# TinyFish Search vs You.com APIs (slim)

> You.com APIs scores 76.5 (BB) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish Search leads on security & auth. Both do web search. TinyFish Search is cheaper for web search, $0 against $5 per 1,000 requests. Category scores…

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You.com APIs scores 76.5 (BB) on agent readiness against TinyFish Search's 63.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. TinyFish Search leads on security & auth. Both do web search. TinyFish Search is cheaper for web search, $0 against $5 per 1,000 requests.

- TinyFish Search: B 63.2, rank #366 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinyfish-search.min.md
- You.com APIs: BB 76.5, rank #30 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api.min.md
- 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 53. Also Cheaper for web search, $0 against $5 per 1,000 requests.
- 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 50; Agent ergonomics, 84 against 78; Payments & pricing, 88 against 45; Transparency & trust, 58 against 52. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Runs on your own machine.

| Category | TinyFish Search | You.com APIs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 84 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 58 | 53 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 45 | 88 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 78 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 52 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | TinyFish Search | You.com APIs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | TinyFish | You.com |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.search.tinyfish.ai` | `https://api.you.com/v1/search` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Price for web search | free | $5 per 1,000 requests |
| x402 | no | payer tooling only |
| Licence | 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 | none |
| Tools exposed | 28 | 6 |
| MCP registry | `ai.tinyfish.agent/web-agent` | `io.github.youdotcom-oss/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-22 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-17 | 2024-08-27 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-12-14 | 2026-09-22 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 9 stars, 5.7k npm/wk, 6.5k PyPI/wk | 4.4k npm/wk, 92k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.8/5 (8) |