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Tavily

Search API purpose-built for AI agents — search, crawl, extract.

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About

Tavily (tavily.com) is the search API purpose-built for AI agents and RAG: search, crawl, and extract endpoints with AI-optimized results.

Generous free tier; the RAG pipeline staple alongside Exa. If your agent does research, you probably want Tavily in the loop.

What it can do

  • Search API
  • Web crawl
  • Content extraction
  • RAG-optimized
  • Generous free tier

Setup

  1. Sign up at tavily.com and get an API key.
  2. Use /search, /crawl, /extract endpoints.
  3. Tune search depth and time range per use case.

Prerequisites

API key.

Use cases

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Works with

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Trust score — 7/10

/10 trustMetrics-checked

Scored 7/10 (metrics tier). Purpose-built agent search with a generous free tier and strong docs, but proprietary with provider-estimated adoption. Metrics tier.

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
8.0/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
7.0/10
Openness · license + docs
4.8/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
8.0/10
  • · provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric)
  • · search API for AI agents; no public repo — adoption estimated
  • · released 285 days ago
  • · manual review: Tavily — search/crawl/extract API purpose-built for agents; generous free tier; license: proprietary

Sources

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