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Jina AI

Search-foundation APIs — Reader, embeddings, and reranker — for grounding LLMs.

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Jun 8, 2026

A suite of search-foundation APIs for retrieval and RAG: a Reader that turns any URL or web search into LLM-ready markdown, multilingual multimodal embeddings, and a reranker. One key spans every service, the Reader is open source, and the embedding models are also released as open weights for self-hosting.

Capabilities 4

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Web scraping (primary capability)
  • Embeddings (primary capability)
  • Vector search (secondary capability)
  • RAG pipeline (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • One key spans Reader, embeddings, reranker
  • Reader: URL to clean markdown instantly
  • Open-source Reader + open-weight embeddings
  • Strong multilingual embeddings/reranker
  • Acquired by Elastic (Oct 2025); roadmap may shift
  • Free Reader tier is rate-limited
  • Hosted APIs metered by tokens
  • Narrower than full scraping suites

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