Tavily

About Tavily

## Intro Tavily is a search engine made for AI agents. Its API takes a query, searches the web in real time and returns clean, relevant results that a language model can use straight away. Alongside search, it can extract content from pages, crawl whole sites and run deeper research tasks. It is widely used inside agent frameworks and automation tools as the default way to give an AI access to the web. The company says more than 3 million developers use it. ## Key features - **Search.** Returns fast, ranked web results with the content already cleaned up for a model, which saves you a scraping step. - **Extract.** Pulls structured, readable content from specific URLs, useful when you already know which pages matter. - **Crawl and Map.** Crawl extracts content across an entire website, while Map discovers all the URLs on a site. Handy for building a knowledge base from a client's docs. - **Research.** An agent endpoint that runs in-depth web research on a topic and returns the findings. What makes Tavily easy is that the output is already shaped for a language model. You do not need to scrape pages, strip menus and ads, or chunk text yourself before passing it to the model. For a small team, that removes a whole layer of fragile code. Everything runs on a single credit balance, so one key covers search, extraction and crawling, and you can see in one place how much each part of your agent costs. Enterprise customers can get custom rate limits and SLAs. ## Best for Tavily fits builders adding web search to chatbots, research assistants, lead enrichment flows or content tools. Because many agent platforms and no-code AI builders already include a Tavily integration, it is often the easiest option for people who do not want to write much code. Students get free access, and startups can apply for extra credits. It is not a tool for searching the web yourself, and heavy crawling can use credits quickly. Requests stop when your monthly credits run out, so production apps should plan for a paid plan or pay as you go. ## Pricing summary The free Researcher plan gives 1,000 API credits a month with no card. Pay as you go costs $0.008 per credit. The Project plan is $30 a month for 4,000 credits and higher rate limits. Enterprise is custom. Credits reset on the first of each month, and requests stop when you run out. ## Quick verdict Tavily is a reliable, easy starting point for any AI agent that needs the web. The free tier is enough to build and test, and the wide range of integrations makes it friendly for low-code builders. Compare it with Exa if you need deeper research features or scheduled monitoring, but for most agent projects Tavily does the job with very little setup.

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