Tavily
Live web search, extraction, research, crawling, and mapping for AI agents through one API.
About Tavily
Tavily gives AI agents and RAG systems one API for live web access. The endpoints handle search, extraction, research, crawling, and site mapping. Teams can retrieve reranked snippets, pull useful page content, compile research reports, or inspect site structure without combining several web-data services. Tavily is built for production workloads and fits research agents, sales preparation, candidate research, competitive monitoring, investment analysis, and regulatory or security tracking. The Free plan includes 1,000 API credits per month and does not require a credit card. Pay As You Go costs $0.008 per credit for variable workloads. Project adds adjustable monthly capacity and higher rate limits. Enterprise terms cover custom calls, rate limits, support, SLAs, security, and privacy. The common API is practical when several agent workflows share a web layer. Credit billing still needs usage monitoring, and the exact Project price changes with selected capacity.
Best for
Best use cases
Use Free for prototypes and light workloads within 1,000 monthly credits
Use Pay As You Go when traffic varies and fixed capacity is inefficient
Discuss Enterprise when custom volume, rate limits, or contractual support is required
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Free minimizes entry cost but caps included usage at 1,000 credits per month
Pay As You Go avoids a fixed subscription but each additional credit costs $0.008
Enterprise adds negotiated controls and support but requires a sales conversation
Features
Research agents
Use current web sources to support market, investment, legal, and security research while keeping agent context timely and relevant.
Sales and recruiting enrichment
Prepare meeting briefs and candidate profiles from recent public news, biographies, and online activity without separate data services.
Competitive monitoring
Track competitor positioning, release notes, industry benchmarks, and market changes across public websites for ongoing analysis.
Pros
- One API covers five web operations, reducing integration work for multi-step agent workflows.
- The Free plan includes 1,000 monthly credits without requiring a credit card, lowering prototype cost.
- Reranked snippets can reduce irrelevant context and wasted model tokens.
Cons
- Credit-based billing makes usage monitoring necessary as agent traffic grows.
- The Project plan price varies with selected capacity, so budgeting requires configuration.
- Higher rate limits are tied to Project or custom Enterprise terms, which can constrain free workloads.
Pricing Plans
Free
- 1,000 API credits per month
- No credit card required
- Email support
Pay As You Go
- Pay only for credits used
- Cancel anytime
- Email support
Project
- Starts with 4,000 API credits per month
- Higher rate limits
- Email support
Enterprise
- Custom API calls
- Custom rate limits
- Enterprise support and SLAs
- Enterprise security and privacy
* Pricing information is for reference only. Please refer to the latest announcement on Tavily's official website.