Funding

Elastic completes acquisition of Jina AI

Jina AI pricing

Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) completed its acquisition of Jina AI; founder Han Xiao became Elastic VP of AI. Jina's standalone search-foundation APIs (Embeddings, Reranker, Reader, DeepSearch) and their token-credit pricing continue to operate independently post-deal.

Elastic completed its acquisition of Jina AI on 2025-10-09 (Elastic IR / major outlets). Han Xiao joined as Elastic VP of AI. Jina’s token-credit API pricing — 10M free tokens per key, $50→1B ($0.050/1M) Standard, $500→11B ($0.045/1M) Premium — continues independently. Jina had earlier introduced its current shared-balance pricing model on 2025-05-06 with grandfathering for prior auto-recharge subscribers.

From Jina AI's pricing timeline
Acquired by Elastic (NYSE: ESTC)

Elastic completes its acquisition of Jina AI; founder/CEO Han Xiao becomes Elastic's VP of AI. The standalone Jina Search Foundation API and its token-credit pricing continue to operate independently post-acquisition. No public repricing announced as of the June 2026 review.

About Jina AI
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Jina AI uses a pure usage model built on a single shared token-credit balance: one API key holds one pool of prepaid tokens that every Search Foundation product — Embeddings, Reranker, Reader, DeepSearch and Classifier — draws from, with no seats and no per-product subscriptions.

Pricing model pure usagefreemium
Billing units tokensrequestsapi calls
Sales motion self serveplgsales led
Free tier
Yes
Commits
None
Transparency
public

Jina AI pricing history

  1. Jun 2026
    Current snapshot: shared token-credit balance across all Search Foundation APIs
  2. Oct 2025
    Acquired by Elastic (NYSE: ESTC)
  3. May 2025
    New shared-balance pricing model introduced
  4. Feb 2025
    DeepSearch API (jina-deepsearch-v1) launched
  5. Sep 2024
    ReaderLM small language model
Full Jina AI timeline
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