The AI search engine and web retrieval API purpose-built for LLM agents, RAG, and factual grounding.
Technical Overview & Architecture
Tavily is a specialized search engine API built specifically for AI agents, LLM applications, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Unlike consumer search engines that return raw HTML links and ads, Tavily crawls, cleans, filters, and formats real-time web content into structured JSON context optimized for LLM context windows in <1 second.
Pricing Breakdown
Transparent tiers and feature allotments for engineering teams.
Free
$0
- 1,000 API credits/month
- Direct LangChain integration
- Standard search depth
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Researcher
$29
- 8,000 API credits/month
- Advanced search parameters
- Fast API concurrency
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Production
$199
- 100,000 API calls/month
- Enterprise rate limits
- Dedicated support
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