{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "mojeek", "name": "Mojeek Web Search API", "vendor": "Mojeek Limited", "vendorUrl": "https://www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "Mojeek's Web Search API returns results from Mojeek's own independent web index as JSON or XML, with country and language boosting, date and domain filters. Mojeek Limited runs it from the UK on pay-as-you-go plans.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mojeek", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mojeek.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mojeek.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mojeek.json", "dns": "mojeek.grade.anchorterminal.com", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "One API key per account, sent as the `api_key` query parameter, the only method the docs show. A key is issued after a browser signup with a bank card. Rotating or revoking a key is done by emailing api@mojeek.com, per a staff reply on the community forum on 22 October 2026.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "£2 per 1,000 requests on Startup (5 a second, 100,000 a day, up to 10 results a request) and £3 on Business (10 a second, 400,000 a day, up to 40 results, storage rights). Enterprise by contract. A free credit on signup, but a card is required. No automatic payments; prices exclude VAT.", "priceSummary": "$2.68 / 1k req", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the Search API page, the API docs or the API terms (checked 2026-11-06). Payments go through Stripe after a browser signup.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 0, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.mojeek.com/support/api/search/", "capabilities": [ "web.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage", "uk", "eu", "status-page" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 36.4, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1387, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 25, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 10, "payments": 20, "reliability": 45, "schema": 29, "security": 15, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Mojeek sells search over its own independent index at published per-request prices, with region, language, date and domain controls and storage rights on the Business plan. The key travels only in the URL, rotation is by email, a card is needed to start, and there is no OpenAPI, changelog, 429 handling or SLA.", "bestFor": "Agents and products that want a second, independent index beside Google-derived results, or European data handling with no sub-processors.", "strengths": [ "Results come from Mojeek's own crawler and index, not from Google or Bing", "Published prices of £2 and £3 per 1,000 requests, with no minimum commitment and no automatic payments", "Region and language boosts, date windows, up to 25 included or excluded domains, and adjustable title and snippet lengths", "The API page states 90-day retention, zero retention on request and no sub-processors, with infrastructure run in Europe", "Business and Enterprise plans allow results to be stored indefinitely and combined with other engines" ], "weaknesses": [ "The API key is documented only as a URL query parameter, and rotating a key means emailing the API team", "A bank card is required to open an account, even for the free credit", "No OpenAPI, llms.txt, changelog, version or error code list; errors arrive as a free-text status string", "No HTTP 429 or retry guidance and no SLA; the terms allow interruption without notice", "Startup results may be cached for one hour only, and the terms forbid using results in a search index" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `fmt=json`, since the default response is XML", "Read `response.status` on every call; a daily limit shows as 'ERROR: Daily Limit Reached' rather than an HTTP error", "Set `lb`, `lbb`, `rb` and `rbb` as the quickstart recommends, or results lean to no language or region", "Keep the key out of logs and shared URLs, since it travels in the query string", "On the Startup plan, don't keep results for more than an hour" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 36.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 10, "payments": 20, "reliability": 45, "schema": 29, "security": 15, "transparency": 50 }, "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 \"https://api.mojeek.com/search?q=mojeek\u0026api_key=YOUR_API_KEY\u0026lb=EN\u0026lbb=100\u0026rb=GB\u0026rbb=10\u0026fmt=json\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/mojeek" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Search request, Startup", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 2.68, "note": "£2, converted at the ECB rates of 6 November 2026 (USD 1.1165, GBP 0.83415 per euro). Excludes VAT" }, { "item": "Search request, Business", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 4.02, "note": "£3, with storage rights" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Mojeek Limited", "domain": "mojeek.com", "domainRegistered": "2004-09-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.mojeek.com/about/legal/api-terms.html", "privacy": "https://www.mojeek.com/about/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://status.mojeek.com/", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "Mojeek Limited, registered in England number 06918197, registered address in Croydon, office at the Sussex Innovation Centre in Brighton, per the site footer.", "The API terms name Mojeek Limited, choose English law and forbid using the services 'by any automated means unless you are an authorised Services user'. Recorded as a fact; only public pages were read.", "www.mojeek.com/robots.txt disallows /search, /url, /focus/dashboard, /eval and /image? for all agents; none of the pages read is under those paths.", "The privacy policy is dated 2 February 2022 and covers the search website. It says logs are kept indefinitely with IP addresses replaced by a country code.", "/.well-known/security.txt names security@mojeek.com and the contact page, with no Expires field. /security.txt answers 404.", "status.mojeek.com is a Site24x7 StatusIQ page drawn by script. Its RSS feed lists Search, Website, Blog and Community components, all operational on 6 November 2026.", "RDAP gives mojeek.com a registration date of 30 September 2004." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mojeek.json", "live": { "slug": "mojeek", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.mojeek.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T04:48:12.320117499Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://mojeek.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:02.996132936Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.mojeek.com/about/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:31:48.341040926Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "cd749befb394" }, { "url": "https://www.mojeek.com/about/legal/api-terms.html", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:31:46.299086085Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f593843e677e" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:02.996132936Z" } }, "answer": "Parallel Search and Task APIs scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Mojeek Web Search API's 36.4 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "parallel-search-api", "name": "Parallel Search and Task APIs", "vendor": "Parallel Web Systems", "vendorUrl": "https://parallel.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "Parallel's web APIs for agents, covering search, page extraction, asynchronous research tasks, closed-ended decisions answered from current web evidence and an OpenAI-compatible Responses endpoint, with hosted Search and Task MCP servers.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parallel-search-api.json", "dns": "parallel-search-api.grade.anchorterminal.com", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "parallel-web" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "parallel-web" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API key in the `x-api-key` header. The Search MCP at search.parallel.ai/mcp works anonymously at lower limits, takes a Bearer key, and /mcp-oauth adds OAuth. An OAuth provider can issue keys on behalf of your users.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Up to 5,000 free requests a month, with $5 of free credit monthly and up to $80 at signup. Search $1 per 1,000 requests in turbo or fast, $5 in basic or advanced, 10 results included and $1 per 1,000 extra results. Image Search $1 (fast) or $5 (advanced) per 1,000, up to 20 results. Extract $1 per 1,000 URLs. Task $5 (lite) to $2,400 (ultra8x) per 1,000 successful runs. Responses $10 to $250 per 1,000 by reasoning effort. Decisions $1 per 1,000 requests, up to 100 questions a request. Failed runs aren't billed (https://parallel.ai/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$1 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "partial", "evidence": "Not on api.parallel.ai. A separate gateway at parallelmpp.dev takes x402 (USDC on Base) and MPP (Stripe or Tempo) for search and extract at $0.01 and an ultra task at $0.30. An unauthenticated POST to /api/search returned 402 with an x402 v2 challenge for 10000 base units on eip155:8453 (checked 2026-09-30) (https://docs.parallel.ai/integrations/agentic-payments).", "endpoints": [ { "url": "https://parallelmpp.dev/api/search", "priceUsd": 0.01, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://parallelmpp.dev/api/extract", "priceUsd": 0.01, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://parallelmpp.dev/api/task", "priceUsd": 0.3, "network": "eip155:8453" } ] }, "toolCount": 6, "popularity": { "githubStars": 28, "npmWeekly": 249803, "pypiWeekly": 994376, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.parallel.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.parallel.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.parallel.ai/public-openapi.json", "registryName": "ai.parallel/search-mcp", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "web.fetch", "web.extract", "search.answer", "search.research" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "x402", "python", "typescript", "async-jobs", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 75, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 73, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 87, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 75, "reliability": 75, "schema": 94, "security": 45, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Fast-mode search at $1 per 1,000 with 10 excerpted results, and a keyless two-tool Search MCP annotated read-only. Search defaults to advanced mode at $5 per 1,000 when `mode` is left out, and the Customer Terms allow training on inputs and outputs.", "bestFor": "Agents that mix quick search with long research or enrichment jobs and want one vendor and one bill.", "strengths": [ "Fast-mode search at $1 per 1,000 with 10 excerpted results, and Extract at $1 per 1,000 URLs", "Task runs billed only on success, and documented limits of 600 searches and 2,000 task creations a minute", "Keyless hosted MCP servers whose search, fetch and decision tools are annotated read-only, plus Bearer and OAuth sign-in", "Public OpenAPI, llms.txt and an errors table that says which codes to retry and how", "SDK releases several times a month, with CI and a breaking-change check on the Python SDK, and a dated changelog with entries on 19 and 26 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Search defaults to advanced mode at $5 per 1,000 when `mode` is left out", "SDKs retry Task creation on 429 and 5xx with no idempotency key", "x402 and MPP only through parallelmpp.dev at a flat $0.01, not on api.parallel.ai", "Customer Terms let Parallel train on inputs and outputs, and no retention period is stated outside the EU endpoint", "No prompt-injection guidance, no security.txt and no public subprocessor list" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pass `mode: \"fast\"` on every API search. Without it you pay the advanced rate. On an authenticated MCP connection, pin it with `?mode=fast`", "Create Task runs with `max_retries=0` and check for an existing run before retrying", "Give an `objective` plus two or three short `search_queries`. That's what ranks the excerpts", "On 402, check available balance rather than total. Running tasks reserve credit", "Ask for zero data retention or use the EU endpoint before sending private queries. The default terms allow training on them", "On Decisions, check each answer's `type` before reading it. A refusal is a 200, not an error, and a predicate is a probability you threshold yourself" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 8, "avgRating": 3.6, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 75 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 87, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 75, "reliability": 75, "schema": 94, "security": 45, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 85, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-01", "maintenance": "2026-11-01", "payments": "2026-11-01", "reliability": "2026-11-01", "schema": "2026-11-01", "security": "2026-11-01", "transparency": "2026-11-01" }, "last": "2026-11-01", "lastMoved": "2026-10-30", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search -H \"x-api-key: $PARALLEL_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"mode\":\"fast\",\"objective\":\"Latest Parallel Web Systems announcements\",\"search_queries\":[\"Parallel Web Systems news\"]}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http parallel-search https://search.parallel.ai/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "parallel-search": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${PARALLEL_API_KEY}" }, "url": "https://search.parallel.ai/mcp" } } }, "x402": "curl -i -X POST https://parallelmpp.dev/api/search -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{\"query\":\"test\"}'\n# 402 -\u003e pay $0.01 USDC on eip155:8453 (or MPP via Stripe/Tempo) -\u003e resend" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/parallel-search-api" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Search, turbo or fast", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1, "note": "10 results included" }, { "item": "Search, basic or advanced", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5, "note": "advanced is the default mode" }, { "item": "Extract", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 1 }, { "item": "Task, lite processor", "unit": "1k-calls", "usd": 5 }, { "item": "Task, pro processor", "unit": "1k-calls", "usd": 100 }, { "item": "Responses, medium effort", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 50 }, { "item": "Decisions, up to 100 questions a request", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1, "note": "docs pricing page, 1 November 2026" }, { "item": "x402 search via gateway", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.01, "note": "parallelmpp.dev" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Parallel Web Systems Inc.", "domain": "parallel.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16", "domainNote": "Registered in 2017 and transferred on 2024-07-01, so the registration date predates the company's use of it.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://parallel.ai/customer-terms", "privacy": "https://parallel.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.parallel.ai", "changelog": "https://docs.parallel.ai/resources/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-01", "score": 85 }, "requirements": { "setupChecked": true, "complianceChecked": true, "agentAlone": true, "card": "unknown", "freeTier": true, "minutes": 5, "credential": "mixed", "hosting": [ "US", "EU" ], "euResidency": "enterprise", "trainsOnData": "unknown", "zeroRetention": "enterprise", "certifications": [ "GDPR" ], "dpa": true, "selfHost": "no" }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api.json", "live": { "slug": "parallel-search-api", "probe": { "target": "https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:24.960754245Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 1188, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 1155, "p95ms24h": 1251, "samples24h": 238, "samples30d": 7920, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "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": 253 }, { "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": 253 }, { "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": 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including excerpts that are usually sufficient to\nanswer directly without a follow-up fetch.\n\nIdeal Use Cases:\n- Answering questions that require fresh or current information\n- Research, comparison, documentation, and troubleshooting questions\n- Broad tasks where multiple `search_queries` can be issued in a single call\n\nFor multiple independent objectives, make one web_search call per objective\nconcurrently. Put related query variations for the same objective in a single\ncall's search_queries list.\n", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "model_name": { "description": "The identifier of the LLM model making this tool call (e.g. 'claude-opus-4.7', 'gpt-5.5', 'gemini-2.5-pro'). Before the first call, verify the exact active model slug from trusted runtime/session metadata or active client configuration. Pass the full slug verbatim; never shorten or substitute a model-family alias like 'gpt-5'. Used for product analytics only; does not affect search behavior.", "maxLength": 100, "type": "string" }, "objective": { "description": "Natural-language description of what the web search is trying to find.\nTry to make the search objective atomic, looking for a specific piece of information. May include guidance about preferred sources or freshness.", "title": "Objective", "type": "string" }, "search_queries": { "description": "Concise keyword search queries, 3-6 words\neach. They may use site: with a bare domain (such as site:example.com), but\nnever a URL path after the domain and never quoted phrases. At least one query\nis required; provide 2-3 for best results. For broad tasks, you can include\nmultiple related queries in a single call instead of chaining web_search\ncalls. The queries should be related to the objective.", "items": { "type": "string" }, "title": "Search Queries", "type": "array" }, "session_id": { "description": "Stable identifier for the current conversation. Generate a random value (UUID or 32+ character hex string) at the start of your session and reuse the exact same value on every web_search / web_fetch call. Do NOT change it between turns. Used for free-tier rate limiting and correlating your tool calls in our logs; ignored on paid-tier keys.", "maxLength": 100, "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "objective", "search_queries" ], "title": "v1_search_toolArguments", "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "$defs": { "UsageItem": { "description": "Usage item for a single operation.", "properties": { "count": { "description": "Count of the SKU.", "examples": [ 1 ], "title": "Count", "type": "integer" }, "name": { "description": "Name of the SKU.", "examples": [ "sku_search", "sku_extract_excerpts" ], "title": "Name", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "name", "count" ], "title": "UsageItem", "type": "object" }, "V1WebSearchResult": { "description": "A single search result from the web search API.", "properties": { "excerpts": { "description": "Relevant excerpted content from the URL, formatted as markdown.", "items": { "type": "string" }, "title": "Excerpts", "type": "array" }, "publish_date": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Publish date of the webpage in YYYY-MM-DD format, if available.", "title": "Publish Date" }, "title": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Title of the webpage, if available.", "title": "Title" }, "url": { "description": "URL associated with the search result.", "title": "Url", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "url", "excerpts" ], "title": "V1WebSearchResult", "type": "object" }, "Warning": { "description": "Human-readable message for a task.", "properties": { "detail": { "anyOf": [ { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Optional detail supporting the warning.", "title": "Detail" }, "message": { "description": "Human-readable message.", "title": "Message", "type": "string" }, "type": { "description": "Type of warning. Note that adding new warning types is considered a backward-compatible change.", "enum": [ "spec_validation_warning", "input_validation_warning", "warning" ], "examples": [ "spec_validation_warning", "input_validation_warning" ], "title": "Type", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "type", "message" ], "title": "Warning", "type": "object" } }, "description": "Search response.", "properties": { "results": { "description": "A list of search results, ordered by decreasing relevance.", "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/V1WebSearchResult" }, "title": "Results", "type": "array" }, "search_id": { "description": "Search ID. Example: `search_cad0a6d2dec046bd95ae900527d880e7`", "title": "Search Id", "type": "string" }, "session_id": { "description": "Session identifier, echoed back from the request if provided, otherwise generated by the server. Should be passed to future search and extract calls made by the agent as part of the same larger task.", "examples": [ "session_8a911eb27c7a4afaa20d0d9dc98d07c0" ], "title": "Session Id", "type": "string" }, "usage": { "anyOf": [ { "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/UsageItem" }, "type": "array" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Usage metrics for the search request.", "title": "Usage" }, "warnings": { "anyOf": [ { "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/Warning" }, "type": "array" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Warnings for the search request, if any.", "title": "Warnings" } }, "required": [ "search_id", "results", "session_id" ], "title": "V1SearchResponse", "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": false, "idempotentHint": true, "openWorldHint": true, "readOnlyHint": true, "title": "Web search" } }, { "name": "web_fetch", "description": "Purpose: Fetch and extract relevant content\nfrom specific web URLs. Use only when web_search excerpts are insufficient\nfor the task at hand.\n\nIdeal Use Cases:\n- The user asked about a specific URL or page\n- You need exact wording or quotes that excerpts may have truncated\n- You need full-page analysis (long article, document, or page structure)\n- web_search excerpts are conflicting or clearly insufficient to answer\n\nFor multiple independent extraction objectives, make separate web_fetch calls\nconcurrently. Put related URLs that share one objective in a single call.\n", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "allow_live_fetch": { "default": true, "description": "Whether live fetching is allowed. Leave\ntrue for the freshest available content. Set false to use cached content only,\nwhich makes web_fetch much faster by avoiding the source website, but may return\nolder content.", "title": "Allow Live Fetch", "type": "boolean" }, "full_content": { "default": false, "description": "Prefer leaving this off. The default\nexcerpt mode returns LLM-optimized snippets focused on your objective — they\nare much smaller, cheaper, and usually all you need. Only set to true when\nyou explicitly need the entire page as markdown (e.g. reading a long article\nin full, or running a document through a downstream summarizer).\n\nWarning: enabling full content can return a large amount of content —\noften tens of thousands of tokens for a long article. This may exceed your\nMCP client's tool-output limit and will substantially increase response\nsize and latency.", "title": "Full Content", "type": "boolean" }, "model_name": { "description": "The identifier of the LLM model making this tool call (e.g. 'claude-opus-4.7', 'gpt-5.5', 'gemini-2.5-pro'). Before the first call, verify the exact active model slug from trusted runtime/session metadata or active client configuration. Pass the full slug verbatim; never shorten or substitute a model-family alias like 'gpt-5'. Used for product analytics only; does not affect search behavior.", "maxLength": 100, "type": "string" }, "objective": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Natural-language description of what\ninformation you're looking for from the URLs. Limit to 200 characters.", "title": "Objective" }, "search_queries": { "anyOf": [ { "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Optional keyword search queries (3-6\nwords each) used together with objective to focus excerpts on the most\nrelevant content. Pass the queries from the prior web_search call that\nsurfaced these URLs, if applicable.", "title": "Search Queries" }, "session_id": { "description": "Stable identifier for the current conversation. Generate a random value (UUID or 32+ character hex string) at the start of your session and reuse the exact same value on every web_search / web_fetch call. Do NOT change it between turns. Used for free-tier rate limiting and correlating your tool calls in our logs; ignored on paid-tier keys.", "maxLength": 100, "type": "string" }, "urls": { "description": "List of URLs to extract content from. Must be\nvalid HTTP/HTTPS URLs. Up to 20 URLs per request.", "items": { "type": "string" }, "title": "Urls", "type": "array" } }, "required": [ "urls" ], "title": "v1_extract_toolArguments", "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "$defs": { "ExtractError": { "description": "Extract error details.", "properties": { "content": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "Content returned for http client or server errors, if any.", "title": "Content" }, "error_type": { "description": "Error type.", "title": "Error Type", "type": "string" }, "http_status_code": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "integer" }, { "type": "null" } ], "description": "HTTP status code, if available.", "title": "Http Status Code" }, "url": { "title": "Url", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "url", "error_type", "http_status_code", "content" ], "title": "ExtractError", "type": "object" }, "UsageItem": { "description": "Usage item for a single operation.", "properties": { "count": { "description": "Count of the SKU.", "examples": [ 1 ], "title": "Count", "type": "integer" }, "name": { "description": "Name of the SKU.", "examples": [ "sku_search", "sku_extract_excerpts" ], "title": "Name", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "name", "count" ], "title": "UsageItem", "type": "object" }, "V1ExtractResult": { "description": "Extract result for a single URL.", "properties": { "acquired_at": { "anyOf": [ { "format": "date-time", "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "When the returned content was acquired, as an RFC 3339 timestamp truncated to the start of the UTC day. Null when unknown.", "examples": [ "2026-10-08T00:00:00Z" ], "title": "Acquired At" }, "excerpts": { "description": "Relevant excerpted content from the URL, formatted as markdown.", "items": { "type": "string" }, "title": "Excerpts", "type": "array" }, "full_content": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Full content from the URL formatted as markdown, if requested.", "title": "Full Content" }, "links": { "anyOf": [ { "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Links from the page's rendered content, if requested: up to 512 unique absolute URLs in document order. Empty for pages with no links, including PDFs. Present only when advanced_settings.links was requested.", "title": "Links" }, "publish_date": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Publish date of the webpage in YYYY-MM-DD format, if available.", "title": "Publish Date" }, "title": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Title of the webpage, if available.", "title": "Title" }, "url": { "description": "URL associated with the search result.", "title": "Url", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "url", "excerpts" ], "title": "V1ExtractResult", "type": "object" }, "Warning": { "description": "Human-readable message for a task.", "properties": { "detail": { "anyOf": [ { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Optional detail supporting the warning.", "title": "Detail" }, "message": { "description": "Human-readable message.", "title": "Message", "type": "string" }, "type": { "description": "Type of warning. Note that adding new warning types is considered a backward-compatible change.", "enum": [ "spec_validation_warning", "input_validation_warning", "warning" ], "examples": [ "spec_validation_warning", "input_validation_warning" ], "title": "Type", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "type", "message" ], "title": "Warning", "type": "object" } }, "description": "Extract response.", "properties": { "errors": { "description": "Extract errors: requested URLs not in the results.", "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/ExtractError" }, "title": "Errors", "type": "array" }, "extract_id": { "description": "Extract request ID, e.g. `extract_cad0a6d2dec046bd95ae900527d880e7`", "title": "Extract Id", "type": "string" }, "results": { "description": "Successful extract results.", "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/V1ExtractResult" }, "title": "Results", "type": "array" }, "session_id": { "description": "Session identifier. Echoed back from the request if provided, otherwise generated by the server. Should be passed to future search and extract calls made by the agent as part of the same larger task.", "examples": [ "session_8a911eb27c7a4afaa20d0d9dc98d07c0" ], "title": "Session Id", "type": "string" }, "usage": { "anyOf": [ { "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/UsageItem" }, "type": "array" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Usage metrics for the extract request.", "title": "Usage" }, "warnings": { "anyOf": [ { "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/Warning" }, "type": "array" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Warnings for the extract request, if any.", "title": "Warnings" } }, "required": [ "extract_id", "results", "errors", "session_id" ], "title": "V1ExtractResponse", "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": false, "idempotentHint": true, "openWorldHint": true, "readOnlyHint": true, "title": "Web fetch" } }, { "name": "send_feedback", "description": "Report a problem with Parallel to the Parallel team. Use it when, while\nworking with Parallel, you see any of these:\n- A Parallel tool returned an error you didn't cause: a 5xx, a timeout, or a\n rate limit you didn't expect.\n- Results were wrong, irrelevant, stale or missing something you know exists:\n a wrong date or number, an excerpt the page doesn't support, an empty fetch of\n a page that has content.\n- Parallel's docs, tool descriptions and behavior disagree, or you couldn't work\n out how to call a tool.\n- An evaluation, benchmark or comparison you ran shows Parallel doing worse than\n expected.\nProblems you worked around count too. It isn't for mistakes in your own\nrequests, or for questions.\n\nAsk the user first. When you tell them about the problem, offer to report it\nand show what you'd send: the message and the IDs. Send it only if they agree,\nthen tell them it was sent.\n\nPut the IDs involved (search_id, extract_id, run_id) in `examples`, with a\nshort note on each. web_decisions returns no ID: put the subject and the\nquestions it answered wrongly in `message`.\n\nParallel receives only the fields you fill in, plus the account and client the\nrequest came from; nothing else from your conversation. Leave out secrets and\npersonal data.\n", "inputSchema": { "$defs": { "FeedbackExample": { "properties": { "expected": { "anyOf": [ { "maxLength": 1000, "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "What you expected instead, such as a fact or URL Parallel missed.", "title": "Expected" }, "id": { "description": "ID of the Parallel request this example is about, such as a search_id, extract_id, task run_id, findall_id or monitor_id.", "maxLength": 128, "minLength": 1, "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$", "title": "Id", "type": "string" }, "issue": { "anyOf": [ { "maxLength": 1000, "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "What was wrong with this result.", "title": "Issue" } }, "required": [ "id" ], "title": "FeedbackExample", "type": "object" } }, "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "actual": { "anyOf": [ { "maxLength": 2000, "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "The overall observed behavior.", "title": "Actual" }, "category": { "description": "The kind of problem.", "enum": [ "results_quality", "error", "latency", "missing_capability", "docs", "billing", "other" ], "title": "Category", "type": "string" }, "examples": { "anyOf": [ { "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/FeedbackExample" }, "maxItems": 50, "type": "array" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "The specific requests involved, each with a short note.", "title": "Examples" }, "expected": { "anyOf": [ { "maxLength": 2000, "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "The overall expected behavior.", "title": "Expected" }, "message": { "description": "What you were doing, what went wrong, and what you expected. Do not include secrets or personal data.", "maxLength": 4000, "minLength": 20, "title": "Message", "type": "string" }, "product": { "description": "The Parallel product involved.", "enum": [ "search", "extract", "task", "findall", "monitor", "responses", "decisions", "mcp", "cli", "other" ], "title": "Product", "type": "string" }, "severity": { "default": "degraded", "description": "How much the problem affected the work: blocking, degraded (a workaround was needed) or minor (noticeable, but the work went on unchanged).", "enum": [ "blocking", "degraded", "minor" ], "title": "Severity", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "message", "category", "product" ], "title": "send_feedback_toolArguments", "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "$defs": { "FeedbackReport": { "properties": { "actual": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "title": "Actual" }, "category": { "enum": [ "results_quality", "error", "latency", "missing_capability", "docs", "billing", "other" ], "title": "Category", "type": "string" }, "context": { "$ref": "#/$defs/FeedbackReportContext" }, "examples": { "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/FeedbackReportExample" }, "title": "Examples", "type": "array" }, "expected": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "title": "Expected" }, "message": { "title": "Message", "type": "string" }, "product": { "enum": [ "search", "extract", "task", "findall", "monitor", "responses", "decisions", "mcp", "cli", "other" ], "title": "Product", "type": "string" }, "recipient": { "description": "Who receives the report and how long it is kept.", "title": "Recipient", "type": "string" }, "redactions": { "description": "How many secrets were removed.", "title": "Redactions", "type": "integer" }, "severity": { "enum": [ "blocking", "degraded", "minor" ], "title": "Severity", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "message", "category", "product", "severity", "examples", "context", "redactions", "recipient" ], "title": "FeedbackReport", "type": "object" }, "FeedbackReportContext": { "properties": { "llm_model": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "title": "Llm Model" }, "org_id": { "title": "Org Id", "type": "string" }, "sender": { "description": "Who Parallel sees as the sender.", "title": "Sender", "type": "string" }, "session_id": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "title": "Session Id" }, "surface": { "description": "How the feedback was sent: api, cli, mcp or platform.", "enum": [ "api", "cli", "mcp", "platform" ], "title": "Surface", "type": "string" }, "user_agent": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "title": "User Agent" } }, "required": [ "org_id", "sender", "surface" ], "title": "FeedbackReportContext", "type": "object" }, "FeedbackReportExample": { "properties": { "expected": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "title": "Expected" }, "id": { "title": "Id", "type": "string" }, "issue": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "title": "Issue" } }, "required": [ "id" ], "title": "FeedbackReportExample", "type": "object" } }, "properties": { "duplicate": { "default": false, "description": "True when the same report was received in the last 24 hours; feedback_id is the original report and nothing new was stored.", "title": "Duplicate", "type": "boolean" }, "feedback_id": { "description": "ID of the stored report.", "title": "Feedback Id", "type": "string" }, "next_step": { "description": "What the agent should do next.", "title": "Next Step", "type": "string" }, "report": { "$ref": "#/$defs/FeedbackReport", "description": "Exactly what Parallel received, with secrets removed." }, "status": { "const": "received", "title": "Status", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "status", "feedback_id", "report", "next_step" ], "title": "FeedbackResponse", "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": false, "idempotentHint": false, "openWorldHint": false, "readOnlyHint": false, "title": "Send feedback to Parallel" } } ], "schemaTokens": 5322, "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:46:44.757089899Z", "check": { "checker": "anchor-check/1.0", "totalTokens": 5322, "counts": { "error": 0, "note": 1, "warn": 3 }, "findings": [ { "rule": "TC15", "severity": "warn", "tool": "send_feedback", "message": "inputSchema uses $ref/$defs", "fix": "Inline the referenced schemas. Pydantic and zod-to-json-schema emit $defs for nested models; most can be told not to." }, { "rule": "TC22", "severity": "warn", "tool": "send_feedback", "message": "the definition is about 1,634 tokens", "fix": "Trim the description and parameter docs, or split the tool." }, { "rule": "TC22", "severity": "warn", "tool": "web_fetch", "message": "the definition is about 1,970 tokens", "fix": "Trim the description and parameter docs, or split the tool." }, { "rule": "TC29", "severity": "note", "message": "about 396 tokens (7% of the definitions) are titles that repeat property or function names", "fix": "Strip \"title\" keys that only restate a name before listing tools." } ] } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T19:23:08.223792637Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 77, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "parallel-search-api", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Read for a closed service. No API changelog, release notes or dated API change were found, and the blog's posts since 2024 are about search in general, so the last change can't be dated (0). No dated changes in the 90 days from 8 August (0). A staff member answered API questions on the community forum within a day in December 2025 and October 2026, and support is by email; no public changelog (10 of 15). No official SDKs or MCP server (0). No public packages or CI to measure (0). 0 + 0 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 10.", "b": "parallel-web 1.3.7 for Python on 2026-10-23 and for TypeScript on 2026-10-28, and changelog entries on 19 and 26 October, the second launching the Decisions API (30). Counted from the tags and the changelog, the 90 days from 3 August hold Python SDK releases 1.3.1 to 1.3.7, TypeScript 1.3.1 to 1.3.7 and ten changelog entries from 19 August to 26 October (20). The SDK releases since 1.3.5 are dependency bumps. Closed service with a changelog and support@parallel.ai. We didn't test whether support answers (12). Current Python and TypeScript SDKs, and ai.parallel/search-mcp and ai.parallel/task-mcp in the official registry (15). The Python SDK runs lint and build in CI on push, plus a workflow that detects breaking changes (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 10, "b": 87 } }, { "by": 65, "category": "schema", "leads": "parallel-search-api", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract (0). No llms.txt (404) and no Markdown pages for agents (0). The parameters page states what each parameter does, with notes on when not to use `reg` and `clufmt`, but nothing on when another endpoint fits better (12 of 20). Every parameter has a type, defaults and valid ranges (tlen 0 to 127, dlen 0 to 511, rbb and lbb 1 to 100, up to 25 domains), though `reg` is called an enum without listing its values (11 of 15). One curl example and annotated JSON and XML response formats; errors appear only as a `status` string with one example (6 of 15). No API version, changelog or dated release notes, and the quickstart and the parameters page give different hosts (0). 0 + 0 + 12 + 11 + 6 + 0 = 29.", "b": "Public OpenAPI at docs.parallel.ai/public-openapi.json, linked from llms.txt (25). llms.txt and Markdown pages (10). A live `tools/list` on search.parallel.ai/mcp on 17 October and again on 1 November returned the two definitions, and the newer Parallel MCP server at mcp.parallel.ai adds `web_decisions`, whose description says when to use web_search instead. `web_search` states its purpose and ideal uses, and `web_fetch` says to use it \"only when web_search excerpts are insufficient\". The docs add that domain filters are hard filters that can cut quality. `web_search` has no when-not-to line of its own (17). Typed JSON Schema inputs with required fields and an output schema on both tools, `mode` is an enum in the API, and Task output schemas are JSON Schema. The MCP inputs carry no enums (12). The errors page lists each code with whether to retry and what to do, and 422s carry a structured `detail` (15). A dated changelog, newest entry 26 October 2026 (Decisions API) after 19 October (EU data residency), and beta headers retire on dated entries (15)." }, "scores": { "a": 29, "b": 94 } }, { "by": 55, "category": "payments", "leads": "parallel-search-api", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-request prices published without login, £2 and £3 per 1,000 requests (20). The FAQ says a free credit comes with the Startup plan, but a bank card is required to open an account (0). A person signs up in a browser and adds a card (0). 0 + 20 + 0 + 0 = 20.", "b": "Parallel runs a separate gateway at parallelmpp.dev that takes x402 (USDC on Base) and MPP (Stripe or Tempo) for search and extract at $0.01 and an ultra task at $0.30. Our unpaid POST to /api/search on 6 October returned 402 with an x402 v2 challenge for 10000 base units on eip155:8453 and a Tempo MPP challenge. Nothing on api.parallel.ai, and the gateway sells one price per endpoint with no mode choice, so partial (25). Per-unit prices published without login (20). Up to 5,000 free requests a month, $5 monthly credit and up to $80 at signup on the pricing page, which still doesn't say whether a card is needed (10). The hosted Search MCP works with no key, and the gateway needs only a wallet (20)." }, "scores": { "a": 20, "b": 75 } }, { "by": 30, "category": "reliability", "leads": "parallel-search-api", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Read with the hosted lines. status.mojeek.com is a Site24x7 StatusIQ page with Search, Website, Blog and Community components. It is drawn by script, so only its RSS feed could be read, which shows each component's current state (Search operational since 7 September 2026) and no incident entries (15 of 20). No readable incident history (5). Rate limits are published per plan, 5 a second and 100,000 a day on Startup, 10 a second and 400,000 a day on Business (15). Over the daily limit the JSON `status` reads 'ERROR: Daily Limit Reached'; no HTTP 429, Retry-After or backoff guidance was found (0). No SLA, and the API terms say the service is provided as is and may be interrupted without notice (0). Generally available, with only the `lr` parameter marked beta (10). 15 + 5 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 45.", "b": "incident.io page at status.parallel.ai with Search, Task, Chat, Monitor, FindAll and Entity Search components and history (20). The feed, re-read on 1 November, has nothing after 13 October, so the 90 days from 3 August hold the same four incidents, all partial or degraded. Elevated 503s on 6 August, about an hour of Task API latency on 2 September, intermittent 4xx errors on 7 September, and transient 502s from the network gateway on 13 October, degraded performance from 01:23 to 01:43 UTC. Most have no duration listed (20). Published limits, 600 a minute for Search, Image Search, Extract, Decisions and Entity Search, 2,000 for Tasks, 300 for Chat and Monitor (15). The errors page marks 429 as retryable with exponential backoff, but there's no `Retry-After` and no idempotency guidance for creating Task runs, which the SDKs retry twice by default (10). No SLA found (0). Search, Extract and Task are GA (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 45, "b": 75 } }, { "by": 30, "category": "security", "leads": "parallel-search-api", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "One key per account, documented only as the `api_key` query parameter, and rotation or revocation is by email to the API team (a staff reply of 22 October 2026 on the community forum asks for the key's last 8 digits). One all-powerful key (10) less 10 for the key in the URL (0). Search is read-only and there is nothing to write, but no scoped or restricted key (10 of 20). Results are third-party titles and snippets, with no prompt-injection guidance found (0). No audit log or per-call usage view was found in the docs; the FAQ mentions budget alerts on the account (0 of 15). security.txt names security@mojeek.com, with no Expires field. No bug bounty, disclosure policy, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 found; the API page claims compliance with European rules such as the EU Data Act without a certification (5 of 20). 0 + 10 + 0 + 0 + 5 = 15.", "b": "API key in `x-api-key`. The Search MCP takes a Bearer key or OAuth at /mcp-oauth. We found no key scopes (20). Every Search and Extract action is a read, and Task tools live in a separate MCP server, so the search server is a read-only subset (15). Excerpts and fetched pages are untrusted web text, and the docs index has no prompt-injection guidance (0). No audit log found (0). The privacy policy shows a SOC 2 badge and links trust.parallel.ai, which rendered only its title to our reader on 6 October. security.txt is 404 on parallel.ai and docs.parallel.ai, and no bug bounty found (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 15, "b": 45 } }, { "by": 21, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "parallel-search-api", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Responses can be sized with `t` (up to 10, 40 or 100 results by plan), `tlen`, `dlen` and opt-in date and size fields (22 of 25). `s` for paging, `since` and `before`, `site`, included and excluded domains, region and language boosting and safe search (20). Errors are a free-text `status` with no documented codes, which an agent can't branch on reliably (5 of 20). Searches only read, so a retry is safe, but no page says whether failed or empty requests are billed (12 of 20). Only `q` and `api_key` are required, with recommended values for the boosts. No official SDK in any language (7 of 15). 22 + 20 + 5 + 12 + 7 = 66.", "b": "The Search MCP has two tools, about 5,700 characters of names, descriptions and input schemas on 1 November, and the Parallel MCP server lists three without a key (about 9,700 characters) and a fourth, `web_research`, after sign-in. `web_fetch` returns excerpts unless `full_content` is set, and the docs cap excerpts at roughly 25,000 characters a call and warn full pages can run to tens of thousands of tokens (25). Result counts, excerpt settings and source policies for domains and paths (18). The errors table gives each code a retry column and a resolution, with troubleshooting for 402 and 429 and a structured `detail` on 422 (20). Both Search MCP tools carry readOnlyHint true, destructiveHint false and idempotentHint true in the live `tools/list`, and searches are safe to repeat. There's still no idempotency key for Task creation, the SDKs retry creates on 429 and 5xx, and the Task MCP needs a key, so its annotations weren't read (14). Python and TypeScript SDKs, but `mode` defaults to advanced, the $5 per 1,000 tier, when you leave it out (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 66, "b": 87 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Mojeek Limited", "b": "Parallel Web Systems", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$2.68 per 1,000 requests", "b": "$1 per 1,000 requests", "name": "Price for web search" }, { "a": "no", "b": "payer tooling only", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "0", "b": "6", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "ai.parallel/search-mcp", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2026-10-28", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-10-17", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2022-02-02", "b": "2026-08-11", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "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": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "28 stars, 250k npm/wk, 994k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.6/5 (8)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Parallel Search and Task APIs scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Mojeek Web Search API's 36.4 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Mojeek Web Search API or Parallel Search and Task APIs?" }, { "answer": "Parallel Search and Task APIs, at $1 per 1,000 requests against $2.68 per 1,000 requests for Mojeek Web Search API. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.", "question": "Which is cheaper for web search, Mojeek Web Search API or Parallel Search and Task APIs?" }, { "answer": "Mojeek Web Search API needs an API key. Parallel Search and Task APIs takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Mojeek Web Search API and Parallel Search and Task APIs need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Mojeek Web Search API. Parallel Search and Task APIs has a hosted endpoint at https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search.", "question": "Can an agent call Mojeek Web Search API and Parallel Search and Task APIs without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents and products that want a second, independent index beside Google-derived results, or European data handling with no sub-processors.", "slug": "mojeek", "watchFor": "The API key is documented only as a URL query parameter, and rotating a key means emailing the API team" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 75 against 45", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 94 against 29", "Agent ergonomics, 87 against 66", "Security \u0026 auth, 45 against 15", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 75 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 10" ], "also": [ "Cheaper for web search, $1 against $2.68 per 1,000 requests", "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Agents that mix 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and Task APIs scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Mojeek Web Search API's 36.4 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. 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Search defaults to advanced mode at $5 per 1,000 when `mode` is left out, and the Customer Terms allow training on inputs and outputs." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mojeek-vs-parallel-search-api", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mojeek-vs-parallel-search-api.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mojeek-vs-parallel-search-api.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mojeek-vs-parallel-search-api.min.md" }, "markdown": "Parallel Search and Task APIs scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Mojeek Web Search API's 36.4 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do web search. Parallel Search and Task APIs is cheaper for web search, $1 against $2.68 per 1,000 requests.\n\n- Mojeek Web Search API: grade F, 36.4/100, rank #1387 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mojeek.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mojeek.json\n- Parallel Search and Task APIs: grade BB, 75/100, rank #73 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parallel-search-api.json\n- Best web search APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/search/index.md\n- All 326 search comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/search/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Mojeek Web Search API (F)\n\nGood for: Agents and products that want a second, independent index beside Google-derived results, or European data handling with no sub-processors.\n\nWatch for: The API key is documented only as a URL query parameter, and rotating a key means emailing the API team\n\n### Parallel Search and Task APIs (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents that mix quick search with long research or enrichment jobs and want one vendor and one bill.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 75 against 45\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 94 against 29\n- Agent ergonomics, 87 against 66\n- Security \u0026 auth, 45 against 15\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 75 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 10\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Cheaper for web search, $1 against $2.68 per 1,000 requests\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Search defaults to advanced mode at $5 per 1,000 when `mode` is left out\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Parallel Search and Task APIs +77\n\n- Mojeek Web Search API (10): Read for a closed service. No API changelog, release notes or dated API change were found, and the blog's posts since 2024 are about search in general, so the last change can't be dated (0). No dated changes in the 90 days from 8 August (0). A staff member answered API questions on the community forum within a day in December 2025 and October 2026, and support is by email; no public changelog (10 of 15). No official SDKs or MCP server (0). No public packages or CI to measure (0). 0 + 0 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 10.\n- Parallel Search and Task APIs (87): parallel-web 1.3.7 for Python on 2026-10-23 and for TypeScript on 2026-10-28, and changelog entries on 19 and 26 October, the second launching the Decisions API (30). Counted from the tags and the changelog, the 90 days from 3 August hold Python SDK releases 1.3.1 to 1.3.7, TypeScript 1.3.1 to 1.3.7 and ten changelog entries from 19 August to 26 October (20). The SDK releases since 1.3.5 are dependency bumps. Closed service with a changelog and support@parallel.ai. We didn't test whether support answers (12). Current Python and TypeScript SDKs, and ai.parallel/search-mcp and ai.parallel/task-mcp in the official registry (15). The Python SDK runs lint and build in CI on push, plus a workflow that detects breaking changes (10).\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Parallel Search and Task APIs +65\n\n- Mojeek Web Search API (29): No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract (0). No llms.txt (404) and no Markdown pages for agents (0). The parameters page states what each parameter does, with notes on when not to use `reg` and `clufmt`, but nothing on when another endpoint fits better (12 of 20). Every parameter has a type, defaults and valid ranges (tlen 0 to 127, dlen 0 to 511, rbb and lbb 1 to 100, up to 25 domains), though `reg` is called an enum without listing its values (11 of 15). One curl example and annotated JSON and XML response formats; errors appear only as a `status` string with one example (6 of 15). No API version, changelog or dated release notes, and the quickstart and the parameters page give different hosts (0). 0 + 0 + 12 + 11 + 6 + 0 = 29.\n- Parallel Search and Task APIs (94): Public OpenAPI at docs.parallel.ai/public-openapi.json, linked from llms.txt (25). llms.txt and Markdown pages (10). A live `tools/list` on search.parallel.ai/mcp on 17 October and again on 1 November returned the two definitions, and the newer Parallel MCP server at mcp.parallel.ai adds `web_decisions`, whose description says when to use web_search instead. `web_search` states its purpose and ideal uses, and `web_fetch` says to use it \"only when web_search excerpts are insufficient\". The docs add that domain filters are hard filters that can cut quality. `web_search` has no when-not-to line of its own (17). Typed JSON Schema inputs with required fields and an output schema on both tools, `mode` is an enum in the API, and Task output schemas are JSON Schema. The MCP inputs carry no enums (12). The errors page lists each code with whether to retry and what to do, and 422s carry a structured `detail` (15). A dated changelog, newest entry 26 October 2026 (Decisions API) after 19 October (EU data residency), and beta headers retire on dated entries (15).\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Parallel Search and Task APIs +55\n\n- Mojeek Web Search API (20): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-request prices published without login, £2 and £3 per 1,000 requests (20). The FAQ says a free credit comes with the Startup plan, but a bank card is required to open an account (0). A person signs up in a browser and adds a card (0). 0 + 20 + 0 + 0 = 20.\n- Parallel Search and Task APIs (75): Parallel runs a separate gateway at parallelmpp.dev that takes x402 (USDC on Base) and MPP (Stripe or Tempo) for search and extract at $0.01 and an ultra task at $0.30. Our unpaid POST to /api/search on 6 October returned 402 with an x402 v2 challenge for 10000 base units on eip155:8453 and a Tempo MPP challenge. Nothing on api.parallel.ai, and the gateway sells one price per endpoint with no mode choice, so partial (25). Per-unit prices published without login (20). Up to 5,000 free requests a month, $5 monthly credit and up to $80 at signup on the pricing page, which still doesn't say whether a card is needed (10). The hosted Search MCP works with no key, and the gateway needs only a wallet (20).\n\n### Reliability: Parallel Search and Task APIs +30\n\n- Mojeek Web Search API (45): Read with the hosted lines. status.mojeek.com is a Site24x7 StatusIQ page with Search, Website, Blog and Community components. It is drawn by script, so only its RSS feed could be read, which shows each component's current state (Search operational since 7 September 2026) and no incident entries (15 of 20). No readable incident history (5). Rate limits are published per plan, 5 a second and 100,000 a day on Startup, 10 a second and 400,000 a day on Business (15). Over the daily limit the JSON `status` reads 'ERROR: Daily Limit Reached'; no HTTP 429, Retry-After or backoff guidance was found (0). No SLA, and the API terms say the service is provided as is and may be interrupted without notice (0). Generally available, with only the `lr` parameter marked beta (10). 15 + 5 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 45.\n- Parallel Search and Task APIs (75): incident.io page at status.parallel.ai with Search, Task, Chat, Monitor, FindAll and Entity Search components and history (20). The feed, re-read on 1 November, has nothing after 13 October, so the 90 days from 3 August hold the same four incidents, all partial or degraded. Elevated 503s on 6 August, about an hour of Task API latency on 2 September, intermittent 4xx errors on 7 September, and transient 502s from the network gateway on 13 October, degraded performance from 01:23 to 01:43 UTC. Most have no duration listed (20). Published limits, 600 a minute for Search, Image Search, Extract, Decisions and Entity Search, 2,000 for Tasks, 300 for Chat and Monitor (15). The errors page marks 429 as retryable with exponential backoff, but there's no `Retry-After` and no idempotency guidance for creating Task runs, which the SDKs retry twice by default (10). No SLA found (0). Search, Extract and Task are GA (10).\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Parallel Search and Task APIs +30\n\n- Mojeek Web Search API (15): One key per account, documented only as the `api_key` query parameter, and rotation or revocation is by email to the API team (a staff reply of 22 October 2026 on the community forum asks for the key's last 8 digits). One all-powerful key (10) less 10 for the key in the URL (0). Search is read-only and there is nothing to write, but no scoped or restricted key (10 of 20). Results are third-party titles and snippets, with no prompt-injection guidance found (0). No audit log or per-call usage view was found in the docs; the FAQ mentions budget alerts on the account (0 of 15). security.txt names security@mojeek.com, with no Expires field. No bug bounty, disclosure policy, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 found; the API page claims compliance with European rules such as the EU Data Act without a certification (5 of 20). 0 + 10 + 0 + 0 + 5 = 15.\n- Parallel Search and Task APIs (45): API key in `x-api-key`. The Search MCP takes a Bearer key or OAuth at /mcp-oauth. We found no key scopes (20). Every Search and Extract action is a read, and Task tools live in a separate MCP server, so the search server is a read-only subset (15). Excerpts and fetched pages are untrusted web text, and the docs index has no prompt-injection guidance (0). No audit log found (0). The privacy policy shows a SOC 2 badge and links trust.parallel.ai, which rendered only its title to our reader on 6 October. security.txt is 404 on parallel.ai and docs.parallel.ai, and no bug bounty found (10).\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Parallel Search and Task APIs +21\n\n- Mojeek Web Search API (66): Responses can be sized with `t` (up to 10, 40 or 100 results by plan), `tlen`, `dlen` and opt-in date and size fields (22 of 25). `s` for paging, `since` and `before`, `site`, included and excluded domains, region and language boosting and safe search (20). Errors are a free-text `status` with no documented codes, which an agent can't branch on reliably (5 of 20). Searches only read, so a retry is safe, but no page says whether failed or empty requests are billed (12 of 20). Only `q` and `api_key` are required, with recommended values for the boosts. No official SDK in any language (7 of 15). 22 + 20 + 5 + 12 + 7 = 66.\n- Parallel Search and Task APIs (87): The Search MCP has two tools, about 5,700 characters of names, descriptions and input schemas on 1 November, and the Parallel MCP server lists three without a key (about 9,700 characters) and a fourth, `web_research`, after sign-in. `web_fetch` returns excerpts unless `full_content` is set, and the docs cap excerpts at roughly 25,000 characters a call and warn full pages can run to tens of thousands of tokens (25). Result counts, excerpt settings and source policies for domains and paths (18). The errors table gives each code a retry column and a resolution, with troubleshooting for 402 and 429 and a structured `detail` on 422 (20). Both Search MCP tools carry readOnlyHint true, destructiveHint false and idempotentHint true in the live `tools/list`, and searches are safe to repeat. There's still no idempotency key for Task creation, the SDKs retry creates on 429 and 5xx, and the Task MCP needs a key, so its annotations weren't read (14). Python and TypeScript SDKs, but `mode` defaults to advanced, the $5 per 1,000 tier, when you leave it out (10).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Mojeek Web Search API | Parallel Search and Task APIs | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 75 | Parallel Search and Task APIs +30 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 29 | 94 | Parallel Search and Task APIs +65 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 87 | Parallel Search and Task APIs +21 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 15 | 45 | Parallel Search and Task APIs +30 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 75 | Parallel Search and Task APIs +55 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 10 | 87 | Parallel Search and Task APIs +77 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 65 | Mojeek Web Search API +3 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **36.4 · F** | **75 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Mojeek Web Search API | Parallel Search and Task APIs |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Mojeek Limited | Parallel Web Systems |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search` |\n| Transports | | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| Price for web search | $2.68 per 1,000 requests | $1 per 1,000 requests |\n| x402 | no | payer tooling only |\n| Tools exposed | 0 | 6 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.parallel/search-mcp` |\n| Last release | none | 2026-10-28 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-10-17 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2022-02-02 | 2026-08-11 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | 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 | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 28 stars, 250k npm/wk, 994k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.6/5 (8) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Mojeek Web Search API\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Parallel Search and Task APIs\n\n- -0.1 on 30 October 2026: checklist\n- +0.1 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n- +1.0 on 17 October 2026: new evidence\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Mojeek Web Search API.** Mojeek sells search over its own independent index at published per-request prices, with region, language, date and domain controls and storage rights on the Business plan. The key travels only in the URL, rotation is by email, a card is needed to start, and there is no OpenAPI, changelog, 429 handling or SLA.\n\n**Parallel Search and Task APIs.** Fast-mode search at $1 per 1,000 with 10 excerpted results, and a keyless two-tool Search MCP annotated read-only. Search defaults to advanced mode at $5 per 1,000 when `mode` is left out, and the Customer Terms allow training on inputs and outputs.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Mojeek Web Search API\n\n1. Send `fmt=json`, since the default response is XML\n2. Read `response.status` on every call; a daily limit shows as 'ERROR: Daily Limit Reached' rather than an HTTP error\n3. Set `lb`, `lbb`, `rb` and `rbb` as the quickstart recommends, or results lean to no language or region\n4. Keep the key out of logs and shared URLs, since it travels in the query string\n5. On the Startup plan, don't keep results for more than an hour\n\n### Parallel Search and Task APIs\n\n1. Pass `mode: \"fast\"` on every API search. Without it you pay the advanced rate. On an authenticated MCP connection, pin it with `?mode=fast`\n2. Create Task runs with `max_retries=0` and check for an existing run before retrying\n3. Give an `objective` plus two or three short `search_queries`. That's what ranks the excerpts\n4. On 402, check available balance rather than total. Running tasks reserve credit\n5. Ask for zero data retention or use the EU endpoint before sending private queries. The default terms allow training on them\n6. On Decisions, check each answer's `type` before reading it. A refusal is a 200, not an error, and a predicate is a probability you threshold yourself\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Mojeek Web Search API or Parallel Search and Task APIs?\n\nParallel Search and Task APIs scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Mojeek Web Search API's 36.4 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Which is cheaper for web search, Mojeek Web Search API or Parallel Search and Task APIs?\n\nParallel Search and Task APIs, at $1 per 1,000 requests against $2.68 per 1,000 requests for Mojeek Web Search API. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Do Mojeek Web Search API and Parallel Search and Task APIs need an API key?\n\nMojeek Web Search API needs an API key. Parallel Search and Task APIs takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Mojeek Web Search API and Parallel Search and Task APIs without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Mojeek Web Search API. 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