Tavily
The real-time search engine for AI agents
Tavily is a web access API for AI agents and LLM applications, providing real-time search results, content extraction, crawling, and research. It returns structured and chunked data so models can ground their reasoning in fresh web context rather than relying on training data alone.
The platform exposes dedicated endpoints for search, extract, research, crawl, and map, along with intelligent caching, indexing, and content validation layers that address PII leakage, prompt injection, and malicious sources. It integrates with LLM providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Groq, and is available through partner marketplaces such as AWS AgentCore Tool Catalog, IBM watsonx.ai, Microsoft Azure MCP Center, Snowflake Marketplace, Databricks, and LangSmith Agent Builder.
Tavily is aimed at developers and teams building production AI agents. Pricing is credit-based: a free Researcher plan includes monthly API credits without requiring a credit card, a Pay As You Go option charges per credit, a Project plan offers a higher monthly credit allotment with increased rate limits, and an Enterprise tier provides custom API calls, rate limits, support, SLAs, and security controls. The service is offered at no cost to students.
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