TinyFish makes search and fetch free for AI agents

TinyFish, a web infrastructure company for AI agents, dropped retrieval charges within rate limits: 30 search requests per minute and 500 per hour, plus 150 fetched URLs per minute and 1,000 per day. In the September 28, 2026 Artificial Analysis snapshot, TinyFish Search scored 71 at $9.30 per 1,000 tasks, the lowest total cost among 12 displayed configurations.

• Search is free at 30 requests/min and 500/hour; fetch at 150 URLs/min and 1,000/day
• Scores 71 at $9.30 per 1,000 tasks with 59 seconds per task
• Perplexity Search (medium) leads at 80; the no-search baseline is 33
• Agent costs $0.016 per step, browser $0.002 per minute, new accounts get $8