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Cost
Completely free
Free to use without an account. Personalised and logged if you are signed in.
Open source
No
The code is private. You depend on the company that makes it.
Your data
Goes to their servers
Your files and text are sent to the company running the service.
Use it for this
Locating official documentation, tracing a claim to its source, and general lookup when you know how to narrow it.
Do not use it for this
Anything inside your organisation, anything private, or questions specific to your personal circumstances.
A moment where you would reach for it
Scoping a search to an official source: data localisation site:rbi.org.in filetype:pdf
How hard is it to pick up?
Anyone can use this on day one.
Worth knowing before you use it
Queries are associated with your account when signed in, and may be logged by your employer on a work network. Do not paste confidential text into a search box.
Other things that do this job
No tool is best at everything. These solve a similar problem, with different trade-offs.
About this entry
Checked on 1 Sept 2026. Prices and free limits change without warning, and often quietly. Treat everything above as a starting point and confirm on the official site before you rely on it.
Nothing here is sponsored. A tool appears because it solves a real problem, not because someone paid for it to be listed.