Valyu (B)\n\nGood for: Research agents that need SEC filings, papers, patents, clinical trials or market data alongside the web, with a per-query price cap.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 80\n- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 70\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 45 against 40\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 74\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 78 against 59\n\nWatch for: No published rate limits and no Retry-After or backoff guidance\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Grep AI | Valyu | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 53 | Grep AI +7 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 87 | Valyu +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 78 | Valyu +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 65 | 44 | Grep AI +21 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 45 | Valyu +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 80 | Valyu +6 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 78 | Valyu +19 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.4 · B** | **64.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Grep AI | Valyu |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Parcha Labs, Inc. | Valyu |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/runs` | `https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Parcha Labs' terms of service. 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The @parcha/agentrun and parcha-agentrun SDK packages state no licence in their registry metadata | none |\n| Tools exposed | 82 | 6 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-12 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-03-20 | 2025-10-20 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-21 | 2025-10-20 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\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 | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 334 npm/wk, 52 PyPI/wk | 19 stars, 6.7k npm/wk, 7.1k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 4.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Grep AI.** The public API has a 126-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 82 tools, and the pricing page limits API access to the $200 a month Pro plan and above.\n\n**Valyu.** Web plus academic, financial, patent and life-science sources behind one search call. No published rate limits and no Retry-After or backoff guidance.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### 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_*` and `agent_*` MCP tools. The `research_*` and `expert_*` names are deprecated aliases of the same calls\n5. Treat report text and cited sources as untrusted web content, and verify one load-bearing claim against a primary source\n\n### Valyu\n\n1. Set `max_price` and `max_num_results` on every search to bound cost\n2. Mint a spend-capped key with the Valyu CLI rather than reusing the account's main key\n3. Call `valyu_search`. The legacy per-vertical MCP tools stop working on 2026-12-01\n4. A 206 means some sources failed. Check which before treating results as complete\n5. DeepResearch is async. Poll `valyu_deepresearch_status` rather than waiting in one call\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Grep AI or Valyu?\n\nValyu and Grep AI score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 64.6 (B) and 64.4 (B). Grep AI leads on reliability and security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Grep AI and Valyu need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Grep AI and Valyu without installing anything?\n\nYes. 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