Winnow compared to Site Search 360

Site Search 360 is a broad hosted site-search product with plan-based pricing, semantic search, autocomplete, analytics, document indexing, and a larger packaged feature set across its paid tiers. Winnow is narrower by design: focused search for content-heavy public sites, with crawl-based setup, PDF search, analytics, optional AI answers, search lenses, and utility pricing.

Good fit

Choose Winnow if you want to start from one public URL, avoid plan cliffs, and pay directly for the work being done: indexed pages, crawls, searches, and optional AI answers. It is the better fit when your site is content-heavy, your traffic is uneven, and you want the essentials done carefully rather than a broad menu of features.

Tradeoffs

Site Search 360 may fit better if you want a more feature-bundled product today. Its public plans go from a free tier to multiple paid tiers with options like PDF and Office document indexing, JavaScript crawling, search success tracking, API access, e-commerce-oriented features, YouTube indexing, and larger plan shapes. It is also the safer choice if you prefer a conventional plan-based product with a long-established self-serve structure.

Main differences

Winnow is opinionated about content search. It emphasizes clear setup, careful ranking, cautious semantic matching, and search lenses that let different parts of a site return different subsets of content. Site Search 360 is broader in scope. It is trying to cover more website-search scenarios, including mixed content and commerce use cases, and it exposes more packaged options on higher plans.

That broader scope is useful if you already know you need JavaScript crawling, API access, search maps, or stronger e-commerce support. Winnow is more compelling when the main problem is simpler: help people find pages, documents, and answers on a public site without turning search into a large procurement or configuration project.

Pricing and packaging

Site Search 360 starts with a free plan and then moves through monthly plans such as $9, $49, $89, $119, and $374, with quotas for indexed entries and searches. It also publishes overage pricing for extra queries. Winnow uses a different model, with current unit prices loaded directly from its pricing configuration.

If you prefer predictable feature bundles, Site Search 360 will feel familiar. If you want pricing that scales more smoothly with actual usage, Winnow will usually feel cleaner.

  • 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 site search for a content-heavy public website, transparent spend controls, and a smaller service that stays close to the core job. Choose Site Search 360 when you already know you need a broader hosted-search feature matrix, especially around packaged integrations, API access, JavaScript crawling, or e-commerce-style search.

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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