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Jina AI pricing: Jina AI cost, API pricing and Reader token packs

The short answer

Jina AI sells prepaid token packs rather than monthly plans. The self-serve dashboard offers two: $50 for 1 billion tokens ($0.05 per million) with a standard key at 500 requests a minute on Reader, and $500 for 11 billion tokens (about $0.045 per million) with a premium key at 5,000 requests a minute. Every new key includes 10 million free tokens, licensed for non-commercial use only. Reader bills the tokens in the markdown it returns, so a typical 2,000 token article costs about $0.0001, or $0.10 per 1,000 pages. One key and one balance cover Reader, Search, Embeddings and Reranker. We read these figures from the Jina AI dashboard and its public product list on 25 September 2026.

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Jina AI prices by the token, and the dashboard shows you the pack sizes without ever turning them into a cost per page. So start with the division. The $50 pack holds 1 billion tokens, which is $0.05 per million. The $500 pack holds 11 billion, which is about $0.045 per million and also upgrades the key to the premium rate limit. Reader charges for the tokens in its output, the markdown it hands back, so the page is what you pay for.

A news article or blog post usually lands between 1,500 and 3,000 tokens of markdown once navigation and boilerplate are stripped. At 2,000 tokens that is $0.0001 a page on the $50 pack, or $0.10 per 1,000 pages. A long product page with a links summary appended can run to 8,000 tokens, which is still only $0.40 per 1,000. Nobody else in this category comes close to that price for single-URL markdown, and we would not pretend otherwise.

Where the bill moves is in the options and the fine print. Turning on the jina-ocr-v1 image mode costs 40 times more tokens, per the Reader API dashboard. The Search endpoint charges a fixed minimum of 10,000 tokens per request however little it returns. The free 10 million tokens on a new key are for non-commercial use only. And if you set up auto-recharge before 6 May 2025 you are still paying the old rate, until the day you change the recharge settings.

We sell a crawl and extraction API, so read our column in the table with that in mind. If your job is turning known URLs into markdown, Jina Reader is the cheaper purchase. We are the better one when you need a whole site walked from a seed URL, or fields returned as typed JSON against your own schema.

For the wider field, our Jina Reader alternatives comparison covers who each tool suits, and Jina Reader vs Firecrawl works through the markdown quality trade-off. If markdown is the only output you need, the website to markdown API page shows our version of the same call, and the cheapest web scraping API table ranks every vendor by budget.

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Why it works

Three things the Jina AI dashboard does not spell out

The free key cannot be used commercially

Every new Jina key arrives with 10 million tokens, and the dashboard labels that tier non-commercial use only, under CC BY-NC. Commercial use needs a purchased pack on the key. For a business, the real entry price is therefore $50, not zero, and the 10 million tokens are an evaluation budget. That is still cheap, but budget for it on day one rather than discovering it in a license review.

Changing your recharge settings can raise your rate 2.5x

Jina moved to its current prices on 6 May 2025. Keys with auto-recharge enabled before that date keep paying the price they bought at, which was $20 for 1 billion tokens. The dashboard notes that the new price applies the moment you modify the auto-recharge settings or buy on a new key. Adjusting a threshold on an old key moves you from $0.02 to $0.05 per million, so change it deliberately.

Rate limit is bought, not configured

On Reader, a free or standard paid key runs at 500 requests a minute and a premium key at 5,000. On Search the figures are 100 and 1,000. The premium key comes only with the $500 pack of 11 billion tokens, so a team that needs throughput but not volume still pays $500 up front. At 2,000 tokens a page, 11 billion tokens is about 5.5 million pages of markdown, which is a lot of prepaid runway.

What it handles

Any URL in, clean structured data out

Point ClawEngine at a public page and it crawls, renders the JavaScript and extracts clean markdown or typed JSON in one call. Define a schema for structured fields, and respect robots.txt and Terms of Service by default.

Both Jina AI token packs and what each costs per million tokens
Reader API cost per page and per 1,000 pages at typical page sizes
What the free 10 million token key allows, and what it does not
Rate limits on Reader and Search for free, paid and premium keys
How OCR mode, search minimums and old auto-recharge prices move the bill
Where Jina Reader is the right purchase and a crawl API is not

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{
  "url": "https://example.com/products/atlas",
  "title": "Atlas Field Notebook",
  "markdown": "# Atlas Field Notebook\n\nDurable...",
  "data": {
    "name": "Atlas Field Notebook",
    "price": 24.00,
    "currency": "USD",
    "rating": 4.7
  },
  "links": [ "/products", "/cart" ],
  "metadata": { "rendered": true }
}

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Head to head

Jina AI pricing by pack, with a flat per-page crawl API in the third column

Every Jina figure below was read from the Jina AI Reader page, the API dashboard and the public product list behind it on 25 September 2026, never from a review aggregator. We put ourselves third and we lose the price rows outright.

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What you are comparing	Jina AI, $50 pack	Jina AI, $500 pack	ClawEngine
What you buy	1 billion tokens, prepaid, standard key	11 billion tokens, prepaid, premium key	A monthly page allowance: 50,000 on Hobby, 250,000 on Startup, 1,500,000 on Scale
Price	$50	$500	$49, $99 or $399 a month. No free plan
Per million tokens	$0.05	About $0.045	Not token-based
Cost per 1,000 typical pages	About $0.10 at 2,000 tokens a page	About $0.09	$0.98 Hobby, $0.40 Startup, $0.27 Scale
Reader rate limit	500 requests a minute	5,000 requests a minute	Concurrency scales with plan
Commercial use	Yes. The free 10 million token key is non-commercial only	Yes	Yes, on every plan
Crawling a whole site	No. Reader reads one URL per request, you build discovery	The same	Yes. Seed URL, scope and limit in one request
Output	Markdown, HTML, text or a JSON envelope of url, title and content	The same	Clean markdown or typed JSON against your own schema
PDFs and images	Reads PDFs, optional image captions, OCR mode at about 40x tokens	The same	Not offered. HTML pages only
Other products on the same balance	Search, Embeddings, Reranker	The same	None. Crawl and extraction only
Billing behavior	Prepaid balance, optional auto-recharge of the last pack	The same	Month to month subscription
Best for	Turning a known list of URLs into markdown at the lowest price	The same job at 5,000 requests a minute	Crawling whole sites into typed fields for RAG and agent pipelines

Why ClawEngine

One API that crawls, renders and extracts

Not a raw HTML dump, not a headless browser fleet to run, and not a brittle parser to maintain. One call crawls a public page, renders its JavaScript and returns clean markdown or typed JSON, built for RAG pipelines and AI agents.

LLM-ready output

Clean markdown or typed JSON with the boilerplate stripped, so the data drops straight into a vector store, a prompt or an agent without a cleanup step.

JavaScript rendered

Each page loads in a real browser environment before extraction, so single-page apps and client-rendered content come back complete, not as an empty shell.

Compliance-first

ClawEngine works on public, permitted data only. It respects robots.txt and site Terms of Service and honors crawl-delay, so responsible scraping is the default.

Code examples

Crawling a site from one seed URL, billed per page

With Reader, walking a site means writing the link discovery, the queue and the deduplication yourself, then calling r.jina.ai once per URL. Here the crawl is one request on any plan, with each page returned as markdown or typed fields.

curl Crawl a docs section and return markdown (POST /v1/crawl)

curl https://clawengine.ai/v1/crawl \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLAWENGINE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://example.com/docs",
    "limit": 50,
    "render": true,
    "format": "markdown"
  }'

# Billed as one page of plan allowance per page returned.
# Link discovery, rendering and cleanup are all in the same meter.

Jina AI pricing: the questions buyers ask

How much does Jina AI cost?

Jina AI sells prepaid token packs. The dashboard offers $50 for 1 billion tokens and $500 for 11 billion tokens, which is $0.05 and about $0.045 per million. New keys get 10 million free tokens for non-commercial use. The balance is shared across Reader, Search, Embeddings and Reranker, so one purchase covers every Jina endpoint on that key.

How much does the Jina AI Reader API cost per page?

Reader bills the tokens in the markdown it returns. A typical article of about 2,000 tokens costs $0.0001 on the $50 pack, which is $0.10 per 1,000 pages. A heavy page of 8,000 tokens costs $0.40 per 1,000. Turning on the jina-ocr-v1 image mode multiplies token use by about 40, so image-heavy pages cost far more.

Is Jina AI Reader free?

You can call r.jina.ai with no key at 20 requests a minute, and each new API key includes 10 million free tokens at 500 requests a minute. Both are limited to non-commercial use under CC BY-NC. A business using Reader in a product or an internal pipeline needs a purchased token pack, which starts at $50.

Can I use Jina AI for commercial purposes?

Yes, once the key has a purchased token pack. The free tier on a new key is labeled non-commercial use only, and the dashboard tells you to buy a plan for commercial use. The $50 pack for 1 billion tokens is the smallest one on sale and gives a standard key with commercial rights.

What is the Jina AI rate limit?

On Reader, 20 requests a minute with no key, 500 with a free or standard paid key, and 5,000 with a premium key. On Search, 100 requests a minute with a free or paid key and 1,000 with premium. The premium key comes only with the $500 pack of 11 billion tokens.

How are Jina AI tokens counted?

For Reader, Jina counts the tokens in the output response, the markdown or text it returns, not the size of the page it fetched. Stripping images and scoping the read with a CSS selector both reduce the count. For Search, each request costs a fixed number of tokens starting at 10,000, however few results come back.

How much does Jina AI Search cost?

Each s.jina.ai request costs at least 10,000 tokens. On the $50 pack that is $0.0005 a search, or $0.50 per 1,000 searches at the minimum, and more when results carry long page content. Search runs at 100 requests a minute on a standard key and 1,000 on a premium key.

Why am I still paying the old Jina AI price?

Jina introduced its current pricing on 6 May 2025. Keys that had auto-recharge enabled before that date keep the price in force when they bought, which was $20 for 1 billion tokens. The new $50 rate applies once you modify the auto-recharge settings or buy on a new key, so treat any change to an old key as a 2.5x price increase.

Does Jina AI auto-recharge?

Yes, optionally. You choose a threshold, and when the balance drops below it Jina charges your saved card for the last package you bought until the balance is back above the threshold. It keeps production calls from failing on an empty balance, but it also means spend follows usage with no monthly cap unless you watch the balance.

Is Jina AI worth it for a RAG pipeline?

For ingesting a known list of URLs as markdown, yes, it is the cheapest tool in the category by a wide margin. It is weaker when the corpus is a whole site you must discover, or when chunks need guaranteed metadata such as author and date as typed fields. Then the crawler and parser you write around Reader become the real cost.

Good questions

Questions about Jina AI pricing

Yes, for single-URL markdown. Jina Reader costs about $0.10 per 1,000 typical pages on the $50 pack, against $0.98 per 1,000 on our Hobby tier and $0.27 on Scale. The comparison flips when the job needs a whole site crawled from a seed URL or typed fields against a schema, because with Reader you build and run that layer yourself.

Buy by rate limit first. If 500 requests a minute on Reader covers your peak, the $50 pack for 1 billion tokens is enough and lasts roughly 500,000 typical pages. If you need 5,000 requests a minute, only the $500 pack for 11 billion tokens unlocks the premium key, whatever your monthly volume.

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