Tavily

What Tavily does

• Search endpoint. Returns web search results tuned for AI agents and LLM workflows.
• Extract endpoint. Pulls cleaned, structured content from web pages for use by LLMs.
• Crawl endpoint. Extracts content from entire websites.
• Map endpoint. Discovers URLs across a website.
• Research agent. Runs in-depth web research and returns a report.
• Safeguards. Blocks PII leakage, prompt injection and malicious sources in retrieved content.

Who it’s for

• Developers grounding LLM apps in live web data
• Teams building research agents or RAG pipelines
• Startups and students using free credit programs

Tavily pricing

Researcher free 1,000 credits/mo; Pay As You Go $0.008/credit; Project $30/mo for 4,000 credits; Enterprise custom

As listed on November 9, 2026. Check tavily.com for current prices.

Things to know

• Free plan is limited to 1,000 API credits per month
• Requests stop when credits run out until the monthly reset or an upgrade
• Developer-facing API; no consumer app described on the site

Quick answers

What is Tavily?

Tavily is a web access layer for AI agents from Tavily Inc.

Is Tavily free?

Tavily has a free plan. Paid plans start at $30 a month. (As listed on November 9, 2026.)

Who makes Tavily?

Tavily is made by Tavily Inc..

Where can you use Tavily?

Tavily is available on an API for developers.

What are some alternatives to Tavily?

Other tools filed in the same section include Elicit, Consensus and Semantic Scholar.

Tags

#search-api#web-crawl#content-extraction#rag#llm-tools