Feedly vs Inoreader vs Feedpik: What You're Actually Paying For in 2026

Comparison posts usually turn into feature-checklist theatre: two hundred rows, ticks everywhere, no way to tell what you'd actually notice on a Tuesday.

In practice a feed reader charges you at four walls. You hit them in this order:

1. How many sources you're allowed.
2. How often those sources are refreshed.
3. What "AI" means on the tier you're on — and what it costs.
4. Whether you can change the ranking, or only the sorting.

Everything else is preference. Here's where Feedly, Inoreader and Feedpik put each wall, including ours, including where we're the wrong answer.

(Prices below are as of August 2026 and are the vendors' own published figures where we could read them. Pricing changes; check Feedly and Inoreader before you decide anything on the basis of a number in a blog post.)

Wall 1 — How many sources

This is the wall people hit first, usually while importing an OPML file from a reader they've used for six years.

• Feedly free: 100 sources. Paid tiers go to the low thousands.
• Inoreader free: 150 subscriptions. Pro: 2,500.
• Feedpik free: 100 sources. $5/month: 1,000. $8/month: 2,500. $15/month: 5,000.

Nobody's being unusually generous or stingy here — the free tiers cluster around 100–150 and the paid ones around 2,500, and if your library is 80 feeds you'll never think about this line again.

Worth saying plainly: if all you need is more sources, Inoreader's free tier is the largest of the three. That's a real answer, and we'd rather you get it from us than discover it later.

Wall 2 — How often your sources refresh

The wall nobody advertises, and the one you feel every day. "My reader is behind" is almost always a polling-interval problem.

• Inoreader states it plainly: Pro subscribers get a guaranteed maximum refresh interval — feeds updated at least once an hour.
• Feedly doesn't publish a per-tier interval; in practice popular feeds are polled far more often than obscure ones, because they're polled once for everybody.
• Feedpik publishes the number per tier: every 3 hours on free, hourly at $5, every 30 minutes at $8, every 15 minutes at $15.

If you write a daily newsletter or trade on news, this line matters more than the source cap. Being 45 minutes behind on a story is a different product than being 3 hours behind, and it's the honest reason a paid tier exists at all: polling costs money, so it's what we charge for rather than pretending it's free and rationing something else.

Wall 3 — What "AI" means, and where it sits

This is where the three products differ most, and where the pricing pages are least comparable.

Feedly puts AI in a tier above Pro. Feedly AI (Leo) and AI Feeds live in Pro+, roughly $99/year — so the AI is not an add-on to the reading experience, it's the reason to go up a tier. Their positioning is "AI feeds that analyse millions of articles" — a research-and-monitoring product built on a huge crawled corpus.

Inoreader includes generative summaries in Pro ($7.50/month billed annually, $9.99 monthly), along with podcast and video transcripts and intelligence reports. Notably, Pro also lets you plug in your own inference provider and API key (OpenAI, Mistral, Anthropic) — a genuinely user-respecting design that more products should copy.

Feedpik puts AI on the free tier and meters it. Summaries, explanations, translation, and the tuning assistant are all available at $0 with a monthly credit allowance (60 credits); paid tiers buy a bigger allowance (700 / 1,800 / 4,000), not a switch that was previously off. And if you'd rather not use our credits at all, full agent access is free: connect your own agent over our API, pull your ranked candidates, and run summarisation on your own model. You pay us nothing for the AI in that setup, on purpose.

The distinction is worth stating in one line, because it's the actual difference in philosophy:

Feedly and Inoreader sell you AI that reads for you. Feedpik sells you AI that ranks for you — you still do the reading.

If what you want is to stop reading and receive conclusions, we are honestly not the best-fit product. Several tools are built specifically for that, and they're good at it.

Wall 4 — Can you change the ranking?

Here's the one that isn't on anybody else's comparison table, because only one of the three sells it.

Feedly and Inoreader both give you excellent organisation: folders, tags, rules, filters, saved searches, sorting by magic/popularity/time. What they don't give you is authorship over the ranking function. You can decide what enters the pile and how it's filed. You can't open the thing that decides what's at the top, read its reasoning, disagree with it, and change it.

In Feedpik that's the product:

• Every ranked article shows its reasons — how much of its score came from topic match, source preference, freshness, language fit.
• You change the ranking in plain language. Tell the assistant "less crypto, boost anything published in the last 6 hours" and it shows you a diff of exactly what would change to your policy before anything is applied.
• Every change is a numbered version, with an audit trail, and rollback is one click. Including changes an AI agent made on your behalf.

That's the whole bet: a feed can be smart and yours. The mainstream alternative is a feed that's smart and somebody else's — which, per the pile of complaints we read while researching this market, is the thing people are angriest about.

The table

	Feedly	Inoreader	Feedpik
Free sources	100	150	100
Paid sources	thousands (by tier)	2,500 (Pro)	1,000 / 2,500 / 5,000
Refresh interval	not published per tier	≥ hourly on Pro	3h free → 15 min top tier
AI included on free	no	no	yes, metered (60 credits/mo)
AI on paid	Pro+ only (~$99/yr)	Pro ($7.50/mo annual)	every tier, larger allowance
Bring your own model	—	yes (own API key)	yes (bring your own agent, free)
See why an item ranks	no	no	yes
Edit the ranking function	no	no	yes, versioned + rollback
OPML in and out	yes	yes	yes

Switching costs (they're low, in every direction)

All three speak OPML, so moving your source list is one file and a few minutes. That's the good news and it cuts both ways — it's also why we'd rather tell you accurately when a competitor fits you better than win a signup you'll reverse in a week.

What OPML doesn't carry is read state, tags and saved articles. Budget for losing those, or keep the old account alive read-only for a month while you decide.

When to pick the other two

Pick Inoreader if you want a monitoring rig more than a reading experience: rules and automation, turning arbitrary web pages into feeds, keyword monitoring across the web, and a deep power-user feature surface built over more than a decade. It's the most configurable of the three by a wide margin, and its BYO-API-key design is genuinely good.

Pick Feedly if you need a team product or its intelligence suites — threat intelligence, market intelligence, competitive monitoring with shared boards and enterprise integrations. That's a different category from personal reading, and Feedly is the established option in it.

Pick Feedpik if the thing that bothers you is the ranking itself: you want a feed that surfaces what matters in your sources, shows its reasoning, and does what you tell it — and you want the AI available without buying the top tier first.

Try it against your real library

Any comparison, including this one, is worth less than fifteen minutes with your own sources in it. Start free, import your OPML, and check two things: whether the top of your Recommended view is actually the right five things, and whether the explanation next to each one makes sense.

If it doesn't, tell it so — and watch what changes.