{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "newscatcher", "name": "NewsCatcher", "vendor": "NewsCatcher, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "NewsCatcher's API searches the last 30 days of news in every language, grouped into stories, and runs a background agent that builds tables of events or company news, through REST and a hosted MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/newscatcher.json", "dns": "newscatcher.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/Newscatcher/newscatcher-mcp", "transports": [ "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "API key from the NewsCatcher platform after a browser signup, sent in the `x-api-key` header. One key works for the News API and the agent; several keys can be made and revoked in the platform. The MCP server also accepts `Authorization: Bearer` or `?apiKey=` in the URL; OAuth is announced as coming soon. No scopes found.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Prepaid credits at $1 per 1,000 (top-ups from $25, valid 12 months). Search costs 1, 5 or 10 credits by effort, a story 1, `/articles` 5 per call. Agent runs 1,000 to 6,000 credits. 10,000 free credits every 30 days. Failed and refused requests aren't charged.", "priceSummary": "$1 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in llms.txt, the docs, the pricing page or the OpenAPI specs (checked 2026-11-06). An empty balance returns 402 with no payment requirements; top-ups go through the platform.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 15, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/get-started/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://github.com/NewscatcherAPI/docs/blob/main/api-reference/news-api/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "search.news", "search.research", "web.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage", "prepaid", "free-tier", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "openapi", "llms-txt", "status-page", "yc" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 322, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 84, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 30, "reliability": 67, "schema": 94, "security": 45, "transparency": 79 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One key and one credit balance cover a ranked news search, a background research agent and a hosted MCP server with toolsets and annotated tools, under OpenAPI 3.1 specs and a dated changelog. The current API launched on 30 October 2026, the MCP server accepts the key in its URL, and no SLA is published below Enterprise.", "bestFor": "Agents that need current news across languages, grouped into stories, or tables of events and company news on a schedule.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1 specs for the News API and the agent, llms.txt, Markdown pages and a docs MCP server", "Hosted MCP server with 15 tools in four toolsets, selectable with `?tools=`, and read-only, destructive and idempotent hints on every tool", "Documented errors with retry advice per status, 429 with Retry-After, and refused or failed requests never charged", "Published credit prices, $1 per 1,000 credits, and 10,000 free credits every 30 days", "Terms say inputs and generated data are never used to train models, with a dated sub-processor list" ], "weaknesses": [ "The current News API and agent launched on 30 October 2026 and the MCP repository went public on 6 November 2026", "The MCP server documents `?apiKey=` in the URL for clients without headers, and keys have no scopes found", "No SLA below a signed Enterprise agreement; the status page monitors one News API component", "API logs, which can include query text, are archived indefinitely after 90 days", "The pricing page and the docs disagree on whether empty agent runs are charged and on the price of `/articles`" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key in the `x-api-key` header, and use a separate key for the MCP server so it can be revoked alone", "Call `start_research` with `dry_run` first, since agent runs cost 1,000 to 6,000 credits", "Use `effort=low` for quick lookups; the default `medium` costs five times as much", "Use `/articles` or `list_articles` for news older than 30 days or exact counts; `/search` covers 30 days only", "On 429 or 503 wait for Retry-After, and quote the Correlation-ID header to support" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 84, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 30, "reliability": 67, "schema": 94, "security": 45, "transparency": 73 }, "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 -X POST \"https://api.newscatcherapi.com/news-api/search\" \\\n -H \"x-api-key: $NEWSCATCHER_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"q\": \"hurricane recovery florida\", \"limit\": 5}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http newscatcher https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp --header \"x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "newscatcher": { "headers": { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" }, "url": "https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/search.news", "tool": "https://letme.dev/newscatcher" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "News search, low effort", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1, "note": "1 credit a search at $1 per 1,000 credits" }, { "item": "News search, medium effort (default)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5, "note": "5 credits" }, { "item": "News search, high effort", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 10, "note": "10 credits" }, { "item": "Articles listing", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5, "note": "5 credits a call per the docs; the pricing page says 15 a page" }, { "item": "Agent event research, fast run", "unit": "tx", "usd": 1, "note": "1,000 credits, 50 rows included; standard $3, max $6" }, { "item": "Credit", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.001, "note": "Top-ups from $25 for 25,000 credits, valid 12 months" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "NewsCatcher, Inc.", "domain": "newscatcherapi.com", "domainRegistered": "2020-02-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/company/legal/terms-and-conditions", "privacy": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/company/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.newscatcherapi.com/", "changelog": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "The service terms (Terms and Conditions) and the website Terms of Service are both dated 2 November 2026 and name NewsCatcher, Inc. under Delaware law.", "The website Terms of Service forbid using the site or its content 'to spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, or scrape'. Recorded as a fact; only public pages were read, within robots.txt.", "www.newscatcherapi.com/robots.txt disallows /~gitbook, /*?ref= and /api/ for all agents; none of the pages read is under those paths. status.newscatcherapi.com allows all.", "/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. The MCP repository's SECURITY.md takes private reports through GitHub with a 3-business-day acknowledgement target.", "Status page on Hyperping with one News API component, 99.820% uptime for August to November 2026 and one incident in the 90 days, on 1 September 2026.", "RDAP gives newscatcherapi.com a registration date of 16 February 2020." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher.json", "live": { "slug": "newscatcher", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:21.655083367Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 181, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 169, "p95ms24h": 346, "samples24h": 210, "samples30d": 210, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 13, "ok": 13 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 197, "ok": 197 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.newscatcherapi.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T04:48:15.638845153Z" }, "githubStars": 0, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://newscatcherapi.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:58.85886795Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:33:19.853404264Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:32:00.60078463Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "849b66383503" }, { "url": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/company/legal/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:31:56.385466242Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "818e0cf9f82d" }, { "url": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/company/legal/terms-and-conditions", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:31:58.548719689Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "79f84eff4353" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:46:25.078047109Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:46:25.078047109Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:21.655083367Z" } }, "answer": "Tavily API + MCP scores 77.1 (BB) on agent readiness against NewsCatcher's 67.5 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. NewsCatcher leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "tavily-mcp", "name": "Tavily API + MCP", "vendor": "Tavily", "vendorUrl": "https://www.tavily.com", "kind": "mcp", "category": "search", "summary": "Tavily's REST API for web search, URL extraction, site mapping, crawling and cited research reports, with the official MCP server hosted at mcp.tavily.com or run locally from npm.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tavily-mcp", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tavily-mcp.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tavily-mcp.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tavily-mcp.json", "dns": "tavily-mcp.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/tavily-ai/tavily-mcp", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "stdio", "streamable-http", "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/?tavilyApiKey=\u003ckey\u003e", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tavily/core" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "tavily-python" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "tavily-mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API key as `Authorization: Bearer tvly-...`. Development keys and production keys have different rate limits, and production keys need a paid plan or pay as you go. The `X-Tavily-Access-Mode: keyless` header gives rate-limited search and extract with no key. x402.tavily.com takes a `PAYMENT-SIGNATURE` header instead. MCP server: API key in the URL query (?tavilyApiKey=) or Authorization header; OAuth flow also supported on the hosted server (uses an mcp_auth_default key from the dashboard).", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free 1,000 credits a month, no card. Project $30 a month (4,000 credits), Bootstrap $100 (15,000), Startup $220 (38,000), Growth $500 (100,000), pay as you go $0.008 a credit. Basic search 1 credit, advanced 2, extract 1 per 5 URLs (advanced 2), map 1 per 10 pages, crawl is map plus extract, research 4 to 250 credits by model. Failed extracts and maps aren't charged (https://www.tavily.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$7.50 / 1k req", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "partial", "evidence": "Official x402 endpoint at x402.tavily.com sells POST /search in advanced mode only, $0.01 in USDC on Base. An unpaid request returned 402 and /.well-known/pricing listed the price on 2026-09-30. Extract, map, crawl and research aren't sold over x402 (https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/machine-payments/x402.md)", "endpoints": [ { "url": "https://x402.tavily.com/search", "priceUsd": 0.01, "network": "eip155:8453" } ] }, "toolCount": 5, "popularity": { "githubStars": 2400, "npmWeekly": 451969, "pypiWeekly": 1589963, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.tavily.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.tavily.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/openapi.json", "registryName": "io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "web.extract", "web.crawl", "web.fetch", "search.answer", "search.research", "search.news", "search.images" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "local", "open-source", "freemium", "llms-txt", "no-card", "free-tier", "x402", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "async-jobs", "enterprise", "mcp" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 77.1, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 36, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 81, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 75, "reliability": 90, "schema": 90, "security": 52, "transparency": 62 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Keyless search and extract, plus a free 1,000 credits a month with no card. x402 covers advanced search only, not extract, map, crawl or research, and the npm MCP release has trailed the GitHub source since August.", "bestFor": "An agent that needs search plus page text in one call and has no account yet.", "strengths": [ "Keyless search and extract, plus a free 1,000 credits a month with no card", "x402 endpoint for advanced search at $0.01 in USDC on Base", "Public OpenAPI, llms.txt and an error table that tells plan limits (432) from pay-as-you-go limits (433) and flex tier capacity (434)", "429 carries Retry-After, with limits published per key type and endpoint", "Logs API filters calls by key and endpoint" ], "weaknesses": [ "x402 covers advanced search only, not extract, map, crawl or research", "Hosted MCP docs lead with `?tavilyApiKey=` in the URL query string", "No readOnlyHint or destructiveHint on the MCP tools, and the npm server (0.2.22, 5 August 2026) trails the GitHub source", "Privacy policy lets query data improve future responses unless a contract says otherwise, with no zero-retention option found", "SLAs named only for the custom Enterprise plan, and no security.txt or deprecation policy found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Try `X-Tavily-Access-Mode: keyless` first for search and extract. Over MCP, the keyless cap arrives as plain text without `isError`, so read the text before treating it as results", "Send the key in `Authorization: Bearer`, not `?tavilyApiKey=` in the MCP URL", "On 429, wait for `Retry-After`. A 432 or 433 means a spend limit, and retrying won't help. A 434 on a free plan means retry shortly or drop `max_age_hours`", "Run /map before /crawl to bound the crawl, since crawl is billed as map plus extract", "Research is async and runs 4 to 250 credits. Create the task, then poll /research/{request_id}" ], "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": 77.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 81, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 75, "reliability": 90, "schema": 90, "security": 52, "transparency": 47 }, "provenanceScore": 77, "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": "2026-11-01", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.tavily.com/search \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TAVILY_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"query\":\"latest AI news\",\"max_results\":5}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http tavily https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/ --header \"Authorization: Bearer ${TAVILY_API_KEY}\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "tavily": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${TAVILY_API_KEY}" }, "url": "https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/" } } }, "x402": "curl -i -X POST https://x402.tavily.com/search -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{\"query\":\"Who is Leo Messi?\"}'\n# HTTP/2 402, PAYMENT-REQUIRED header carries the terms (10000 base units of USDC on eip155:8453)\n# retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: \u003cbase64 signed authorization\u003e" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/tavily-mcp" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Basic search on Project plan", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 7.5, "note": "1 credit a search at $0.0075 a credit" }, { "item": "Project plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 30, "note": "4,000 credits" }, { "item": "Bootstrap plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 100, "note": "15,000 credits" }, { "item": "Credit, pay as you go", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.008, "note": "basic search 1 credit, advanced 2" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "AlphaAI Technologies Inc. dba Tavily", "domain": "tavily.com", "domainRegistered": "2023-04-13", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.tavily.com/terms", "privacy": "https://www.tavily.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.tavily.com", "changelog": "https://docs.tavily.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-01", "score": 77 }, "requirements": { "setupChecked": true, "complianceChecked": true, "agentAlone": true, "card": "no", "freeTier": true, "minutes": 3, "credential": "api-key", "euResidency": "unknown", "trainsOnData": "unknown", "zeroRetention": "yes", "selfHost": "no" }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tavily-mcp.json", "live": { "slug": "tavily-mcp", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/?tavilyApiKey=\u003ckey\u003e", "method": "mcp-initialize", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:37.792704807Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 358, "lastNote": "initialize answered", "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 267, "p95ms24h": 373, "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": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-29", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-11-03", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 246, "ok": 246 }, { "date": "2026-11-05", "probes": 185, "ok": 185 }, { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 241, "ok": 241 }, { "date": 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"status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:34:06.080885411Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "tavily.com", "registered": "2023-04-13", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/tavily.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:09:04.459267204Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.tavily.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:08:17.170675544Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-31T06:11:24.93929399Z", "fingerprint": "8d59498d375a" }, { "url": "https://www.tavily.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:35:25.891850973Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-30T06:01:19.352647695Z", "fingerprint": "faa220363671" }, { "url": "https://www.tavily.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:35:30.039252485Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-30T06:01:21.508978221Z", "fingerprint": "93c5b2b1e233" }, { "url": "https://www.tavily.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:35:30.454176939Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-30T06:01:24.057384431Z", "fingerprint": "48b828360e08" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/?tavilyApiKey=\u003ckey\u003e", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:48:14.102426624Z", "status": "ok", "protocol": "2026-07-28", "tools": [ { "name": "tavily_search", "title": "Tavily Search", "description": "Search the web for current information on any topic. Use for news, facts, or data beyond your knowledge cutoff, and before answering any question about specific facts, figures or recent events. Returns snippets and source URLs. Results are short excerpts; read a page with tavily_extract to confirm what it says.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "country": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Boost search results from a specific country. Must be a full country name (e.g., 'United States', 'Japan', 'Germany'). ISO country codes (e.g., 'us', 'jp') are not supported. Available only if topic is general. See https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/search for the full list of supported countries." }, "end_date": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Will return all results before the specified end date. Required to be written in the format YYYY-MM-DD. Filters by publish date, not by when events happened; leave it empty when looking for facts about past events." }, "exact_match": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Only return results containing the exact phrase(s) in quotes in your query" }, "exclude_domains": { "anyOf": [ { "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "List of domains to specifically exclude, if the user asks to exclude a domain set this to the domain of the site" }, "filter_by_published_date": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Filter results to the requested date window and exclude results with no detected publication date" }, "include_domains": { "anyOf": [ { "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "A list of domains to specifically include in the search results, if the user asks to search on specific sites set this to the domain of the site. Use full domains such as 'en.wikipedia.org' or 'sec.gov', not suffixes such as 'edu'. This is a hard filter: if results come back empty or thin, search again without it." }, "include_favicon": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Whether to include the favicon URL for each result" }, "include_image_descriptions": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Include a list of query-related images and their descriptions in the response" }, "include_images": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Include a list of query-related images in the response" }, "include_published_date": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Include detected publication dates (beta)" }, "include_raw_content": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Include the cleaned and parsed HTML content of each search result. Whole pages can make the response too large to read; to read one page, use tavily_extract with a query instead." }, "max_results": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "integer" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "The maximum number of search results to return. Ask for 10 when looking for a specific fact, page or entity." }, "query": { "description": "Search query. Keep it short and specific, in the words the page itself would use; one idea per query.", "type": "string" }, "search_depth": { "anyOf": [ { "enum": [ "basic", "advanced", "fast", "ultra-fast" ], "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "The depth of the search. 'basic' for generic results, 'advanced' for more thorough search, 'fast' for optimized low latency with high relevance, 'ultra-fast' for prioritizing latency above all else. Use 'advanced' when looking for a specific fact, page or entity, or when 'basic' did not find it." }, "start_date": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Will return all results after the specified start date. Required to be written in the format YYYY-MM-DD. Filters by publish date, not by when events happened; leave it empty when looking for facts about past events." }, "time_range": { "anyOf": [ { "enum": [ "day", "week", "month", "year" ], "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "The time range back from the current date to include in the search results. Filters by when a page was published, not by when the events it describes happened." }, "topic": { "anyOf": [ { "enum": [ "general", "news" ], "type": "string" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Search category. Use 'general' for almost all searches, including current events and requests that combine news with other information. Use 'news' only when the user explicitly asks for news, headlines, or news coverage." } }, "required": [ "query" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": false, "idempotentHint": false, "openWorldHint": true, "readOnlyHint": true } }, { "name": "tavily_extract", "title": "Tavily Extract", "description": "Extract content from URLs. Returns raw page content in markdown or text format. Use it to read a page in full or to confirm a fact found in search results. Pages that could not be read are listed in failed_results; retry a timeout once, then try another source.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "extract_depth": { "default": "basic", "description": "Use 'advanced' for LinkedIn, protected sites, or tables/embedded content", "enum": [ "basic", "advanced" ], "type": "string" }, "format": { "default": "markdown", "description": "Output format", "enum": [ "markdown", "text" ], "type": "string" }, "include_favicon": { "default": false, "description": "Include favicon URLs", "type": "boolean" }, "include_images": { "default": false, "description": "Include images from pages", "type": "boolean" }, "include_usage": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Include credit usage" }, "query": { "default": "", "description": "Query to rerank content chunks by relevance. Set it to get only the relevant passages of a long article or PDF. Leave it empty for tables, lists, data files and API responses, which it can cut short; read those whole, or request a narrower URL.", "type": "string" }, "urls": { "description": "List of URLs to extract content from. Prefer URLs from search results; guessed page URLs often fail.", "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" } }, "required": [ "urls" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": false, "idempotentHint": false, "openWorldHint": true, "readOnlyHint": true } }, { "name": "tavily_crawl", "title": "Tavily Crawl", "description": "Crawl a website starting from a URL. Extracts content from pages with configurable depth and breadth.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "allow_external": { "default": true, "description": "Whether to return external links in the final response", "type": "boolean" }, "chunks_per_source": { "anyOf": [ { "maximum": 5, "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Chunks per source; requires instructions" }, "extract_depth": { "default": "basic", "description": "Advanced extraction retrieves more data, including tables and embedded content, with higher success but may increase latency", "enum": [ "basic", "advanced" ], "type": "string" }, "format": { "default": "markdown", "description": "The format of the extracted web page content. markdown returns content in markdown format. text returns plain text and may increase latency.", "enum": [ "markdown", "text" ], "type": "string" }, "include_favicon": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to include the favicon URL for each result", "type": "boolean" }, "include_usage": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Include credit usage" }, "instructions": { "default": "", "description": "Natural language instructions for the crawler. Instructions specify which types of pages the crawler should return.", "type": "string" }, "limit": { "default": 50, "description": "Total number of links the crawler will process before stopping", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" }, "max_breadth": { "default": 20, "description": "Max number of links to follow per level of the tree (i.e., per page)", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" }, "max_depth": { "default": 1, "description": "Max depth of the crawl. Defines how far from the base URL the crawler can explore.", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" }, "select_domains": { "default": [], "description": "Regex patterns to restrict crawling to specific domains or subdomains (e.g., ^docs\\.example\\.com$)", "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "select_paths": { "default": [], "description": "Regex patterns to select only URLs with specific path patterns (e.g., /docs/.*, /api/v1.*)", "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "url": { "description": "The root URL to begin the crawl", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "url" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": false, "idempotentHint": false, "openWorldHint": true, "readOnlyHint": true } }, { "name": "tavily_map", "title": "Tavily Map", "description": "Map a website's structure. Returns a list of URLs found starting from the base URL.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "allow_external": { "default": true, "description": "Whether to return external links in the final response", "type": "boolean" }, "include_usage": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Include credit usage" }, "instructions": { "default": "", "description": "Natural language instructions for the crawler", "type": "string" }, "limit": { "default": 50, "description": "Total number of links the crawler will process before stopping", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" }, "max_breadth": { "default": 20, "description": "Max number of links to follow per level of the tree (i.e., per page)", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" }, "max_depth": { "default": 1, "description": "Max depth of the mapping. Defines how far from the base URL the crawler can explore", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" }, "select_domains": { "default": [], "description": "Regex patterns to restrict crawling to specific domains or subdomains (e.g., ^docs\\.example\\.com$)", "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "select_paths": { "default": [], "description": "Regex patterns to select only URLs with specific path patterns (e.g., /docs/.*, /api/v1.*)", "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "url": { "description": "The root URL to begin the mapping", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "url" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": false, "idempotentHint": false, "openWorldHint": true, "readOnlyHint": true } }, { "name": "tavily_research", "title": "Tavily Research", "description": "Perform comprehensive research on a given topic or question. Use this tool when you need to gather information from multiple sources, including web pages, documents, and other resources, to answer a question or complete a task. Returns a detailed response based on the research findings. Rate limit: 20 requests per minute.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "files": { "anyOf": [ { "items": { "properties": { "data": { "type": "string" }, "name": { "type": "string" }, "type": { "const": "base64", "default": "base64", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "name", "data" ], "type": "object" }, "maxItems": 5, "type": "array" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Base64 .txt/.md/.json attachments; up to 80000 words combined" }, "input": { "description": "A comprehensive description of the research task", "type": "string" }, "model": { "default": "auto", "description": "Defines the degree of depth of the research. 'mini' is good for narrow tasks with few subtopics. 'pro' is good for broad tasks with many subtopics", "enum": [ "mini", "pro", "auto" ], "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "input" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": false, "idempotentHint": false, "openWorldHint": true, "readOnlyHint": true } } ], "schemaTokens": 3042, "changedAt": "2026-09-28T21:55:54.996628221Z", "check": { "checker": "anchor-check/1.0", "totalTokens": 3042, "counts": { "error": 0, "note": 0, "warn": 0 }, "findings": [] } }, "github": { "repo": "tavily-ai/tavily-mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T09:29:58.314496639Z", "stars": 2471, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-29T15:09:45Z", "openIssues": 42, "openPRs": 23, "issuesOpened90d": 15, "issuesClosed90d": 3, "prsMerged90d": 13, "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 22, "medianDays": 8.7 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T19:23:49.365509652Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 45, "category": "payments", "leads": "tavily-mcp", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Credit prices per call published without login, and credits cost $1 per 1,000 through top-ups from $25 (20). 10,000 free credits every 30 days on a $0 plan, and the first top-up moves an account to pay as you go. No page says whether a card is needed to open the free plan, so half (10). A person signs up in the platform in a browser to get a key (0). NewsMCP's keyless tier belongs to a separate product and isn't counted. 0 + 20 + 10 + 0 = 30.", "b": "Official x402 at x402.tavily.com sells advanced search only, $0.01 in USDC on Base. An unpaid POST to /search returned 402 on 1 November with an x402 version 2 envelope offering the `exact` scheme on eip155:8453 for 10000 units (0.01 USDC), and a second `agent-pay` option on aws:base for 0.016, described as advanced mode. Extract, map, crawl and research aren't sold over x402 (15). Credit costs per endpoint and $0.008 a credit pay as you go, published without a login and unchanged on 1 November (20). 1,000 free credits a month, no card, re-read on 1 November (20). Keyless search and extract with the `X-Tavily-Access-Mode: keyless` header, plus the x402 route, so an agent needs no human signup (20)." }, "scores": { "a": 30, "b": 75 } }, { "by": 23, "category": "reliability", "leads": "tavily-mcp", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Read with the hosted lines, for the News API, the agent and the hosted MCP server. status.newscatcherapi.com (Hyperping) shows one News API component with 99.820% uptime from August to November 2026 and an incident history. The agent and the MCP server have no component of their own (20). In the 90 days from 8 August, one incident, on 1 September 2026, when the vendor wrote that for about four hours a higher-than-usual number of requests to the production News API timed out because of one client's queries. Read as one major (10). Rate limits published per plan, 1 request a second free and up to 10 on pay as you go, with exact limits from the free `GET /subscription` (15). 429 carries Retry-After with instructions to retry the same request, 503 carries Retry-After, and failed or refused requests are not charged. Agent runs and monitor creation have no idempotency keys (12 of 15). An uptime SLA exists only in signed Enterprise agreements; none is published (0). Generally available since 30 October 2026, with OAuth for the MCP server announced as coming soon (10). 20 + 10 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 67.", "b": "incident.io status page at status.tavily.com with separate API, MCP and website components (20). One incident in the 90 days from 3 August, website degraded performance on 17 September 2026, and none since per the status feed re-read on 1 November. The API and MCP showed 100% per the 1 October check (30). Published limits, re-read on 1 November, 100 requests a minute on development keys and 1,000 on production, crawl 100 and research 20 task creations on both (15). 429 carries `Retry-After` and the docs say to use that value and the status code rather than parse the message. Since October a 434 tells non-paying plans that live fetching with `max_age_hours` is refused under load, with the advice to retry or omit it (15). The pricing page lists 'Enterprise-grade support and SLAs' for the custom Enterprise plan but publishes no SLA terms, per the 17 October check, and none were found in the docs index or terms (0). GA (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 67, "b": 90 } }, { "by": 17, "category": "transparency", "leads": "newscatcher", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "The API is closed under terms of 2 November 2026 naming NewsCatcher, Inc., and the MCP server is MIT, so between the two bands (20 of 30). The terms say inputs and generated data are not used to train models, a DPA applies automatically, and the privacy policy gives retention periods (server logs 7 days, API logs with query text 90 days, then archived indefinitely, billing records about seven years). They agree with each other, but indefinite archives of query logs hold it back (22 of 30). The terms promise 30 days' email notice before a paid product or API version is discontinued, with refunds of unused credits, and the v3 News API has a migration guide (15 of 20). A sub-processor list dated 2 November 2026 with each provider's location and the data it handles. The MCP repository deploys to Vercel and can send pseudonymised analytics to PostHog, and neither appears on the list (16 of 20). 20 + 22 + 15 + 16 = 73.", "b": "MCP server MIT and SDKs open, API closed under platform terms (18). The privacy policy (last updated 24 November 2025, re-read on 1 November) keeps data for the life of the account with no fixed periods, says query data may be used to improve future responses unless a contract says otherwise, and describes no zero-retention option. No DPA on the privacy page, and the trust centre didn't render for us (per the 1 October check, not re-read on 1 November) (15). No deprecation policy or dated deprecation notices found, and none in the changelog on 1 November (0). Names Stripe, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, PostHog and third-party search index providers such as Google, with US processing under Standard Contractual Clauses (14)." }, "scores": { "a": 79, "b": 62 } }, { "by": 9, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "tavily-mcp", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Read for a closed service, with the MCP repository read as code. News API 1.1.0 and Agent 1.5.0 on 4 November 2026, MCP server 0.1.0 on 6 November and v3 News API 3.25.0 on 6 November (30). In the 90 days from 8 August, the 30 October launch, News API 1.1.0, Agent 1.5.0, MCP 0.1.0 and v3 releases 3.19.0 to 3.25.0 (20). Public dated changelogs, support by email and Pylon, and a security policy with a 3-business-day target. The MCP repository is a day old, so there are no issues to judge (10 of 15). The CatchAll MCP server is in the official registry under the verified namespace com.newscatcherapi, but the new server isn't, and no official SDK for the current API was found; the Enterprise APIs list libraries (8 of 15). The MCP repository runs its test suite in CI with a read-only token; pass state not read (8 of 10). 30 + 20 + 10 + 8 + 8 = 76.", "b": "@tavily/core 0.7.14 on npm, published on 6 October 2026, and tavily-python bumped to 0.8.5 in the repository the same day (PyPI's pages and release feed returned nothing to us on 1 November, so its publication there is unchecked). No newer SDK release by 1 November, so this line drops to 20 after 5 November unless one lands (30). The tavily-mcp npm release is older, 0.2.22 on 5 August 2026. Version 0.2.23 was committed on 16 September and still isn't on npm on 1 November, though the MCP repository had dependency bumps on 15 and 26 October and new descriptions on 27 October. Eight @tavily/core releases on npm since 5 August, tavily-python version bumps in its repository, tavily-mcp 0.2.22, and August and October changelog entries in the last 90 days (20). Maintainers merge pull requests and dependency fixes within days. Ten issues were open on tavily-mcp on 4 October, the oldest from 14 July 2026, including OAuth failures (#203, #220), empty extracts on single-page sites (#204) and a missing `isError` on a 401 (#211), per the 4 October check, not re-read on 1 November (GitHub answered 403) (15). Listed in the official MCP registry as io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp, though the entry is still at 0.2.15 from 26 January 2026 on 1 November (15). The MCP repo has no CI workflows and no git tags, though it has a test file and regular security bumps. tavily-python runs tests in CI (5)." }, "scores": { "a": 76, "b": 85 } }, { "by": 7, "category": "security", "leads": "tavily-mcp", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "API keys in the `x-api-key` header, several per account, revocable in the platform, with advice to keep one per application. A 403 for 'a key that may not use this API' suggests per-key API access, but no scopes are documented (20). The MCP server documents `?apiKey=` on the server URL for Claude.ai custom connectors, with a warning, so less 10 (10 of 30). The MCP repository's SECURITY.md says URL keys are rejected unless the operator enables them, which the hosted server does per the docs. Toolsets let an operator load only the read-only `news` tools, write tools carry destructiveHint, and the server tells the assistant to confirm large or hourly agent jobs (14 of 20). Results are third-party article text and summaries, and no prompt-injection guidance was found in the docs or the MCP server's instructions (0 of 15). Every response carries a Correlation-ID, `GET /subscription` shows usage and balance, and runs are listed in the platform. No per-call audit log for the customer was found (7 of 15). The security page and footer claim SOC 2 Type II and link a trust centre on Oneleet, which wasn't read. A vulnerability disclosure policy covers the MCP server. No security.txt (404) and no bug bounty found (14 of 20). 10 + 14 + 0 + 7 + 14 = 45.", "b": "Revocable keys, separate development and production keys, and the Logs API filters by key, so several keys per account work. The hosted MCP adds OAuth but maps it to one dashboard key with no scopes (22). The MCP README and docs still lead with `?tavilyApiKey=` in the URL on 1 November (minus 10). The five tools in the npm release all read. The GitHub main branch adds `tavily_feedback`, which posts scores to Tavily, the hosted server's tool list is unknown, and there's no read-only toolset (10). The home page says requests pass through 'security, privacy, and content validation layers that block PII leakage, prompt injection, and malicious sources'. That's a claim with no technical detail in the docs, plus a `safe_search` flag for adult content, per the 1 October check (7). The Logs API (filter by key and endpoint since August 2026) and `include_usage` give per-call visibility (13). SOC 2 and ISO 27001 named on the privacy page, per the 4 October check, and the MCP repo patches vulnerable dependencies about monthly (seven updates on 26 October). The trust centre is JavaScript-only for us (per the 1 October check, not re-read on 1 November), www.tavily.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 1 November, and no bug bounty found (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 45, "b": 52 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "MCP server", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "NewsCatcher, Inc.", "b": "Tavily", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp", "b": "https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/?tavilyApiKey=\u003ckey\u003e", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "Streamable HTTP", "b": "stdio, Streamable HTTP, HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$1 per 1,000 requests", "b": "not published", "name": "Price for search news" }, { "a": "no", "b": "payer tooling only", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "15", "b": "5", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-11-06", "b": "2026-10-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-11-02", "b": "2026-05-04", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-11-02", "b": "2025-11-24", "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": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2.4k stars, 452k npm/wk, 1.6M PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.6/5 (8)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Tavily API + MCP scores 77.1 (BB) on agent readiness against NewsCatcher's 67.5 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. NewsCatcher leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, NewsCatcher or Tavily API + MCP?" }, { "answer": "NewsCatcher needs an API key. Tavily API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do NewsCatcher and Tavily API + MCP need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. NewsCatcher has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp and Tavily API + MCP at https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/?tavilyApiKey=\u003ckey\u003e.", "question": "Can an agent call NewsCatcher and Tavily API + MCP without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for NewsCatcher. Tavily API + MCP is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are NewsCatcher and Tavily API + MCP open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Transparency \u0026 trust, 79 against 62" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that need current news across languages, grouped into stories, or tables of events and company news on a schedule.", "slug": "newscatcher", "watchFor": "The current News API and agent launched on 30 October 2026 and the MCP repository went public on 6 November 2026" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 90 against 67", "Security \u0026 auth, 52 against 45", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 75 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 76" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "Runs on your own machine", "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "An agent that needs search plus page text in one call and has no account yet.", "slug": "tavily-mcp", "watchFor": "x402 covers advanced search only, not extract, map, crawl or research" } ], 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The current API launched on 30 October 2026, the MCP server accepts the key in its URL, and no SLA is published below Enterprise.", "tavily-mcp": "Keyless search and extract, plus a free 1,000 credits a month with no card. x402 covers advanced search only, not extract, map, crawl or research, and the npm MCP release has trailed the GitHub source since August." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-tavily-mcp", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-tavily-mcp.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-tavily-mcp.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-tavily-mcp.min.md" }, "markdown": "Tavily API + MCP scores 77.1 (BB) on agent readiness against NewsCatcher's 67.5 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. NewsCatcher leads on transparency \u0026 trust. Both do search news.\n\n- NewsCatcher: grade B, 67.5/100, rank #322 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/newscatcher.json\n- Tavily API + MCP: grade BB, 77.1/100, rank #36 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tavily-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tavily-mcp.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### NewsCatcher (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that need current news across languages, grouped into stories, or tables of events and company news on a schedule.\n\nAhead on:\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 79 against 62\n\nWatch for: The current News API and agent launched on 30 October 2026 and the MCP repository went public on 6 November 2026\n\n### Tavily API + MCP (BB)\n\nGood for: An agent that needs search plus page text in one call and has no account yet.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 90 against 67\n- Security \u0026 auth, 52 against 45\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 75 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 76\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: x402 covers advanced search only, not extract, map, crawl or research\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Tavily API + MCP +45\n\n- NewsCatcher (30): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Credit prices per call published without login, and credits cost $1 per 1,000 through top-ups from $25 (20). 10,000 free credits every 30 days on a $0 plan, and the first top-up moves an account to pay as you go. No page says whether a card is needed to open the free plan, so half (10). A person signs up in the platform in a browser to get a key (0). NewsMCP's keyless tier belongs to a separate product and isn't counted. 0 + 20 + 10 + 0 = 30.\n- Tavily API + MCP (75): Official x402 at x402.tavily.com sells advanced search only, $0.01 in USDC on Base. An unpaid POST to /search returned 402 on 1 November with an x402 version 2 envelope offering the `exact` scheme on eip155:8453 for 10000 units (0.01 USDC), and a second `agent-pay` option on aws:base for 0.016, described as advanced mode. Extract, map, crawl and research aren't sold over x402 (15). Credit costs per endpoint and $0.008 a credit pay as you go, published without a login and unchanged on 1 November (20). 1,000 free credits a month, no card, re-read on 1 November (20). Keyless search and extract with the `X-Tavily-Access-Mode: keyless` header, plus the x402 route, so an agent needs no human signup (20).\n\n### Reliability: Tavily API + MCP +23\n\n- NewsCatcher (67): Read with the hosted lines, for the News API, the agent and the hosted MCP server. status.newscatcherapi.com (Hyperping) shows one News API component with 99.820% uptime from August to November 2026 and an incident history. The agent and the MCP server have no component of their own (20). In the 90 days from 8 August, one incident, on 1 September 2026, when the vendor wrote that for about four hours a higher-than-usual number of requests to the production News API timed out because of one client's queries. Read as one major (10). Rate limits published per plan, 1 request a second free and up to 10 on pay as you go, with exact limits from the free `GET /subscription` (15). 429 carries Retry-After with instructions to retry the same request, 503 carries Retry-After, and failed or refused requests are not charged. Agent runs and monitor creation have no idempotency keys (12 of 15). An uptime SLA exists only in signed Enterprise agreements; none is published (0). Generally available since 30 October 2026, with OAuth for the MCP server announced as coming soon (10). 20 + 10 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 67.\n- Tavily API + MCP (90): incident.io status page at status.tavily.com with separate API, MCP and website components (20). One incident in the 90 days from 3 August, website degraded performance on 17 September 2026, and none since per the status feed re-read on 1 November. The API and MCP showed 100% per the 1 October check (30). Published limits, re-read on 1 November, 100 requests a minute on development keys and 1,000 on production, crawl 100 and research 20 task creations on both (15). 429 carries `Retry-After` and the docs say to use that value and the status code rather than parse the message. Since October a 434 tells non-paying plans that live fetching with `max_age_hours` is refused under load, with the advice to retry or omit it (15). The pricing page lists 'Enterprise-grade support and SLAs' for the custom Enterprise plan but publishes no SLA terms, per the 17 October check, and none were found in the docs index or terms (0). GA (10).\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: NewsCatcher +17\n\n- NewsCatcher (79): The API is closed under terms of 2 November 2026 naming NewsCatcher, Inc., and the MCP server is MIT, so between the two bands (20 of 30). The terms say inputs and generated data are not used to train models, a DPA applies automatically, and the privacy policy gives retention periods (server logs 7 days, API logs with query text 90 days, then archived indefinitely, billing records about seven years). They agree with each other, but indefinite archives of query logs hold it back (22 of 30). The terms promise 30 days' email notice before a paid product or API version is discontinued, with refunds of unused credits, and the v3 News API has a migration guide (15 of 20). A sub-processor list dated 2 November 2026 with each provider's location and the data it handles. The MCP repository deploys to Vercel and can send pseudonymised analytics to PostHog, and neither appears on the list (16 of 20). 20 + 22 + 15 + 16 = 73.\n- Tavily API + MCP (62): MCP server MIT and SDKs open, API closed under platform terms (18). The privacy policy (last updated 24 November 2025, re-read on 1 November) keeps data for the life of the account with no fixed periods, says query data may be used to improve future responses unless a contract says otherwise, and describes no zero-retention option. No DPA on the privacy page, and the trust centre didn't render for us (per the 1 October check, not re-read on 1 November) (15). No deprecation policy or dated deprecation notices found, and none in the changelog on 1 November (0). Names Stripe, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, PostHog and third-party search index providers such as Google, with US processing under Standard Contractual Clauses (14).\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Tavily API + MCP +9\n\n- NewsCatcher (76): Read for a closed service, with the MCP repository read as code. News API 1.1.0 and Agent 1.5.0 on 4 November 2026, MCP server 0.1.0 on 6 November and v3 News API 3.25.0 on 6 November (30). In the 90 days from 8 August, the 30 October launch, News API 1.1.0, Agent 1.5.0, MCP 0.1.0 and v3 releases 3.19.0 to 3.25.0 (20). Public dated changelogs, support by email and Pylon, and a security policy with a 3-business-day target. The MCP repository is a day old, so there are no issues to judge (10 of 15). The CatchAll MCP server is in the official registry under the verified namespace com.newscatcherapi, but the new server isn't, and no official SDK for the current API was found; the Enterprise APIs list libraries (8 of 15). The MCP repository runs its test suite in CI with a read-only token; pass state not read (8 of 10). 30 + 20 + 10 + 8 + 8 = 76.\n- Tavily API + MCP (85): @tavily/core 0.7.14 on npm, published on 6 October 2026, and tavily-python bumped to 0.8.5 in the repository the same day (PyPI's pages and release feed returned nothing to us on 1 November, so its publication there is unchecked). No newer SDK release by 1 November, so this line drops to 20 after 5 November unless one lands (30). The tavily-mcp npm release is older, 0.2.22 on 5 August 2026. Version 0.2.23 was committed on 16 September and still isn't on npm on 1 November, though the MCP repository had dependency bumps on 15 and 26 October and new descriptions on 27 October. Eight @tavily/core releases on npm since 5 August, tavily-python version bumps in its repository, tavily-mcp 0.2.22, and August and October changelog entries in the last 90 days (20). Maintainers merge pull requests and dependency fixes within days. Ten issues were open on tavily-mcp on 4 October, the oldest from 14 July 2026, including OAuth failures (#203, #220), empty extracts on single-page sites (#204) and a missing `isError` on a 401 (#211), per the 4 October check, not re-read on 1 November (GitHub answered 403) (15). Listed in the official MCP registry as io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp, though the entry is still at 0.2.15 from 26 January 2026 on 1 November (15). The MCP repo has no CI workflows and no git tags, though it has a test file and regular security bumps. tavily-python runs tests in CI (5).\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Tavily API + MCP +7\n\n- NewsCatcher (45): API keys in the `x-api-key` header, several per account, revocable in the platform, with advice to keep one per application. A 403 for 'a key that may not use this API' suggests per-key API access, but no scopes are documented (20). The MCP server documents `?apiKey=` on the server URL for Claude.ai custom connectors, with a warning, so less 10 (10 of 30). The MCP repository's SECURITY.md says URL keys are rejected unless the operator enables them, which the hosted server does per the docs. Toolsets let an operator load only the read-only `news` tools, write tools carry destructiveHint, and the server tells the assistant to confirm large or hourly agent jobs (14 of 20). Results are third-party article text and summaries, and no prompt-injection guidance was found in the docs or the MCP server's instructions (0 of 15). Every response carries a Correlation-ID, `GET /subscription` shows usage and balance, and runs are listed in the platform. No per-call audit log for the customer was found (7 of 15). The security page and footer claim SOC 2 Type II and link a trust centre on Oneleet, which wasn't read. A vulnerability disclosure policy covers the MCP server. No security.txt (404) and no bug bounty found (14 of 20). 10 + 14 + 0 + 7 + 14 = 45.\n- Tavily API + MCP (52): Revocable keys, separate development and production keys, and the Logs API filters by key, so several keys per account work. The hosted MCP adds OAuth but maps it to one dashboard key with no scopes (22). The MCP README and docs still lead with `?tavilyApiKey=` in the URL on 1 November (minus 10). The five tools in the npm release all read. The GitHub main branch adds `tavily_feedback`, which posts scores to Tavily, the hosted server's tool list is unknown, and there's no read-only toolset (10). The home page says requests pass through 'security, privacy, and content validation layers that block PII leakage, prompt injection, and malicious sources'. That's a claim with no technical detail in the docs, plus a `safe_search` flag for adult content, per the 1 October check (7). The Logs API (filter by key and endpoint since August 2026) and `include_usage` give per-call visibility (13). SOC 2 and ISO 27001 named on the privacy page, per the 4 October check, and the MCP repo patches vulnerable dependencies about monthly (seven updates on 26 October). The trust centre is JavaScript-only for us (per the 1 October check, not re-read on 1 November), www.tavily.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 1 November, and no bug bounty found (10).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | NewsCatcher | Tavily API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 90 | Tavily API + MCP +23 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 94 | 90 | NewsCatcher +4 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 81 | NewsCatcher +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 52 | Tavily API + MCP +7 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 75 | Tavily API + MCP +45 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 85 | Tavily API + MCP +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 62 | NewsCatcher +17 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.5 · B** | **77.1 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | NewsCatcher | Tavily API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |\n| Vendor | NewsCatcher, Inc. | Tavily |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp` | `https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/?tavilyApiKey=\u003ckey\u003e` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP | stdio, Streamable HTTP, HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| Price for search news | $1 per 1,000 requests | not published |\n| x402 | no | payer tooling only |\n| Licence | none | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 15 | 5 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-11-02 | 2026-05-04 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-11-02 | 2025-11-24 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 2.4k stars, 452k npm/wk, 1.6M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.6/5 (8) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### NewsCatcher\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Tavily API + MCP\n\n- +0.1 on 1 November 2026: product\n- +0.2 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n- -0.4 on 8 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**NewsCatcher.** One key and one credit balance cover a ranked news search, a background research agent and a hosted MCP server with toolsets and annotated tools, under OpenAPI 3.1 specs and a dated changelog. The current API launched on 30 October 2026, the MCP server accepts the key in its URL, and no SLA is published below Enterprise.\n\n**Tavily API + MCP.** Keyless search and extract, plus a free 1,000 credits a month with no card. x402 covers advanced search only, not extract, map, crawl or research, and the npm MCP release has trailed the GitHub source since August.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### NewsCatcher\n\n1. Send the key in the `x-api-key` header, and use a separate key for the MCP server so it can be revoked alone\n2. Call `start_research` with `dry_run` first, since agent runs cost 1,000 to 6,000 credits\n3. Use `effort=low` for quick lookups; the default `medium` costs five times as much\n4. Use `/articles` or `list_articles` for news older than 30 days or exact counts; `/search` covers 30 days only\n5. On 429 or 503 wait for Retry-After, and quote the Correlation-ID header to support\n\n### Tavily API + MCP\n\n1. Try `X-Tavily-Access-Mode: keyless` first for search and extract. Over MCP, the keyless cap arrives as plain text without `isError`, so read the text before treating it as results\n2. Send the key in `Authorization: Bearer`, not `?tavilyApiKey=` in the MCP URL\n3. On 429, wait for `Retry-After`. A 432 or 433 means a spend limit, and retrying won't help. A 434 on a free plan means retry shortly or drop `max_age_hours`\n4. Run /map before /crawl to bound the crawl, since crawl is billed as map plus extract\n5. Research is async and runs 4 to 250 credits. Create the task, then poll /research/{request_id}\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, NewsCatcher or Tavily API + MCP?\n\nTavily API + MCP scores 77.1 (BB) on agent readiness against NewsCatcher's 67.5 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. NewsCatcher leads on transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do NewsCatcher and Tavily API + MCP need an API key?\n\nNewsCatcher needs an API key. Tavily API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call NewsCatcher and Tavily API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. NewsCatcher has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp and Tavily API + MCP at https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/?tavilyApiKey=\u003ckey\u003e.\n\n### Are NewsCatcher and Tavily API + MCP open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for NewsCatcher. Tavily API + MCP is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-tavily-mcp.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-tavily-mcp.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"newscatcher\", \"b\": \"tavily-mcp\"}`. 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