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Extract vs Linkup

Extract scores higher on the AgentReady, 71/100 against 67/100. They differ on 12 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Extract. Vend API Merchant — Six pay-per-call APIs for AI agents settled in Nano (XNO), no signup, no API key.

Linkup. Web Search API for AI with industry-leading accuracy, providing web search built for AI applications via one API call or deployed inside your own cloud.

Where Extract is ahead

Extract passes structured api reference, response examples provided and errors and status codes documented, and Linkup does not. That is understand, whether an agent can read the docs and work out how the API behaves before calling it.

It also holds adopt: programmatic credential creation. Linkup misses it.

And on operate, machine-readable errors and retry behavior documented. Linkup misses those.

Where Linkup is ahead

Linkup passes public docs discoverable and llms-full.txt / full agent docs, and Extract does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds adopt: agent-compatible signup flow, fast time to first request and copyable quickstart. Extract misses those.

And on operate, observable execution. Extract misses it.

What neither does

Both fail openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, limits / constraints documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.

Score, pillar by pillar

The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.

Discover. Linkup leads 100 to 80. Extract misses public docs discoverable, llms-full.txt / full agent docs; Linkup misses nothing.

Understand is whether an agent can read the docs and work out how the API behaves before calling it. Extract leads 69 to 31. Extract misses openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, limits / constraints documented; Linkup misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented.

Adopt. Linkup leads 90 to 80. Extract misses agent-compatible signup flow, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart; Linkup misses programmatic credential creation.

Operate. Extract leads 53 to 47. Extract misses idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, observable execution, agent compatibility verified; Linkup misses machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified.

Pricing

Extract starts at 0.0001 XNO and has a free tier. Linkup starts at $0.001 and has a free tier.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

Signal counts are level here, so fit and price decide it. Full profiles: Extract and Linkup. Alternatives to each: Extract, Linkup.

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