The discussion has moved beyond How many data sources do you support? to something more important:
When agents rely on live data for real work, how can users know the results are reliable, transparent, and controllable?
Here are the main questions and our current answers.
the auto failover between sources is the part that stands out to me. if one data provider goes down or rate limits you mid workflow and it silently swaps to a backup, does the schema/shape of the response stay consistent, or can an agent get tripped up by subtly different fields depending on which source ended up serving the request
AgentKey
@omri_ben_shoham1 Small correction to the premise, and it does most of the work, the swap isn't silent. A provider dying mid workflow surfaces as an explicit failure, the agent gets a set of same capability alternatives, picks one, and pulls that tool's own schema before the retry. So it never ends up reading fields from a mystery source, it chose the replacement and knows exactly what shape it speaks. We deliberately don't fake one universal schema across providers, that's exactly how subtle field mismatches sneak past people. There's a longer thread on this page digging into the mechanics if you want the deep version
@lxcong ok that's the part I was missing - the explicit failure + re-fetch-schema-on-retry step. that's a smarter design than I gave it credit for, avoids the "silent swap" problem entirely instead of just handling it gracefully. makes sense why you'd avoid a universal schema too, that abstraction always leaks eventually.
AgentKey
Any plans for a BYOK option? We already pay for a couple of these providers directly and it'd be nice to route through the same interface.
AgentKey
@tristan_huang Not yet, it's on the list. The catch is that failover and the one-balance model only work on keys we operate, so BYOK needs an actual design, not a toggle. Meanwhile hybrid works: your direct keys as they are, us for the rest
Do i need to subscribe each database to pull data?
AgentKey
@adamkamaneh hi adam! Absolutely not. We engineered this specifically to end the pain of dealing with a mess of keys and data subscriptions for AI Agents. It’s a total drag, period.Instead, we give you one unified AgentKey that bridges thousands of data sources in a snap. We're already live with search, scraping, social, finance, crypto, and e-commerce feeds. Create a free account now and see the magic for yourself.
AgentKey
@adamkamaneh No, one key covers the whole catalog. You pay per call from a single balance, never per source. Free to start, no card needed.
Super convenient and easy to use! It would be perfect if they kept the points top-up option
AgentKey
@qq0018 thansk, it's still around! Check the billing page, there's an "Extra Credits" section with a top up button (needs Lite plan or above). If you're on Lite and still not seeing it, ping me
Congrats on the launch! With that many endpoints, what happens if the routing picks the wrong one? Does it double check before running, or just go?
AgentKey
@irahimiam It double checks, pretty much literally. The routing never fires a call on its own, it hands the agent a shortlist of candidate tools with descriptions. The agent picks one, pulls that tool's full spec, and only then runs it. So a wrong match shows up as a weird looking shortlist the agent can just re query, not a mystery call that already happened
The failover and uptime stuff is nice, but the thing I'd want answered before plugging this into an agent that acts is a duller one, where does the data legally come from.
We build agents on the support side, a lot of them for EU stores, so this isn't academic for us. You're aggregating social, e-commerce and finance data behind one call. If one upstream source got it in a way that breaks a platform's terms, or GDPR for EU users, the operator running the agent holds that, not the marketplace. "No integrations, no setup" is great until it also means "no idea whose terms I'm now bound by".
So is the provenance and legal basis per source visible to me, or does the unified API flatten that away with everything else? For anyone whose customer sits in the EU this stops being a nice-to-have pretty fast…