# Grep AI vs Valyu (slim)

> 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 & auth. Both do search research. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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 & auth. Both do search research.

- Grep AI: B 64.4, rank #252 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grep-ai.min.md
- Valyu: B 64.6, rank #250 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.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 53; Security & auth, 65 against 44.
- Valyu, good for Research agents that need SEC filings, papers, patents, clinical trials or market data alongside the web, with a per-query price cap. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 87 against 80; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 70; Payments & pricing, 45 against 40; Maintenance & community, 80 against 74; Transparency & trust, 78 against 59.

| Category | Grep AI | Valyu |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 53 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 44 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 45 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 74 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 78 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Grep AI | Valyu |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Parcha Labs, Inc. | Valyu |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.grep.ai/api/v2/runs` | `https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search` |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Parcha Labs' terms of service. The grep-research-skills package on npm is MIT. The @parcha/agentrun and parcha-agentrun SDK packages state no licence in their registry metadata | none |
| Tools exposed | 82 | 6 |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-12 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-20 | 2025-10-20 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-21 | 2025-10-20 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 334 npm/wk, 52 PyPI/wk | 19 stars, 6.7k npm/wk, 7.1k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 4.5/5 (2) |