Tavily is a search API platform purpose-built for AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications, providing real-time web search results optimized for consumption by large language models. Founded in 2023, Tavily addresses a critical need in the AI development ecosystem: giving AI systems access to current, accurate web information in a format that is immediately useful for LLM processing, without the noise and irrelevant content that characterizes raw web search results. The Tavily Search API returns clean, relevant content extracted from web pages, pre-processed and formatted for direct inclusion in LLM prompts. Unlike traditional search APIs that return URLs and snippets requiring additional scraping and parsing, Tavily handles content extraction, relevance ranking, and formatting in a single API call, significantly simplifying the development of AI applications that need web knowledge. The API supports multiple search depths, including a basic mode for quick factual lookups and an advanced mode that performs deeper content extraction and analysis for complex research queries. Tavily also offers specialized endpoints for news search and topic research that aggregate and synthesize information from multiple sources. The platform has become deeply integrated into the AI agent ecosystem, with native support in popular frameworks including LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, and other agent orchestration tools. This makes Tavily a standard component in many AI agent architectures where web search is needed as a tool. Tavily provides a generous free tier with 1,000 API calls per month, making it accessible for prototyping and development. Paid plans offer higher rate limits and additional features, with pricing based on the number of API calls. The platform also provides a Research API that performs multi-step research on complex topics, generating comprehensive reports from web sources.

AI Agent Frameworks

Tavily has become a standard web search tool in the AI agent ecosystem, with native integrations in LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, and other agent frameworks. Its API provides the web search capability that AI agents need to access real-time information, making it a foundational component in agentic AI architectures.

AI Data Analysis

Tavily supports AI-powered data analysis workflows by providing access to real-time web data including news, market information, and public datasets. Developers use the API to feed current web data into analytical AI systems that need fresh information for generating reports, monitoring trends, and conducting competitive analysis.

AI RAG Tools

Tavily is purpose-built as a retrieval component for RAG architectures, providing real-time web content that can be directly included in LLM prompts. Its pre-processed, relevance-ranked search results eliminate the need for separate web scraping and content extraction steps, making it one of the most popular web retrieval tools for building RAG systems.

AI Research Tools

Tavily's Research API performs multi-step web research on complex topics, aggregating and synthesizing information from multiple sources into comprehensive reports. This automated research capability makes it valuable for building AI-powered research assistants that can investigate topics and compile findings from across the web.

AI Search Engines

Tavily provides a search API optimized for AI applications, delivering clean, relevant web search results pre-processed for LLM consumption. Unlike traditional search APIs, Tavily extracts and formats content from web pages in a single call, with support for basic factual lookups, deep research queries, and news-specific searches.