Tavily
The real-time web search and extraction API built for AI agents and RAG.
About Tavily
Tavily is a web access layer for AI agents. Instead of scraping search result pages or stitching together crawlers, developers call one API to search the live web, extract clean content from URLs, crawl whole sites, map a domain's URLs, or run a deeper research task. Results come back structured and chunked for language models, so an agent can ground its answers in fresh sources rather than guessing from training data.
The product is aimed at developers building agents, RAG pipelines and AI assistants. A free tier of 1,000 API credits a month needs no credit card, and paid usage is billed per credit, either pay-as-you-go or through a monthly plan. Tavily says requests pass through security and validation layers that block PII leakage, prompt injection and malicious sources, which matters when an agent is browsing on its own.
Tavily's own site says it serves more than 3 million developers and handles over 300 million requests a month, and lists integrations such as JetBrains and a Databricks MCP Marketplace listing. Those figures are vendor-reported, as are its published search benchmarks, so treat them as marketing claims rather than independent measurements. The company, legally AlphaAI Technologies Inc., was founded in 2024 in New York City and lists Nebius Group as its parent organization.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Tavily?
Tavily is a web search and content extraction API built for AI agents and RAG workflows. It lets an agent search the live web, extract clean page content, crawl sites, map URLs and run research tasks through one API.
How much does Tavily cost?
The Researcher plan is free with 1,000 API credits a month and no credit card. Pay As You Go is $0.008 per credit, the Project plan starts at $30 per month for 4,000 credits, and Enterprise is custom-priced.
Is Tavily free?
Yes. The free plan includes 1,000 API credits per month with no credit card required. Credits reset on the first day of each month, and Tavily also lists free access for students and 100k free credits for startups in its program.
What happens if I run out of Tavily credits?
On the free plan, requests stop until your credits reset or you upgrade to a paid plan. Paid plans offer higher monthly limits and uninterrupted usage.
Who is Tavily best for?
Developers and product teams building AI agents, research assistants and retrieval-augmented generation apps who need fresh web data without maintaining their own crawlers.
What are the alternatives to Tavily?
Common alternatives for agent web search include Exa, Brave Search API, Firecrawl and Serper. They differ in whether they focus on semantic search, raw SERP data or full-site crawling.
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