At a glance
Amazon Bedrock Web Search vs askFinz
Row by row — what each one does, and what it does not.
| Compared on | Amazon Bedrock Web Search | askFinz |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | Web search built into the Bedrock platform | A Search workspace, browser extension and research agents |
| Index | Amazon's own, generally available June 2026 | Its own, read continuously |
| Rate per 1,000 searches | $7.00 | $0.75 top-up · $1.00 with the extension or a paid plan · $3.50 standalone |
| Where it fits | Agents and applications already running on Bedrock | Standalone — no platform commitment required |
| What comes back | Search results for a Bedrock agent to use | The matched passage, the answer, and the address it was read from |
| Content structure | Not publicly detailed | Filed as what it is — a judgment, a standard, a filing, with its identifier |
| Where it runs | Inside Bedrock, called from your code | Workspaces, a browser extension and a desktop app on one sign-in |
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Bedrock Web Search is priced at $7.00 per 1,000 queries on AWS's own pricing page, read 7 September 2026; new accounts get up to $200 in free-tier credits. askFinz rates as published on pricing.
What Amazon Bedrock Web Search is
Web search built into Bedrock, Amazon's generative AI platform, running on a web index Amazon operates itself rather than licensing from a third party. Amazon describes it as spanning tens of billions of documents and refreshed continually. It is designed to plug into agents and applications already running on Bedrock.
What askFinz is
askFinz reads and holds its own web index too — separately built, separately operated, read ahead of the question so an answer is a lookup rather than a fetch. On top of it sit a Search workspace, Research, Chat, Code and News, a browser extension and a desktop app, all on the same index and one sign-in. A question returns the matched passage together with the answer, and the address it was read from, and what the index holds is filed by what each document actually is: a judgment, a standard, a filing or a clinical study comes back as that kind of record with its identifier attached. PDFs, Office files, ebooks and data files are converted to readable text and read, not merely linked to. askFinz does not sell index access as a standalone feed or API.
What Amazon's launch changed about the argument
It is worth conceding this properly, because the honest version of a claim is more useful than the loud one. Until June 2026 it was easy to say that AI products search the web through somebody else's rented index. Amazon building and launching its own puts it in the same small company as Google and Brave, and it is a serious infrastructure investment few companies attempt. The defensible claim now is that most AI products still rent theirs — not that everyone does.
What can be compared today
Architecture, product shape and — unusually for this site — price. Both sides return passages from an index they operate themselves, so $7.00 per 1,000 queries and $0.75 to $3.50 per 1,000 searches are measuring the same thing for once. That comparison is not the whole argument, and it is not nothing either: the cheaper side is also the one that files what it reads by document type and hands back the address the passage came from.
Two different days
One answers the question and closes. The other keeps what you found.
Choose Amazon Bedrock Web Search if
- Your stack already runs on Bedrock, and staying inside one billing, identity and compliance perimeter matters.
- You are building agents on Bedrock and want web search as a native capability rather than a third-party call.
- AWS procurement, support and contractual terms are a requirement you cannot work around.
- You need search callable from your own application code. askFinz sells no such call.
- You want a vendor at Amazon's scale with the operational track record that comes with it.
Choose askFinz if
- You want search that does not require committing to a cloud platform first.
- Rate matters: $0.75–$3.50 against $7.00 per 1,000, for passages from an index each side operates itself.
- You want the matched passage back with the answer and the address it was read from, checkable, rather than results for an agent to process.
- Search is a place people work — workspaces, a browser extension and a desktop app on one sign-in — rather than a capability in a codebase.
- You want web content filed by what it actually is rather than returned as an undifferentiated result set.
FAQ
Questions people ask
The things people actually ask before choosing between Amazon Bedrock Web Search and askFinz.
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Yes. Amazon built and operates it rather than licensing a third party's, which is unusual and worth acknowledging.
AWS publishes $7.00 per 1,000 queries for Bedrock Web Search, read from its own pricing page on 7 September 2026, with up to $200 in free-tier credits for new accounts. That is the figure to compare against askFinz's $0.75 top-up, $1.00 with the extension or a paid plan and $3.50 standalone — and it is a like-for-like comparison, because both sides return passages from an index they operate themselves.
Not as a Bedrock capability. It is a standalone product — a Search workspace, a browser extension and research agents.
Shape, filing and price. Bedrock Web Search is a feature of a large cloud platform aimed at agents built on it. askFinz is a standalone product — workspaces, a browser extension and a desktop app on one sign-in — at a published flat rate that is lower per 1,000, and its index is kept as separate collections filed by document type, so a judgment, a standard or a clinical study comes back as that kind of record with its identifier rather than as one more result.
No. Google, Brave, Amazon, Exa and askFinz all operate their own. Most AI products built on a SERP API still rent, in effect.
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