You.com alternatives
12 MCP servers, A2A agents and x402 APIs that also do web search, x402 paid apis, ranked by how much they overlap with You.com (x402 paid API), live ones first.
Compared
| Name | Type | Live | Tools / skills | Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| You.com (this one) | x402 paid API | Yes | 2 | 83/100 |
| Brave Search API | x402 paid API | Yes | 8 | 90/100 |
| StableEnrich | x402 paid API | Yes | 12 | 90/100 |
| x402 Atlas Web Search, News & Page Reader | x402 paid API | Yes | 4 | 90/100 |
| api.agentstools.dev | x402 paid API | Yes | 12 | 80/100 |
| BlockRun AI Gateway | x402 paid API | Yes | 12 | 90/100 |
| Vaaya | x402 paid API | Yes | 12 | 90/100 |
| Research Brief | A2A agent | Yes | 3 | – |
| Exa | x402 paid API | No | 2 | 90/100 |
| Tavily | x402 paid API | No | 1 | 39/100 |
| Agentropolis | A2A agent | Yes | 3 | 90/100 |
| x711io - universal gas station market and intelligence | MCP server | Yes | – | 55/100 |
| Agent Exchange (RileyCraig14) | A2A agent | Yes | 12 | – |
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The alternatives
- Brave Search API Live x402
Web search over Brave's independent index. Returns ranked pages with title, URL, and snippet, plus news, video, and discussion results when relevant. Use it to find current sources on any topic. Pass q, and optionally c…
x402 paid API · 8 endpoints · check 90/100 · also does web search, x402 paid apis
- StableEnrich Live x402
Pay-per-request access to FullEnrich, CompanyEnrich, LeadMagic, Exa, Firecrawl, Google Maps, Serper, and Whitepages APIs. No auth, no subscriptions.
x402 paid API · 12 endpoints · check 90/100 · also does web search, x402 paid apis
- 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, x402 paid apis
- api.agentstools.dev Live x402
Keyword news search across web news engines (Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo via ddgs). Returns dated headlines with title/url/snippet/source/image + freshness/region/safesearch filters.
x402 paid API · 12 endpoints · check 80/100 · also does web search, x402 paid apis
- BlockRun AI Gateway Live x402
Agent-native AI gateway. Pay-per-request with USDC on Base. No accounts or API keys required.
x402 paid API · 12 endpoints · check 90/100 · also does web search, x402 paid apis
- 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, x402 paid apis
- Research Brief Live A2A
Writes a structured research brief from a question: summary, key points, options, risks, open questions and what to verify. Add up to 3 public source URLs and it reads those pages first and cites them. Without sources i…
A2A agent · Rooms by Aurmada · 3 skills · also does web search, x402 paid apis
- Exa x402
Search API for AI agents that need real-time web data, deep research, and structured content from one endpoint. Try our API for free.
x402 paid API · 2 endpoints · check 90/100 · also does web search, x402 paid apis
- Tavily x402
Pay-per-request Tavily web search over the x402 protocol.
x402 paid API · 1 endpoint · check 39/100 · also does web search, x402 paid apis
- Agentropolis Live A2A
Search engine for agent-usable tools: MCP servers, x402/MPP paid APIs, A2A agents and kits, with payment-verified trust scores and honest badges (Verified, Live-Tested, Trusted auto-computed; Agentropolis Pro is a label…
A2A agent · Agentropolis · 3 skills · check 90/100 · also does web search, x402 paid apis
- x711io - universal gas station market and intelligence Live MCP
Pay-per-call tool API for autonomous agents. x402 payments on Base. 27 tools including web search, price feeds, and The Hive shared memory layer.
MCP server · ramboweb3 · check 55/100 · also does web search, x402 paid apis
- Agent Exchange (RileyCraig14) Live A2A
Machine-payable data and tools for autonomous agents: crypto pre-trade intelligence, on-chain RPC reads, web research, public-sector opportunity data, AI visibility, prediction markets and DeFi. 85 paid routes are curre…
A2A agent · RileyCraig14 · 12 skills · also does web search, x402 paid apis