treg vs FetchAPI: the short answer
FetchAPI and treg both give an agent one key, prepaid credit and an MCP server for many paid data APIs. Like OpenRouter for models, both give an agent one API key and one balance for many paid APIs. treg bills each tool at the provider's rate with 0% markup in its terms, lets your own keys and connected accounts run unmetered, and puts its code on GitHub. FetchAPI routes each job to the cheapest provider that passed its daily live test, and a team can use both.
Which one fits
Different tools fit different jobs. Here is when each one is the better choice.
Choose FetchAPI if
- You want each job sent to the cheapest provider that works today, with automatic fallback.
- You want every endpoint tested live each day and hidden while it fails.
- You want to see who sells a website's data, and at what price, before you buy.
- You want to turn a web page into a private data API for your agent.
- You need sports and esports odds, prediction markets or DeFi data.
Choose treg if
- You want each call billed at the provider's rate, with 0% markup written in the terms.
- You want your own keys to win and never be metered, on every account.
- Your agent works in your own accounts: Google Analytics, Search Console, ads, Slack, X or YouTube.
- You want a team daily spend cap, a per-call cost ceiling and per-member call caps.
- You want the code on GitHub and a team with owner, admin, member and viewer roles.
treg vs FetchAPI, side by side
Each FetchAPI cell restates FetchAPI's own public pages on 5 November 2026. "Not published" means those pages say nothing about it, not that the feature does not exist.
| Feature | treg | FetchAPI |
|---|---|---|
| Billing | ||
| How you pay | A prepaid team balance. Each catalog call is billed at the provider's own rate. No subscription and no seats. | Prepaid credit bought through Stripe Checkout, $5 to $1,000 a top-up. Each successful call is charged from it; failed calls are free. |
| Free start | $1.00 of credit, once per new verified account. No card. | A free key with an email and a code, no card. Some endpoints are priced $0. The amount of any free credit is not published. |
| Fees | 0% markup, a commitment in the terms. No top-up fee. Calls on your own keys, tools and connected accounts are never metered, except X through treg's own X app, which X bills per use. | The terms say a call costs the provider's price multiplied by FetchAPI's markup in force at the time; its llms.txt says calls are charged at the provider's cost. The markup rate is not published. Failed calls are free. |
| What your agent can use | ||
| Size, in their words | 4,100+ tools across 126 providers, plus the tools your team registers. | 388 working endpoints, tested daily, from dozens of providers (catalog page). |
| Paid data with no account at the vendor | Yes: SEO and SERP data, backlinks, people and company enrichment, social profiles and posts, ad libraries, web search and scraping, image, video and voice generation. | Yes: X, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Reddit data, company and funding data, SEO, web traffic, sports odds and prediction markets. |
| Your own accounts | Google Analytics, Search Console, Google Ads, Business Profile, Tag Manager, Meta Ads, TikTok Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Pinterest Ads, Snapchat Ads, YouTube, LinkedIn, Slack, X, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook Pages. | Not published. Endpoints that need the end user's own X login are listed but never called. |
| Actions (writes) | Writes in your connected accounts (ad changes, Slack messages, social posts) and any API or CLI your team registers. No triggers or scheduled workflows: the agent runs the steps. | Reads. Write actions (post, follow, like) are listed in the docs but never called or exposed over MCP. |
| What a call returns | The provider's own answer, unchanged. Routed tools add a small wrapper and say so. | The provider's JSON, unchanged, inside a status, data and meta wrapper with the cost; ?raw=1 returns the body as is. Standard job endpoints return one answer shape. |
| How your agent connects | ||
| MCP | A remote MCP server with OAuth or a token header, for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others. | A remote MCP server (streamable HTTP, Bearer key) with tools to search endpoints, read their docs with a real sample answer, and call them. Search needs no key. |
| API, CLI and SDKs | An HTTP API (method, path, query and body reach the provider unchanged), a CLI and an agent skill. No SDKs. | An HTTP API by provider path, over 100 standard /api/v1 job endpoints, an OpenAPI 3.1 spec and an agent skill file. A CLI or SDK is not published. |
| Bring your own keys | Yes, on every account. Your team's key always wins and is never metered. | By request: "talk to us about routing your own account through the gateway." |
| Open source and self-host | Code on GitHub under Apache 2.0 with added terms. You can self-host for your own team; offering it as a hosted service to others needs permission. | Not published. Hosted service; no public repository is linked. |
| Control | ||
| Price before the call | Yes. Each tool's rate, with its source and the date it was checked. | Yes: every endpoint shows its price per call. The terms call it a guide; the charge recorded with the call is what you pay. |
| Spend limits | A team daily spend cap, a per-call cost ceiling, per-member daily call caps and daily budgets per tagged customer (advisory). No per-key hourly or lifetime caps. | A monthly spending cap and a per-minute rate limit on each key, and a service-wide daily cap. The terms say FetchAPI sets the limits and may change them. |
| Call records | An audit log of calls with their cost, and every charge in the balance ledger. | A request log per key (what, when, status, cost) and usage by provider and endpoint over 24 hours, 7 or 30 days. Response data is not stored. |
| Team | Teams with owner, admin, member and viewer roles, and tool access per member. | An account is for one person or one organisation. Team roles or seats are not published. |
treg's catalog size is read live from the catalog. Prices change; check each product's own pricing page before you decide.
0% additional fee.
provider rate + $0.000 markup = your priceThe trade-off
What each one does better
Where FetchAPI does best
- 01
The cheapest route, picked for you. Standard endpoints such as /api/v1/x/search go to the cheapest provider that passed the day's check, and fall back to the next if it fails. You pay only for the call that answered.
- 02
Tested every day. Each endpoint is called for real through the gateway daily and hidden while it fails, with a public health status.
- 03
A priced map of the market. /api/cheapest ranks who sells a website's data, cheapest first, with the source of each price and how sure it is. No key needed.
- 04
Make an API from a web page. An AI studies a page once and writes a private API for it, usually for under $0.40 of AI cost. Later calls run without an LLM.
- 05
Odds and markets data. Sports and esports odds, prediction markets and DeFi data sit beside its social and company data.
Where treg is the better choice
- 01
0% markup, in the terms. treg bills each tool at the provider's own rate, with 0% markup as a commitment in its terms and no top-up fee. FetchAPI's terms apply a markup whose rate is not published.
- 02
Your own keys and accounts win. Register your key for a provider and treg uses it instead of its own, never metered. Connect Google Analytics, Search Console, Google Ads, Meta Ads, LinkedIn, Slack, X, TikTok or YouTube, and the agent reads and writes there, unmetered.
- 03
A larger catalog, plus your own tools. 4,100+ tools across 126 providers, with image, video and voice generation, and your team's own APIs, CLIs and skills behind the same token.
- 04
Your own caps. A team daily spend cap, a per-call cost ceiling and per-member daily call caps, set by your team. Each tool's price shows its source and the date it was checked.
- 05
Code on GitHub. treg's code is on GitHub and you can self-host it for your team. Teams have owner, admin, member and viewer roles, with tool access per member.
Not either-or
Using FetchAPI and treg together
An agent can hold both. A team could use FetchAPI for cheapest-route social data, sports odds or a page turned into an API, and use treg for its own keys, its connected accounts, the wider catalog and team spend caps.
Give your agent
every tool in the catalog.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a FetchAPI alternative for AI agents?
Yes. treg is a FetchAPI alternative for AI agents: one token reaches a catalog of paid tools through a remote MCP server, an HTTP API and a CLI, billed per call from one prepaid balance at the provider's rate. FetchAPI also gives one key for many data APIs, and routes each job to the cheapest working provider.
How much does FetchAPI cost?
FetchAPI pricing is prepaid credit, bought through Stripe in top-ups of $5 to $1,000 and charged per successful call. Failed FetchAPI calls are free. FetchAPI shows a price per call on every endpoint, and its terms call that price a guide.
Can I use my own API keys with FetchAPI?
By request. FetchAPI's home page says to talk to FetchAPI about routing your own provider account through the gateway. On treg, your team registers its own key on every account, and that key always wins and is never metered.
FetchAPI vs treg: which is cheaper for an AI agent?
It depends on the markup and the route. treg bills each tool at the provider's own rate, with 0% markup in its terms and no top-up fee. FetchAPI's terms multiply the provider's price by a markup whose rate is not published, and FetchAPI routes standard jobs to the cheapest provider that passed its daily test.
Can I use FetchAPI and treg together?
Yes. An agent can hold both FetchAPI and treg. A team could use FetchAPI for cheapest-route social data, sports odds or a page turned into an API, and use treg for its own keys, its connected accounts, the wider catalog and team spend caps.
Does treg have an MCP server?
Yes. treg has a remote MCP server with OAuth or a token header, for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others, beside an HTTP API, a CLI and an agent skill. FetchAPI also has a remote MCP server, with a Bearer key.
Can I set a spending limit on treg?
Yes. treg has a team daily spend cap, a per-call cost ceiling and per-member daily call caps, all set by your team. FetchAPI gives each key a monthly spending cap and a per-minute rate limit, and its terms say FetchAPI sets these limits.
Sources and method
- FetchAPI home pagehttps://fetchapi.co
- llms.txthttps://fetchapi.co/llms.txt
- Cataloguehttps://fetchapi.co/catalog.md
- MCP and API docshttps://fetchapi.co/mcp
- Account (credit and keys)https://fetchapi.co/account
- Terms of Servicehttps://fetchapi.co/terms
We read these pages on 5 November 2026. treg's own facts come from its pricing, terms and code. We left out what we could not check, and we do not guess why a product works the way it does.
Something wrong or out of date? Write to jason@treg.to and we will fix it.
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