TinyFish makes search free, but models still pay for retrieved pages
Original titleTinyFish Makes Search Free: What It Really Costs an AI Agent to Read the Web
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TinyFish says its Search and Fetch APIs carry no retrieval charge within published rate limits, but retrieved pages still cost AI agents input tokens.
In a June 2026 evaluation of one Daily Mail article, TinyFish Fetch returned about 4,737 characters, versus 171,095 for Firecrawl Scrape.
TinyFish also reports a 71 score at $9.30 per 1,000 Artificial Analysis benchmark tasks, the lowest total cost among 12 displayed configurations.
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