# Serper vs TinyFish Search (slim)

> TinyFish Search scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Serper's 24.1 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do web search. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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TinyFish Search scores 63.2 (B) on agent readiness against Serper's 24.1 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do web search.

- Serper: F 24.1, rank #835 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/serper.min.md
- TinyFish Search: B 63.2, rank #366 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.min.md
- Serper, good for High-volume Google SERP lookups on a tight budget where the agent already has a fetcher.
- TinyFish Search, good for Agents that need ranked snippets and URLs at no cost and modest volume, with news and research-paper modes. Ahead on Reliability, 50 against 30; Schema & documentation, 82 against 6; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 35; Security & auth, 58 against 20; Payments & pricing, 45 against 40; Maintenance & community, 78 against 3; Transparency & trust, 52 against 31.

| Category | Serper | TinyFish Search |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 6 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 35 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 20 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 45 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 3 | 78 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 31 | 52 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Serper | TinyFish Search |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Serper | TinyFish |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://google.serper.dev/search` | `https://api.search.tinyfish.ai` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Price for web search | not published | free |
| Licence | none | Proprietary service under TinyFish's Terms of Service. The local MCP proxy `@tiny-fish/mcp` is MIT. The SDK packages on npm and PyPI carry no licence metadata |
| Tools exposed | none | 28 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` |
| Last release | none | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | 2024-05-29 | 2026-08-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-11-05 | 2025-12-14 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| 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 | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 9 stars, 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |