Sem vs Search1api
These two are level on the tashan score (within 1 points), so the score does not decide it. The evidence rows below are where they differ. Both are measured the same way, on the same day, from public evidence only — so this is a comparison of two measurements rather than two marketing pages. How we measure ›
| Sem | Search1api | what it means | |
|---|---|---|---|
| tashan score | 69 | 68 | upkeep + freshness, gated by adoption |
| Adoption evidence | 4k/wk | 1k/wk | the raw public signal the score came from |
| Last release | active | active | npm publish or repo push |
| Upkeep | 70 | 69 | cadence, maintainers, status |
| Expertise grade | deep | not graded | an LLM read of its own documentation against a fixed rubric |
| Security audit | no known advisories, runs an install script, no build provenance | no known advisories | a summary — the full audit, free, is on each dossier |
| Licence | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | — | |
| Maintainers | one primary | one primary | bus-factor risk |
Install either
Sem
claude mcp add sem -- npx -y @ataraxy-labs/semSearch1api
claude mcp add search1api -- npx -y search1api-mcpNeither score is a security verdict — "well maintained" and "nothing known is wrong" are different claims, which is why the audit is a separate row and never folded into the number. The full audit for each — the advisory ids, the version that fixes them and anything that runs at install time — is free on its own page: Sem · Search1api.