TinyFish Makes Search Free: What It Really Costs an AI Agent to Read the Web
An AI agent that reads the web pays 2 kinds of cost. The first is the retrieval charge: what a search or fetch API bills per request. The second is model processing: content passed from retrieved pages into an AI model consumes tokens, while reasoning and generated responses add further costs. TinyFish , a web infrastructure company for AI agents, argues that teams budget for the model and underestimate how much retrieved content drives it....
An AI agent that reads the web pays 2 kinds of cost. The first is the retrieval charge: what a search or fetch API bills per request. The second is model processing: content passed from retrieved pages into an AI model consumes tokens, while reasoning and generated responses add further costs. TinyFish , a web infrastructure company for AI agents, argues that teams budget for the model and underestimate how much retrieved content drives it....