Jina Reader
Prefix any URL with r.jina.ai and get clean, LLM-ready Markdown back
Overview
Jina Reader is an Elastic-owned API that converts web pages and documents into clean Markdown or text for LLMs (r.jina.ai) and returns search results in the same format (s.jina.ai), with browser rendering, proxies, JSON extraction and OCR. Keyless use at 20 requests a minute; free non-commercial key with 10M tokens; paid packs from $50 for 1B tokens.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 2 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- r.jina.ai at 20 requests a minute
- Search not available
- 10 million tokens
- Non-commercial use only (CC-BY-NC)
- Reader 500 RPM, search 100 RPM
- Standard key
- Basic key management
- Technical support
- Premium key, Reader 5,000 RPM
- Advanced key management
- Premium support within 24 hours
What you can produce with Jina Reader
- URL-to-Markdown conversion via r.jina.ai
- LLM-ready web search via s.jina.ai
- Headless-browser rendering, proxies and cookies
- JSON extraction with ReaderLM-v2
- jina-ocr-v1 document parsing
- Apache-2.0 service code for self-hosting
Jina Reader is one of the simplest ways to get clean web content into an AI pipeline, with a generous keyless tier and now clearly published token prices. Note the licensing: the free key is for non-commercial use, the underlying models are non-commercial, self-hosting commercially needs an Elastic licence, and the open-source repository has gone quiet since Elastic's acquisition. Excellent for prototypes and paid production use; check licence terms before self-hosting.
What we found
Jina Reader is an API that turns any web page or document into clean, LLM-ready Markdown or text: prefix a URL with r.jina.ai and it returns the page's content stripped of navigation and clutter, while s.jina.ai runs a web search and returns the top results in the same format. Options include a headless-browser engine, cookie forwarding, country proxies, locale, iframe and shadow-DOM extraction, image captioning, and structured JSON extraction with the ReaderLM-v2 model; in September 2026 it added jina-ocr-v1, a document parser that costs 40 times more tokens. It handles PDFs and, according to its open-source repository, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, though its FAQ still says only PDF and HTML uploads are supported. Jina says Reader does not bypass websites' bot defences, so some protected sites will not load, and paid keys do not change that.
Jina AI, founded in Berlin in 2020, was acquired by Elastic in October 2025, and its founder Han Xiao is now an Elastic vice-president; the site is co-branded Elastic and Jina AI, and data processing falls under Elastic's terms. Reader's service code is open source under Apache 2.0, but its repository has had no commits since May 2026, and the models it relies on are licensed for non-commercial use only — commercial on-premises use requires a licence Elastic has sold separately since August 2026.
Reader can be used without a key at 20 requests a minute. A free API key adds 10 million tokens for non-commercial use, at 500 requests a minute for Reader and 100 for search. Paid token packs are published: $50 buys a billion tokens and $500 buys 11 billion with a premium key, 5,000 requests a minute and priority support; search requests cost at least 10,000 tokens each, and one key works across Jina's other APIs.
We found no independent review base. Jina Reader suits developers feeding web content into AI applications.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
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