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TinyFish announced that it will waive retrieval fees for Search and Fetch within the limits. According to a MarkTechPost report, Search's free limit is 30 requests per minute and 500 per hour, while Fetch's is 150 URLs per minute and 1,000 per day. The report also notes that free retrieval does not eliminate the inference costs of downstream models: the same article of about 4,300 characters returns an estimated 1,184 to 42,774 tokens across different providers, and three pages of unfiltered content could fill a 128K context window. In the September 28, 2026 Artificial Analysis snapshot, TinyFish Search scored 71 at $9.30 per 1,000 tasks, the lowest total cost among the displayed configurations but also the lowest score, with each task taking about 59 seconds. There are currently no subsequent developments.
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TinyFish Makes Search Free: Breaking Down the Real Cost of AI Agents Reading Web Pages
TinyFish announced that, within limits, it will waive retrieval fees for Search and Fetch: Search is limited to 30 requests per minute and 500 per hour, while Fetch is limited to 150 URLs per minute and 1,000 per day. The article notes that free retrieval does not eliminate the inference costs of downstream models; the same article of about 4,300 characters returns an estimated 1,184 to 42,774 tokens across different providers, and three pages of unfiltered content can fill a 128K context window. In the September 28, 2026 Artificial Analysis snapshot, TinyFish Search scored 71 at $9.30 per 1,000 tasks, the lowest total cost among the displayed configurations but also the lowest score, with about 59 seconds per task.