Jina Reader
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Jina Reader Crawling
★ qualifiesanonymousno cardMper-ip-shaping
| Free tier | r.jina.ai is free at 20 requests a minute with no key; a free API key raises it to 500 RPM and carries 10M tokens unit requests; metered on request-count |
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| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a request, billed in output tokens once a key is used |
| Retention | 10M tokens per new key, one-time |
| Egress | not applicable: Markdown answers |
| Identity | anonymous the keyless route needs nothing; a key is an account |
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| Binding | per-ip-shaping |
| Interface | rest GET https://r.jina.ai/<url>; search at s.jina.ai; token budget per request |
| Tooling | Apache-2.0 source; Readability over linkedom; pdfjs-dist |
| Composes with | Read step 2 in the broker's ladder; the only keyless renderer found |
| Reliability | A domain can be blocked for years after excess use: nodeseek.com answered 403 with a block dated 2027-07-02. Page text arrives with the page's own instructions to models intact, so it must be treated as data. |
| Notes | The strongest keyless read leg found in this topic and the one that changes the escalation ladder: it read linux.do and a 2024 linux.do thread whole, keyless, where the broker's own read needed a provider and reported upstream_status 403. It is not universal. It refused www.nodeseek.com with a 403 AbuseAlleviationError stating the domain is blocked until 2027-07-02 after suspected excess use, so a per-domain block is the failure mode and it outlasts any retry budget. Every answer is a third party's rendering, so a number read from it is reported, not documented, until the origin confirms it. |
| Evidence rung | measured |
| Checked | 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-12-21 |
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Evidence (4)
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | jina.ai/reader/ | Reader API free; 20 RPM without an API key, 500 RPM with a free key, 5000 with premium; 10M free tokens per new key; s.jina.ai 100 RPM with a free key |
| 2026-10-22 | r.jina.ai/https://example.com/ | 200, 460 bytes, 0.9 s, keyless, Markdown with a title and a published time; the body carried two warnings about the page maybe not being fully loaded |
| 2026-10-22 | r.jina.ai/https://linux.do/ | 200, 30,172 bytes, 1,288 whitespace tokens, keyless, of a forum the broker's own read answers only through a provider with upstream_status 403; x-ratelimit-limit reads 20, 20;w=60 and x-usage-tokens 28 on a small page |
| 2026-10-22 | r.jina.ai/https://linux.do/t/topic/49044 | 200, a whole 2024 thread with every post body, 19 posts with author and date; the answer also carries the forum's own all-caps instruction block addressed to language models, so the page text is untrusted input |