--- title: "Jina AI Reader: vendor profile: Agent Ready HTML" description: "Jina AI Reader, markdown tooling: 0 of 6 standards stated as supported, 9 sourced facts, dated plans and what it does not do." canonical: https://agentreadyhtml.com/vendors/jina-reader/ site: "Agent Ready HTML" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Vendors" --- # Jina AI Reader: vendor profile: Agent Ready HTML > Jina AI Reader, markdown tooling: 0 of 6 standards stated as supported, 9 sourced facts, dated plans and what it does not do. Source: https://agentreadyhtml.com/vendors/jina-reader/ Site: Agent Ready HTML Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 # Jina AI Reader: vendor profile In short Reader works from the caller's side and adds no llms.txt or markdown route to the site it reads. It allows 20 requests a minute without an API key and 500 with a free or paid key. Elastic has sold the commercial model licence as its own SKU since 2026-08-10, and procurement for the hosted APIs runs through Elastic. ## At a glance **standards.txt** jina-reader ```text llms-txt = no statement markdown-negotiation = no statement markdown-twin = no statement initial-html = no statement real-404 = no statement vary-accept = no statement ``` 0 supports, 0 partial or announced, 6 no statement. **Jina AI Reader** Markdown or llms.txt tool Hosted API that fetches any URL in a browser and returns LLM-ready markdown or JSON when the URL is prefixed with r.jina.ai, plus a search endpoint at s.jina.ai; it shows a site what an agent pipeline extracts from its pages. Type [Markdown or llms.txt tool](https://agentreadyhtml.com/vendors/by-type/markdown-tooling/) Operator, as the facts below state it Jina AI Home page [jina.ai/reader](https://jina.ai/reader/), answered HTTP 200 on 2026-11-05 Last read 5 November 2026 ## What it does for this layer - Jina AI Reader converts a page to LLM-friendly input when r.jina.ai is prepended to its URL. \[primary source\] [source](https://jina.ai/reader/), read 5 November 2026. - Jina's s.jina.ai endpoint searches the web and returns the top five results with their URLs and contents as LLM-friendly text. \[primary source\] [source](https://jina.ai/reader/), read 5 November 2026. - The Reader API rate limit table lists r.jina.ai at 20 requests per minute without an API key, 500 with a free or paid key and 5,000 with a premium key, with an average latency of 7.9 seconds. \[primary source\] [source](https://jina.ai/reader/), read 5 November 2026. - Reader lets the caller choose the browser engine used to fetch a page, override the User-Agent string, set the browser locale and set the window size. \[primary source\] [source](https://jina.ai/reader/), read 5 November 2026. - Reader's markdown output options for headings, rules, emphasis and links are passed through to the Turndown library. \[primary source\] [source](https://jina.ai/reader/), read 5 November 2026. - Reader caches fetched URL contents for a period; callers can bypass the cache, accept cached content younger than N seconds, or ask that a request be neither cached nor logged. \[primary source\] [source](https://jina.ai/reader/), read 5 November 2026. - Jina says Reader reads PDFs natively, and an OCR option using jina-ocr-v1 turns images into markdown at 40 times the token cost. \[primary source\] [source](https://jina.ai/reader/), read 5 November 2026. - Jina says the Reader service code is on its GitHub organization while the ReaderLM-v2 and jina-vlm models are CC-BY-NC 4.0, and that Elastic has sold the commercial licence as its own SKU since 2026-08-10. \[primary source, 2026-08-10\] [source](https://jina.ai/reader/), read 5 November 2026. - Jina's FAQ routes purchase orders, negotiated contracts and procurement for the hosted APIs through Elastic rather than self-serve Stripe billing. \[primary source\] [source](https://jina.ai/reader/), read 5 November 2026. ## Products and plans | Product | What it is | Price | As of | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reader API (r.jina.ai) | URL to markdown, text, HTML or JSON conversion with browser rendering, caching and PDF support. | Usage-based, with a free allowance; Usable without a key at 20 requests a minute; paid token packs raise limits | 2026-11-05 | source | | Search API (s.jina.ai) | Web search that returns the top five results with their page contents as text. | No price on the pages read | | | ## Standards | Standard | Status | What the vendor's pages say | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | llms-txt | no statement | Reader does not generate llms.txt for sites in the page read. | none | | markdown-negotiation | no statement | Reader converts pages itself rather than negotiating with the origin, in the page read. | none | | markdown-twin | no statement | Not a site feature; Reader produces its own markdown copy on request. | none | | initial-html | no statement | Reader runs a browser, so it reads JavaScript-rendered content that a plain fetch would miss. | none | | real-404 | no statement | Not covered in the page read. | none | | vary-accept | no statement | Not covered in the page read. | none | ## Checks on its own site Plain-fetch checks ran on https://jina.ai/reader/; the Ora and Cloudflare scores cover the whole host jina.ai. | Reading | Result | Date | | --- | --- | --- | | Home page request | HTTP 200; H1 in the initial HTML: yes; 5,153 words; 0 JSON-LD blocks | 2026-11-05 | | Request with Accept: text/markdown | HTTP 200, text/html, Vary: Accept-Encoding | 2026-11-05 | | /llms.txt at the host root | HTTP 404, text/html, 29 KB | 2026-11-05 | | A made-up path | HTTP 404 | 2026-11-05 | | Ora score, cached | 61, grade C | 2026-10-01 | | Cloudflare keyless scan | 20, L1 Basic Web Presence | 2026-11-05 | | Shared crawl row | outside the ranked slice; home page HTTP 200; H1 in the HTML: yes; 1,596 words; JSON-LD types: none; answers markdown: no; made-up path HTTP 404; llms.txt valid: no | 2026-11-04 | ## What it does not do - Jina AI Reader changes nothing on the site it reads; it is a client-side conversion service, so a site gains no llms.txt or markdown route from it. - Reader's commercial model licence is not included in token purchases, according to Jina's FAQ. ## Related pages on this site - [Markdown and llms.txt tooling in this section](https://agentreadyhtml.com/vendors/by-type/markdown-tooling/) - [The Plain Fetch viewer](https://agentreadyhtml.com/viewer/) ## Sources 1. [Reader API - Jina AI](https://jina.ai/reader/) https://jina.ai/reader/, read 5 November 2026 Last reviewed 5 November 2026 Edition Crawl 2026-11-04 Page updated 2026-11-05 Method How the viewer reads a page, how a file is graded and how a platform is scored: [the method page](https://agentreadyhtml.com/method/).