{
  "alternatives": [
    {
      "auth": "mixed",
      "capabilities": [
        "web.search",
        "web.fetch",
        "web.extract",
        "search.answer",
        "search.research",
        "search.news"
      ],
      "endpoint": "https://api.you.com/v1/search",
      "grade": "BB",
      "jobPrice": {
        "label": "per 1,000 requests",
        "unit": "1k-requests",
        "usd": 5
      },
      "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/you-com-api.json",
      "keyless": true,
      "keylessBy": "x402: pay per call instead of a key",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "leadPriceUsd": 0.005,
      "leadUnit": "call",
      "letme": "https://letme.dev/you-com-api",
      "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api.md",
      "name": "You.com APIs",
      "priceSummary": "$5 / 1k req",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "rank": 24,
      "sample": false,
      "score": 76.9,
      "slug": "you-com-api",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/you-com-api",
      "vendor": "You.com",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": "partial"
    },
    {
      "auth": "api-key",
      "capabilities": [
        "browser.hosted",
        "browser.control",
        "web.fetch",
        "web.search",
        "web.scrape"
      ],
      "endpoint": "https://api.browserbase.com/v1",
      "grade": "BB",
      "jobPrice": {
        "label": "per 1,000 requests",
        "unit": "1k-requests",
        "usd": 7
      },
      "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/browserbase.json",
      "keyless": true,
      "keylessBy": "x402: pay per call instead of a key",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "leadPriceUsd": 0.1,
      "leadUnit": "browser-hour",
      "letme": "https://letme.dev/browserbase",
      "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/browserbase.md",
      "name": "Browserbase",
      "priceSummary": "$0.12 / browser-hr",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "rank": 25,
      "sample": false,
      "score": 76.6,
      "slug": "browserbase",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/browserbase",
      "vendor": "Browserbase",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": "yes"
    },
    {
      "auth": "mixed",
      "capabilities": [
        "web.search",
        "web.extract",
        "web.crawl",
        "web.fetch",
        "search.answer",
        "search.research",
        "search.news",
        "search.images"
      ],
      "endpoint": "https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/?tavilyApiKey=<key>",
      "grade": "BB",
      "jobPrice": {
        "label": "per 1,000 requests",
        "unit": "1k-requests",
        "usd": 7.5
      },
      "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tavily-mcp.json",
      "keyless": true,
      "keylessBy": "x402: pay per call instead of a key",
      "kind": "mcp",
      "leadPriceUsd": 0.008,
      "leadUnit": "credit",
      "letme": "https://letme.dev/tavily-mcp",
      "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tavily-mcp.md",
      "name": "Tavily API + MCP",
      "priceSummary": "$7.50 / 1k req",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "rank": 20,
      "sample": false,
      "score": 77.2,
      "slug": "tavily-mcp",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tavily-mcp",
      "vendor": "Tavily",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": "partial"
    }
  ],
  "calling": {
    "note": "letme picks today. Calling through letme (one key, payments) comes later; call the pick direct with the details above.",
    "open": false
  },
  "capability": "web.search",
  "directory": {
    "base": "https://www.anchorterminal.com",
    "build": "20261004T190737Z",
    "fetchedAt": "2026-10-04T21:21:02Z",
    "note": "Anchor Terminal grades the tools and publishes the grades; letme reads them from the same public files anyone can read. letme's terms are never an input to a grade.",
    "sameCompany": true
  },
  "filters": {
    "n": 3
  },
  "letme": "https://letme.dev/web.search",
  "live": false,
  "order": "in the rule's order",
  "pick": {
    "agentNotes": [
      "Pass `mode: \"fast\"` on every search. Without it you pay the advanced rate",
      "Create Task runs with `max_retries=0` and check for an existing run before retrying",
      "Give an `objective` plus two or three short `search_queries`. That's what ranks the excerpts"
    ],
    "auth": "mixed",
    "authNotes": "API key in the `x-api-key` header. The Search MCP at search.parallel.ai/mcp works anonymously at lower limits, takes a Bearer key, and /mcp-oauth adds OAuth. An OAuth provider can issue keys on behalf of your users.",
    "capabilities": [
      "web.search",
      "web.fetch",
      "web.extract",
      "search.answer",
      "search.research"
    ],
    "connect": {
      "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http parallel-search https://search.parallel.ai/mcp",
      "config": {
        "mcpServers": {
          "parallel-search": {
            "headers": {
              "Authorization": "Bearer ${PARALLEL_API_KEY}"
            },
            "url": "https://search.parallel.ai/mcp"
          }
        }
      },
      "http": "curl https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search -H \"x-api-key: $PARALLEL_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"mode\":\"fast\",\"objective\":\"Latest Parallel Web Systems announcements\",\"search_queries\":[\"Parallel Web Systems news\"]}'",
      "x402": "curl -i -X POST https://parallelmpp.dev/api/search -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{\"query\":\"test\"}'\n# 402 -> pay $0.01 USDC on eip155:8453 (or MPP via Stripe/Tempo) -> resend"
    },
    "docs": "https://docs.parallel.ai",
    "endpoint": "https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search",
    "grade": "BB",
    "jobPrice": {
      "label": "per 1,000 requests",
      "unit": "1k-requests",
      "usd": 1
    },
    "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parallel-search-api.json",
    "keyless": true,
    "keylessBy": "x402: pay per call instead of a key",
    "kind": "http-api",
    "leadPriceUsd": 0.01,
    "leadUnit": "call",
    "letme": "https://letme.dev/parallel-search-api",
    "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api.md",
    "name": "Parallel Search and Task APIs",
    "priceSummary": "$1 / 1k req",
    "pricing": "freemium",
    "rank": 51,
    "sample": false,
    "score": 74.1,
    "slug": "parallel-search-api",
    "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api",
    "vendor": "Parallel Web Systems",
    "where": "hosted",
    "x402": "partial",
    "x402Endpoints": [
      {
        "network": "eip155:8453",
        "priceUsd": 0.01,
        "url": "https://parallelmpp.dev/api/search"
      },
      {
        "network": "eip155:8453",
        "priceUsd": 0.01,
        "url": "https://parallelmpp.dev/api/extract"
      },
      {
        "network": "eip155:8453",
        "priceUsd": 0.3,
        "url": "https://parallelmpp.dev/api/task"
      }
    ]
  },
  "picking": true,
  "priceUnit": {
    "label": "per 1,000 requests",
    "unit": "1k-requests"
  },
  "rule": "highest Anchor grade for the capability, then price, compared only between prices whose item names the job, in one unit (the unit most listings at that grade price the job in, usage before plans), then p95 latency, then the Anchor score, then the name",
  "why": "Grade BB, the highest for web.search among ranked listings; cheaper per 1,000 requests than You.com APIs at the same grade ($1 against $5)."
}