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unlob vs Jina Reader

Jina Reader converts a URL to markdown with a URL prefix. unlob finds which URLs matter and returns their text.

Verified 5 August 2026·Figures from vendors' own pages

Price

ProviderOwn index?$ / 1,000 queriesSource
unlob — Build

$29 per month for 50,000 requests.

Yes

Our own crawl and index

$0.58This page
unlob — Scale

$199 per month for 500,000 requests.

Yes

Our own crawl and index

$0.40This page
Rates are the cheapest directly comparable web search call — roughly ten results, no extraction and no summarisation — because that is the only way a table across credit systems, token pricing and per-request pricing means anything. Where a vendor does not publish a flat per-1,000 rate they are omitted from this table and covered in full on the landscape page. Figures read from each vendor’s own pricing page on 5 August 2026.

When Jina Reader is the better choice

A comparison page that cannot name a scenario where the competitor wins is an advertisement. Here are the real ones.

Choose Jina Reader

  • Turning a known URL into markdown with essentially zero integration.
  • Extracting from pages outside any search index — internal documents, customer sites.
  • A very generous free tier for occasional use.

Choose unlob

  • Discovery: finding which URLs are worth reading in the first place.
  • Cleaned text served from the index rather than fetched live each time.
  • Trust signals and graph traversal.

The substantive differences

Jina Readerunlob
InputA URL.A question.
LatencyA live fetch, so it depends on the target site.Served from the index in single-digit milliseconds.

Sources

Every figure on this page was read from the vendor's own pricing page or funding announcement on the date shown.

Frequently asked questions

Do I still need an extraction tool with unlob?

For pages in our index, no — /doc/:id returns cleaned text. For URLs outside it, such as internal documents or a customer’s own site, a reader tool remains the right choice.

Check the claims yourself

The free tier is 10,000 requests a month with no card. That is enough to test coverage, latency and result quality against your own queries — which is a better comparison than this page.

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