Web search MCP: live search and page reading in Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor

    Give your AI agent live web search from Exa, Tavily, Brave, Perplexity, Parallel, Linkup and more through one MCP connection, plus tools that read full pages and papers. You pay per search from one balance, with no API keys. For research, competitor checks, news and fact-checking when the built-in search is not enough.

    99 tools and 68 skills that use them. Pay per use from one balance, no API keys.

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    Starting prices. Prices can vary with length and quality. Your AI Agent works out the exact price, runs the tool from your balance and tells you what it cost. Failed uses are free.

    What do you want your agent to do?

    Our web search tools and MCPs

    SourceBest forExample, today's priceOfficial MCP
    ExaResearch answers with citations, plus people, company and news searchAnswer a question with citations, $0.0065 per callYes
    TavilyWeb and news search, page extraction and site crawlsSearch the open web, $0.0104 per callYes
    Brave SearchBrave's own index: web, news, images, videos and placesGet Brave LLM context, $0.0065 per callYes
    PerplexityFast web search and short cited answersAnswer a web question quickly, $0.013 per callYes
    ParallelFast or in-depth search with page excerptsSearch the web in depth, $0.0065 per callYes
    LinkupSearch, page fetching and structured extractionFetch a web page, $0.0013 per callYes
    You.comSearch with page highlights and cited researchResearch a web question, $0.0156 per callYes
    ValyuAcademic papers, SEC filings and deep researchSearch academic papers, $0.065 per 10 resultsYes
    FirecrawlWeb search when you plan to scrape the results nextSearch the open web, $0.013 per callYes
    Google resultsGoogle organic results for a keyword, country and languageGoogle organic results for a keyword, $0.0002 per callNot applicable

    Each row shows one example tool; the list below has every search tool with its live price. Missing a source? Get in touch.

    How to choose the best web search tool or MCP for you

    Links, pages or answers

    Some tools return links with snippets, some the full page text and some a written answer with sources. For research we prefer an answer with citations; for anything you quote or analyze, have your agent read the full page too.

    Freshness

    For news and prices, use a news search and ask your agent to give the date of each result. A general web search can rank older pages first.

    Depth and cost

    A quick search costs a small part of a deep research run. Let your agent search cheap and broad first, then spend on deep research for the one or two questions that matter.

    Special indexes

    Papers, SEC filings, podcasts, people and companies have their own search tools. For those jobs they find more than a general web search.

    If you needChooseToday's price
    A sourced answer to one questionExa answer with citations$0.0065 per call
    Many quick searches in a rowWeb search, provider picked per callFree to $0.0013 per call
    Today's news on a companyTavily recent news$0.0104 per call
    The full text of one page or PDFLinkup page fetch$0.0013 per call
    Papers for a literature reviewResearch publication searchFree to $0.0013 per call
    A longer cited answerYou.com research$0.0156 per call
    Google's top results for a keywordGoogle organic results$0.0002 per call

    Quick picks: Exa for research with sources, the multi-provider web search for many queries, Tavily or Brave for news, Linkup to read pages, and our web scraping page when you need a whole site.

    Why use Agensi instead of separate web search MCPs?

    Exa, Tavily, Brave, Perplexity, Parallel, Linkup, You.com, Valyu and Firecrawl all publish their own MCP server. Most need their own account and API key or sign-in, and their own credits. If you only ever use one of them, that is the simplest route. Most research jobs combine two or three: a search to find pages, a fetch to read them and sometimes a deep research run. We put them behind one connection and one balance, so your agent can mix sources and tell you what each search cost.

    What you getOfficial MCP per brandOwn API key or community serverAgensi
    AccountsOne per brandOne per brandOne
    API keysPer brand, or a sign-inPer brand, kept by youNone
    PaymentA plan or credits per brandPer brandOne balance, per use
    Spending controlVariesUp to youLimits per use, day and month, or ask first
    Several sources in one answerConnect several serversSeveral servers and keysOne connection
    Skills for the whole jobNoNoYes, from the marketplace

    When another way is the better choice. A provider's own MCP server is the better choice when you run thousands of searches a day with one provider and have a volume deal with them, or need a feature that only their own server offers. Agensi fits when you mix sources and want one balance and one connection for all of them.

    Set up in your AI agent

    Connect your AI agent to Agensi once, sign in and click Allow. After that it can use every tool: it runs one from your balance and tells you what it cost. No API keys or provider accounts.

    1. Open Settings, then Connectors, then Browse connectors and add Agensi (or Add custom connector and paste https://mcp.agensi.io/mcp/auth).
    2. Sign in to Agensi and click Allow. One agent per account: connecting a new one disconnects the old one.
    3. Ask for what you want, for example: "Find the newest articles about [competitor] from the last 7 days, read the 5 most relevant and list what they launched, with dates and links." Top up from $5 if your balance is low; failed uses are free.

    Grok, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Cline, Kiro and other agents with remote MCP and sign-in work too: see the setup guide.

    What it costs: a worked example

    "Find the newest articles about [competitor] from the last 7 days, read the 5 most relevant and list what they launched, with dates and links."
    About$0.0338

    At today's starting prices. Your agent works out the exact price for your request and tells you what it cost.

    Combine web search tools with skills

    Web search MCP: frequently asked questions

    A web search MCP is a connector that lets your AI agent search the live web and read pages by itself, in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Claude Code. Your agent calls it when a question needs current or specific information. With Agensi, one connection gives it every search tool on this page.

    For everyday questions the built-in search is enough, and we would not add a tool for it. A search MCP helps when you need control: a specific source such as Google results or news, the full text of pages, papers or filings, or many searches in a row in Claude Code or Cursor while your agent works on files.

    There is no single best one; the job decides. We start with Exa for research with sources, Tavily or Brave for news, the multi-provider web search for many quick queries, Linkup to read pages and Firecrawl when a site needs crawling. Through one connection your agent can mix them in a single task.

    Through Agensi, yes in practice: our Google tools return Google's organic results, Google News and other search features for a keyword, country and language. They pick a provider per call, and your agent pays per call from your balance, with no Google account or API key. Our SERP API page lists every Google results tool.

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