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AI agents
Giving AI agents live web data: MCP servers, tool calling, agent workflows, and keeping an agent's data costs predictable.
AI Agent API Cost Control: Cap Web Data Spend
Cap an agent's web data spend per run: credit arithmetic for 8 and 20 calls per task, a Python budget wrapper, and why failed calls cost 0 credits.
Claude MCP Web Search: Live Results for an Agent
Add the Perceptlayer MCP server to Claude, let the agent call the Google Search endpoint, and count its cost: 1 credit per search call.