Winnow compared to Cludo

Cludo positions itself as AI site search for content-heavy websites, especially for web managers in higher education, public sector, and other large information environments. Its public site emphasizes AI Search, AI Summary, AI Chat, analytics, voice search, autocomplete, promoted suggestions, facets, and guided implementation. Winnow overlaps with Cludo on content-heavy sites, but it serves a different buyer.

Good fit

Choose Winnow if you want a smaller service, public pricing, fast crawl-based setup, search lenses, and optional grounded AI answers without going through a sales process. It is the better choice when you want good site search quickly and do not need a larger vendor relationship around it.

Tradeoffs

Cludo may fit better if you want a more expansive AI and search product line, especially in sectors like local government and higher education. Its public materials emphasize dedicated implementation, analytics, AI layers, accessibility, governance, and organization-level rollout. That is a broader and more procurement-friendly offer than Winnow is trying to be.

Main differences

Cludo is aiming at larger web teams that want a vendor with more structure around implementation, support, and cross-site use cases. Its public product set includes AI Summary, AI Chat, and AI Mode, plus analytics, voice search, promoted terms, facets, and sector-specific messaging. Winnow's advantage is not breadth. It is simplicity: add a site, crawl the public pages, search pages and PDFs, see what visitors search for, optionally turn on AI answers, and keep cost visible.

For smaller teams, that difference matters. Cludo can be the better choice when accessibility requirements, stakeholder alignment, procurement, and support workflows are central to the buying decision. Winnow is better when the team mostly wants a calm, focused product that solves the job without a large vendor motion.

Pricing and packaging

Cludo's pricing is quote-led. Its public pricing and FAQ pages say pricing depends on volume, number of search engines, included features, and contract structure. Winnow publishes its pricing openly, with current unit prices loaded from its pricing configuration.

If your organization expects a customized quote and guided onboarding, Cludo is a natural fit. If you want to evaluate and deploy without entering a sales process first, Winnow is simpler.

  • Minimum charge €0.50 minimum per month
  • Indexed pages €5.00 per 1,000 pages per month
  • Indexed PDFs €5.00 per 1,000 PDFs per month
  • Crawling pages €1.00 per 1,000 pages
  • Crawling PDFs €2.00 per 1,000 PDFs
  • Searches €1.00 per 1,000 searches
  • AI answers €30.00 per 1,000 AI answers

Bottom line

Choose Winnow when you want focused search for a content-heavy public website with public pricing and a smaller service relationship. Choose Cludo when you want a larger AI-search vendor, stronger public-sector or higher-ed fit, and a more guided enterprise-style rollout.

Winnow Search is a focused offering done carefully: crawl the site, index the useful content, show what people need, and keep spending understandable.

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