{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "linkup", "name": "Linkup", "vendor": "Linkup", "vendorUrl": "https://www.linkup.so", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "Web search API for agents with four depths (flash, fast, standard, deep) and three output types (ranked sources, a cited answer, or JSON matching your schema).", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linkup", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linkup.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linkup.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/linkup.json", "repo": "https://github.com/LinkupPlatform/linkup-mcp-server", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.linkup.so/v1/search", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "linkup-sdk" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "linkup-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "linkup-mcp-server" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Bearer API key. x402 (USDC on Base) works without any key on `/v1/search` and `/v1/fetch`. The hosted MCP takes the key as a Bearer header or, in the documented one-click configs, as `?apiKey=` in the URL.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Accounts opened with a work email get $20 of credit, topped back up to $20 each month (about 4,000 standard searches). Search $0.005 per call for flash, fast or standard with sources, $0.006 with a sourced answer or structured output, deep $0.05 or $0.055. Fetch $0.001 to $0.011 by mode and JavaScript rendering. Research $0.25 (S) to $2.50 (XL). Errors and empty results aren't charged. x402 is a flat $0.01 a request (https://www.linkup.so/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$0.01 / call", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "yes", "evidence": "Docs list x402 on /v1/search and /v1/fetch at a flat $0.01 a request in USDC on Base with no account. An unauthenticated POST to /v1/search returned 402 with a payment-required header for 10000 base units on eip155:8453 (checked 2026-09-30) (https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/platform/x402).", "endpoints": [ { "url": "https://api.linkup.so/v1/search", "priceUsd": 0.01, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://api.linkup.so/v1/fetch", "priceUsd": 0.01, "network": "eip155:8453" } ] }, "toolCount": 4, "popularity": { "githubStars": 29, "npmWeekly": 53872, "pypiWeekly": 84459, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.linkup.so", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.linkup.so/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.linkup.so/v1/openapi.json", "registryName": "so.linkup.mcp/linkup-mcp-server", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "web.fetch", "search.answer", "search.research", "web.extract", "search.images" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "x402", "python", "typescript", "async-jobs" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 190, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 76, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 80, "reliability": 70, "schema": 88, "security": 32, "transparency": 61 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Per-call prices from $0.005, and no credit taken for errors, missing parameters or empty results. 429 covers both exhausted credit and rate limiting, with no `Retry-After`.", "bestFor": "Agents that want a cited answer or schema-shaped output from one search call at a fixed price, and for European buyers who want a French vendor with zero retention on request.", "strengths": [ "Per-call prices from $0.005, and no credit taken for errors, missing parameters or empty results", "x402 on /v1/search and /v1/fetch at $0.01 with no account", "Sources, a sourced answer or structured JSON from the same search call", "Errors page with a recommended action for every status code", "SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 claimed, and zero data retention available on request" ], "weaknesses": [ "429 covers both exhausted credit and rate limiting, with no `Retry-After`", "MCP configs document `?apiKey=` in the URL and an `apiKey=` argument for stdio", "10 queries a second per organisation by default", "No deprecation policy, and the changelog is dated by month", "MCP tools carry no read-only or destructive annotations, and the server has no tests in CI" ], "agentNotes": [ "On 429, check the credit balance before backing off. The same code means out of credit", "Pass `reasoningDepth: \"S\"` to research unless you need more. The MCP default is L at $1.50", "Start with `depth=fast` and `outputType=searchResults`. Deep costs $0.05, ten times as much", "Send the key as an `Authorization: Bearer` header, not `?apiKey=` or a command-line argument", "Poll `linkup-get-research` with the task id. Research runs take minutes" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 4, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 68.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 76, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 80, "reliability": 70, "schema": 88, "security": 32, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 76 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -G https://api.linkup.so/v1/search -H \"Authorization: Bearer $LINKUP_API_KEY\" \\\n --data-urlencode \"q=What is Microsoft's 2024 revenue?\" -d depth=standard -d outputType=sourcedAnswer", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http linkup https://mcp.linkup.so/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer $LINKUP_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "linkup": { "args": [ "-y", "linkup-mcp-server" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "LINKUP_API_KEY": "${LINKUP_API_KEY}" } } } }, "x402": "curl -i -X POST https://api.linkup.so/v1/search -H 'content-type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\"q\":\"test\",\"depth\":\"standard\",\"outputType\":\"searchResults\"}'\n# 402 -\u003e sign USDC transfer (eip155:8453) -\u003e resend with payment-signature header" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/linkup" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Search, standard depth, sources", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5, "note": "$0.005 a call, $0.006 with sourcedAnswer or structured" }, { "item": "Search, deep depth", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 50 }, { "item": "Fetch, standard without JS", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 1 }, { "item": "Research, reasoning depth S", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.25, "note": "M $0.50, L $1.50, XL $2.50" }, { "item": "x402 request", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.01, "note": "search or fetch, USDC on Base" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Linkup Technologies SAS", "domain": "linkup.so", "domainRegistered": "2024-04-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.linkup.so/terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://www.linkup.so/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.linkup.so", "changelog": "https://docs.linkup.so/pages/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "Registration date from rdap.nic.so. The registry also records a re-registration on 2025-04-01" ], "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linkup.json", "live": { "slug": "linkup", "probe": { "target": "https://api.linkup.so/v1/search", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:29:04.824004587Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 46, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 51, "p95ms24h": 95, "samples24h": 259, "samples30d": 2308, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "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 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 122, "ok": 122 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.linkup.so", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T07:58:07.888006437Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "LinkupPlatform/linkup-mcp-server", "version": "v3.4.0", "released": "2026-09-15", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:19:01.876273104Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "so.linkup.mcp/linkup-mcp-server", "version": "0.0.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T02:57:46.004536428Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "linkup-mcp-server", "version": "3.4.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:19:00.879854013Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "linkup-sdk", "version": "3.7.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:18:58.407954288Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "linkup-sdk", "version": "0.23.1", "released": "2026-09-30", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:19:00.609805727Z" } ], "githubStars": 29, "npmWeekly": 62542, "pypiWeekly": 103971, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://linkup.so/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:35.116011029Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.linkup.so/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:34.751911377Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "linkup.so", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:23.917123353Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.linkup.so/pages/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:57.206758606Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:05:11.163486724Z", "fingerprint": "e854c72597c8" }, { "url": "https://www.linkup.so/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:44.479596489Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:38:53.686360467Z", "fingerprint": "190e16c16e4d" }, { "url": "https://www.linkup.so/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:46.524614721Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:38:55.83913627Z", "fingerprint": "7c5016bc9dd8" }, { "url": "https://www.linkup.so/terms-of-use", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:48.773745379Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:38:58.282868656Z", "fingerprint": "785d2335f5ea" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:29:04.824004587Z" } }, "answer": "Linkup scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish Search leads on security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "tinyfish-search", "name": "TinyFish Search", "vendor": "TinyFish", "vendorUrl": "https://www.tinyfish.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "Web search API from TinyFish that returns ranked titles, snippets and URLs as JSON for web, news or research-paper queries. It is called with an API key at `api.search.tinyfish.ai`, through Python and TypeScript SDKs, or through the vendor's MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish-search.json", "repo": "https://github.com/tinyfish-io/tinyfish-mcp-server", "license": "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", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.search.tinyfish.ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "tinyfish" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tiny-fish/sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tiny-fish/mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The REST API takes an API key in the `X-API-Key` header. Keys are created by a signed-in person at agent.tinyfish.ai/api-keys, are shown once and can be revoked or regenerated. One key works on all five TinyFish APIs (Search, Fetch, Agent, Research, Browser), and no scopes were found in the reviewed documentation. The hosted MCP server at `https://agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp` uses OAuth 2.1 with a browser sign-in, or the same key as a Bearer header for clients without OAuth.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Search is $0.00 a request. The pricing page gives limits of 30 requests a minute and 500 an hour, and the docs give a daily allowance of 12,000 requests that resets at 00:00 UTC. No card is needed to sign up. Past the daily allowance the docs say a request needs a positive wallet balance and returns 402 `INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS` otherwise, while the pricing page says Search never draws from the wallet. No per-request rate above the allowance is published (https://www.tinyfish.ai/pricing, https://docs.tinyfish.ai/search-api/reference.md, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "An unauthenticated GET to https://api.search.tinyfish.ai?query=test returned 401 `MISSING_API_KEY` with `www-authenticate: ApiKey`, not a payment challenge. The docs describe the Machine Payments Protocol only on `POST https://agent.tinyfish.ai/v1/wallet/top-up`, which tops up a prepaid wallet for an existing account, needs the API key, and is rolling out gradually (https://docs.tinyfish.ai/agent-payments.md, checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 28, "popularity": { "githubStars": 9, "npmWeekly": 5721, "pypiWeekly": 6540, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.tinyfish.ai/search-api", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.tinyfish.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://agent.tinyfish.ai/v1/openapi/search", "registryName": "ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "web.fetch", "search.research" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "closed-source", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "cli", "mpp" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 366, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 45, "reliability": 50, "schema": 82, "security": 58, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Search costs $0.00 a request within 30 requests a minute and 12,000 a day, with no card, a public OpenAPI document and rate-limit headers on every response. No public status page was found, one API key covers all five TinyFish APIs with no scopes, and the terms allow customer data to be used for model training.", "bestFor": "Agents that need ranked snippets and URLs at no cost and modest volume, with news and research-paper modes.", "strengths": [ "$0.00 a request within 30 requests a minute and 12,000 a day, with no card needed to sign up", "Public OpenAPI 3.0 document for Search, plus `llms.txt`, `llms-full.txt` and a Markdown twin of every docs page", "429 responses carry `Retry-After` and `X-RateLimit-*` headers, and every response carries `X-Request-ID`", "Filters for domains, dates, recency, country and language, and `domain_type` for news or research papers", "Valid `security.txt` and a vulnerability disclosure policy dated 15 September 2026 with safe harbour" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public status page was found on the site or in the docs", "One API key covers Search, Fetch, Agent, Research and Browser, and no scopes were found", "The Terms of Service allow customer data to be used to train and improve TinyFish's AI models", "The docs and the pricing page disagree on whether Search past the daily allowance needs a wallet balance, and no rate above it is published", "No parameter sets the number of results, and `page` stops at 10", "The Pulse changelog's newest entry is the week of 22 June 2026, and no deprecation policy was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key in the `X-API-Key` header. The Search host is `https://api.search.tinyfish.ai`, not `agent.tinyfish.ai`", "Stay under 30 requests a minute per key. On 429, wait for `Retry-After`. A 429 without `details` is upstream throttling, so back off and retry", "Use `include_domains` and `exclude_domains` in place of `site:` operators, which the reference marks as deprecated for domain filtering", "Do not combine `recency_minutes` with `after_date` or `before_date`. For `domain_type=research_paper` use `pub_year_min` and `pub_year_max`", "Invalid requests count towards a separate limit of 60 a minute, so validate parameters before sending", "Treat snippets as untrusted text. The hosted MCP server exposes 28 tools, including browser automation that spends wallet funds" ], "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": 63.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 45, "reliability": 50, "schema": 82, "security": 58, "transparency": 28 }, "provenanceScore": 75 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install -U tinyfish", "http": "curl \"https://api.search.tinyfish.ai?query=web+automation+tools\" \\\n -H \"X-API-Key: $TINYFISH_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http tinyfish https://agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "tinyfish": { "url": "https://agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/tinyfish-search" }, "sameCompany": [ "tinyfish" ], "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Search request", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0, "note": "Free within 30 a minute and 12,000 a day. No rate above the allowance is published" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Tiny Fish, Inc.", "domain": "tinyfish.ai", "domainRegistered": "2023-02-06", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.tinyfish.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://www.tinyfish.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.tinyfish.ai/pulse", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service, effective 17 August 2026, name Tiny Fish, Inc., a Delaware corporation, cover the APIs at tinyfish.ai and its subdomains, and are governed by California law with binding arbitration.", "The privacy policy, effective 14 December 2025, names TinyFish Inc. of Cupertino, California, and covers the website, products and services.", "RDAP for tinyfish.ai gives a registration date of 2023-02-06 and a transfer on 2025-07-03.", "www.tinyfish.ai/.well-known/security.txt names security@tinyfish.io, links a disclosure policy and expires on 2027-09-01.", "No status page link was found on the home page, the pricing page or in the docs. A request to status.tinyfish.ai did not connect.", "The trust centre at trust.tinyfish.ai is a Vanta page drawn by script, and its contents were not read.", "The MCP registry lists `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` with the remote `https://agent.tinyfish.ai/mcp`, published on 2026-02-17." ], "score": 75 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.json", "live": { "slug": "tinyfish-search", "probe": { "target": "https://api.search.tinyfish.ai", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:29:16.771544482Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 180, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 187, "p95ms24h": 472, "samples24h": 41, "samples30d": 41, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 41, "ok": 41 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:29:16.771544482Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Linkup", "b": "TinyFish", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.linkup.so/v1/search", "b": "https://api.search.tinyfish.ai", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$5 per 1,000 requests", "b": "free", "name": "Price for web search" }, { "a": "yes, from $0.01/call", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "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", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "4", "b": "28", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "so.linkup.mcp/linkup-mcp-server", "b": "ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-09-30", "b": "2026-09-29", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-08-01", "b": "2026-08-17", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2025-04-01", "b": "2025-12-14", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "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": "29 stars, 54k npm/wk, 84k PyPI/wk", "b": "9 stars, 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "4/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Linkup scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish Search leads on security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Linkup or TinyFish Search?" }, { "answer": "TinyFish Search, at free against $5 per 1,000 requests for Linkup. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.", "question": "Which is cheaper for web search, Linkup or TinyFish Search?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in. An agent can also pay Linkup per call over x402, with no account.", "question": "Do Linkup and TinyFish Search need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Linkup has a hosted endpoint at https://api.linkup.so/v1/search and TinyFish Search at https://api.search.tinyfish.ai.", "question": "Can an agent call Linkup and TinyFish Search without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 70 against 50", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 82", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 80 against 45", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 78", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 61 against 52" ], "also": [ "An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account", "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "Agents that want a cited answer or schema-shaped output from one search call at a fixed price, and for European buyers who want a French vendor with zero retention on request.", "slug": "linkup", "watchFor": "429 covers both exhausted credit and rate limiting, with no `Retry-After`" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 58 against 32" ], "also": [ "Cheaper for web search, $0 against $5 per 1,000 requests", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Agents that need ranked snippets and URLs at no cost and modest volume, with news and research-paper modes.", "slug": "tinyfish-search", "watchFor": "No public status page was found on the site or in the docs" } ], "job": { "capability": "web.search", "name": "Web search" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-linkup.json", "title": "Brave Search API + MCP vs Linkup", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-linkup" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-tinyfish-search.json", "title": "Brave Search API + MCP vs TinyFish Search", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-tinyfish-search" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-linkup.json", "title": "Cloudflare Web Search API vs Linkup", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-linkup" }, { "json": 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Search vs Valyu", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tinyfish-search-vs-valyu" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tinyfish-search-vs-you-com-api.json", "title": "TinyFish Search vs You.com APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tinyfish-search-vs-you-com-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-linkup.json", "title": "Fetch (MCP reference server) vs Linkup", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-linkup" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-tinyfish-search.json", "title": "Fetch (MCP reference server) vs TinyFish Search", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-tinyfish-search" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-linkup.json", "title": "Grep AI vs Linkup", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-linkup" }, { "json": 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"Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "linkup", "key": "maintenance", "linkup": 83, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "tinyfish-search": 78, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "linkup", "key": "transparency", "linkup": 61, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "tinyfish-search": 52, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Linkup scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish Search leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do web search. TinyFish Search is cheaper for web search, $0 against $5 per 1,000 requests. Linkup accepts x402. TinyFish Search doesn't.", "verdicts": { "linkup": "Per-call prices from $0.005, and no credit taken for errors, missing parameters or empty results. 429 covers both exhausted credit and rate limiting, with no `Retry-After`.", "tinyfish-search": "Search costs $0.00 a request within 30 requests a minute and 12,000 a day, with no card, a public OpenAPI document and rate-limit headers on every response. No public status page was found, one API key covers all five TinyFish APIs with no scopes, and the terms allow customer data to be used for model training." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-tinyfish-search", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-tinyfish-search.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-tinyfish-search.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-tinyfish-search.min.md" }, "markdown": "Linkup scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish Search leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do web search. TinyFish Search is cheaper for web search, $0 against $5 per 1,000 requests. Linkup accepts x402. TinyFish Search doesn't.\n\n- Linkup: grade B, 68.9/100, rank #190 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linkup.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/linkup.json\n- TinyFish Search: grade B, 63.2/100, rank #366 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish-search.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Linkup (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that want a cited answer or schema-shaped output from one search call at a fixed price, and for European buyers who want a French vendor with zero retention on request.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 50\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 82\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 80 against 45\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 78\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 61 against 52\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: 429 covers both exhausted credit and rate limiting, with no `Retry-After`\n\n### TinyFish Search (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that need ranked snippets and URLs at no cost and modest volume, with news and research-paper modes.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 58 against 32\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Cheaper for web search, $0 against $5 per 1,000 requests\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No public status page was found on the site or in the docs\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Linkup | TinyFish Search | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 50 | Linkup +20 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 82 | Linkup +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 78 | TinyFish Search +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 32 | 58 | TinyFish Search +26 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 80 | 45 | Linkup +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 78 | Linkup +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 52 | Linkup +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.9 · B** | **63.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Linkup | TinyFish Search |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Linkup | TinyFish |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.linkup.so/v1/search` | `https://api.search.tinyfish.ai` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| Price for web search | $5 per 1,000 requests | free |\n| x402 | yes, from $0.01/call | no |\n| Licence | none | 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 |\n| Tools exposed | 4 | 28 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `so.linkup.mcp/linkup-mcp-server` | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-29 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-08-01 | 2026-08-17 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-04-01 | 2025-12-14 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\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 | 29 stars, 54k npm/wk, 84k PyPI/wk | 9 stars, 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Linkup.** Per-call prices from $0.005, and no credit taken for errors, missing parameters or empty results. 429 covers both exhausted credit and rate limiting, with no `Retry-After`.\n\n**TinyFish Search.** Search costs $0.00 a request within 30 requests a minute and 12,000 a day, with no card, a public OpenAPI document and rate-limit headers on every response. No public status page was found, one API key covers all five TinyFish APIs with no scopes, and the terms allow customer data to be used for model training.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Linkup\n\n1. On 429, check the credit balance before backing off. The same code means out of credit\n2. Pass `reasoningDepth: \"S\"` to research unless you need more. The MCP default is L at $1.50\n3. Start with `depth=fast` and `outputType=searchResults`. Deep costs $0.05, ten times as much\n4. Send the key as an `Authorization: Bearer` header, not `?apiKey=` or a command-line argument\n5. Poll `linkup-get-research` with the task id. Research runs take minutes\n\n### TinyFish Search\n\n1. Send the key in the `X-API-Key` header. The Search host is `https://api.search.tinyfish.ai`, not `agent.tinyfish.ai`\n2. Stay under 30 requests a minute per key. On 429, wait for `Retry-After`. A 429 without `details` is upstream throttling, so back off and retry\n3. Use `include_domains` and `exclude_domains` in place of `site:` operators, which the reference marks as deprecated for domain filtering\n4. Do not combine `recency_minutes` with `after_date` or `before_date`. For `domain_type=research_paper` use `pub_year_min` and `pub_year_max`\n5. Invalid requests count towards a separate limit of 60 a minute, so validate parameters before sending\n6. Treat snippets as untrusted text. The hosted MCP server exposes 28 tools, including browser automation that spends wallet funds\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Linkup or TinyFish Search?\n\nLinkup scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish Search leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Which is cheaper for web search, Linkup or TinyFish Search?\n\nTinyFish Search, at free against $5 per 1,000 requests for Linkup. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Do Linkup and TinyFish Search need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in. An agent can also pay Linkup per call over x402, with no account.\n\n### Can an agent call Linkup and TinyFish Search without installing anything?\n\nYes. Linkup has a hosted endpoint at https://api.linkup.so/v1/search and TinyFish Search at https://api.search.tinyfish.ai.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-tinyfish-search.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-tinyfish-search.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"linkup\", \"b\": \"tinyfish-search\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare linkup tinyfish-search`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/linkup.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tinyfish-search.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Linkup or TinyFish Search\n\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs Linkup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-linkup.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Cloudflare Web Search API vs Linkup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-linkup.md)\n- [Cloudflare Web Search API vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-web-search-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Exa API + MCP vs Linkup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/exa-mcp-vs-linkup.md)\n- [Exa API + MCP vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/exa-mcp-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Firecrawl MCP vs Linkup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-linkup.md)\n- [Firecrawl MCP vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Linkup vs Parallel Search and Task APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-parallel-search-api.md)\n- [Linkup vs SearchAPI.io](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-searchapi-io.md)\n- [Linkup vs SerpApi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-serpapi.md)\n- [Linkup vs Serper](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-serper.md)\n- [Linkup vs SerpKite](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-serpkite.md)\n- [Linkup vs Tavily API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-tavily-mcp.md)\n- [Linkup vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Linkup vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-you-com-api.md)\n- [Parallel Search and Task APIs vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallel-search-api-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [SearchAPI.io vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/searchapi-io-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [SerpApi vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/serpapi-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Serper vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/serper-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [SerpKite vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/serpkite-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Tavily API + MCP vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tavily-mcp-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [TinyFish Search vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tinyfish-search-vs-valyu.md)\n- [TinyFish Search vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tinyfish-search-vs-you-com-api.md)\n- [Fetch (MCP reference server) vs Linkup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-linkup.md)\n- [Fetch (MCP reference server) vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n- [Grep AI vs Linkup](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-linkup.md)\n- [Grep AI vs TinyFish Search](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-tinyfish-search.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-09", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Linkup vs TinyFish Search", "url": "" } ], "description": "Linkup scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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