100% free. Here's exactly how.
InfoReader has no paid tier, no subscriptions and no paywall — for readers, forever. Revenue comes only from clearly labeled advertising (Ad.Plus / Google Ad Manager) on this website. The digest email itself carries no ads.
The whole stack runs on free tiers. The table below is the real bill, line by line — including the one line that can ever grow.
| Line | Cost | How |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting — Cloudflare Pages | $0 | Static site on the free plan: unlimited bandwidth and static requests, custom domain + SSL included. |
| Database — Cloudflare D1 | $0 | Free tier: 5 GB storage, 5M row reads/day. InfoReader stores only headlines, summaries and source links — roughly 200 MB a year at 300 stories/day. |
| Cache / storage — KV + R2 | $0 | Free tiers cover the JSON feeds and assets the site serves. |
| News data — RSS + GDELT | $0 | Publisher RSS feeds and the GDELT Doc API are free to use. |
| Summaries — free AI tiers + fallback | $0 | Cloudflare Workers AI, Gemini and Groq free tiers, stacked; anything past the free quotas falls back to extractive summaries built from the sources' own text. Each story is summarized once and shared by every reader, so this cost does not grow with traffic. |
| Email — Brevo | $0 to start | Free plan: 300 emails/day (≈9,000/month) with unlimited contacts. Past that, paid plans start at $9/month (Starter) and scale by emails sent — about $18/month at 20,000 sends and about $65/month at 100,000 — not by list size. |
| Domain — inforeader.com | Already owned | No new registration cost. |
What could ever cost money later?
Only success does. If the digest outgrows Brevo's free 300 emails/day, email becomes a small paid line (above) — and at very large lists a pay-as-you-go sender at roughly $0.10 per 1,000 emails is the cheaper fallback. Hosting and the database stay effectively flat: pages are generated once and served from cache, so even millions of visits a month cost about $5/month all-in on this stack. AI summarization is charged per story published, never per reader.
Why free works here
The expensive parts of news — reporting — are done by the publishers we link to. InfoReader's job is organizing: dedupe, cluster, summarize, and send you to the originals. That job runs on free tiers, and ads on the site cover the rest.