At a glance
Keiro vs askFinz
Row by row — what a call buys on each side.
| Compared on | Keiro | askFinz |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | A credit-priced search API for your own application | Workspaces, research agents, a browser extension and a desktop app, on one sign-in |
| Cheapest action | A lighter search at ~$0.08 per 1,000, or ranked links at $0.80 | Not sold separately; page text comes as standard |
| Search with page text | 3 credits — $7.20 / $4.00 / $2.40 per 1,000 on the $30 / $50 / $100 plans | $0.75 top-up · $1.00 with the extension or a paid plan · $3.50 standalone |
| Pricing shape | Credits; the rate falls as the plan grows | Flat per-search rate; cheaper the more of your usage runs through askFinz |
| What comes back | Links, or links plus page text | The matched passage and an answer, together, with the address it was read from |
| Underlying index | Keiro's own, refreshed on its schedule | Its own, read continuously |
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Keiro rates read directly from Keiro's own pricing page, verified 7 September 2026 — not from a third-party roundup. askFinz rates as published on pricing. Check Keiro's current page before relying on these figures.
What Keiro is
Keiro sells search access on a credit system across three plans. The cheapest action, ranked links with no page text, costs one credit. Getting the actual text behind a result — the call most AI applications actually need — costs three credits, and the effective rate per 1,000 of those falls as the plan gets larger: $7.20, then $4.00, then $2.40. There is also a free plan, and a lighter search tier at a tenth of a credit.
What askFinz is
askFinz runs its own crawled web index, read continuously rather than fetched per request. Every result comes back as the matched passage alongside the answer, with the address it was read from, no separate charge for the text and no cheaper tier that withholds it. What the index holds is filed as the kind of document it is — a judgment with its jurisdiction, a standard with its revision, a filing under the reference number the issuing body published it with — and documents are read as documents, with PDFs, Word files and slide decks read page by page rather than linked to. On top of the index sits a set of workspaces — Search, Research, Chat, Code, News and more — plus a browser extension and a desktop app, all on one sign-in.
A note on the numbers, because they have been wrong before
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 page now says $30, $50 and $100, with credit rates that follow from those — and an earlier version of this page said $15, $25 and $50, so it had gone a revision stale itself. Nothing here comes from that roundup. If a figure disagrees with Keiro's site, Keiro's site is right and this page is behind — the date above says how far.
Comparing like with like
This is the whole discipline of the page. A links-only call and a call that returns text are different products, and pricing one against the other flatters whichever side gets to keep its cheaper number. Keiro's $0.80 links-only rate is real and worth knowing, and so is the lighter tier below it. Neither is what askFinz's $0.75–$3.50 should be set against; Keiro's 3-credit tier is.
On that comparison askFinz sits at or below Keiro on every plan, and the text comes back as the matched passage rather than a full page you re-extract. On the links-only comparison, Keiro wins outright, and there is no askFinz tier that undercuts it.
A component, or a place to work
One of these is a call you build against. The other is somewhere you open and use.
Choose Keiro if
- Ranked links without page text are genuinely enough for what you are building. At $0.80 per 1,000 — or roughly $0.08 on their lighter tier — that is the cheapest way to get them anywhere in this comparison, and askFinz has no answer to it.
- You need search as an API call inside your own application. askFinz does not sell one.
- Credit-based pricing suits you — you would rather buy a bucket and spend it across different call types than pay a flat per-search rate.
- Your volume is high enough to reach the $100 plan, where Keiro's with-text rate of $2.40 is below askFinz's standalone $3.50 — though still above the $1.00 bundled rate.
- You want to choose per call whether to pay for text, rather than always getting it.
Choose askFinz if
- You need the page text with your results, which most AI work does, and you would rather not have it priced as an upgrade.
- You want the matched passage rather than the full page, with the address it was read from — the extraction step is already done, not something you re-do, and it has been done inside PDFs, Word files and slide decks as well as web pages.
- Your usage would sit on Keiro's smaller plans, where the with-text rate is $4.00 or $7.20 per 1,000 against askFinz's $0.75–$3.50.
- You want search as a place people work — Search and the other workspaces, a browser extension, a desktop app and research agents, all on one index and one sign-in — not a call in a codebase.
- You want results filed by what the document is, so a court filing and a blog post are not the same kind of hit — a judgment keeps its jurisdiction, a standard its revision, and a filing the reference number its issuing body published it under.
FAQ
Questions people ask
The things people actually ask before choosing between Keiro and askFinz.
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On its links-only and lighter tiers, yes — $0.80 and roughly $0.08 per 1,000 as of 7 September 2026, and askFinz has nothing at those prices. On the tier that returns page text it depends on volume: Keiro runs $2.40–$7.20 per 1,000 against askFinz's $0.75–$3.50, so Keiro's best rate is below askFinz's standalone price and above its bundled one.
Because askFinz always returns the passage. Setting a text-included rate against a text-excluded one is the comparison that makes both sides look better than they are, in opposite directions.
Yes. Both sides of this comparison hold their own index, so ownership is not what separates them here — price and product shape are.
No. askFinz does not sell index access as a standalone feed or API.
A third-party roundup that got them wrong. Keiro's own pricing page lists $30, $50 and $100, alongside a free plan. An earlier version of this page said $15, $25 and $50, which was correct when it was written and is a repricing behind now.
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