Alternative

A Jina Reader alternative with structure, not just markdown.

Reader-style tools convert a URL to markdown on request, and they do it well. Lyrenth serves the same clean markdown from a standing index of 1.1B+ pages, wrapped in a stable AIDocument: headings, links, images, JSON-LD, quality signals, cache truth, and the token economics of the read. Same convenience, more contract.

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A contract, not a conversion

Every response is the same v2 JSON envelope with a published schema. Parse once, rely on it for every page on the web.

Markdown when that is all you want

GET /v1/read?url=... returns clean markdown for paste-and-go use. The full AIDocument is there when your pipeline grows into it.

Served from the index

Reads resolve from a standing index with a cross-caller cache, so repeated reads are instant and origins are not hammered.

Owner-verified canonicals

When a site owner verifies their domain, you read the version they authored: the canonical AIDocument, kept fresh by their own change signal.

Side by side

Where a reader proxy ends and an index begins:

	Reader-style proxies	Lyrenth
Model	Convert on request, per caller	Standing index; one canonical document per URL
Output	Markdown text	AIDocument: markdown plus structure, signals, cache truth, economics
Schema	Text out	Published JSON Schema (draft-07), stable v2 envelope
Site owners	No relationship	Free dashboard, verification, canonical authorship, opt-out

Honest scoping: for one-off conversions of pages nobody else reads, any good reader works. The index earns its keep when the same pages are read repeatedly, by you or by everyone.

Measured, not promised

Real pages, read through the production index, with the economics the API itself reports:

Cloudflare Workers docs	94,963 raw	1,377 indexed	98.5% saved
Kubernetes Pods concepts	131,977 raw	7,475 indexed	94.3% saved
MDN: Overview of HTTP	56,692 raw	5,085 indexed	91.0% saved

All ten benchmarks

Try it against the pages your agent already reads: npx -y lyrenth-mcp in any MCP client, or one GET /v1/read. Free tier is 2,000 reads a month, no card.

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