# SerpKite vs You.com APIs (slim)

> You.com APIs scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against SerpKite's 64.8 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SerpKite leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency & trust. Both do web search. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by…

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You.com APIs scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against SerpKite's 64.8 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SerpKite leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and transparency & trust. Both do web search.

- SerpKite: B 64.8, rank #179 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/serpkite.min.md
- You.com APIs: BB 76.9, rank #20 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api.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 Schema & documentation, 90 against 82; Agent ergonomics, 92 against 84; Transparency & trust, 77 against 63.
- 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, 85 against 65; Security & auth, 53 against 37; Payments & pricing, 88 against 40. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where SerpKite loses 3 points for them.

| Category | SerpKite | You.com APIs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 90 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 92 | 84 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 37 | 53 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 88 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | SerpKite | You.com APIs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | SerpKite (Anastasia Klimova, trading as SerpKite) | You.com |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.serpkite.com/v1/search` | `https://api.you.com/v1/search` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Price for web search | not published | $5 per 1,000 requests |
| x402 | no | payer tooling only |
| 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` | `io.github.youdotcom-oss/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-04 | 2026-09-22 |
| Popularity | 809 npm/wk, 376 PyPI/wk | 4.4k npm/wk, 92k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3.8/5 (8) |