TinyFish makes search free, but agents still pay tokens for retrieved pages
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TinyFish says its Search and Fetch APIs carry no retrieval charge within published rate limits, but AI agents still pay input tokens for the pages those calls return.
In a June 2026 evaluation of one Daily Mail article, TinyFish Fetch returned about 4,737 characters, compared with 171,095 characters from Firecrawl Scrape, according to the report.
TinyFish also reports a score of 71 at $9.30 per 1,000 Artificial Analysis benchmark tasks, which it describes as the lowest total cost among 12 configurations shown in the report.
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AITinyFish 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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