{ "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": "Valyu scores 69.3 (B) on agent readiness against NewsCatcher's 67.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "valyu", "name": "Valyu", "vendor": "Valyu", "vendorUrl": "https://www.valyu.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "Search API that covers the web plus specialised sources (arXiv, PubMed, SEC filings, market data, patents, clinical trials, genomics).", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/valyu.json", "dns": "valyu.grade.anchorterminal.com", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "valyu-js" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "valyu" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API key in the `x-api-key` header. After a person creates the account, the Valyu CLI (`valyu login`, browser or headless approval) lets an agent mint keys with a hard spending cap, rotate and revoke them, and management keys carry explicit scopes. The hosted MCP at mcp.valyu.ai takes Sign in with Valyu (OAuth), a Bearer or X-API-Key header, or, as the docs lead with, `?valyuApiKey=` in the URL.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "New accounts get $10 of credit ($20 with a company email), no card, valid 12 months. Pay as you go is 1,600 credits for a $10 top-up; Ridiculously Cheap $29 a month (5,000 credits), Comfortably Pro $99 (18,000), Serious Business $499 (100,000). No overage, and an empty balance returns 402. Search bills per result returned, 0.1 credits for web and news, 0.05 for arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv and medRxiv, 1.92 for SEC filings and more for licensed data. Contents 0.2 credits a URL. DeepResearch 8 (instant) to 2,500 (max) credits a task (https://docs.valyu.ai/pricing, checked 2 November 2026).", "priceSummary": "$0.625 / 1k pages", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in llms.txt, the pricing page or the OpenAPI file (checked 2026-11-02).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 6, "popularity": { "githubStars": 19, "npmWeekly": 6664, "pypiWeekly": 7097, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.valyu.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.valyu.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.valyu.ai/api-reference/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "web.fetch", "web.extract", "search.answer", "search.research", "search.news" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "async-jobs", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-31", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.3, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 255, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 45, "reliability": 70, "schema": 90, "security": 44, "transparency": 78 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-02" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Web plus academic, financial, patent and life-science sources behind one search call, billed per result with a per-query price cap. Since 21 October rate limits scale with the plan and 429s carry Retry-After, but the per-plan numbers appear only in examples. The MCP docs still put the API key in the URL.", "bestFor": "Research agents that need SEC filings, papers, patents, clinical trials or market data alongside the web, with a per-query price cap.", "strengths": [ "Web plus academic, financial, patent and life-science sources behind one search call", "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 with 24 paths, tight parameter constraints and a 206 partial-success code", "Spend-capped, rotatable keys from the CLI, and scoped management keys", "429s carry Retry-After and a structured body, are never charged, and the SDKs retry them", "Queries deleted within 24 to 72 hours and not used for training, per the privacy policy" ], "weaknesses": [ "Per-plan rate limits are stated only in example responses, not in a table", "Web results use 0.1 credits each, about $0.625 per 1,000 at pay-as-you-go rates, so a 10-result search is about $0.006", "MCP docs give `?valyuApiKey=` in the URL query string for every client", "No prompt-injection guidance for the full page text it returns", "No idempotency keys for DeepResearch task creation" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `max_price` and `max_num_results` on every search to bound cost", "Mint a spend-capped key with the Valyu CLI rather than reusing the account's main key", "On a 429, wait the `retry_after` seconds and retry; it's never charged. The SDKs retry twice by default", "Store each DeepResearch task id before retrying a failed create, so a retry doesn't start and bill a second task", "Call `valyu_search`. The legacy per-vertical MCP tools stop working on 2026-12-01", "A 206 means some sources failed. Check which before treating results as complete" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 4.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 69.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 45, "reliability": 70, "schema": 90, "security": 44, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 91, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-02", "maintenance": "2026-11-02", "payments": "2026-11-02", "reliability": "2026-11-02", "schema": "2026-11-02", "security": "2026-11-02", "transparency": "2026-11-02" }, "last": "2026-11-02", "lastMoved": "2026-11-02", "oldest": "2026-11-02", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search -H \"x-api-key: $VALYU_API_KEY\" -H 'content-type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\"query\":\"What is quantum computing?\",\"max_num_results\":5}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http valyu https://mcp.valyu.ai/mcp --header \"x-api-key: $VALYU_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "valyu": { "headers": { "x-api-key": "${VALYU_API_KEY}" }, "url": "https://mcp.valyu.ai/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/valyu" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Web search, per 1,000 results retrieved", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 0.625, "note": "100 credits at pay-as-you-go rates (1,600 credits for $10); priced per result, not per query" }, { "item": "arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv and medRxiv, per 1,000 results", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 0.3125, "note": "50 credits at pay-as-you-go rates" }, { "item": "Contents extraction", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 1.25, "note": "200 credits at pay-as-you-go rates; failed URLs free" }, { "item": "DeepResearch, standard mode", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.625, "note": "100 credits at pay-as-you-go rates; instant 8, fast 25, heavy 500, max 2,500 credits" }, { "item": "Ridiculously Cheap plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 29, "note": "5,000 credits" }, { "item": "Comfortably Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "18,000 credits" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Valyu.Network Ltd", "domain": "valyu.ai", "domainRegistered": "2024-09-03", "domainNote": "The older valyu.network (registered 2022-09-17) redirects to valyu.ai, which is the current domain.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.valyu.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://www.valyu.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.valyu.ai", "changelog": "https://docs.valyu.ai/changelog/platform", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-02", "score": 91 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.json", "live": { "slug": "valyu", "probe": { "target": "https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search", "method": "get", "lastAt": 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"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": "2026-11-07", "probes": 197, "ok": 197 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.valyu.ai", "indicator": 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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": "No x402, MPP or L402 in llms.txt, the pricing page or the OpenAPI file on 2 November, so there was no payment route to check live (0). Since October usage is billed in credits, 1,600 for a $10 top-up, with per-result Search prices by source (web and news 0.1 credits, arXiv and PubMed 0.05, SEC filings 1.92), Contents at 0.2 a URL and fixed DeepResearch prices by mode, all public (20). $10 of free credit ($20 with a company email), no card, valid 12 months (20). A person has to create the account, but after that an agent can log in through the CLI, headless if needed, and mint its own spend-capped keys. That's a programmatic key route after a human signup, so we gave part of the line (5). 0+20+20+5 = 45." }, "scores": { "a": 30, "b": 45 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "NewsCatcher, Inc.", "b": "Valyu", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp", "b": "https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable 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": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "15", "b": "6", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-11-06", "b": "2026-10-31", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-11-02", "b": "2025-10-20", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-11-02", "b": "2025-10-20", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "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": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "19 stars, 6.7k npm/wk, 7.1k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "4.5/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Valyu scores 69.3 (B) on agent readiness against NewsCatcher's 67.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, NewsCatcher or Valyu?" }, { "answer": "NewsCatcher needs an API key. Valyu takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do NewsCatcher and Valyu need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liner-mcp-vs-valyu" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-specstream.json", "title": "NewsCatcher vs SpecStream", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-specstream" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/specstream-vs-valyu.json", "title": "SpecStream vs Valyu", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/specstream-vs-valyu" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-valyu.json", "title": "Fetch (MCP reference server) vs Valyu", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-valyu" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-searchapi-io.json", "title": "NewsCatcher vs SearchAPI.io", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-searchapi-io" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-serpapi.json", "title": "NewsCatcher vs SerpApi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-serpapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-serper.json", "title": "NewsCatcher vs Serper", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-serper" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-serphouse.json", "title": "NewsCatcher vs SERPHouse", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-serphouse" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-serpkite.json", "title": "NewsCatcher vs SerpKite", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-serpkite" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-tavily-mcp.json", "title": "NewsCatcher vs Tavily API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-tavily-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-you-com-api.json", "title": "NewsCatcher vs You.com APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-you-com-api" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 3, "edge": "valyu", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "newscatcher": 67, "valyu": 70, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 4, "edge": "newscatcher", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "newscatcher": 94, "valyu": 90, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "newscatcher", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "newscatcher": 84, "valyu": 83, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "newscatcher", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "newscatcher": 45, "valyu": 44, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "valyu", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "newscatcher": 30, "valyu": 45, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 4, "edge": "valyu", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "newscatcher": 76, "valyu": 80, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "newscatcher", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "newscatcher": 79, "valyu": 78, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Valyu scores 69.3 (B) on agent readiness against NewsCatcher's 67.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Both do search news.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "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.", "valyu": "Web plus academic, financial, patent and life-science sources behind one search call, billed per result with a per-query price cap. Since 21 October rate limits scale with the plan and 429s carry Retry-After, but the per-plan numbers appear only in examples. The MCP docs still put the API key in the URL." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-valyu", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-valyu.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-valyu.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-valyu.min.md" }, "markdown": "Valyu scores 69.3 (B) on agent readiness against NewsCatcher's 67.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. 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- Valyu: grade B, 69.3/100, rank #255 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/valyu.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\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### Valyu (B)\n\nGood for: Research agents that need SEC filings, papers, patents, clinical trials or market data alongside the web, with a per-query price cap.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 45 against 30\n\nWatch for: Per-plan rate limits are stated only in example responses, not in a table\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Valyu +15\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- Valyu (45): No x402, MPP or L402 in llms.txt, the pricing page or the OpenAPI file on 2 November, so there was no payment route to check live (0). Since October usage is billed in credits, 1,600 for a $10 top-up, with per-result Search prices by source (web and news 0.1 credits, arXiv and PubMed 0.05, SEC filings 1.92), Contents at 0.2 a URL and fixed DeepResearch prices by mode, all public (20). $10 of free credit ($20 with a company email), no card, valid 12 months (20). A person has to create the account, but after that an agent can log in through the CLI, headless if needed, and mint its own spend-capped keys. That's a programmatic key route after a human signup, so we gave part of the line (5). 0+20+20+5 = 45.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | NewsCatcher | Valyu | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 70 | Valyu +3 |\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 | 83 | NewsCatcher +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 44 | NewsCatcher +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 45 | Valyu +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 80 | Valyu +4 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 78 | NewsCatcher +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.5 · B** | **69.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | NewsCatcher | Valyu |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | NewsCatcher, Inc. | Valyu |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp` | `https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable 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 | no |\n| Tools exposed | 15 | 6 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-10-31 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-11-02 | 2025-10-20 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-11-02 | 2025-10-20 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\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 | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 19 stars, 6.7k npm/wk, 7.1k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 4.5/5 (2) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### NewsCatcher\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Valyu\n\n- +4.7 on 2 November 2026: product, new evidence\n- no change 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**Valyu.** Web plus academic, financial, patent and life-science sources behind one search call, billed per result with a per-query price cap. Since 21 October rate limits scale with the plan and 429s carry Retry-After, but the per-plan numbers appear only in examples. The MCP docs still put the API key in the URL.\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### Valyu\n\n1. Set `max_price` and `max_num_results` on every search to bound cost\n2. Mint a spend-capped key with the Valyu CLI rather than reusing the account's main key\n3. On a 429, wait the `retry_after` seconds and retry; it's never charged. The SDKs retry twice by default\n4. Store each DeepResearch task id before retrying a failed create, so a retry doesn't start and bill a second task\n5. Call `valyu_search`. The legacy per-vertical MCP tools stop working on 2026-12-01\n6. A 206 means some sources failed. Check which before treating results as complete\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, NewsCatcher or Valyu?\n\nValyu scores 69.3 (B) on agent readiness against NewsCatcher's 67.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do NewsCatcher and Valyu need an API key?\n\nNewsCatcher needs an API key. Valyu takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call NewsCatcher and Valyu without installing anything?\n\nYes. NewsCatcher has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp and Valyu at https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-valyu.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-valyu.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"newscatcher\", \"b\": \"valyu\"}`. 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