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TinyFish Makes Search Free: What It Really Costs an AI Agent to Read the Web

TinyFish has made its web search capability free for AI agents, according to MarkTechPost, removing the per-request retrieval charge that search and fetch APIs typically bill. The report frames the remaining cost as model processing: content pulled from retrieved pages into an AI model consumes tokens, with reasoning and generated responses adding further expense. TinyFish is described as a web infrastructure provider, though the source does not specify the product version, launch date or any pricing figures beyond the removal of the retrieval fee.

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An AI agent that reads the web pays 2 kinds of cost. The first is the retrieval charge: what a search or fetch API bills per request. The second is model processing: content passed from retrieved pages into an AI model consumes tokens, while reasoning and generated responses add further costs. TinyFish, a web infrastructure […]

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