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 Sep 29, 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 (4,000 credits/month) has slider-based pricing.
Rate limit: 100 requests/min
Development keys; production keys get 1,000 requests/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

TavilyRecipeConfig

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

Tavily at a glance

What you can build with Tavily

Add live web search to a Node chatbot with Tavily

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