Spider Cloud alternatives
12 MCP servers, A2A agents and x402 APIs that also do web search, web scraping, ranked by how much they overlap with Spider Cloud (MCP server), live ones first.
Compared
| Name | Type | Live | Tools / skills | Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spider Cloud (this one) | MCP server | Yes | – | – |
| Firecrawl | MCP server | Yes | 3 | 80/100 |
| Glasser | MCP server | Yes | – | – |
| Web Search API for all your agents and LLMs | MCP server | Yes | – | – |
| Vend API Merchant | A2A agent | Yes | 9 | 90/100 |
| Web Search & Data API (kadec0) | x402 paid API | Yes | 12 | 90/100 |
| x402 Atlas Web Search, News & Page Reader | x402 paid API | Yes | 4 | 90/100 |
| a2a-browser | A2A agent | Yes | 2 | – |
| search.cyberwarex.com | x402 paid API | Yes | 5 | – |
| Vaaya | x402 paid API | Yes | 12 | 90/100 |
| MERCURY Web Fetch | A2A agent | Yes | 1 | – |
| Exa Search | MCP server | Yes | 2 | 80/100 |
| web-search | MCP server | Yes | 1 | 80/100 |
Live = answered our latest free daily check. Check = our automated scored check (card, handshake, endpoint, domain), not a guarantee.
The alternatives
- Firecrawl Live MCP
MCP server for Firecrawl — web search, scraping, and biomedical/arXiv paper search.
MCP server · Firecrawl · 3 tools · check 80/100 · also does web search, web scraping
- Glasser Live MCP
One key to 1,000+ paid data APIs: enrichment, SEO/SERP, scraping, places, news. Pay per call.
MCP server · ai.glasser · also does web search, web scraping
- Web Search API for all your agents and LLMs Live MCP
Live web search, image search, topic filters and full-text fetch over our own crawled index.
MCP server · ai.blopus · also does web search, web scraping
- Vend API Merchant Live A2A
Pay-per-call API merchant settled in Nano (XNO): web page extraction, link status checks, URL status checks, domain intelligence, web search, IP geolocation, Nano account info and YouTube transcript extraction. No signu…
A2A agent · Vend · 9 skills · check 90/100 · also does web search, web scraping
- Web Search & Data API (kadec0) Live x402
Pay-per-call web search and web data for AI agents. Multi-engine SERP (web + news, batch, rank-fused), search-and-read (top hits to markdown in one call), URL-to-markdown scraping, Google Trends (interest over time, rel…
x402 paid API · 12 endpoints · check 90/100 · also does web search, web scraping
- x402 Atlas Web Search, News & Page Reader Live x402
Real-time web search for AI agents — search the web and get ranked SERP-style results as clean JSON: title, URL, snippet, relevance score, optional LLM-generated answer. Find up-to-date information online — latest news,…
x402 paid API · 4 endpoints · check 90/100 · also does web search, web scraping
- a2a-browser Live A2A
AI-native pay-per-search web agent. Live web retrieval with LLM synthesis and entity extraction. No signup — pay per query.
A2A agent · digiantnz · 2 skills · also does web search, web scraping
- search.cyberwarex.com Live x402
Web search that returns structured SERP results as JSON. Runs on a dedicated SearXNG instance aggregating multiple engines, so there is no per-engine API key, quota or HTML scraping to manage. Each result carries title,…
x402 paid API · 5 endpoints · also does web search, web scraping
- Vaaya Live x402
Credit infrastructure for AI agents. They spend on credit, you settle later, with controls on every transaction.
x402 paid API · 12 endpoints · check 90/100 · also does web search, web scraping
- MERCURY Web Fetch Live A2A
The keyless, signed-provenance web-fetch for autonomous agents. Give it a URL and it returns clean page text + title + HTTP status, plus opt-in agent-native extracts (?format=markdown, ?links=1 link-graph, ?extract=1 de…
A2A agent · MERCURY · 1 skill · also does web search, web scraping
- Exa Search Live MCP
Connect AI agents to Exa for web search, content fetching, and multi-step research.
MCP server · Exa · 2 tools · check 80/100 · also does web search
- web-search Live MCP
Web search for AI agents — one tool across 6 engines, routed to the cheapest + cached.
MCP server · ai.groundroute · 1 tool · check 80/100 · also does web search