Real-time web search API purpose-built for AI agents — returns pre-processed results optimized for LLM consumption.
What is Tavily?#
Tavily is a real-time web search API purpose-built for AI agents and LLM applications. It returns pre-processed, relevant search results optimized for AI consumption — with filtering, domain control, and content extraction — so agents get accurate, up-to-date information without web scraping logic.
What can Tavily do?#
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AI-Optimized Search Results
Return search results as clean text, relevance-ranked snippets, and source URLs in structured JSON that agents parse directly.
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Real-Time Web Access
Access current web content for AI agents, enabling responses with information beyond LLM training data cutoffs.
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Domain Filtering and Exclusion
Specify allowed or blocked domains per query to control information sources and improve result quality for specific use cases.
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Deep Research Mode
Execute multi-step iterative research where Tavily crawls and synthesizes across multiple URLs to produce comprehensive answers.
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LangChain and LlamaIndex Integration
Drop-in search tool for LangChain, LlamaIndex, and other agent frameworks with official integration packages.
Use Cases#
- AI agent developers — Add real-time web search to a LangChain agent using Tavily integration to enable up-to-date fact retrieval beyond training data.
- Research automation teams — Use Tavily deep research mode to produce multi-source summaries on topics that require scanning multiple current web pages.
Quick facts about Tavily#
- Pricing
- Free$0/moProContact salesas of Jun 20, 2026View official pricing
- Platforms
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Frequently Asked Questions#
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