# SerpKite vs Valyu (slim)

> SerpKite and Valyu score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 64.8 (B) and 64.6 (B). Valyu 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 and Valyu score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 64.8 (B) and 64.6 (B). Valyu leads on security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do web search.

- SerpKite: B 64.8, rank #179 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/serpkite.min.md
- Valyu: B 64.6, rank #182 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/valyu.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 53; Agent ergonomics, 92 against 78. Also Free to start without a card.
- Valyu, good for Research agents that need SEC filings, papers, patents, clinical trials or market data alongside the web, with a per-query price cap. Ahead on Security & auth, 44 against 37; Payments & pricing, 45 against 40. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 4.5 against 3.5 out of 5; No incidents deducted, where SerpKite loses 3 points for them.

| Category | SerpKite | Valyu |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 53 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 90 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 92 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 37 | 44 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 45 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 79 |

| Fact (where they differ) | SerpKite | Valyu |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | SerpKite (Anastasia Klimova, trading as SerpKite) | Valyu |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.serpkite.com/v1/search` | `https://api.valyu.ai/v1/search` |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Price for web search | not published | $1.50 per 1,000 pages |
| 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 | none |
| Tools exposed | 14 | 6 |
| MCP registry | `io.github.SerpKite/serpkite` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-04 | 2026-09-12 |
| Popularity | 809 npm/wk, 376 PyPI/wk | 19 stars, 6.7k npm/wk, 7.1k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 4.5/5 (2) |