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Jina pricing and alternatives: web search API

Jina's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 177 plans we rank by price is Ceramic, $99 monthly, at $0.20 per 1,000 searches.Search1API, Firecrawl and Valyu are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free API key one of Jina's 2 plans
Call: POST /search Jina's only call
API: Web search API Jina's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text, Links.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 10,000,000 credits, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send q to POST /search. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json" and the Accept header to "application/json". The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone, for professional use only ("No consumer use is intended or directed"). Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Jina: web search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

This planJina, freeSearch1API, free, Free, POST /askFirecrawl, free, Free, POST /v2/searchValyu, freeNimble, free, Free, POST /v2/search, Search, lite
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness50%33%33%67%17%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for1,000 calls20 calls, once500 calls a month3,200 calls5,000 calls
Freshnessunknownliveunknownunknownlive
Who can get itanyone, for professional use only ("No consumer use is intended or directed")anyoneanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardiananyone who is at least 16 years old, with a parent's or guardian's permission if under 18, and the legal authority to enter into the Platform Service Agreementanyone who signs up

Every web search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-27.

  1. docs.jina.ai
  2. docs.jina.ai/openapi.json
  3. jina.ai/api-dashboard/pricing
  4. jina.ai/api-dashboard/rate-limit
  5. jina.ai/legal
  6. jina.ai/reader
  7. jina.ai/tokenizer

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Reader API · Embeddings API · Batch Embeddings API · Reranker API
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReader can be used as SERP API. It allows you to feed your LLM with the content behind the search results engine page. Simply prepend https://s.jina.ai/?q= to your query, and Reader will search the web and return the top five results with their URLs and contents, each in clean, LLM-friendly text.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use data"Customers must not (i) reverse engineer, decompile, translate or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying components of the Services or Jina AI’s IP (except to the extent permitted under applicable mandatory law), (ii) use the Services in a way that infringes, misappropriates or violates any third party rights, (iii) use any Output from the Services to develop applications or services that compete with the Services offered by Jina AI, or (iv) use automated methods to extract information, data or result from the JINA-AI website or the Services, including by means of scraping, harvesting, or web data extraction", "Jina AI (except as expressly stated otherwise herein) claims no rights to such Output and imposes no restrictions on the Customer regarding the use of the Output unless otherwise agreed in an agreement with the Customer", "To the extent that the Output consists of extracted or restructured content from existing third-party materials (e.g. websites, PDF files, search results, collectively the “Material”), the Customer acknowledges that any third party intellectual property rights in the underlying Material remain unaffected", "The Customer shall use the Services solely for the purposes established in the respective Order Form and Product Description"
Plan
Pay$0
You get10,000,000 credits
Enough for1,000 calls
Rate limit
Per second1.67
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq, Content-Type header "application/json", Accept header "application/json". Optional: gl, location, hl, num, page, type, provider, ext, filetype, intitle, loc, fallback, nfpr, X-Site, X-With-Links-Summary, X-With-Images-Summary, X-Retain-Images, X-No-Cache, X-With-Generated-Alt, X-Respond-With, X-With-Favicon, X-Return-Format, X-Engine, X-With-Favicons, X-Timeout, X-Set-Cookie, X-Proxy-Url, X-Locale
MethodPOST
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree API key
Who can get itanyone, for professional use only ("No consumer use is intended or directed")
The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

response code, response status, response metadata, page title, description, URL, page content, content chunks, published time, page HTML, page text, screenshot URL, pageshot URL, page count, page links, page images, warning, page metadata, external data, HTTP status code, HTTP status text, storage state

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