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Zai Web Search

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Remote MCP server providing web search and real-time information retrieval capabilities for MCP-compatible clients like Claude Code and Cline. Offers comprehen…

MCP serverPricing checked daily
Agentery value verdictPriced near the marketfrom $18/mo
Observed entry price$18/molowest observed monthly
Connection modelMCP serverMCP clients
Pricing observed29 Oct 2026latest priced read of the page
Website liveness29 Oct 2026alive · separate from pricing

What it does

The specific capability behind this listing, and where to get it.

Zai Web Search

Remote MCP server providing web search and real-time information retrieval capabilities for MCP-compatible clients like Claude Code and Cline. Offers comprehen…

MCPA2A

Pricing & plans

Observed public pricing for Zai Web Search, benchmarked against comparable providers. Plans, tiers, history and scenario below.

Pricing · observed daily
GLM Coding Plan · market position

$18 /mo

0% above the Individual flat median. Basis: Individual flat plans in Web Search API, same buyer tier and billing unit, 11 providers, USD monthly, observed 2026-10-29. Separately, across all Individual-tier plans in the niche regardless of billing unit (33 providers): cheaper than 7 of them.
this agent · $18
$9.50median $18$29.49
pricing observed 2026-10-29 · page rechecked daily · source evidence retained
What should this agent charge?

This plan sits close to the comparable median.

pricing recommendation
$18
$9.50–$29.49
$18

$18 sits inside the observed Individual flat range ($9.50–$29.49) — around the 50th percentile of observed prices — squarely at market.

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Why Agentery reaches that view

price_benchmark

0% above the Individual flat median.

get_provider_profile · plan history

GLM Coding Plan observed 2026-10-29.

pricing recommendation

~50th percentile of comparable Individual flat plans (approximate: interpolated between the cohort’s observed quartiles, 11 providers).

confidence

medium; source page rechecked daily.

Interactive provider scenario

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$18 / month
$9.50 lowestmedian $18$54 highest
At-market position. At $18/month, this plan is 0% above the Individual flat median (11 providers).
50th
+0%
$9.50–$29.49

Is Zai Web Search good value?

How its price compares with genuinely comparable providers.

Priced near the market

Priced near the market for its buyer tier.

Basis: Individual flat plans at the same billing unit (11 providers), USD monthly, pricing observed 2026-10-29. The GLM Coding Plan plan ($18/mo) sits 0% above that median of $18. Other cohorts on this page (niche-wide tier peers, nearest products by capability) are labelled where they appear.

Observed commercial price$18/mo
Position among MCP serversLower-mid priced among MCP servers · 17 priced · normal
Hosting model—
Price benchmarkapplicable
How it compares

Compared with Web Search API

Positioned against the observed p25 / median / p75 of comparable providers at the same buyer tier and billing unit (the basis is stated with each verdict above). See the plans above for the percentile and its cohort size, and the full niche market for peers.

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Zai Web Search's local market

Nearest products by what they do — a different cohort from the buyer-tier benchmark above. Local median $29/mo (entry prices of 9 priced of 50 nearest products, any tier or billing unit) — Zai Web Search is 38% below it.

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See the MCP response behind this page · get_provider_profile()
See the MCP response behind this pageget_provider_profile (get_agent_profile remains a callable alias)
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      "note": "verified = the page-text gate ran for that scan day (day-before/day-of text check)"
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    "agent_card": {
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "no Agent Card URL recorded for this listing"
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    "vendor_published": null,
    "note": "Automated check of the vendor's public A2A agent card and endpoint. The check reads the card and sends an empty JSON-RPC request; it delivers no message. Vendor quotes are copied word for word from the card or its documentation."
  },
  "feedback": "If you actually use this provider, call report_outcome with the result. Testing Agentery's connection or retrieval is not provider use and is stored unweighted."
}