TinyFish is the full stack. Parallel stops at search and extract.
TinyFish searches 3x faster, covers 93% of the web vs 58%, and acts on pages. TinySearch and TinyFetch are free.
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How they compare.
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Benchmarks, not adjectives.
Every number on this page comes from a reproducible test. Same inputs, every provider, scored the same way.
Search quality
A 250-question sample from OpenAI SimpleQA measured first-result correctness and end-to-end answer rate over the top 10 results.
Production latency
A 1,200-query latency sample compared p50, p99, worst-case timing, and request errors for synchronous search calls.
Fetch coverage
A 45-URL benchmark across common web pages and major news publishers measured usable content coverage and content-to-noise signal.
TinyFish search is faster than Parallel.
3x faster at p50, 4x faster at p99. Parallel's worst-case query takes nearly 12 seconds. In agent loops where search is synchronous, the tail latency becomes the user's experience.
TinyFish fetch covers more live pages than Parallel.
Parallel's extract API works well for developer docs, repos, and pricing pages. On news publishers, it does not. In our 45-URL benchmark, every news URL came back as exactly 600 characters of truncated content, with the API reporting success.
When both reach a page, TinyFish returns cleaner content: 90.5% vs 76.3% median signal ratio.
Zero news coverage.
Parallel returned zero usable results across 15 news articles from five major publishers. Every response was a truncated snippet, not a page extraction.
TinyFish adds interaction where Parallel stops.
Parallel's product surface is search, extract, and deep research. When your agent needs to do something on a page, not just read it, there is no Parallel API for that. TinyFish was built for the full interaction loop.
TinyAgent
Navigates pages, fills forms, authenticates through login walls, and returns structured JSON. 89.9% on Mind2Web.
TinyBrowser
Raw CDP control with engine-level anti-bot protection. Reaches pages that extract-only APIs cannot.
TinyVault
Secure authentication so your agent accesses gated content without exposing passwords.
TinySearch and TinyFetch are free.
At 10K searches + 10K fetches per month, the bill speaks for itself.
Common questions.
Across 1,200 production queries, TinyFish is 3x faster at p50 (556ms vs 1,709ms) and 4x faster at p99 (1,347ms vs 5,571ms). Parallel's worst-case query takes nearly 12 seconds.
TinyFish returns usable content from 42/45 pages (93%) vs Parallel's 26/45 (58%). The gap is concentrated in news: Parallel returns 0/15 usable news results.
No. Parallel's product surface is search, extract, and deep research. When your agent needs to interact with a page, TinyFish offers TinyAgent, TinyBrowser, and TinyVault.
TinySearch and TinyFetch are free. Parallel charges $5 per 1,000 searches and $1 per 1,000 extracts. At 10,000 searches + 10,000 fetches per month, TinyFish costs $0. Parallel costs about $60.
It gets a 600-character stub, roughly one sentence plus metadata. Your agent has no way to know the content is incomplete if the API reports success.