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Jina Reader review

Convert any URL to an LLM-friendly input with a simple prefix https://r.jina.ai/

Updated Nov 1, 2026. Review written Nov 1, 2026 from the project's own sources; usage data refreshed every Monday.

Jina Reader at a glance

Category
RAG, data and memory
Website
jina.ai/reader

Is Jina Reader growing? Usage data

In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, Jina Reader ranked #375 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #39 in RAG, data and memory, with a momentum score of 12 out of 100.

New GitHub stars per week for Jina Reader12 weeks from Aug 9, 2026: 39, 32, 36, 30, 25, 47, 34, 51, 42, 37, 36, 33 new stars, an average of 37 a week.Aug 9week of Oct 25
New GitHub stars per week for the last 12 weeks, from GitHub's stargazer history (today's stargazers by the week they starred).
Show the weekly numbers
New GitHub stars per week for Jina Reader
Week ofNew stars
Aug 9, 202639
Aug 16, 202632
Aug 23, 202636
Aug 30, 202630
Sep 6, 202625
Sep 13, 202647
Sep 20, 202634
Sep 27, 202651
Oct 4, 202642
Oct 11, 202637
Oct 18, 202636
Oct 25, 202633

The Board ranks tools by four signals each week: new stars, new stars for the repo's size, added downloads and download growth beyond the market. How the ranking works.

Jina Reader alternatives

Other RAG, data and memory tools on the Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum:

RAG, data and memory ranked by momentum, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026
RankToolStarsDownloads/wk
#1XERJXERJ is a local-first search engine and MCP server for AI agents, packaged as one Rust binary with an Elasticsearch-compatible API.17.9k–
#2MemvidMemvid is a single-file memory layer for AI agents that packages data, embeddings, search indexes, and metadata into one portable .mv2 file.17.3k–
#3LEANNLEANN is a Python vector database and RAG library that recomputes embeddings on demand to keep indexes small on personal devices.13.7k–
#4GraphifyGraphify is an AI coding assistant skill that turns a codebase, with its docs, PDFs, images and videos, into a queryable knowledge graph.140k480.7k
#5MarkItDownMarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility from Microsoft that converts PDFs, Office documents, images, audio and other files to…193.2k4.7M
#6FirecrawlFirecrawl is an API and open source project to search, scrape, crawl, and interact with web pages, returning LLM-ready markdown or JSON…197.4k2.9M

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Jina Reader FAQ

How popular is Jina Reader?

Jina Reader has 12.2k GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 33 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 37 a week. That made it #39 among RAG, data and memory tools on the Devtoolwatch Board.

What are the best alternatives to Jina Reader?

Other RAG, data and memory tools on the Devtoolwatch Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum: XERJ (#1), Memvid (#2), LEANN (#3), Graphify (#4), MarkItDown (#5). The alternatives table above has their numbers.

Sources

  1. Devtoolwatch Board, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026

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