# SerpKite vs TinyFish Search (slim)

> SerpKite scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish Search leads on security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do web search. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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SerpKite scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish Search leads on security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do web search.

- SerpKite: B 64.8, rank #306 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/serpkite.min.md
- TinyFish Search: B 63.2, rank #366 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.min.md
- SerpKite, good for Agents that want Google results and the top pages as Markdown in one call at a low per-1,000 price, with spend caps per key. Ahead on Reliability, 65 against 50; Schema & documentation, 90 against 82; Agent ergonomics, 92 against 78; Transparency & trust, 77 against 52.
- 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 Security & auth, 58 against 37; Payments & pricing, 45 against 40. Also No incidents deducted, where SerpKite loses 3 points for them.

| Category | SerpKite | TinyFish Search |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 90 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 92 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 37 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 45 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 78 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 52 |

| Fact (where they differ) | SerpKite | TinyFish Search |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | SerpKite (Anastasia Klimova, trading as SerpKite) | TinyFish |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.serpkite.com/v1/search` | `https://api.search.tinyfish.ai` |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Price for web search | not published | free |
| Licence | Proprietary service under SerpKite's terms of service. The SDKs (TypeScript, Python, Go, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK) and the MCP connection repository on GitHub are MIT | 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 | 14 | 28 |
| MCP registry | `io.github.SerpKite/serpkite` | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` |
| Last release | 2026-10-04 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-03 | 2026-08-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-03 | 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 |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 809 npm/wk, 376 PyPI/wk | 9 stars, 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |