Tavily

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
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Search
- Web Search
- AI Agents
- LLMs
- Extract
- Crawl
- Sitemap
- Research
- REST
- LangChain
- LlamaIndex
- Real-Time
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tavily/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
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
  - 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.
common:
- 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
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com