{ "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": 1513, "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": "2026-11-08T19:18:59.389946261Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 184, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 163, "p95ms24h": 261, "samples24h": 243, "samples30d": 452, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 13, "ok": 13 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 243, "ok": 243 }, { "date": "2026-11-08", "probes": 196, "ok": 196 } ], "since": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z" }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.newscatcherapi.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T17:49:50.891039934Z" }, "githubStars": 0, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://newscatcherapi.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T16:03:28.783270679Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T15:36:50.494424601Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "newscatcherapi.com", "registered": "2020-02-16", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/newscatcherapi.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T14:57:09.400893002Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T15:23:45.58903048Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "849b66383503" }, { "url": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/company/legal/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T15:23:41.420598624Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "818e0cf9f82d" }, { "url": "https://www.newscatcherapi.com/company/legal/terms-and-conditions", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T15:23:43.540220305Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "79f84eff4353" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T02:00:10.449558203Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:46:25.078047109Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-08T19:18:59.389946261Z" }, "streak": { "days": 2, "from": "2026-11-06", "sinceWatching": true, "best": 2 } }, "answer": "You.com APIs scores 76.1 (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": "you-com-api", "name": "You.com APIs", "vendor": "You.com", "vendorUrl": "https://you.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "search", "summary": "Web Search, Contents, Answer, Research and Finance Research APIs, an OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible Inference Router, and a hosted MCP server with six tools.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/you-com-api.json", "dns": "you-com-api.grade.anchorterminal.com", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.you.com/v1/search", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "youdotcom" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@youdotcom-oss/mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API key in the `X-API-Key` header (env `YDC_API_KEY`). The hosted MCP also takes a Bearer key or OAuth 2.1, and `?profile=free` needs no key. Web Search and Finance Research take x402 (`PAYMENT-SIGNATURE`) or MPP (`Authorization: Payment`) instead of a key.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "$10 free credit on sign-up and $90 more on verifying the account, no card, valid 60 days per the pricing FAQ, then prepaid credits. Web Search $5 per 1,000 calls (up to 100 results a call), live page extraction $1 per 1,000 pages, Contents $1 per 1,000 pages, Answer $5 per 1,000. Research per 1,000 by effort, lite $12, standard $50, deep $100, exhaustive $450, frontier $1,200. Finance Research $110 (deep) or $500 (exhaustive) per 1,000. x402 prices match credit prices, MPP rounds Web Search up to $0.01 (https://you.com/docs/administration/billing).", "priceSummary": "$5 / 1k req", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "partial", "evidence": "Official docs. GET /v1/search, /v1/agents/search and POST /v1/finance_research accept x402 in USDC on Base or Solana, and MPP in USDC on Tempo. An unpaid GET https://api.you.com/v1/search returned 402 with both PAYMENT-REQUIRED and WWW-Authenticate Payment headers on 2026-09-30. Contents, Answer and Research need a key (https://you.com/docs/administration/machine-payments.md)", "endpoints": [ { "url": "https://api.you.com/v1/search", "priceUsd": 0.005, "network": "eip155:8453" }, { "url": "https://api.you.com/v1/finance_research", "priceUsd": 0.11, "network": "eip155:8453" } ] }, "toolCount": 6, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 4419, "pypiWeekly": 91673, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://you.com/docs/welcome", "llmsTxt": "https://you.com/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://you.com/docs/openapi.json", "registryName": "io.github.youdotcom-oss/mcp", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "web.fetch", "web.extract", "search.answer", "search.research", "search.news" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "free-tier", "mcp", "x402", "llms-txt", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "async-jobs", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 76.1, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 48, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1513, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 88, "reliability": 80, "schema": 92, "security": 59, "transparency": 67 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-14. Python SDK youdotcom 3.6.0, a minor release, turned on highlights and knowledge by default for every search, so `snippets` comes back as None for default callers and unguarded code reading it fails, marked 'Action required' in its MIGRATION.md with no earlier notice found. Its changelog says the defaults may add cost depending on the plan, though the billing page includes highlights and Knowledge in the Web Search rate. The API changelog of 15 July 2026 likewise announced the removal of the `authors` field from Web Search and Answer responses as already done. Breaking changes without notice, read as one term at the floor, 3 points, since both were documented on the day with a way back. https://github.com/youdotcom-oss/youdotcom-python-sdk/blob/main/MIGRATION.md and https://you.com/docs/changelog/2026/7/15" ], "verdict": "x402 and MPP on Web Search and Finance Research, with no account needed, and keys can carry a spending cap. Two API hosts, so Answer and Research return 'Missing Authentication Token' on ydc-index.io, and Python SDK 3.6.0 changed the default search response in a minor release.", "bestFor": "An unattended agent that needs search, page text and cited answers and wants to pay per call without an account.", "strengths": [ "x402 and MPP on Web Search and Finance Research, with no account needed", "Free credit with no card ($10, plus $90 on verifying), and a keyless MCP profile for search (100 queries a day)", "Public OpenAPI, llms.txt, a dated API changelog and an error reference with guidance per code", "Per-key spending caps since 5 October, with a distinct `spend_cap_exceeded` error", "429 carries Retry-After, with documented backoff and rate-limit headers" ], "weaknesses": [ "Two API hosts. Answer and Research return 'Missing Authentication Token' on ydc-index.io", "Python SDK 3.6.0 turned on highlights and knowledge by default in a minor release, so `snippets` is None for default callers, and the July removal of `authors` was announced as done", "Zero Data Retention only for Web Search and Answer, and only on enterprise agreements", "No prompt-injection guidance for the page text Search and Contents return", "Only a Python SDK is current. The TypeScript SDK was deprecated in March 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "For unattended runs call GET https://api.you.com/v1/search, handle the 402 and pay with x402. It's half the MPP price for search", "Use `https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free` to try search with no key (100 queries a day)", "Send Answer, Research and Finance Research to api.you.com. On ydc-index.io they fail with 'Missing Authentication Token'", "With Python SDK 3.6.0 or later, pass `knowledge=None, extraction=None` on search unless you want highlights and knowledge cards, which are on by default and may cost more", "Treat a 429 with `spend_cap_exceeded` as a budget stop, not a rate limit. Retrying won't clear it until the cap is raised" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 8, "avgRating": 3.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 76.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 88, "reliability": 80, "schema": 92, "security": 59, "transparency": 50 }, "provenanceScore": 84, "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://ydc-index.io/v1/search \\\n -H \"X-API-Key: $YDC_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"query\":\"latest AI news\",\"count\":5}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http you-com https://api.you.com/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer ${YDC_API_KEY}\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "you-com": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${YDC_API_KEY}" }, "url": "https://api.you.com/mcp" } } }, "x402": "curl -si 'https://api.you.com/v1/search?query=test'\n# HTTP/2 402 with PAYMENT-REQUIRED (x402, 5000 base units of USDC) and WWW-Authenticate: Payment (MPP on Tempo)\n# retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: \u003cbase64 signed authorization\u003e" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/you-com-api" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Web Search", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5, "note": "up to 100 results a call" }, { "item": "Contents", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 1 }, { "item": "Answer", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5 }, { "item": "Research, standard effort", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 50 }, { "item": "Web Search over x402", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.005, "note": "MPP charges $0.01" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "SuSea, Inc., d/b/a you.com", "domain": "you.com", "domainRegistered": "1998-11-25", "domainNote": "you.com was registered in 1998, long before the company launched.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://you.com/terms", "privacy": "https://you.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.you.com", "changelog": "https://you.com/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-01", "notes": [ "Web Search and Contents are documented on ydc-index.io, a separate domain. api.you.com also serves /v1/search.", "status.you.com is a Rootly page with Search/Index, Live News and AI Search components. Its robots.txt loaded on 1 November and allows all paths, but incident pages answered with a Cloudflare challenge, as the whole site did on 17 October. Its history RSS feed at status.you.com/history.rss reads.", "trust.you.com is a Vanta trust centre that links a vulnerability disclosure page and a subprocessor list, but renders only with JavaScript.", "security.txt returned 404 on you.com and api.you.com on 6 October, and on you.com again on 17 October and 1 November.", "The dated API changelog at you.com/docs/changelog is linked from llms.txt, with entries from 15 July 2026." ], "score": 84 }, "requirements": { "setupChecked": true, "complianceChecked": true, "agentAlone": true, "card": "no", "freeTier": true, "minutes": 3, "credential": "mixed", "hosting": [ "US" ], "euResidency": "unknown", "trainsOnData": "no", "zeroRetention": "enterprise", "certifications": [ "GDPR" ], "dpa": true, "selfHost": "no" }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api.json", "live": { "slug": "you-com-api", "probe": { "target": "https://api.you.com/v1/search", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-08T19:19:18.998631489Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 402, "lastMs": 697, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 99.97, "p50ms24h": 766, "p95ms24h": 3260, "samples24h": 243, "samples30d": 7890, "days": [ { "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": 245 }, { "date": "2026-11-05", "probes": 185, "ok": 184 }, { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 241, "ok": 241 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 243, "ok": 243 }, { "date": "2026-11-08", "probes": 196, "ok": 196 } ], "since": "2026-10-08T00:00:00Z" }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.you.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", 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"checkedAt": "2026-11-08T15:04:06.488170146Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://you.com/docs/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T15:29:19.207771892Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9506696940b3" }, { "url": "https://you.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T15:29:21.488632557Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-23T02:09:14.07040316Z", "fingerprint": "36f4ebdd4164" }, { "url": "https://you.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T15:29:23.593179954Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-23T02:09:16.540053208Z", "fingerprint": "51f7b4f15208" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://api.you.com/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T02:03:23.188522947Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:49:15.06565765Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-08T19:19:18.998631489Z" }, "streak": { "days": 31, "from": "2026-10-08", "sinceWatching": true, "best": 31 } }, "edges": [ { "by": 58, "category": "payments", "leads": "you-com-api", "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": "x402 (USDC on Base or Solana) and MPP (USDC on Tempo) on GET /v1/search, /v1/agents/search and POST /v1/finance_research. On 1 November an unpaid GET https://api.you.com/v1/search returned 402 with an x402 v2 `PAYMENT-REQUIRED` challenge for 5,000 base units of USDC on Base and on Solana and an MPP `WWW-Authenticate: Payment` challenge on Tempo, and an unpaid POST /v1/finance_research returned the same pair, with x402 at 110,000 base units. Contents, Answer and Research still need a key (28). Per-call and per-page prices published without a login (20). The pricing FAQ now says $10 of API credit on sign-up and $90 more on verifying the account, no card, with sign-up credits valid 60 days. The Web Search card on the same page says '$10 free credit' (20). The MCP free profile needs no key (100 queries a day), and x402 or MPP needs no account (20)." }, "scores": { "a": 30, "b": 88 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "security", "leads": "you-com-api", "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": "Several keys per organisation in the `X-API-Key` header, revoked immediately on delete, rotation by create-then-delete, and roles where developers see only their own keys. The hosted MCP takes OAuth 2.1. No per-key scopes documented. No secret in a URL (22). Tool allow-lists on the MCP, a two-tool free profile and no tool that writes or deletes. Since 5 October a key can carry a spending cap per billing period, and a capped key answers 429 `spend_cap_exceeded` when it's reached, which bounds what a leaked or runaway key can spend, as kagi-search's per-key cap does (18). Search and Contents return untrusted page text. The only content control we found is `safesearch`, and no prompt-injection guidance (2). The key list shows a last-used date and each capped key's spend, and the troubleshooting page says Platform Logs list recent requests with error messages, response details and a request ID. No retention period, logs API or audit log of key actions was found, so 9, between numeral's 8 for a dashboard Logs tab and deepgram-stt's 10 for console and API logs (9). trust.you.com, a Vanta trust centre, links a vulnerability disclosure page and a subprocessor list but rendered only with JavaScript on 1 November, security.txt returned 404 on you.com, and the MCP repo runs Semgrep in CI (8)." }, "scores": { "a": 45, "b": 59 } }, { "by": 13, "category": "reliability", "leads": "you-com-api", "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": "Rootly status page at status.you.com with Search/Index, Live News and AI Search API components (20). Its robots.txt loaded on 1 November, but incident pages still answered with a Cloudflare challenge, so we read the history RSS feed as before. In the 90 days to 1 November it lists one incident, an 'Authentication Outage' on the AI Search API component posted on 5 October, and nothing after it. The feed gives no duration, so we couldn't establish the outage as a major. Minor only (20). 10 requests a second per API and 5 for Finance Research on self-serve accounts, re-read on 1 November (15). 429 carries `Retry-After`, the docs give exponential backoff capped at 60 seconds, and `X-RateLimit-*` headers allow client-side throttling (15). No SLA found for the search APIs. The pricing page banner claims an uptime SLA of at least 99.9% for the new Inference Router, but we found no SLA document (0). GA (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 67, "b": 80 } }, { "by": 12, "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": "Closed API, with the MCP stdio bridge under MIT (18). The privacy policy (last updated 22 September 2026, re-read on 1 November) says prompts and outputs aren't used for training and a DPA is linked, but gives no retention periods. Zero Data Retention covers Web Search and Answer only, on enterprise agreements, not self-serve, and the machine payments page says it isn't available on keyless requests (17). No deprecation policy. The changelog dates one removal, the `authors` field from Web Search and Answer responses on 15 July 2026, announced as already done (5). The privacy policy names OpenAI, Anthropic and Google as model providers and points to trust.you.com for the full list, which we couldn't render. No data locations stated (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 79, "b": 67 } }, { "by": 9, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "you-com-api", "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": "@youdotcom-oss/mcp 4.0.7 tagged on 2026-10-28 and an API changelog entry on 26 October for the Inference Router (30). MCP 4.0.5, 4.0.6 and 4.0.7 between 19 and 28 October, all version-bump publishes, and API changelog entries on 4, 5 and 11 August, 2 and 23 September and 5, 7, 9 and 26 October (20). A dated public API changelog, support at api@you.com and a support page, and the MCP repo merges changes weekly. We didn't read the open issues (11). Listed in the official MCP registry as io.github.youdotcom-oss/mcp at 4.0.7, with a current Python SDK (3.6.0, 14 October). The TypeScript SDK is deprecated (15). CI, Semgrep and conventional commits on the MCP repo (9)." }, "scores": { "a": 76, "b": 85 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "NewsCatcher, Inc.", "b": "You.com", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp", "b": "https://api.you.com/v1/search", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "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": "on some endpoints, from $0.005/call", "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": "not listed", "b": "io.github.youdotcom-oss/mcp", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-11-06", "b": "2026-10-28", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-11-02", "b": "2024-08-27", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-11-02", "b": "2026-09-22", "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": "4.4k npm/wk, 92k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.8/5 (8)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "You.com APIs scores 76.1 (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 You.com APIs?" }, { "answer": "NewsCatcher needs an API key. You.com APIs takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do NewsCatcher and You.com APIs need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. NewsCatcher has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp and You.com APIs at https://api.you.com/v1/search.", "question": "Can an agent call NewsCatcher and You.com APIs without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Transparency \u0026 trust, 79 against 67" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where You.com APIs loses 3 points for them" ], "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, 80 against 67", "Security \u0026 auth, 59 against 45", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 88 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" ], "goodFor": "An unattended agent that needs search, page text and cited answers and wants to pay per call without an account.", "slug": "you-com-api", "watchFor": "Two API hosts. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/serpkite-vs-you-com-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tavily-mcp-vs-you-com-api.json", "title": "Tavily API + MCP vs You.com APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tavily-mcp-vs-you-com-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tinyfish-search-vs-you-com-api.json", "title": "TinyFish Search vs You.com APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tinyfish-search-vs-you-com-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/valyu-vs-you-com-api.json", "title": "Valyu vs You.com APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/valyu-vs-you-com-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-newscatcher.json", "title": "Arcmira vs NewsCatcher", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-newscatcher" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-you-com-api.json", "title": "Arcmira vs You.com APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcmira-vs-you-com-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-newscatcher.json", "title": "Grep AI vs NewsCatcher", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-newscatcher" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-you-com-api.json", "title": "Grep AI vs You.com APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grep-ai-vs-you-com-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liner-mcp-vs-newscatcher.json", "title": "Liner Search MCP vs NewsCatcher", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liner-mcp-vs-newscatcher" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liner-mcp-vs-you-com-api.json", "title": "Liner Search MCP vs You.com APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liner-mcp-vs-you-com-api" }, { "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-you-com-api.json", "title": "SpecStream vs You.com APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/specstream-vs-you-com-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-you-com-api.json", "title": "Fetch (MCP reference server) vs You.com APIs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-you-com-api" }, { "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": 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"weight": 16, "you-com-api": 80 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "newscatcher", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "newscatcher": 94, "weight": 13, "you-com-api": 92 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "newscatcher", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "newscatcher": 84, "weight": 13, "you-com-api": 83 }, { "by": 14, "edge": "you-com-api", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "newscatcher": 45, "weight": 14, "you-com-api": 59 }, { "by": 58, "edge": "you-com-api", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "newscatcher": 30, "weight": 10, "you-com-api": 88 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "you-com-api", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "newscatcher": 76, "weight": 7, "you-com-api": 85 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "newscatcher", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "newscatcher": 79, "weight": 7, "you-com-api": 67 } ], "summary": "You.com APIs scores 76.1 (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.", "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.", "you-com-api": "x402 and MPP on Web Search and Finance Research, with no account needed, and keys can carry a spending cap. Two API hosts, so Answer and Research return 'Missing Authentication Token' on ydc-index.io, and Python SDK 3.6.0 changed the default search response in a minor release." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-you-com-api", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-you-com-api.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-you-com-api.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-you-com-api.min.md" }, "markdown": "You.com APIs scores 76.1 (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 1513. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/newscatcher.json\n- You.com APIs: grade BB, 76.1/100, rank #48 of 1513. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/you-com-api.json\n- Best web search APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/search/index.md\n- All 326 search comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/search/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### 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 67\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where You.com APIs loses 3 points for them\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### You.com APIs (BB)\n\nGood for: An unattended agent that needs search, page text and cited answers and wants to pay per call without an account.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 80 against 67\n- Security \u0026 auth, 59 against 45\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 88 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\nWatch for: Two API hosts. Answer and Research return 'Missing Authentication Token' on ydc-index.io\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: You.com APIs +58\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- You.com APIs (88): x402 (USDC on Base or Solana) and MPP (USDC on Tempo) on GET /v1/search, /v1/agents/search and POST /v1/finance_research. On 1 November an unpaid GET https://api.you.com/v1/search returned 402 with an x402 v2 `PAYMENT-REQUIRED` challenge for 5,000 base units of USDC on Base and on Solana and an MPP `WWW-Authenticate: Payment` challenge on Tempo, and an unpaid POST /v1/finance_research returned the same pair, with x402 at 110,000 base units. Contents, Answer and Research still need a key (28). Per-call and per-page prices published without a login (20). The pricing FAQ now says $10 of API credit on sign-up and $90 more on verifying the account, no card, with sign-up credits valid 60 days. The Web Search card on the same page says '$10 free credit' (20). The MCP free profile needs no key (100 queries a day), and x402 or MPP needs no account (20).\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: You.com APIs +14\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- You.com APIs (59): Several keys per organisation in the `X-API-Key` header, revoked immediately on delete, rotation by create-then-delete, and roles where developers see only their own keys. The hosted MCP takes OAuth 2.1. No per-key scopes documented. No secret in a URL (22). Tool allow-lists on the MCP, a two-tool free profile and no tool that writes or deletes. Since 5 October a key can carry a spending cap per billing period, and a capped key answers 429 `spend_cap_exceeded` when it's reached, which bounds what a leaked or runaway key can spend, as kagi-search's per-key cap does (18). Search and Contents return untrusted page text. The only content control we found is `safesearch`, and no prompt-injection guidance (2). The key list shows a last-used date and each capped key's spend, and the troubleshooting page says Platform Logs list recent requests with error messages, response details and a request ID. No retention period, logs API or audit log of key actions was found, so 9, between numeral's 8 for a dashboard Logs tab and deepgram-stt's 10 for console and API logs (9). trust.you.com, a Vanta trust centre, links a vulnerability disclosure page and a subprocessor list but rendered only with JavaScript on 1 November, security.txt returned 404 on you.com, and the MCP repo runs Semgrep in CI (8).\n\n### Reliability: You.com APIs +13\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- You.com APIs (80): Rootly status page at status.you.com with Search/Index, Live News and AI Search API components (20). Its robots.txt loaded on 1 November, but incident pages still answered with a Cloudflare challenge, so we read the history RSS feed as before. In the 90 days to 1 November it lists one incident, an 'Authentication Outage' on the AI Search API component posted on 5 October, and nothing after it. The feed gives no duration, so we couldn't establish the outage as a major. Minor only (20). 10 requests a second per API and 5 for Finance Research on self-serve accounts, re-read on 1 November (15). 429 carries `Retry-After`, the docs give exponential backoff capped at 60 seconds, and `X-RateLimit-*` headers allow client-side throttling (15). No SLA found for the search APIs. The pricing page banner claims an uptime SLA of at least 99.9% for the new Inference Router, but we found no SLA document (0). GA (10).\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: NewsCatcher +12\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- You.com APIs (67): Closed API, with the MCP stdio bridge under MIT (18). The privacy policy (last updated 22 September 2026, re-read on 1 November) says prompts and outputs aren't used for training and a DPA is linked, but gives no retention periods. Zero Data Retention covers Web Search and Answer only, on enterprise agreements, not self-serve, and the machine payments page says it isn't available on keyless requests (17). No deprecation policy. The changelog dates one removal, the `authors` field from Web Search and Answer responses on 15 July 2026, announced as already done (5). The privacy policy names OpenAI, Anthropic and Google as model providers and points to trust.you.com for the full list, which we couldn't render. No data locations stated (10).\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: You.com APIs +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- You.com APIs (85): @youdotcom-oss/mcp 4.0.7 tagged on 2026-10-28 and an API changelog entry on 26 October for the Inference Router (30). MCP 4.0.5, 4.0.6 and 4.0.7 between 19 and 28 October, all version-bump publishes, and API changelog entries on 4, 5 and 11 August, 2 and 23 September and 5, 7, 9 and 26 October (20). A dated public API changelog, support at api@you.com and a support page, and the MCP repo merges changes weekly. We didn't read the open issues (11). Listed in the official MCP registry as io.github.youdotcom-oss/mcp at 4.0.7, with a current Python SDK (3.6.0, 14 October). The TypeScript SDK is deprecated (15). CI, Semgrep and conventional commits on the MCP repo (9).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | NewsCatcher | You.com APIs | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 80 | You.com APIs +13 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 94 | 92 | NewsCatcher +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 83 | NewsCatcher +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 59 | You.com APIs +14 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 88 | You.com APIs +58 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 85 | You.com APIs +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 67 | NewsCatcher +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.5 · B** | **76.1 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | NewsCatcher | You.com APIs |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | NewsCatcher, Inc. | You.com |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp` | `https://api.you.com/v1/search` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\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 | on some endpoints, from $0.005/call |\n| Tools exposed | 15 | 6 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.youdotcom-oss/mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-10-28 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-11-02 | 2024-08-27 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-11-02 | 2026-09-22 |\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 | 4.4k npm/wk, 92k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.8/5 (8) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### NewsCatcher\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### You.com APIs\n\n- +0.2 on 1 November 2026: new evidence, negative event\n- +0.2 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n- -0.8 on 17 October 2026: reliability, new evidence\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**You.com APIs.** x402 and MPP on Web Search and Finance Research, with no account needed, and keys can carry a spending cap. Two API hosts, so Answer and Research return 'Missing Authentication Token' on ydc-index.io, and Python SDK 3.6.0 changed the default search response in a minor release.\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### You.com APIs\n\n1. For unattended runs call GET https://api.you.com/v1/search, handle the 402 and pay with x402. It's half the MPP price for search\n2. Use `https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free` to try search with no key (100 queries a day)\n3. Send Answer, Research and Finance Research to api.you.com. On ydc-index.io they fail with 'Missing Authentication Token'\n4. With Python SDK 3.6.0 or later, pass `knowledge=None, extraction=None` on search unless you want highlights and knowledge cards, which are on by default and may cost more\n5. Treat a 429 with `spend_cap_exceeded` as a budget stop, not a rate limit. Retrying won't clear it until the cap is raised\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, NewsCatcher or You.com APIs?\n\nYou.com APIs scores 76.1 (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 You.com APIs need an API key?\n\nNewsCatcher needs an API key. You.com APIs takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call NewsCatcher and You.com APIs without installing anything?\n\nYes. NewsCatcher has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp and You.com APIs at https://api.you.com/v1/search.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-you-com-api.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/newscatcher-vs-you-com-api.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"newscatcher\", \"b\": \"you-com-api\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare newscatcher you-com-api`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/newscatcher.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/you-com-api.json\n\n## Other comparisons with NewsCatcher or You.com APIs\n\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs NewsCatcher](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-newscatcher.md)\n- [Web Search Tool on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-web-search-vs-you-com-api.md)\n- [Grounding with Bing Search vs NewsCatcher](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bing-grounding-vs-newscatcher.md)\n- [Grounding with Bing Search vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bing-grounding-vs-you-com-api.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs NewsCatcher](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-newscatcher.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs You.com 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