At a glance
Yep vs askFinz
Row by row — what a call buys on each side.
| Compared on | Yep | 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, plus the sentence that matched | The matched passage and an answer, together |
| Rate per 1,000 searches | $4.00 · $8.00 advanced tier | $0.75 top-up · $1.00 with the extension or a paid plan · $3.50 standalone |
| Page text | Billed extra — the matching sentence only | 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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Yep rates as published on its own pricing page, verified 7 September 2026. askFinz rates as published on pricing. Check Yep's current page before relying on these figures.
A sentence is not an argument
Yep returns the sentence that matched, which is a genuinely useful thing to have — it tells you why a result is in the list, which a ranked link on its own never does.
It is also the narrowest unit in this comparison. A sentence carries the match and not the qualification around it, so a page saying "this applies except where X" can return the half that matched and leave the exception behind. askFinz returns the passage: the stretch of prose the question was actually answered by, with the address to check it against.
Independence is worth saying out loud
Yep runs its own crawler and index rather than relaying somebody else's results. That puts it in the same group as askFinz and a long way from the rows in our table that pass a query to a search engine and hand back what came out. Anyone comparing on price alone will miss that distinction, and it is the one that decides whether a vendor can improve what it holds.
Where Yep is the better buy
If you want an independent index behind a simple search endpoint and the matching sentence is enough context for your application, Yep is a reasonable fit — and it is cheaper than most of the model-hosted web search tools in the same table.
Pick askFinz when the answer needs the passage rather than the sentence, when records should keep their type, or when the index should be something a team opens rather than an endpoint an application calls.
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 what you are pricing is also a product people work in. And a filing, a judgment, a standard and a paper stay different kinds of document, with their identifiers and dates, instead of being flattened into web pages.