Tavily

Agent-native search index T1 Search /tavily

Tavily is a search API built from the ground up for AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation. A single call returns clean, relevance-scored results and can bundle an LLM-ready answer and full page content alongside them — exactly the shape a RAG pipeline needs, with no post-processing. Purpose-built for grounding and trusted across the agent ecosystem, it has become a default search layer for developers building reliable, source-backed AI applications.

Entry price
$8 (basic) / $16 (adv) / 1k
MCP
official
Latency
~1.0s

Choose if

You want the agent/RAG default that returns a relevance score and optional answer in one call.

Avoid if

You need per-result dates or a documented compliance/SLA posture.

Evals

How Tavily performed on the curator-fleet web-access evals — the real measured numbers behind each composite, ranked best-first.

Crawlcomposite 8.38/10 #3 of 5
0.78
Coverage
174 ms
Latency p50
$0.014 / useful
Cost
0%
Errors
Strong via its /map variant.
Answercomposite 7.13/10 #4 of 7
1.00
Correctness
0.24
Citation faithfulness
1.4 s
Latency p50
$0.008 / call
Cost
0%
Errors
Searchcomposite 6.66/10 #7 of 11
0.58
Recall@10
2.1 s
Latency p50
$0.014 / useful result
Cost
0%
Errors
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