Usage based API

Billed by usage; no assumed monthly cost

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Use cases

Choose by input modality, billing unit and commercial terms. Services without verified rates have no assumed cost advantage.

Keep in mind

Open-weight licenses and hosted API terms are separate. Official rate-limit sources conflict; Reader, Search and DeepSearch USD costs require confirmation.

Entitlements and usage

Allowance
The Reader page advertises 10 million free tokens for a new API key. Actual allocation and expiry are subject to the official account; this is a trial, not permanent free access.
Benefits
RAG, multilingual semantic search, code search, multimodal retrieval, document OCR, web reading, web search and deep research.
Models listed in source
Jina OCR v1, Jina VLM, Jina Reranker v3, Jina Reranker v3.5, Jina Code Embeddings 0.5b, Jina Code Embeddings 1.5b, Jina Embeddings v4, Jina Reranker M0, ReaderLM v2, Jina Clip v2, Jina Colbert v2, Jina Embeddings v5 Text Small, Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small, Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Nano, Jina Embeddings v5 Text Nano, Jina DeepSearch v1, Jina DeepSearch v2
Source notes and limits
This is a usage-based API service, not a monthly subscription or permanently free plan. Model rates, Reader output billing, Search request consumption and DeepSearch budgets are listed separately.

API input and output pricing

Jina OCR v1

Input: 0.5 USD/1,000,000 Tokens; Output: 2 USD/1,000,000 Tokens Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

Jina VLM

Input: 0.05 USD/1,000,000 Tokens Official pricing evidence conflicts; affected dimensions are unverified. Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

Jina Reranker v3

Input: 0.05 USD/1,000,000 Tokens Official pricing evidence conflicts; affected dimensions are unverified. Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

Jina Reranker v3.5

Input: 0.05 USD/1,000,000 Tokens Official pricing evidence conflicts; affected dimensions are unverified. Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

Jina Code Embeddings 0.5b

Input: 0.05 USD/1,000,000 Tokens Official pricing evidence conflicts; affected dimensions are unverified. Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

Jina Code Embeddings 1.5b

Input: 0.05 USD/1,000,000 Tokens Official pricing evidence conflicts; affected dimensions are unverified. Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

Jina Embeddings v4

Input: 0.05 USD/1,000,000 Tokens Official pricing evidence conflicts; affected dimensions are unverified. Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

Jina Reranker M0

Input: 0.05 USD/1,000,000 Tokens Official pricing evidence conflicts; affected dimensions are unverified. Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

ReaderLM v2

Input: 0.05 USD/1,000,000 Tokens Official pricing evidence conflicts; affected dimensions are unverified. Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

Jina Clip v2

Input: 0.05 USD/1,000,000 Tokens Official pricing evidence conflicts; affected dimensions are unverified. Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

Jina Colbert v2

Input: 0.05 USD/1,000,000 Tokens Official pricing evidence conflicts; affected dimensions are unverified. Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

Jina Embeddings v5 Text Small

Input: 0.05 USD/1,000,000 Tokens Official pricing evidence conflicts; affected dimensions are unverified. Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small

Input: 0.05 USD/1,000,000 Tokens Official pricing evidence conflicts; affected dimensions are unverified. Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Nano

Input: 0.02 USD/1,000,000 Tokens Official pricing evidence conflicts; affected dimensions are unverified. Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

Jina Embeddings v5 Text Nano

Input: 0.02 USD/1,000,000 Tokens Official pricing evidence conflicts; affected dimensions are unverified. Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

Jina DeepSearch v1

Official pricing evidence conflicts; affected dimensions are unverified. Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

Jina DeepSearch v2

Official pricing evidence conflicts; affected dimensions are unverified. Verified: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

Choose a purchase channel

Jina AI Jina Search Foundation API (pay as you go) · Individual plan · Usage based

Payment is completed with the provider. Final prices, eligibility and after-sales terms are set by the purchase page.

Sources and verification

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Last fact check: 2026-10-15T09:33:13.684489+00:00

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Jina AI Jina Search Foundation API (pay as you go) cost?
Jina AI Jina Search Foundation API (pay as you go) is priced at Usage based API · Billed by usage; no assumed monthly cost.
Which models does Jina AI Jina Search Foundation API (pay as you go) support?
Representative models: Jina OCR v1, Jina VLM, Jina Reranker v3, Jina Reranker v3.5, Jina Code Embeddings 0.5b, Jina Code Embeddings 1.5b, Jina Embeddings v4, Jina Reranker M0, ReaderLM v2, Jina Clip v2, Jina Colbert v2, Jina Embeddings v5 Text Small, Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small, Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Nano, Jina Embeddings v5 Text Nano, Jina DeepSearch v1, Jina DeepSearch v2.
When was Jina AI Jina Search Foundation API (pay as you go)'s price last verified?
CreditsPlan last verified this plan on 2026-10-15 against jina.ai; the vendor's official site prevails.