Tavily is a web access layer for AI agents. Its APIs let an agent search the live web, extract clean content from pages, crawl entire websites, map the URLs on a site, and run in-depth research. Results are returned in structured, chunked form so a language model can reason over them.
The product is built for developers who are building AI agents or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows. Setup is an API key from a dashboard, followed by a call from an SDK in Python or JavaScript. The page also offers a setup prompt to copy and a framework integrations list.
The site describes a request pipeline with security, privacy and content validation layers. According to the page, these block PII leakage, prompt injection and malicious sources. The example on the homepage shows a query containing an email address being rejected with a PII error.
The company publishes a Company Search benchmark that compares search providers on answer quality for company research questions. The page also reports a 180 ms p50 latency for the /search endpoint and a 99.99% uptime SLA for enterprise customers. These are the company's own figures and have not been independently checked here.
Pricing starts with a Researcher plan at no cost, which includes 1,000 API credits a month and needs no credit card. A Pay As You Go option charges $0.008 per credit. A Project plan is listed at $30 a month for 4,000 credits, and an Enterprise plan is priced on request. The site also offers 100,000 free API credits to startups that join its startup program, and free access for students.
The FAQ explains that credits reset on the first day of each month, that each request type uses a different number of credits, and that requests stop when credits run out until the next reset or an upgrade.
