Tavily
6.7/10Tavily is a web search, extraction and crawling API that gives AI agents and LLM applications real-time web results suited to grounding answers.
Data last updated November 2026 · Our methodology
Overview
Tavily offers a set of APIs for developers who build AI agents and retrieval-augmented applications. The Search endpoint returns web results already formatted for LLMs, with summaries and citations. Extract pulls clean content from URLs, Map lists a site's pages, and Crawl combines mapping with extraction and accepts natural-language instructions. The Research endpoint runs deeper multi-step research. Tavily is popular with LangChain users, and Nebius reports more than a million developers and over 3 million SDK downloads a month. Named customers include IBM, Cohere and Groq. Nebius agreed to acquire Tavily in February 2026, and Tavily continues to operate under its own brand next to Nebius Token Factory. Pricing is based on credits. The free Researcher plan gives 1,000 credits a month with no card required. Paid monthly plans include Project at $30 for 4,000 credits, Bootstrap at $100 for 15,000, Startup at $220 for 38,000 and Growth at $500 for 100,000. Pay-as-you-go costs $0.008 per credit, and Enterprise is custom. A basic search uses 1 credit and an advanced search uses 2. A Research call can use up to 250 credits, so costs are hard to predict for agent-heavy workloads. Users report inconsistent results on niche or technical queries and limited control over ranking and sources. Competitors also say Tavily handles JavaScript-heavy sites less well than dedicated scrapers.
Our Rating
Who Tavily is best for
Good fit
Tavily is an API and SDK product built for developers who are building agents and RAG pipelines.
It has a free tier, low entry plans and a program that gives startups 100k free credits.
AI companies such as Cohere and Groq use it to ground their products in web data.
Less suited
There is an Enterprise plan with SLAs and custom limits, and Fortune 500 customers are cited, but few enterprise controls are documented.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- The free tier gives 1,000 credits a month with no credit card, which is enough to prototype an agent.
- Search results come back already formatted for LLMs, with summaries and citations, so there is less post-processing to do.
- One API covers search, extract, map, crawl and research, so teams do not need to combine several vendors.
- It has native LangChain integration and a large developer community, with over a million developers reported.
- It is backed by Nebius following the 2026 acquisition, and customers include IBM, Cohere and Groq.
Cons
- The Research endpoint can use up to 250 credits per call, which makes costs hard to predict.
- Users report inconsistent results on niche or technical queries.
- Users say there is limited control over ranking and source selection.
- Competitors report that Extract struggles more with dynamic, JavaScript-heavy sites than dedicated scrapers do.
- The medium-term pricing and roadmap are uncertain after the Nebius acquisition.
Key Features
Tavily Pricing
Enterprise
- Custom rate limits
- Custom API call volume
- Enterprise support and SLAs
- Enterprise security and privacy
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. The Researcher plan includes 1,000 credits a month with no credit card required. Students get free access, and startups can apply for 100k free credits.
A basic search uses 1 credit and an advanced search uses 2. Extract costs 1 or 2 credits per 5 successful URLs, and Map costs 1 or 2 credits per 10 pages. A 10-page crawl costs 3 or 5 credits. Research uses 4 to 250 credits depending on the model chosen.
Requests stop until the monthly reset on the 1st or until you upgrade. Pay-as-you-go billing at $0.008 per credit can cover extra usage.
The pricing page shows only monthly prices, and no annual discount is listed.
Nebius announced an agreement to acquire Tavily on February 10, 2026. Tavily continues to operate under its own brand.
The website links to a Trust Center and shows SOC 2 and ISO badges. Enterprise plans add enterprise-grade security and privacy terms.
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