Tavily is a web search platform designed specifically for artificial intelligence agents and applications requiring access to updated internet information. Unlike traditional search engines built for human users, Tavily exposes its capabilities through an API optimized for language models and automated systems to reliably and efficiently retrieve, extract, and process web content. It solves a core challenge in building AI agents: language models have a training knowledge cutoff. Tavily acts as the agent's web access layer — when the system needs updated information, it sends a query to Tavily and receives structured, relevant results ready to be processed by the model. Core capabilities include Search (real-time search with extracted content), Extract (clean content from specific URLs), Crawl (systematic site exploration), and Research (advanced endpoint combining search and synthesis for complex questions). Tavily processes over 100 million monthly requests with 99.99% availability SLA and p50 latency of 180ms. Integrates natively with LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, AWS, and others.


Real-time web search API designed for AI agents: search, extract, and crawl content with a single integration.
Main use case
Connecting AI agents and applications to real-time updated web information without building own scraping infrastructure
Ideal for
Developers and AI engineers building agents, RAG applications, or automated workflows requiring updated web data
Review
Pro
- ✓ Unified API combining search, extraction, crawling, and web research
- ✓ Free plan with 1,000 monthly credits, no credit card required
- ✓ p50 latency of 180ms, among the lowest in the market
- ✓ Native integration with major frameworks: LangChain, OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq
- ✓ Integrated security layers blocking prompt injections and filtering malicious sources
Con
- ✗ Exclusively for developers; no visual interface for non-technical users
- ✗ Free plan credit limit can run out quickly in active projects
- ✗ Documentation and support available in English only
Access
WebAPI
Languages
Multi-language