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The hosted MCP uses OAuth in the browser, or an `X-MCP-Token` header for programmatic clients.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "100 free requests on signup, no card. Developer $40 a month for 10,000 searches ($4 per 1,000), Production $100 for 35,000, BigData $250 for 100,000, Scale $500 for 250,000, Octo tiers from $900 for 500,000 down to $1 per 1,000 at 5M. Only successful (HTTP 200) searches are charged (https://www.searchapi.io/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$4 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 on pricing, docs or MCP pages (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.searchapi.io/docs/google", "openapi": "https://www.searchapi.io/openapi/google.yaml", "registryName": "io.searchapi/mcp", "capabilities": [ "web.search", "search.serp", "search.news", "search.images" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "mcp", "closed-source" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 51.4, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 351, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 52, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 30, "reliability": 90, "schema": 59, "security": 28, "transparency": 62 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "99.9% SLA on every plan and no incidents on the status page since August. MCP exposes over 100 tools with no toolsets.", "strengths": [ "99.9% SLA on every plan and no incidents on the status page since August", "Only HTTP 200 searches are billed", "$4 per 1,000 on the entry plan, falling to $1 at 5 million a month", "Over 150 engine endpoints, including ad libraries, TikTok and travel sites", "OpenAPI 3.0 for the Google engine with typed enums" ], "weaknesses": [ "MCP exposes over 100 tools with no toolsets", "API key accepted as `api_key` in the query string, and the registry entry puts the MCP token in the URL", "No changelog, no llms.txt and no official SDKs", "No x402 and no per-call option. Every account starts with a browser signup", "Returns SERP snippets only, and no prompt-injection guidance for scraped AI answers" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key as `Authorization: Bearer`, not `api_key=` in the URL", "Connect the MCP through OAuth or the `X-MCP-Token` header, not the registry's `?token=` URL", "Call the REST API with `engine=` when context is tight. The MCP loads over 100 tool definitions", "Page Google results with `page`. `num` is fixed at 10", "Pace bursts. One hour can use at most 20 per cent of the plan's monthly searches" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 51.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 52, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 30, "reliability": 90, "schema": 59, "security": 28, "transparency": 48 }, "provenanceScore": 76 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -G https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search -H \"Authorization: Bearer $SEARCHAPI_API_KEY\" -d engine=google --data-urlencode \"q=chatgpt\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http searchapi https://www.searchapi.io/mcp" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/searchapi-io" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Developer plan, per 1,000 searches", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 4, "note": "10,000 searches for $40 a month" }, { "item": "Developer plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 40, "note": "10,000 searches" }, { "item": "Production plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 100, "note": "35,000 searches, includes Legal Protection Guarantee" }, { "item": "BigData plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 250, "note": "100,000 searches" }, { "item": "Scale plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 500, "note": "250,000 searches" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "SearchApi, LLC", "domain": "searchapi.io", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-13", "domainNote": "Registered in 2017 and transferred on 2022-05-26.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.searchapi.io/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://www.searchapi.io/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.searchapi.io", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io.json", "live": { "slug": "searchapi-io", "probe": { "target": "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-05T01:43:45.200869458Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 102, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 111, "p95ms24h": 261, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 1122, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 20, "ok": 20 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.searchapi.io", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:28.607098613Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.searchapi/mcp", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T23:42:40.113054682Z" } ], "securityTxt": { "url": "https://searchapi.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:59.936201596Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "searchapi.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:29.137009821Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.searchapi.io/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:52:17.446104265Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-02T15:28:20.315693963Z", "fingerprint": "3be8bb617e50" }, { "url": "https://www.searchapi.io/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:52:12.801220906Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-02T15:28:15.609308863Z", "fingerprint": "e5068628eb11" }, { "url": "https://www.searchapi.io/legal/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:52:15.401485994Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-02T15:28:18.274981242Z", "fingerprint": "6c89ffbef6cb" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T01:43:45.200869458Z" } }, "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", "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 work email). Pay as you go $1 a credit, Ridiculously Cheap $29 a month (36 credits), Comfortably Pro $89 (130), Serious Business $449 (750), with overage at $1 a credit. Search and Answer bill per 1,000 results retrieved, $0.50 open databases, $1.50 web, $8 financial data, $30 to $50 proprietary. Contents $0.001 a URL. Answer adds $12 per million tokens. DeepResearch $0.10 (fast) to $15 (max) a task (https://www.valyu.ai/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$1.50 / 1k pages", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 in llms.txt, llms-full.txt or pricing docs (checked 2026-09-30).", "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": "2026-09-12", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.6, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 179, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 45, "reliability": 53, "schema": 87, "security": 44, "transparency": 79 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Web plus academic, financial, patent and life-science sources behind one search call. No published rate limits and no Retry-After or backoff guidance.", "strengths": [ "Web plus academic, financial, patent and life-science sources behind one search call", "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 with 26 paths, tight parameter constraints and a 206 partial-success code", "Spend-capped, rotatable keys from the CLI, and scoped management keys", "Queries deleted within 24 to 72 hours and not used for training, per the privacy policy", "Failed requests are free, and `max_price` caps spend per query" ], "weaknesses": [ "No published rate limits and no Retry-After or backoff guidance", "Web results cost $1.50 per 1,000 results retrieved, so a 10-result search is $0.015", "MCP docs lead with `?valyuApiKey=` in the URL query string", "No prompt-injection guidance for the full page text it returns", "Platform changelog hasn't had an entry since 30 June 2026" ], "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", "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", "DeepResearch is async. Poll `valyu_deepresearch_status` rather than waiting in one call" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 4.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 45, "reliability": 53, "schema": 87, "security": 44, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 92 }, "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": 1.5, "note": "priced per result, not per query" }, { "item": "Open databases, per 1,000 results", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 0.5 }, { "item": "Contents extraction", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 1, "note": "failed URLs free" }, { "item": "DeepResearch, standard mode", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.5, "note": "fast $0.10, heavy $2.50, max $15" }, { "item": "Ridiculously Cheap plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 29, "note": "36 credits" }, { "item": "Comfortably Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 89, "note": "130 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": "2026-09-30", "score": 92 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.json", "live": { "slug": "valyu", "probe": { "target": "https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-05T01:43:47.533815475Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 403, "lastMs": 259, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 255, "p95ms24h": 299, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 1122, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 20, "ok": 20 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.valyu.ai", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:32.877674349Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "valyu-js", "version": "2.10.2", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:43:06.25727822Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "valyu", "version": "2.12.2", "released": "2026-09-12", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:43:06.660133856Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 5834, "pypiWeekly": 6252, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://valyu.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-03-10T00:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:53.26675194Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.valyu.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:20.325375271Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "valyu.ai", "registered": "2024-09-03", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/valyu.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:06:17.130036603Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.valyu.ai/changelog/platform", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:44:13.134113487Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "35bc7870472f" }, { "url": "https://docs.valyu.ai/integrations/mcp-server", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:44:15.393398291Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "63cfb3d58b79" }, { "url": "https://www.valyu.ai/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:52:40.095871164Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "456a079afccb" }, { "url": "https://www.valyu.ai/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:52:42.542352214Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b6b4aa4fc051" }, { "url": "https://www.valyu.ai/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:52:44.302811956Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "fef72d613a0e" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T01:43:47.533815475Z" } }, "summary": "Valyu has a score of 64.6 (B) against SearchAPI.io's 51.4 (D). Both do web search. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 65 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/searchapi-io-vs-valyu", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/searchapi-io-vs-valyu.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/searchapi-io-vs-valyu.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/searchapi-io-vs-valyu.min.md" }, "markdown": "Valyu has a score of 64.6 (B) against SearchAPI.io's 51.4 (D). Both do web search. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 65 points.\n\n- SearchAPI.io: grade D, 51.4/100, rank #351 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/searchapi-io.json\n- Valyu: grade B, 64.6/100, rank #179 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/valyu.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick SearchAPI.io for reliability (+37).\n\nPick Valyu for schema \u0026 documentation (+28), agent ergonomics (+26), security \u0026 auth (+16), payments \u0026 pricing (+15), maintenance \u0026 community (+65), transparency \u0026 trust (+17).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | SearchAPI.io | Valyu | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 53 | SearchAPI.io +37 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 87 | Valyu +28 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 52 | 78 | Valyu +26 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 28 | 44 | Valyu +16 |\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) | 15 | 80 | Valyu +65 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 79 | Valyu +17 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **51.4 · D** | **64.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | SearchAPI.io | Valyu |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | SearchApi | Valyu |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search` | `https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 6 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.searchapi/mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | none | 2026-09-12 |\n| Popularity | none | 19 stars, 6.7k npm/wk, 7.1k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 4.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**SearchAPI.io.** 99.9% SLA on every plan and no incidents on the status page since August. MCP exposes over 100 tools with no toolsets.\n\n**Valyu.** Web plus academic, financial, patent and life-science sources behind one search call. No published rate limits and no Retry-After or backoff guidance.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### SearchAPI.io\n\n1. Send the key as `Authorization: Bearer`, not `api_key=` in the URL\n2. Connect the MCP through OAuth or the `X-MCP-Token` header, not the registry's `?token=` URL\n3. Call the REST API with `engine=` when context is tight. The MCP loads over 100 tool definitions\n4. Page Google results with `page`. `num` is fixed at 10\n5. Pace bursts. One hour can use at most 20 per cent of the plan's monthly searches\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. Call `valyu_search`. The legacy per-vertical MCP tools stop working on 2026-12-01\n4. A 206 means some sources failed. Check which before treating results as complete\n5. DeepResearch is async. Poll `valyu_deepresearch_status` rather than waiting in one call\n\n## Other comparisons with SearchAPI.io or Valyu\n\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs SearchAPI.io](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-searchapi-io.md)\n- [Brave Search API + MCP vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brave-search-mcp-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Exa API + MCP vs SearchAPI.io](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/exa-mcp-vs-searchapi-io.md)\n- [Exa API + MCP vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/exa-mcp-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Firecrawl MCP vs SearchAPI.io](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-searchapi-io.md)\n- [Firecrawl MCP vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Linkup vs SearchAPI.io](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-searchapi-io.md)\n- [Linkup vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/linkup-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Parallel Search and Task APIs vs SearchAPI.io](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallel-search-api-vs-searchapi-io.md)\n- [Parallel Search and Task APIs vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallel-search-api-vs-valyu.md)\n- [SearchAPI.io vs SerpApi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/searchapi-io-vs-serpapi.md)\n- [SearchAPI.io vs Serper](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/searchapi-io-vs-serper.md)\n- [SearchAPI.io vs Tavily API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/searchapi-io-vs-tavily-mcp.md)\n- [SearchAPI.io vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/searchapi-io-vs-you-com-api.md)\n- [SerpApi vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/serpapi-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Serper vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/serper-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Tavily API + MCP vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tavily-mcp-vs-valyu.md)\n- [Valyu vs You.com APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/valyu-vs-you-com-api.md)\n- [Fetch (MCP reference server) vs Valyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fetch-reference-server-vs-valyu.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-05", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.3", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "SearchAPI.io vs Valyu", "url": "" } ], "description": "Valyu has a score of 64.6 (B) against SearchAPI.io's 51.4 (D). 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