What is TinyFish?
TinyFish is a hosted web platform for AI agents from TinyFish Inc. of Cupertino, California. One API key and one prepaid wallet cover several services: TinySearch returns ranked results as JSON, TinyFetch turns up to 10 URLs per request into Markdown, HTML or JSON, TinyAgent carries out a goal written in plain English on real websites, and TinyBrowser is a remote browser you drive with Playwright, Puppeteer or CDP.
Search and Fetch cost nothing on every account. Search is free up to 30 requests a minute, 500 an hour and 12,000 a day; Fetch up to 150 URLs a minute and 1,000 a day. The paid parts are metered: TinyAgent at $0.016 per step, TinyBrowser at $0.002 per minute, TinyMonitor page checks at $0.005, research reports at $2 a run and generated datasets at $0.10 a row.
Around the agent sit TinyVault, which pulls logins from 1Password or Bitwarden without showing them to the model, saved browser profiles, step-by-step recordings of every run, an MCP server, a CLI and plugins for ChatGPT and Claude.
Is TinyFish worth it?
An AI agent that can read the web needs two dull things before it can do anything clever: a way to search, and a way to turn a page into text. Most providers charge for both, and the bill grows with every question your agent asks.
TinyFish gives both away. Search is free up to 12,000 requests a day and Fetch up to 1,000 URLs a day, on every account, with no card needed. A small agent asking a few hundred questions a day will never see an invoice for either. Fetch handles up to 10 URLs per call, reads PDFs, and returns Markdown with menus and ads stripped out; the docs warn that JavaScript-heavy sites can take 10 to 20 seconds to render.
The money is made on the harder work. TinyAgent takes a goal such as "find the cheapest refundable room for these dates" and clicks through the site itself at $0.016 a step, so a 25-step booking check costs about 40 cents. New accounts start with 2 agent runs at once and 5 browser sessions. TinyFish's own benchmark page claims 89.9% on the Mind2Web web-task test and publishes all 300 runs, which is more openness than most rivals offer, though it is still the vendor marking its own homework.
The catch: the paperwork lags behind the product. The privacy policy, effective 14 December 2025, gives no retention period for queries, fetched pages or the run recordings it keeps of every agent session, and does not say whether customer data trains models. The homepage says searches run against Google's live index through a real browser, so your query text also travels on to Google. Above the free limits the docs say only that you need a positive wallet balance; the per-request price is not published. ISO 27001, single sign-on and VPC deployment are listed for Enterprise only.
Our take: TinyFish is the free tap in the corner of the workshop. It is worth plumbing in for search and fetch today, while anything involving logins or customer data waits until a signed data agreement answers the questions the policy leaves open.
Where it earns its place
A solo developer running a research assistant on a hobby budget
Give the assistant web search and page reading without a monthly bill
Point the agent at the MCP server or the two REST endpoints. A few hundred searches and fetches a day sit well inside the 12,000 and 1,000 daily free limits, so the cost is the model's tokens alone.
An operations analyst at a 40-person travel start-up
Check room prices on hotel sites that have no API
Write the goal in plain English and ask for a JSON output schema. At $0.016 a step, a 25-step check is about $0.40, so 100 checks a day run near $40; recordings show where a run went wrong.
A growth team at a B2B software company
Get an alert when a competitor changes its pricing page
TinyMonitor checks the page on a schedule at $0.005 a check and does not charge for failed ones. Hourly checks on ten pages come to about $36 a month.
Before you commit
- Setup
- Sign up, copy an API key and call Search or Fetch with an X-API-Key header; no card needed for the free tier or the first $8 of wallet funds.
- Integrations
- REST APIs with OpenAPI specs, an MCP server, a CLI, ChatGPT and Claude plugins, n8n and Dify; TinyBrowser accepts Playwright, Puppeteer or CDP.
- Data and privacy
- TinyFish sees every query, fetched page and agent run, and records runs step by step; the privacy policy sets no retention period and is silent on training. Searches go through Google's index, per the homepage.
- Cost at scale
- Search and Fetch stay free within daily limits. Agent work scales by steps: 10,000 runs of 25 steps a month is about $4,000 at $0.016 a step.
- Limits
- Search 30/minute, 500/hour, 12,000/day; Fetch 150 URLs/minute, 1,000/day, 10 URLs per request; 2 concurrent agent runs and 5 browser sessions to start.
What’s good
- Search and Fetch free up to 12,000 and 1,000 requests a day
- One key and wallet for search, fetch, browser and agent
- Logins come from 1Password or Bitwarden without reaching the model
- Every agent run recorded step by step for review
- Benchmark runs published rather than only a headline score
What’s not
- Privacy policy gives no retention period and no statement on training
- Price beyond the free limits not published
- Starts at 2 concurrent agent runs
- ISO 27001, SSO and VPC only on Enterprise
- JavaScript-heavy pages can take 10 to 20 seconds
Best for
Developers building agents that need free, high-volume web search and page reading, and occasional paid browser automation on public sites.
TinyFish alternatives
TinyFish: common questions
- Is TinyFish worth it?
- TinyFish gives an agent search and page fetching for nothing, which is hard to argue with, but its privacy policy says almost nothing about what happens to the pages and runs it handles. We rate it 4.0 out of 5.
- How much does TinyFish cost?
- Search (12,000 requests/day) and Fetch (1,000 URLs/day) free on every account; above that a positive wallet balance is needed, per-request price not published. TinyAgent $0.016/step, TinyBrowser $0.002/minute, TinyMonitor $0.005/check, TinyResearch $2/run ($3 Max), TinySets $0.10/row. New accounts get $8 of wallet funds; top-ups from $10. Enterprise by quote.
- What are the downsides of TinyFish?
- Privacy policy gives no retention period and no statement on training; price beyond the free limits not published; starts at 2 concurrent agent runs; iSO 27001, SSO and VPC only on Enterprise; javaScript-heavy pages can take 10 to 20 seconds.
- Who is TinyFish best for?
- Developers building agents that need free, high-volume web search and page reading, and occasional paid browser automation on public sites.
- How much does TinyFish cost for a team or in production?
- Search and Fetch stay free within daily limits. Agent work scales by steps: 10,000 runs of 25 steps a month is about $4,000 at $0.016 a step.
- Is TinyFish safe for company data?
- TinyFish sees every query, fetched page and agent run, and records runs step by step; the privacy policy sets no retention period and is silent on training. Searches go through Google's index, per the homepage.
- What are the best TinyFish alternatives?
- The closest alternatives we have reviewed are Jina Reader and Apify.
Answers checked Nov 13, 2026.
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