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Brave Search API
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Linkup
Premium web search API for AI agents. OpenAPI plus per-query pricing.
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Stork Quadrant
Becomes the API· 25/100
Replaceable as a UI, but kept alive as the API the agents call.
“Linkup is a thin wrapper around web search. Claude and other LLMs can already call Brave, Google, or Bing search APIs directly, or agents can use built-in web search. The only defensibility is speed or result quality, but those decay as models get native search. This dies unless Linkup becomes the default search layer that agents prefer — which requires either better results than free APIs or a network effect it doesn't have.”
Defensibility · 0/100
- Physical-world coupling
- Regulatory moat
- Network liquidity
- Proprietary refreshing data
- High-trust catastrophic workflows
- Multi-party coordination
- Brand / community / taste
An LLM alone could replace
- Fetch and parse web search results for an agent query
- Return structured data about web pages (title, snippet, URL)
- Rate-limit and meter API calls to control cost
- Integrate search into an agentic workflow via OpenAPI spec
Agent-Readiness · 55/100
- Verified MCP
- Listed on agent surfaces— anthropic_directory
- Usage-based pricing— pricing page heuristic match: https://linkup.so/pricing
- Headless agent auth
- Public OpenAPI— https://api.linkup.so/v1/openapi.json
- Active changelog— https://linkup.so/blog (2026-05-25)
- llms.txt
Score history · +14 pts over 2 re-scores
How to defend
Become the search backbone for agent frameworks (like LangChain or CrewAI) by offering 10x cheaper per-query pricing and proving result quality on agent-specific benchmarks. Or pivot to vertical search (legal, medical, financial) where proprietary indexing and regulatory trust matter.
- Ship an MCP server and list it on Stork — biggest single point gain (+25).
- Expose API-key auth with a self-serve sandbox tier; remove sales-call gates (+15).
- Ship an /llms.txt file pointing agents to your most important docs (+5, easy win).
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