Tavily

Tavily is a search API for LLMs and agents that returns cleaned web results and an optional generated answer. It also offers extract, crawl and research endpoints, with Python and JavaScript SDKs and a free monthly credit tier.

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Tavily at a glance

From official pages, checked Nov 15, 2026. Tap the arrow for each source.

Free tier: Yes
1,000 API credits per month, no credit card required.
Starting price: $0.008 per credit
Pay-as-you-go; the Project plan is $30/month for 4,000 credits.
Rate limit: 100 requests/min (free plan)
Per organization: Pay as you go and Project 1,000/min, Growth and Scale 1,500/min.
Size limit: 20 results per query
max_results for the Search endpoint ranges 0 to 20 (default 10).
Official SDKs: PythonJavaScript / TypeScript
Compliance: SOC 2GDPR

What you can build with Tavily

TavilyPro archiveIntegrationConfig

Add live web search to a Node chatbot with Tavily

Give your bot fresh facts: one Tavily call returns ranked web results and a short answer you can feed straight into your LLM prompt.

Free tier: YesFrom $0.008 per credit

ChatSearch

Recent updatesAll updates

Nov 11, 2026
Tavily: rate limits are now shared by all keys in an organization (November 2026)
Tavily rate limits now apply per organization and plan, shared by all keys, dev and production alike. Over the limit returns 429.
Nov 8, 2026
Tavily JavaScript SDK 1.0.0 reads TAVILY_API_KEY on its own and can search with no key at all (November 2, 2026)
@tavily/core 1.0.0 picks up TAVILY_API_KEY automatically and adds keyless, rate-limited Search and Extract with no account.