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Tavily

Purpose-built search and real-time web ingestion API engineered specifically for autonomous AI agents and RAG pipelines.

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GitHub Stars 1,423 Python
Starting Price $30/mo usage based
MCP Compatibility ✅ Native Support Cloud Only

Pricing & Quota Breakdown

Researcher Free tier gives 1,000 API credits/mo (basic search = 1 credit, advanced search = 2 credits). Project plan is $30/mo for 4,000 credits ($0.0075/credit).

Developer Free

$0 / month
Billed per credit
  • ✓ Community support
  • ✓ Standard rate limits
  • ✓ Core API access

Pro Tier

$30 / month
Billed per credit
  • ✓ High concurrency
  • ✓ Priority routing
  • ✓ Extended limits

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