Tavily
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Search API built for AI agents. 1,000 req/month free.
Searchest. 2023 · San Francisco, CA
90
/ 100 APIVault Score
// At a glance
Free Tier
1k req/month · no card
Category
Search
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
2m ago
// Free tier details
Available Models
Tavily SearchTavily Extract
Monthly Requests
1,000 requests/month
No credit card needed
No phone verification
// Quick start
300">"text-purple-400">from tavily 300">"text-purple-400">import TavilyClient
client = TavilyClient(api_key=300">"YOUR_TAVILY_KEY")
results = client.search(
query=300">"latest AI news",
search_depth=300">"advanced",
max_results=5,
)
300">"text-purple-400">for r 300">"text-purple-400">in results[300">"results"]:
print(r[300">"title"], r[300">"url"])// Overview
Tavily returns structured, relevant search results optimized for LLM consumption — not raw HTML. Includes answer synthesis and domain filtering. 1,000 requests/month free.
// Pros
- LLM-optimized search results
- 1k free monthly requests
- Built-in answer synthesis
// Cons
- Search-only (not general API)
- Rate limits on free tier
// Score breakdown
Reliability (35%) (from 2m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)85/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)88/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)80/100
Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology
// Best for
AI research agentsFact-checkingNews aggregation