Agent Seek pricing

Agent Seek is a free prototype. There is no paid plan, no usage invoice from this host, no credit-card checkout, and no contact-sales form. If you self-host, you still pay whatever You.com and TypeSafe bill for the upstream calls this service makes on your behalf.

Plan tiers

Plan	Price	Who it is for	How to start	Rate limit	Discover cap
Sandbox	$0	Agents inspecting the contract	`GET /health`, `GET /v1`, `GET /v1/sandbox` (zero auth)	not throttled	n/a (canned body)
Prototype	$0	Live demo on this host	Public `AS_…` Bearer (same as `/config.js`) or optional OAuth DCR	When `AGENT_SEEK_DEMO_MODE=enabled`: 5 searches / IP lifetime shared by REST `/v1/search`, `/api/v1/search`, and MCP `search_web` (no reset); optional 60 req / min burst	100 candidates / query
Self-host	$0 from us	You run the repo	Set `AGENT_SEEK_API_KEY` in `.env`	Off unless you set Upstash	100 (code hard cap)

There is no Team, Business, or Enterprise SKU. If a future paid tier appears it will be listed here with a USD price, a feature matrix, and a Sunset note, not a “contact us” cell.

Feature breakdown

Feature	Sandbox	Prototype	Self-host
Google-simple search UI	yes (this host)	yes	yes
`POST /v1/search` / `GET /v1/search`	example only	yes	yes
`mode=snip` (API/MCP default)	example	yes	yes
`mode=deep` (opt-in)	example	yes	yes
MCP Streamable HTTP (`/mcp`)	tools/list yes	yes	yes
OAuth 2.0 + PKCE S256	yes (anonymous / DCR)	yes	yes
Shared API key	local `.env` only	public demo `AS_…` Bearer (not a secret)	you set it
OpenAPI 3.1 / Swagger / ReDoc	yes	yes	yes
SLA / uptime contract	no	no	no
Markup on You.com / Jev	none	none	none (you pay providers)

Usage limits

k: 1–25 (default 10)
max_candidates: 1–100 (default 50). The service never requests more than 100 discover hits.
Website demo quota: off unless AGENT_SEEK_DEMO_MODE=enabled (code default is disabled; the live host sets enabled at deploy). Then each client IP gets 5 searches total, shared by REST /v1/search, /api/v1/search, and MCP search_web (the HTML UI uses that same allowance). Counted in Upstash with no TTL and no time reset. After the allowance is used, 429 application/problem+json with code=DEMO_EXHAUSTED (no Retry-After). Also off when AGENT_SEEK_DEMO_SEARCH_LIMIT=0 or Upstash is unset. Unauthenticated MCP helper tools do not consume this quota.
Burst rate limit: optional Upstash Redis REST sliding window, per client IP (default 60/min). Off when UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_URL or UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_TOKEN is empty. Search and MCP search_web only. Health, sandbox, docs, and well-known discovery are not throttled. Responses include RFC RateLimit and RateLimit-Policy. Burst 429 includes Retry-After and application/problem+json with code=RATE_LIMITED. Redis errors while enabled fail closed (503).
Call timeouts: You.com ≤ 8s, Jev ≤ 8s, deep page fetch ≤ 5s per call. There is no whole-request timeout.

Default discover cost is on the order of You.com ~$0.005 per query plus Jev cascade spend on the admitted set. Agent Seek does not add a markup or invoice that spend.

How to get access

No sales form. Copy the public demo Bearer for live search; do not wait on email.

Zero-auth: call GET /v1/sandbox and GET /openapi.json.
Live demo Bearer: Authorization: Bearer AS_LXxYWY1wQcEwliYnkfAXRA-c0sPlsRtVz4j_ZvJRlnI (public; same as /config.js). Burns operator quota + per-IP demo limit. Walkthrough: auth.md.
Local key: cp .env.example .env, set AGENT_SEEK_API_KEY (and your own YDC / TypeSafe keys), run uvicorn apps.api.main:app --port 8787.
Optional / advanced — OAuth: POST /oauth2/register or POST /agent/identity with {"type":"anonymous"}. You do not need OAuth to try the live demo.

What is not included

Generated answers / chat
Unbounded crawl
SLA, refunds, or uptime credits (there is nothing to refund)
Metered billing or overage fees (there is no bill)

See API, auth.md, and versioning.