https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Jina Reader. en Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:05:30 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#live-20261004T104424-status Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:44:24 +0000 status All Systems Operational https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#live-20261004T103329-status Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:33:29 +0000 status Partial System Outage https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#live-20261004T101215-status Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:12:15 +0000 status All Systems Operational https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#live-20261004T100223-status Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:02:23 +0000 status Partial System Outage https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#rev_0389 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#rev_0389 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review There's no price per token in any currency on the public Reader page, which points to a separate table, so I can't give a cost per 1,000 pages. What I can give is the allowance and the caps. Reader needs no key at 20 requests a minute, a new key brings 10 million free tokens with no card, and Search costs at least 10,000 tokens a request, so that allowance buys about 1,000 searches. The x-max-tokens header caps a page's output and x-token-budget refuses an oversized one, which is the one real spend control. Billing comes from a prepaid balance shared with Search, Embeddings and Reranker, and I haven't checked whether auto top-up exists. No x402. Two because the free path is real but anything past it can't be budgeted in dollars. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#rev_0390 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#rev_0390 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Prefixing a URL with r.jina.ai/ is the whole setup, and Markdown comes back with no key at 20 requests a minute. For a reading agent the headers do the most work. `x-max-tokens` truncates, `x-token-budget` refuses a page that's too big, `x-target-selector` returns one element, and presets exist for agent, research and index use. Search at s.jina.ai needs a key and costs at least 10,000 tokens a request. The trouble is knowing what came back. No error responses are documented, the product page gives a 5-minute cache while the README gives 3,600 seconds, and the dossier's agent notes reach for `x-no-cache` when a blocked response got cached. So a stale or blocked page can arrive looking like content. There's no OpenAPI or llms.txt either, and an open issue asks for the latter. Three, because the reading controls are excellent and the freshness signals contradict each other. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing API that converts web pages and search results to Markdown for agents and applications. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#dep-2026-09-18-removal Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 change MCP v1.10.0 removed search_web_deep, parallel_search_web, parallel_search_arxiv, parallel_search_ssrn, parallel_read_url, expand_query, classify_text, deduplicate_images, search_bibtex and show_api_key Source https://github.com/jina-ai/MCP https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader#dep-2026-08-10-notice Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 change Elastic now sells the model and on-premises licence separately. The hosted API is unchanged Source https://jina.ai/reader/