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Tavily
Search API built for AI agents and RAG.
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Best for
Engineers building AI agents and RAG pipelines who need clean web search results with citations.
At a glance
- Pricing
- freemium
- Setup time
- 5 minutes
- Learning curve
- easy
- Last verified
- 5/22/2026
What we love
- ✓Cleanest agent search API
- ✓Generous free tier
- ✓Easy to swap in for SerpAPI
Where it falls short
- −API only — no UI
- −Newer brand than competitors
- −Pricing scales with calls
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20264 tiers
Free
$0
1000 credits/mo
- ✓Search + Extract
Pay-as-you-go
$0.008
per credit
- ✓Higher limits
Researcher
$30
per month
- ✓4K credits
- ✓Priority
Production
$100
per month
- ✓15K credits
- ✓SLA
Why we picked it
Tavily is the agent-friendly search API every Claude Code / LangChain / OpenAI builder I know defaults to. Cheap, fast, citation-clean.
Overview
Search API built for AI agents and RAG. Engineers building AI agents and RAG pipelines who need clean web search results with citations.
Key features
- ●Agent-optimized search API
- ●Extract API for full-page parsing
- ●Sub-second responses
- ●Score-ranked sources
- ●News + general search
- ●Topic-specific endpoints
- ●Free tier for development
Best use cases
Agent web search
Drop into Claude Code or LangChain in 5 minutes.
RAG enrichment
Pull fresh context to ground a chat with current data.
Integrations
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