At a glance
Keenable vs askFinz
Row by row — what a call buys on each side.
| Compared on | Keenable | askFinz |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | A search API for your own application | Workspaces, research agents, a browser extension and a desktop app, on one sign-in |
| What comes back | Ranked links, with long snippets | The matched passage and an answer, together |
| Rate per 1,000 searches | $4.00 pay as you go · $1.00 only on dedicated capacity | $0.75 top-up · $1.00 with the extension or a paid plan · $3.50 standalone |
| Page text | Billed extra — snippets, not the page | Included — the matched passage, with the address it was read from |
| Filed by document type | No — ranked web pages | Yes: a judgment comes back as a judgment, with its citation |
| Underlying index | Its own | Its own, read continuously |
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Keenable rates as published on its own pricing page, verified 7 September 2026. askFinz rates as published on pricing. Check Keenable's current page before relying on these figures.
Read the two rates carefully
Keenable publishes $1.00 per 1,000, and that figure is real — but it applies on dedicated capacity, which is a commitment rather than a per-call price. The rate a new account actually pays is $4.00 pay as you go.
That is worth separating because the two numbers describe different purchases. If you have the volume to justify dedicated capacity, the comparison is close. If you are paying as you go, askFinz is from $0.75 with no commitment and the rate covers the passage rather than a snippet on top.
Snippets are not the page
Keenable returns long snippets, which is more than most of this market and genuinely useful for triage. It is still an excerpt chosen before your question was known.
askFinz returns the passage that addressed the question, and the address it came from, so an answer can be followed back to the publisher. Where a question needs the surrounding argument rather than the sentence that matched, that is the difference.
Where Keenable is the better buy
If you want an index-backed search endpoint with generous snippets and you have the volume for dedicated capacity, Keenable is a straight fit and the $1.00 tier is competitive. It runs its own crawler and index, which most of the rows in our comparison table do not.
Pick askFinz when what you need is not an endpoint at all — when the index should be something a team opens in Search, reads from the workspaces, or carries into the browser with the extension.
What askFinz does that an endpoint cannot
The same index answers in askFinz Search, is read by the workspaces, and reaches the browser through the extension — so the thing being priced is also a product people use directly. Records keep their type rather than being flattened into web pages, so a standard comes back as a standard with its clause reachable.