TinyFish 免费开放搜索 API，剖析智能体读取网页的两类成本
TinyFish Makes Search Free: What It Really Costs an AI Agent to Read the Web
TinyFish 把搜索 API 免费了，但文中算清了智能体读网页真正烧钱的是 token 消耗，做 agent 的朋友可以看看这笔账。
TinyFish 宣布其搜索 API 免费，免除智能体每次检索的按次收费。但文章指出，读取网页的真正开销不止检索费：抓取的页面内容进入模型后会消耗 token，推理和生成回复还会进一步叠加成本。也就是说，即使检索环节免费，模型处理环节的 token 消耗仍可能占大头。
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 […] The post TinyFish Makes Search Free: What It Really Costs an AI Agent to Read the Web appeared first on MarkTechPost .
