Reader

Convert a URL to LLM-friendly input by prepending r.jina.ai.

Reader API

Convert a URL to LLM-friendly input by prepending r.jina.ai.

Use r.jina.ai to read a URL and fetch its content

Use s.jina.ai to search the web and get SERP

Add mcp.jina.ai as your MCP server to use our APIs in LLMs

curl "https://r.jina.ai/https://www.example.com"

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jina-ocr-v1: Faster Document Parsing on Low-Budget GPUs

A 3.4B mixture-of-experts document parser that activates only 570M parameters per token. It reads a page image and returns Markdown with text, formulas, tables and reading order in a single pass.

Feeding web information into LLMs is an important step of grounding, yet it can be challenging. The simplest method is to scrape the webpage and feed the raw HTML. However, scraping can be complex and often blocked, and raw HTML is cluttered with extraneous elements like markups and scripts. The Reader API addresses these issues by extracting the core content from a URL and converting it into clean, LLM-friendly text, ensuring high-quality input for your agent and RAG systems. The Reader API is developer infrastructure: it converts a URL you supply into LLM-friendly text so you can build your own search, RAG, and agent systems. It is not a consumer search engine and does not index or rank the web on your behalf; you control which URLs are processed and are responsible for how the output is used.

Enter your URL

Click below to fetch the source code of the page directly

Reader URL

Click below to obtain the content through our Reader API

Raw HTML

Reader Output

Pose a Question

Input a question and combine it with the fetched content for LLM to generate an answer

Reader for web search and SERP

Reader can be used as SERP API. It allows you to feed your LLM with the content behind the search results engine page. Simply prepend https://s.jina.ai/?q= to your query, and Reader will search the web and return the top five results with their URLs and contents, each in clean, LLM-friendly text. This way, you can always keep your LLM up-to-date, improve its factuality, and reduce hallucinations.

Enter your query

Type a question that requires latest information or world knowledge.

Reader URL

If you use this URL in code, don't forget to encode the URL.

Please note that unlike the demo shown above, in practice you do not search the original question on the web for grounding. What people often do is rewrite the original question or use multi-hop questions. They read the retrieved results and then generate additional queries to gather more information as needed before arriving at a final answer.

Reader also reads images!

Images on the webpage are automatically captioned using a vision language model in the reader and formatted as image alt tags in the output. This gives your downstream LLM just enough hints to incorporate those images into its reasoning and summarizing processes. This means you can ask questions about the images, select specific ones, or even forward their URLs to a more powerful VLM for deeper analysis!

Reader also reads PDFs!

Yes, Reader natively supports PDF reading. It's compatible with most PDFs, including those with many images, and it's lightning fast! Combined with an LLM, you can easily build a ChatPDF or document analysis AI in no time.

Original PDF

Reader Result

The best part? It's free!

Reader API is available for free and offers flexible rate limit and pricing. Built on a scalable infrastructure, it offers high accessibility, concurrency, and reliability. We strive to be your preferred grounding solution for your LLMs.

Rate limit

Rate limits are tracked in two ways: RPM (requests per minute) and TPM (tokens per minute). Limits are enforced per IP/API key and will be triggered when either the RPM or TPM threshold is reached first. When you provide an API key in the request header, we track rate limits by key rather than IP address.

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Product	API Endpoint	Description	w/o API Key	w/ Free API Key	w/ Paid API Key	w/ Premium API Key	Average latency	Token Usage Counting	Allowed Request
Reader API	`https://r.jina.ai`	Converts a URL to LLM-friendly text	20 RPM	500 RPM	500 RPM	5000 RPM	7.9s	Count the number of tokens in the output response.	GET/POST
Reader API	`https://s.jina.ai`	Search the web and convert results to LLM-friendly text		100 RPM	100 RPM	1000 RPM	2.5s	Every request costs a fixed number of tokens, starting from 10,000 tokens	GET/POST
Embedding API	`https://api.jina.ai/v1/embeddings`	Convert text/images to fixed-length vectors		100 RPM & 100,000 TPM	500 RPM & 2,000,000 TPM	5,000 RPM & 50,000,000 TPM	depends on the input size	Count the number of tokens in the input request.	POST
Reranker API	`https://api.jina.ai/v1/rerank`	Rank documents by query		100 RPM & 100,000 TPM	500 RPM & 2,000,000 TPM	5,000 RPM & 50,000,000 TPM	depends on the input size	Count the number of tokens in the input request.	POST

Don't panic! Every new API key comes with 10M free tokens!

API Pricing

API pricing is based on the token usage. One API key gives you access to all search foundation products.

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Understand the rate limit

Rate limits are the maximum number of requests that can be made to an API within a minute per IP address/API key (RPM). Find out more about the rate limits for each product and tier below.

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We introduced a new pricing model on May 6th, 2025. If you enabled auto-recharge before this date, you'll continue to pay the old price (the one when you purchased). The new pricing only applies if you modify your auto-recharge settings or purchase a new API key.

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FAQ

What are the costs associated with using the Reader API?

How does the Reader API function?

Is the Reader API open source?

What is the typical latency for the Reader API?

Why should I use the Reader API instead of scraping the page myself?

Does the Reader API support multiple languages?

Does the Reader API respect website access controls?

Can the Reader API extract content from PDF files?

Can the Reader API process media content from web pages?

Is it possible to use the Reader API on local HTML files?

Does Reader API cache the content?

Can I use the Reader API to access content behind a login?

Can I use the Reader API to access PDF on arXiv?

How does image caption work in Reader?

What is the scalability of the Reader? Can I use it in production?

What is the rate limit of the Reader API?

What is ReaderLM? How can I use it?

How do I extract structured data from webpages?

Does Reader actively bypass website anti-bot protection?

Will upgrading from a free to a paid API key give me access to more websites?

Can I run Reader inside my own infrastructure?

How to get my API key?

What's the rate limit?

Rate limit

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Product	API Endpoint	Description	w/o API Key	w/ Free API Key	w/ Paid API Key	w/ Premium API Key	Average latency	Token Usage Counting	Allowed Request
Reader API	`https://r.jina.ai`	Converts a URL to LLM-friendly text	20 RPM	500 RPM	500 RPM	5000 RPM	7.9s	Count the number of tokens in the output response.	GET/POST
Reader API	`https://s.jina.ai`	Search the web and convert results to LLM-friendly text		100 RPM	100 RPM	1000 RPM	2.5s	Every request costs a fixed number of tokens, starting from 10,000 tokens	GET/POST
Embedding API	`https://api.jina.ai/v1/embeddings`	Convert text/images to fixed-length vectors		100 RPM & 100,000 TPM	500 RPM & 2,000,000 TPM	5,000 RPM & 50,000,000 TPM	depends on the input size	Count the number of tokens in the input request.	POST
Reranker API	`https://api.jina.ai/v1/rerank`	Rank documents by query		100 RPM & 100,000 TPM	500 RPM & 2,000,000 TPM	5,000 RPM & 50,000,000 TPM	depends on the input size	Count the number of tokens in the input request.	POST

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