# NewsCatcher vs Valyu (slim)

> Valyu scores 69.3 (B) to NewsCatcher's 67.5 (B) for search news. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- NewsCatcher: B 67.5, rank #322 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher.min.md
- Valyu: B 69.3, rank #255 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.min.md
- NewsCatcher, good for Agents that need current news across languages, grouped into stories, or tables of events and company news on a schedule.
- Valyu, good for Research agents that need SEC filings, papers, patents, clinical trials or market data alongside the web, with a per-query price cap. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 45 against 30.

| Category | NewsCatcher | Valyu |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 67 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 94 | 90 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 84 | 83 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 45 | 44 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 45 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 78 |

| Fact (where they differ) | NewsCatcher | Valyu |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | NewsCatcher, Inc. | Valyu |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp` | `https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Price for search news | $1 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| Tools exposed | 15 | 6 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-10-31 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-11-02 | 2025-10-20 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-11-02 | 2025-10-20 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 19 stars, 6.7k npm/wk, 7.1k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 4.5/5 (2) |

Why the edge:
- Payments & pricing, Valyu +15: 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.); 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.)