Tavily

Tavily is a web access API platform optimized for LLMs and AI agents. It exposes a unified REST surface for real-time web search, page content extraction, site crawling, sitemap mapping, and AI-driven research tasks. The platform emphasizes low-latency search with a 180ms p50 on the search endpoint, a 99.99% uptime SLA, and built-in content validation safeguards. Tavily ships Python and JavaScript SDKs and integrates cleanly with major agent frameworks and LLM providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Groq. Used by more than a million developers, it is trusted by enterprise customers including Databricks, IBM, JetBrains, MongoDB, and AWS.

Tavily publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Crawl API, Extract API, Map API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Search, Web Search, AI Agents, LLM, and Extract.

The Tavily catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Tavily’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, YouTube channel, support, and 15 more developer resources.

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47.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 46/100 agent ready Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

Search Web Search AI Agents LLM Extract Crawl Sitemap Research REST LangChain LlamaIndex Real-Time A2A

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Composite quality — 47.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.2 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.0 / 15

Access Clarity 13.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.4 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 46/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 8 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too
Agent Skills +5 pts — skills artifact present, graded by who authored it

4 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 33.3 — up to +13.3 composite points
Contract Quality scores 49.0 — up to +12.8 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 7.9 — up to +12.0 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
AI Agents (A2A agent cards)	builds-on	18.6	-	2
Agent Skills (SKILL.md packages)	builds-on	18.6	-	2
Obsidian Community Plugins (third-party APIs the Obsidian plugin ecosystem integrates)	builds-on	18.6	-	2

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 6

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Agent2Agent

measured — observed by APIs.io (near-conformant)

REST

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Tavily Web API

The Tavily Web API offers a unified set of endpoints for AI agents to search the web, extract page content, crawl sites, map sitemaps, and run AI research tasks. Endpoints are R...

Tavily Crawl API

The Crawl API from Tavily — 1 operation(s) for crawl.

Tavily Extract API

The Extract API from Tavily — 1 operation(s) for extract.

Tavily Map API

The Map API from Tavily — 1 operation(s) for map.

Tavily Research API

The Research API from Tavily — 1 operation(s) for research.

Tavily Search API

The Search API from Tavily — 1 operation(s) for search.

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Tavily Web Crawl API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavily Web Crawl Extract API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavily Web Crawl Map API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavily Web Crawl Research API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavily Web Crawl Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavily Web API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Tavily MCP Server

Remote MCP server at mcp.tavily.com over HTTP.

MCP SERVER

Tavily API pricing

Prices published by Tavily, read 2026-10-28 from www.tavily.com/pricing. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Researcher	Free/ month Includes: 1,000 API credits / month
Pay As You Go	$0.008/ credit Includes: Pay only for what you use
Project	$30 Includes: 4,000 API credits / month; Higher rate limits
Enterprise	Custom Includes: Custom API calls, custom rate limits

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Pro Tier Default: 120 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Tavily's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Billed by: credit · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Tavily Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Tavily Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Tavily Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Tavily

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Tavily Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Tavily API Rules

42 rules · 40 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Tavily Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Tavily Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Tavily Trust Center

trust center published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Tavily Agentic Access

5 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Community

Community

Support

Support

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

AgentCard

AgentCard

Source (apis.yml)

aid: tavily
name: Tavily
description: Tavily is a web access API platform optimized for LLMs and AI agents. It exposes a unified REST surface for real-time
  web search, page content extraction, site crawling, sitemap mapping, and AI-driven research tasks. The platform emphasizes
  low-latency search with a 180ms p50 on the search endpoint, a 99.99% uptime SLA, and built-in content validation safeguards.
  Tavily ships Python and JavaScript SDKs and integrates cleanly with major agent frameworks and LLM providers such as OpenAI,
  Anthropic, and Groq. Used by more than a million developers, it is trusted by enterprise customers including Databricks,
  IBM, JetBrains, MongoDB, and AWS.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
x-docs-platform: mintlify
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-17
x-docs-hosting: vercel
tags:
- Search
- Web Search
- AI Agents
- LLM
- Extract
- Crawl
- Sitemap
- Research
- REST
- LangChain
- LlamaIndex
- Real-Time
- A2A
tags_raw:
- Search
- Web Search
- AI Agents
- LLMs
- Extract
- Crawl
- Sitemap
- Research
- REST
- LangChain
- LlamaIndex
- Real-Time
- A2A
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tavily/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: tavily:web-api
  name: Tavily Web API
  description: The Tavily Web API offers a unified set of endpoints for AI agents to search the web, extract page content,
    crawl sites, map sitemaps, and run AI research tasks. Endpoints are REST-based and authenticated with a bearer API key.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavily.com
  baseURL: https://api.tavily.com
  tags:
  - Search
  - Extract
  - Crawl
  - Maps
  - Research
  - REST
  tags_raw:
  - Search
  - Extract
  - Crawl
  - Map
  - Research
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.tavily.com
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.tavily.com/welcome
  - type: Signup
    url: https://app.tavily.com/home
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.tavily.com/api-reference
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://github.com/tavily-ai/tavily-python
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://github.com/tavily-ai/tavily-js
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/tavily-ai
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.tavily.com/pricing
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credentials
  features:
  - name: Search
    description: Real-time web search with topic, depth, and time-range controls, p50 latency around 180ms.
  - name: Extract
    description: Pull clean text and metadata from one or many URLs.
  - name: Crawl
    description: Crawl websites with natural-language instructions and constraints.
  - name: Map
    description: Generate a structured map of a site's pages and structure.
  - name: Research
    description: Run AI-driven research tasks that aggregate, rank, and cite sources.
  - name: Built-in Safeguards
    description: Content validation and safety controls for agent-driven web access.
  - name: Drop-in Integrations
    description: First-class adapters for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Groq tool use.
  - name: Predictable Latency
    description: Engineered for high-throughput agent workloads with a 99.99% uptime SLA.
  useCases:
  - name: Agent Web Search Tool
    description: Equip agents with a fast, citation-friendly web search tool.
  - name: Real-Time Grounding
    description: Ground LLM responses in fresh web context to reduce hallucinations.
  - name: Site Extraction Pipelines
    description: Crawl and extract content from competitor sites or documentation.
  - name: AI Research Workflows
    description: Run multi-source research tasks for analysts and knowledge workers.
  - name: RAG Backends
    description: Use search and extract endpoints as the retrieval layer behind RAG apps.
  integrations:
  - name: OpenAI
  - name: Anthropic
  - name: Groq
  - name: LangChain
  - name: LangGraph
  - name: LlamaIndex
  - name: CrewAI
  - name: AutoGen
  - name: Vercel AI SDK
  - name: Model Context Protocol
  - name: Databricks
  - name: IBM
  authentication:
  - type: API Key
    description: Bearer token authentication using API keys prefixed with tvly- in the Authorization header.
- aid: tavily:tavily-crawl-api
  name: Tavily Crawl API
  description: The Crawl API from Tavily — 1 operation(s) for crawl.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavily.com
  baseURL: https://api.tavily.com
  tags:
  - Crawl
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavily-crawl-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tavily:tavily-extract-api
  name: Tavily Extract API
  description: The Extract API from Tavily — 1 operation(s) for extract.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavily.com
  baseURL: https://api.tavily.com
  tags:
  - Extract
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavily-extract-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tavily:tavily-map-api
  name: Tavily Map API
  description: The Map API from Tavily — 1 operation(s) for map.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavily.com
  baseURL: https://api.tavily.com
  tags:
  - Maps
  tags_raw:
  - Map
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavily-map-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tavily:tavily-research-api
  name: Tavily Research API
  description: The Research API from Tavily — 1 operation(s) for research.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavily.com
  baseURL: https://api.tavily.com
  tags:
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavily-research-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tavily:tavily-search-api
  name: Tavily Search API
  description: The Search API from Tavily — 1 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavily.com
  baseURL: https://api.tavily.com
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavily-search-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/tavily-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/tavily-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/tavily-finops.yml
- type: AgentCard
  url: a2a/tavily-a2a.yml
  name: A2A Agent Card
  description: Agent Card served at /.well-known/agent-card.json (near-conformant against A2A 1.0.0).
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/tavily-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/tavily-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tavily-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/tavily-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tavily.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.tavily.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.tavily.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/tavily-ai
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.tavily.com/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.tavily.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.tavily.com/privacy
- type: Community
  url: https://community.tavily.com
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/tavilyai
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tavily
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@tavilyai
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.tavily.com/llms.txt
- type: Support
  url: mailto:support@tavily.com
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-a2a:
  verified: true
  probed: '2026-09-26'
  url: https://www.tavily.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
  grade: near-conformant
  protocol_version: '1.0'
  control: 404

Tavily API — frequently asked questions

Does Tavily have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Tavily, including Tavily Web API, Tavily Crawl API and Tavily Extract API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Tavily API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Tavily, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Tavily API?

Tavily documents its authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Tavily Authentication.

How much does the Tavily API cost?

Tavily publishes its prices; its Researcher plan is Free/ month as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Tavily, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Tavily have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Tavily: Remote MCP server at mcp.tavily.com over HTTP.

Is the Tavily API ready for AI agents?

Tavily has a Kin Score of 47.9 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 46.2 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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