Tavily
by Tavily
One search API built for LLM agents and RAG
Tavily is a web search and data-access API purpose-built for LLM agents and RAG, returning real-time, token-efficient, source-attributed results.
At a Glance
- Category
- Agent Infrastructure
- Pricing
- Usage-based, Free tier, Subscription, Enterprise
- Target Market
- Developers, Startups, Enterprise
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- New York, USA
Key Features
- ✓Search API
LLM-optimized web search returning ranked, concise, source-attributed results in real time.
- ✓Extract
Retrieve clean, structured content from one or more specific URLs.
- ✓Crawl
Traverse a website's pages to gather content across a site.
- ✓Map
Discover a site's structure and enumerate its URLs.
- ✓Agent-ready responses
Token-efficient, citation-backed output designed for direct use in LLM prompts and RAG.
Capabilities
Use Cases
- •Agent web grounding
Connect AI agents to real-time web data through one secure API to reduce hallucinations.
- •RAG context retrieval
Fetch fresh, relevant, cited content to augment retrieval pipelines.
- •Automated research
Power research assistants (e.g., in the GPT Researcher lineage) with search and extraction.
Ideal For
Best For
- ✓Grounding LLM agents with real-time web data
- ✓RAG pipelines needing fresh, cited context
- ✓Building automated research assistants
Not Ideal For
- ✗Use cases needing a full browser-automation / form-interaction scraper
Integrations
Deployment
Pricing
Researcher (Free)
$0/mo
- ✓1,000 API credits/month
- ✓No credit card required
- ✓Email support
Pay As You Go
$0.008 per credit
- ✓Pay only for what you use
- ✓No minimum commitment
- ✓Cancel anytime
Project
From custom (min 4,000 credits/mo)
- ✓Higher rate limits
- ✓Scalable monthly credits
- ✓Email support
Enterprise
Custom
- ✓Custom API volume and rate limits
- ✓Enterprise support and SLAs
- ✓Security & privacy provisions
API credit-based. Free 'Researcher' tier includes 1,000 credits/month; Pay As You Go is $0.008 per credit; the 'Project' plan starts at a 4,000 credits/month minimum with a usage slider; Enterprise is custom-priced. A free student plan is also offered.
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