# NewsCatcher vs You.com APIs (slim)

> You.com scores 76.1 (BB) to NewsCatcher's 67.5 (B) for search news. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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 & trust. Both do search news.

- NewsCatcher: B 67.5, rank #322 of 1513 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher.min.md
- You.com APIs: BB 76.1, rank #48 of 1513 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api.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. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 79 against 67. Also No incidents deducted, where You.com APIs loses 3 points for them.
- You.com APIs, good for An unattended agent that needs search, page text and cited answers and wants to pay per call without an account. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 67; Security & auth, 59 against 45; Payments & pricing, 88 against 30; Maintenance & community, 85 against 76. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.

| Category | NewsCatcher | You.com APIs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 67 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 94 | 92 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 84 | 83 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 45 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 88 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | NewsCatcher | You.com APIs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | NewsCatcher, Inc. | You.com |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp` | `https://api.you.com/v1/search` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Price for search news | $1 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| x402 | no | on some endpoints, from $0.005/call |
| Tools exposed | 15 | 6 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.youdotcom-oss/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-10-28 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-11-02 | 2024-08-27 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-11-02 | 2026-09-22 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 4.4k npm/wk, 92k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.8/5 (8) |

Why the edge:
- Payments & pricing, You.com APIs +58: NewsCatcher 30 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0).); 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.)
- Security & auth, You.com APIs +14: NewsCatcher 45 (API keys in the `x-api-key` header, several per account, revocable in the platform, with advice to keep one per application.); 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 thei…)
- Reliability, You.com APIs +13: NewsCatcher 67 (Read with the hosted lines, for the News API, the agent and the hosted MCP server.); You.com APIs 80 (Rootly status page at status.you.com with Search/Index, Live News and AI Search API components (20).)
- Transparency & trust, NewsCatcher +12: 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).); You.com APIs 67 (Closed API, with the MCP stdio bridge under MIT (18).)
- Maintenance & community, You.com APIs +9: NewsCatcher 76 (Read for a closed service, with the MCP repository read as code.); 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).)