AgentKey
AgentKey is a single MCP gateway that connects an AI agent to about 1,800 live data tools spanning web search, page scraping, social platforms, finance, crypto and e-commerce, all under one key and one subscription.
What is AgentKey?
AgentKey is a data-access layer for AI agents, built by Chainbase and operated from Singapore by Chainbase Technology Holdings Pte. Ltd. It ships as a single MCP server, with an SDK and REST API alongside, and exposes roughly 1,800 tools across eight categories: web search, page scraping, social platforms, crypto and on-chain data, finance, business intelligence, e-commerce, and a free account tool that reports your remaining balance.
The problem it targets is familiar to anyone running an agent in Claude Code or Cursor. Ask for chatter on X, honest Reddit threads or a quick price check, and the agent stalls: search comes back thin, social platforms are closed, pages return 403 or junk. The alternative, signing up separately with Brave, Tavily, Serper, Perplexity, Exa, Firecrawl, Bright Data and a dozen more, means separate keys, separate consent screens and separate invoices. AgentKey collapses that into one credential and handles authentication, routing, failover and billing behind a single interface. It is deliberately not a model: you bring your own agent.
Coverage is widest on social, around 1,169 tools reaching X, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram and Threads, plus a set of Chinese platforms rarely bundled elsewhere, among them Douyin, Weibo, Zhihu, Bilibili, Red Book and Kuaishou. Finance adds roughly 347 tools over Yahoo Finance, FRED, Finnhub, Alpha Vantage and Tushare, while e-commerce reaches Taobao, JD.COM, Amazon, 1688, TikTok Shop and Beike.
Two mechanisms matter in daily use. Automatic failover reroutes a call to a backup provider when a source goes down, so a session is not derailed by someone else's outage. And every tool declares its per-call cost in credits before you spend them, drawing first on a monthly allowance and then billing overage instead of cutting you off mid-task.
Twenty-two agents are supported, Claude Code among the first, and installation is a single shell command or a prompt the agent runs itself. The product is young: the domain was registered in April 2026 and first archived in July 2026, and parts of the site, notably the integrations catalogue, are still unfinished.
What it does
- Search the open web through six engines, including Brave, Tavily, Serper, Perplexity, Exa and Parallel
- Read social platforms your agent cannot otherwise reach, from X, Reddit and LinkedIn to Douyin, Weibo and Red Book
- Turn any page into clean markdown and get past anti-bot blocks with Firecrawl, Jina or Bright Data
- Pull market quotes, macro series and technical indicators from Yahoo Finance, FRED, Finnhub, Alpha Vantage and Tushare
- Track prices, rankings and reviews on Taobao, JD.COM, Amazon, 1688, TikTok Shop and Beike
- Look up company, funding and acquisition intelligence through Crunchbase
- Check crypto market, on-chain, NFT and DEX data across roughly 179 dedicated tools
When to use AgentKey / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if AgentKey is the right fit.
When to use AgentKey
- Agent builders and developers already running Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf or Codex who need live external data without wiring up a dozen provider APIs
- Product managers mining Reddit, X and marketplace reviews for user complaints, pricing objections and unmet needs
- Growth marketers and social media managers who track conversations, launches and competitor positioning across Western and Chinese platforms
- Financial and investment analysts pulling quotes, macro series, technical indicators and company funding data into an agent workflow
- Independent consultants and small teams who want one predictable subscription instead of ten metered API invoices
When not to use AgentKey
- Anyone expecting a ready-made AI assistant: AgentKey supplies no model and no agent, and is useless on its own
- Traders and investors wanting execution or custody, since the terms restrict the service to informational data and rule out any brokerage or crypto transaction
- Teams needing mobile access, as there is no iOS or Android application and nothing runs outside an agent, CLI or browser console
- Regulated organisations requiring a signed DPA, a named hosting jurisdiction or a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certificate, none of which are published
- Anyone planning to harvest personal data or bypass a platform's terms, which the prohibited-uses clause forbids outright
How to use AgentKey
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Create an account in the console at agentkey.app; your master key appears immediately
- Choose a plan, or stay on the free plan, which needs no payment method
- Open the console get-started flow, which identifies your agent and returns the exact install command
- For a CLI or IDE agent, run the one-line installer, which registers the MCP server and writes your key
- For a chat agent, paste the install prompt instead and let the agent pull the skill from ClawHub
- For a desktop agent, add the server to its configuration file
- On first use, approve the prompt for your key; AgentKey verifies the connection
- Ask your agent for the data you need in plain language, without naming a provider
- Use find_tools and describe_tool to see each call's credit cost before committing to bulk work
- Monitor the balance and provider health with the free account tool, and adjust the plan or overage limits from the console
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Replaces ten or more API subscriptions with one key, one balance and one invoice
- Automatic failover keeps a session running when a provider goes down
- Costs are visible before you spend: each call declares its credit price, and the balance check is free
- Overage keeps work going instead of stopping it at the end of the allowance
- Unusually deep coverage of Chinese social and commerce platforms, from Douyin and Weibo to Taobao and 1688
- Solid privacy posture: content relayed rather than stored, no training on personal data, analytics off until you opt in
- A permanent free plan that needs no card and never converts to a paid one on its own
Cons
- A very young product: domain registered in April 2026, first web archive in July 2026, a single blog post
- Visible loose ends, including an integrations page that lists no services and a documentation support page still carrying its internal template instruction
- One human channel only, an email address and a Telegram group, with no phone, no form and no public status page
- No Article 27 GDPR representative appointed, and the PIPL cross-border transfer mechanism is stated as pending legal sign-off
- No hosting country disclosed, no DPA offered to customers and no published security certification
- Monthly credits do not roll over, and neither unused credits nor part-periods are refundable
- Compliance risk is passed entirely to the user, with liability capped at three months of fees and disputes sent to binding arbitration
Pricing & Plans
AgentKey offers a permanent free plan that requires no payment method and never converts automatically into a paid subscription. The lowest paid entry point is the Lite plan at USD 12.90 per month billed monthly, or USD 9.90 per month on an annual commitment paid upfront as USD 118.80. All prices are quoted in US dollars and exclude applicable taxes, which may be added at checkout. Usage beyond a plan's monthly credit allowance is billed as overage per credit.
- no payment method required
- a welcome credit may apply
- and extra credits cannot be purchased
- USD 12.90 per month
- or USD 9.90 per month billed annually (USD 118.80 per year)
- with 500 credits per month
- around 30 tasks
- all data sources
- email support and standard concurrency
- USD 39.90 per month
- or USD 29.90 per month billed annually (USD 358.80 per year)
- with 1
- 500 credits per month
- around 100 tasks
- everything in Lite plus priority support
- higher concurrency limits and early access to new features
- marked most popular
- USD 129.90 per month
- or USD 99.90 per month billed annually (USD 1
- 198.80 per year)
- with 6
- 000 credits per month
- around 500 tasks
- everything in Pro plus dedicated support
- deep research at any scale
- one-off top-ups reserved for paid subscribers
- valid longer than monthly credits
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how AgentKey handles your data.
GDPR overview
The privacy policy, effective 27 July 2026, carries a dedicated EEA and UK section. It names four legal bases, contract performance, legitimate interests, consent for analytics cookies and legal obligation, and lists the full set of rights: access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, portability, withdrawal of consent and complaint to a supervisory authority. Requests are answered within thirty days. Analytics load only after opt-in, in line with the ePrivacy Directive, and international transfers rely on Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent safeguards. Subprocessors are named. One gap is stated openly rather than hidden: no Article 27 EU or UK representative has been appointed, the policy merely reserving the space for one. Comparable sections cover CCPA/CPRA, PIPL and LGPD.
Who owns the data?
Query and response content stays yours: AgentKey states it relays that content rather than storing it, processing it in memory only for as long as routing takes. What the vendor does keep is account data, hashed API keys and usage metadata such as timestamps, endpoints, latency and credit cost. Passwords go to Clerk, card details to Stripe, and neither reaches AgentKey. The important shift concerns third-party data: once your agent retrieves personal data through a provider, the privacy policy makes you the data controller for it, not AgentKey. You can view, export or delete your own account data from the dashboard at any time.
Reuse rights
AgentKey does not claim ownership of what your agent retrieves, and imposes no permission step before you reuse it, but it explicitly disclaims any warranty that such reuse is lawful. Responsibility passes to you. The terms require your use to comply with data protection law, with the terms of service of every platform behind a provider, with intellectual property law and with anti-scraping and computer access rules in your jurisdiction. Reselling or redistributing raw third-party data in breach of the originating provider's terms is prohibited, as is compiling personal data without a legal basis or building profiling and surveillance systems. On its own side, AgentKey commits to not selling personal data and to not training machine learning models on it.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
AgentKey does not name a hosting country or region. The privacy policy refers only to unnamed cloud infrastructure providers used to run its servers and store data, and states that the vendor and its processors operate across several jurisdictions. Where personal data leaves your country of residence, transfers rely on Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent safeguards. The one concrete commitment concerns residency-restricted sources: requests for data that may only be served from within a given jurisdiction are routed through infrastructure in that region, and such sources may be withheld elsewhere so that data does not cross borders unlawfully. Named subprocessors are Clerk for authentication, Stripe for payments and PostHog for analytics. Note that the vendor publishes no hosting certification, and that the domain's own resolution to a Netherlands address is an observation about the website, not a statement about where customer data lives.
Where AgentKey works
Country-level availability.
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Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting AgentKey.
- You become the data controller for any personal data your agent retrieves, and you alone answer for the lawfulness of the extraction
- The convenience of one key makes large-scale scraping easy to trigger by accident; platform terms, robots.txt and anti-scraping law still apply to you
- Credit-based overage bills without a hard cut-off, so an agent left looping can run up a bill nobody watched
- Third-party data carries no accuracy or completeness warranty, and an agent presenting it fluently can make weak sourcing look authoritative
- Financial, market and on-chain data is informational only and is not investment advice, however confident the answer sounds
- Delegating research to an agent erodes the habit of reading sources directly, and with it the ability to notice when a result is wrong
- Subscriptions renew automatically, unused credits expire without refund, and disputes go to binding arbitration under a liability cap of three months of fees
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low for anyone already using an AI agent. Installation is a single shell command for CLI and IDE tools, an install prompt the agent executes itself for chat clients, or one configuration file for the desktop app, and the console's get-started flow returns the exact command for your setup. The agent handles the rest, including where to paste the key, and verifies the connection on first use. No code is required. The only real prerequisites are having a supported agent and, for the one-line method, being comfortable running a command in a terminal.
Deployment
Integrations
Supported languages
Behind AgentKey
Fundraising
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Frequently asked questions
What can my agent actually do with AgentKey?
Do I need to write any code?
What is a credit, and what happens when I run out?
Do monthly credits roll over, and can free users buy more?
Which agents and platforms does it work with?
Why not just subscribe to each API myself?
Is my data used to train AI models?
How long is my data kept?
Is there a minimum age?
Can I cancel or change plan whenever I want?
Should you pick AgentKey?
AgentKey answers a real and increasingly common irritation: an agent that reasons well but cannot reach the open web, closed social platforms or market feeds without a drawer full of API keys. Collapsing that into one credential, one balance and one install command is a genuinely useful piece of plumbing, and the execution of the core mechanics is careful. Per-call costs are shown before you spend, the balance check is free, overage keeps a task running instead of stopping it, and automatic failover means another vendor's outage does not become your problem. The privacy posture is also better than average for the category: content is relayed rather than stored, personal data is not used for training, and analytics stay off until you opt in.
The reservations are about maturity rather than intent. This is a product that went live in mid-2026 and still shows it. The integrations page lists nothing, the documentation's support page still carries the instruction to replace its placeholder links, and support runs through one email address and a Telegram group. Enterprise guarantees are thin: no DPA, no published certification, no named hosting jurisdiction, and no Article 27 representative despite a privacy policy that reserves the space for one. Legally, the burden sits squarely on you, since the terms make the user responsible for the lawfulness of every extraction and cap the vendor's liability at three months of fees.
For an individual developer, analyst or small team already working inside Claude Code or Cursor, the arithmetic is favourable and the free plan makes the trial cost nothing. For a regulated organisation with procurement requirements, it is too early, and worth revisiting once the compliance gaps the vendor has openly flagged are actually closed.
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