Jina AI vs Maxim AI

Search, Reader, embeddings and reranker APIs. Each new API key comes with 10M free tokens, shared across these APIs; no page says they renew. Jina's FAQ states for the hosted API: "No separate license needed. Commercial use is covered by the service terms: sign up and pay through this site or the cloud marketplace." CC BY-NC 4.0 covers self-hosting the model weights. The exception is jina-embeddings-v4, which is non-commercial only even through the API. Search (s.jina.ai) needs a key and costs at least 10,000 tokens a request, so the free tokens cover at most 1,000 searches. Search allows 100 requests a minute with a free key and the same with a paid key; only a premium key raises it, to 1,000. Reader (r.jina.ai), which converts a URL to LLM-friendly text, allows 500 requests a minute with a free or paid key, 5,000 with a premium key, and 20 without a key. Reader without a key is free and uses no tokens, so it keeps working after a key's free tokens run out. Paid tokens are prepaid: 1 billion for $50 ($0.05 per million), or 11 billion for $500 with a premium key. Jina AI has been part of Elastic since October 2025.The page we cite for Jina AI states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our own record rather than from that page.

• Jina's terms say it does not use customer inputs to train models, but may use aggregated, anonymized operational metadata to improve services. (From jina.ai/legal, read 2026-10-16.)

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