# Paperfoot AI Pte. Ltd. (metasearch.sh)

Routes one API key and prepaid dollar balance to many web search, scraping and research engines, billing each call per engine.

- Atlas card: https://inite.ai/en/atlas/metasearch.sh
- Site: https://metasearch.sh
- For: Developers and agents who need one API key for web search, page extraction and research engines.
- Categories: dev
- Use not measured/100 · alive 100/100

## Used for

- search the web across news, academic, patent and image sources
- extract web pages as readable text from URLs
- get cited answers from deep research queries

## Price

- from 0.000375 USD/usage, no free plan (read 2026-11-02 on https://metasearch.sh/pricing)

## For developers

- API docs: https://metasearch.sh/docs/api/providers
- MCP server: sh.metasearch/search (namespace; auth on 2026-11-02)
- Status page: https://metasearch.sh/status
- Read 2026-11-02

## MCP server, measured daily

Server: https://metasearch.sh/mcp, checked every day since 2026-11-03 (2 checks).

- Answered: measuring, 2 daily checks so far
- Median first answer: 210 ms
- Sign-in: none
- Context its tool definitions take: about 939 tokens (2 tools)
- Tool definitions: A, 92/100
- Failing "params_described": 1 of 2 tools
- Method: https://inite.ai/en/atlas/mcp/report

## Your data

- Certifications stated: none
- Training on your data: no (https://metasearch.sh/privacy)
- Read 2026-11-02

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Source: INITE Atlas, https://inite.ai/en/atlas/metasearch.sh. JSON: https://inite.ai/api/atlas/metasearch.sh. MCP: https://inite.ai/api/mcp (atlas_lookup).