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Rich web search results for agents, but this free-tier run was incomplete and not comparable.

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16/52 completed36 HTTP 402s197,642-char median20.6s p50
TL;DR — our verdictUpdated August 2026

Strong content output on the easy subset, but the run hit the free-tier wall.

Where it wins
  • You can run on paid credits and want very large extracted page text back from live web queries.
  • Your workload is mostly straightforward current-fact or freshness lookups.
  • You are evaluating search results, not answer-mode citation checks.
Main limitation
  • You need a free-tier tool that can finish a 40–60 query benchmark.

Our take

Jina’s search mode can return very large, LLM-friendly page text on the queries it completes, and the easy completed subset posted solid retrieval numbers. But the free tier exhausted mid-run, leaving 36/52 calls at HTTP 402 and no answer-mode citation data, so this run is not comparable to the other tools.

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Feature-by-Feature Breakdown

Ranked live web search with extracted page text
Works on the easy completed queries, but the benchmark stops short of a full comparison because quota runs out mid-run.
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Test Summary
Feature tested: Ranked live web search with extracted page text
Result: Partial — Works on the easy completed queries, but the benchmark stops short of a full comparison because quota runs out mid-run.

Feature tested: Ranked live web search with extracted page text

Result: Partial

Verdict: Works on the easy completed queries, but the benchmark stops short of a full comparison because quota runs out mid-run.

Expected behavior: Searches the live web from a plain query string and returns ranked results with extracted page text. In this run it completed the ten current-fact queries and six freshness probes; the report says the 16 successful calls reached top-1/top-3/top-10 of 31% / 56% / 75%, with a median of 197,642 characters per result and 0% published dates.

Test case: Text prompt → Text prompt

Input type: Text prompt

Input used: Input artifact (Text prompt): INPUT

Observed output: Output artifact (Text prompt): OUTPUT

Input artifact: Input artifact (Text prompt): INPUT

Output artifact: Output artifact (Text prompt): OUTPUT

What changed: Text prompt transformed into Text prompt

Test case: Text prompt → Text prompt

Input type: Text prompt

Input used: Input artifact (Text prompt): INPUT

Observed output: Output artifact (Text prompt): OUTPUT

Input artifact: Input artifact (Text prompt): INPUT

Output artifact: Output artifact (Text prompt): OUTPUT

What changed: Text prompt transformed into Text prompt

Why it matters / Conclusion: Useful on the queries that completed, but the free-tier allowance stopped the benchmark after 16/52 calls, so the published accuracy only reflects the easiest completed subset.

Searches the live web from a plain query string and returns ranked results with extracted page text. In this run it completed the ten current-fact queries and six freshness probes; the report says the 16 successful calls reached top-1/top-3/top-10 of 31% / 56% / 75%, with a median of 197,642 characters per result and 0% published dates.

INPUT
Q01 current-fact: Exa API price per 1000 search requests
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OUTPUT
jina/search — top3 PASS · hit rank 1 · 14035.6ms · 10 results; supporting URL: https://exa.ai/pricing — Exa API Pricing | Pay-as-You-Go Plans for AI Search — 4,252 chars
INPUT
Q11 niche-technical: pandas SettingWithCopyWarning chained assignment fix
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OUTPUT
HTTPError: 402 Client Error: Payment Required for url: https://s.jina.ai/
Bottom Line
Useful on the queries that completed, but the free-tier allowance stopped the benchmark after 16/52 calls, so the published accuracy only reflects the easiest completed subset.
✓ Use This If
●You can run on paid credits and want very large extracted page text back from live web queries.
●Your workload is mostly straightforward current-fact or freshness lookups.
●You are evaluating search results, not answer-mode citation checks.
✕ Skip This If
●You need a free-tier tool that can finish a 40–60 query benchmark.
●You need answer-mode citations or published dates from the tool.
●You need a comparable score on harder niche, multi-source, or content-depth queries from this run.
developer-toolssearch-enginetextOther
No. It completed 16 of 52 queries, and the remaining 36 returned HTTP 402 Payment Required after the free-tier allowance was exhausted. The same wall appeared across both runs.
The report says it completed the ten current-fact queries and the six freshness probes. Everything from Q11 onward outside that freshness block returned HTTP 402.
On the 16 successful calls, top-1 was 31%, top-3 was 56%, and top-10 was 75%. The report warns that these percentages come from the easiest completed subset, so they are not directly comparable to tools that finished the full set.
On successful calls, the report gives a median of 197,642 characters per result. One quoted success row returned 4,252 characters from the supporting URL. The report also says published dates were present in 0% of results.
Measured on successful calls only, p50 latency was 20,553 ms and p95 was 28,630 ms. The 402 failures were excluded from that latency calculation.
No. The report says there is no citation data because only the search mode, `s.jina.ai`, was tested.
They are excluded from extraction-quality scoring rather than counted as zero. The report cites the scorer logic: `if rec.get("error"): return None`.

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