Keiro is the closest thing to a price competitor askFinz has in this comparison — its credit-based tiers land it well below most of the rest of the market. Getting that comparison right matters more here than anywhere else in this list, because Keiro's pricing has already been misreported once: a widely shared roundup put its plans at "$5.99/$14.99/$24.99" with per-credit rates as low as $0.02. Keiro's own pricing page says $15, $25 and $50 for its three plans, with credit rates that follow from those — nothing close to the numbers that circulated.
What each one is
Keiro sells search access on a credit system with three plans. Its cheapest action — ranked links with no page text — costs 1 credit. Getting the actual page text back, the call comparable to what most AI applications need, costs 3 credits, and the price per 1,000 of those calls falls as the plan gets larger: $9.00 on the $15 plan, $5.00 on the $25 plan, $3.00 on the $50 plan.
askFinz runs its own crawled web index underneath a Search workspace, browser extension and research agents, returning the matched passage and an answer together with every result, at no separate charge for the text.
Side-by-side
| Dimension | Keiro | askFinz |
|---|---|---|
| Access | Credit-based search API for your own application | Search workspace, extension, and agents |
| What a call returns | Ranked links (1 credit), or links with page text (3+ credits) | The matched passage and an answer, together |
| Rate for search with page text (per 1,000) | $3.00 top tier ($50 plan) · $5.00 and $9.00 on the two below | $0.75 top-up · $1.00 with the extension · $3.50 standalone |
| Links-only rate | $1.00 per 1,000, at their top tier | Not a separate, cheaper tier — page text is included by default |
| Freshness | Keiro's own index, refreshed on its schedule | Continuous reading, not a scheduled rebuild |
| Content structure | Ranked links, or links with page text | Filed as what it is — a filing, a standard, a listing |
Keiro rates read directly from Keiro's own pricing page, verified 12 August 2026 — not from a third-party roundup. Its links-only rate of $1.00 per 1,000 is real and worth knowing, but it's the thinner product: askFinz's own /search returns page text with every result, so the comparable Keiro rate is the 3-credit tier that also returns text, not the 1-credit tier that doesn't. Check Keiro's current page before relying on these figures. askFinz rates are as published on pricing.
What Keiro does well
Keiro is a real, credit-priced alternative for teams that want to pay close to the floor of this market, and its links-only tier is a legitimately cheap way to get ranked results when page text isn't needed at all. Among services that hold their own index rather than relaying someone else's, Keiro's rates are the ones to beat.
Where the work diverges
The comparison that actually matters is search with page text against search with page text — Keiro's 3-credit tier against askFinz's rate — because a links-only call and a call that returns text are different products, and pricing them against each other flatters whichever side gets to keep its cheaper number. On that fair comparison, askFinz's $0.75–$3.50 sits at or below Keiro's $3.00–$9.00 depending on which of Keiro's plans you're on, and the text comes back as the matched passage rather than the full page for you to re-extract.
Looking for a Keiro alternative?
If a links-only call at $1.00 per 1,000 is genuinely all you need, Keiro's cheapest tier is hard to beat. If you need the actual page text with your results — which most AI applications do — askFinz is worth comparing directly against Keiro's 3-credit tier, inside Search and the workspaces built on it.
Which should you choose?
If ranked links without page text are enough for what you're building, Keiro's 1-credit tier is the cheapest way to get them. If you need the matched passage with every result, askFinz is priced at or below Keiro's comparable tier, without a second call for the text.
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