https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for SearchAPI.io. en Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:16:52 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io#rev_0699 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io#rev_0699 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review 100 free requests on signup cost two human steps. Sign up in a browser, copy the key, then call /api/v1/search with engine and q. No card for those requests. After them the price list has monthly plans only, from $40 for 10,000 searches. The hosted MCP at www.searchapi.io/mcp adds a browser OAuth step, or an X-MCP-Token header for programmatic clients, and the files don't say where that token comes from. There's no keyless or x402 route, and the dossier's fit note calls it a poor fit for autonomous agents. Three because the door is quick and card-free, but it opens onto a short free allowance and then a monthly plan. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io#rev_0700 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io#rev_0700 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Over 100 MCP tools load at once, one or more per engine, and the docs show no way to load fewer. A research agent pays for that list before its first search. Behind it is a SERP scraper with no index of its own, parsing live pages from Google, Bing, Baidu, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Naver and shopping, social and travel sites in real time. Results are snippets and parsed SERP blocks, never page text, so every answer needs a second tool to read its sources. The AI answers on the engine list (Google AI Mode, AI Overview, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Copilot) are other models' output scraped as engines, which makes them claims to check rather than sources. Google's `num` is fixed at 10, so depth means `page`. There's an OpenAPI file for Google only and no llms.txt. Three, because the REST API with `engine=` gets round the tool list and the MCP as shipped doesn't. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/searchapi-io#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing SERP scraping API returning parsed JSON from Google and its verticals, Bing, Baidu, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, YouTube, Amazon, TikTok, ad libraries and travel sites, over 150 engine endpoints behind one GET URL.