Tavily MCP
Tavily's search MCP — 2.4K stars of real-time web search for agents.
About
Tavily MCP (tavily-ai/tavily-mcp, 2,429 stars, MIT) gives agents real-time web search: search, extract, and crawl — purpose-built for AI (not a scraper wrapper).
Pushed Oct 2026. The search API for agents — for research agents, news monitoring, and grounded generation, Tavily's extraction quality is strong. Usage-based pricing.
What it can do
- • Real-time web search\n• Content extraction\n• Crawling\n• AI-optimized results
Setup
- Get API key at https://tavily.com.\n2. Install the MCP server.\n3. Set
TAVILY_API_KEY.
Prerequisites
A Tavily account; API key.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier). Purpose-built search for AI with 2.4K stars, MIT, and strong maintenance (12 releases). Docked two points: (1) usage-based costs; (2) smaller than Exa. For agent search.
★ 2,429 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.6/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 8.5/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.4/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · 2,429 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
- · last push 8d ago; 12 releases/12mo; 60 open issues
- · manual review: purpose-built for AI; usage-based costs; license: MIT
Sources
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