Tavily is a web access API built specifically for AI agents: a single, secure interface for real-time search, content extraction, crawling, site mapping, and deep research that returns results structured and chunked for language models.
Language models reason poorly over stale or missing facts, so Tavily exists to ground them in fresh web context. Its search API retrieves live web data and returns the relevant content already extracted and organized for model consumption, reducing hallucination in agent and RAG workflows. Extraction pulls clean content from pages, crawling walks entire sites, and site mapping charts their structure, while a research capability assembles deeper, multi-source answers. The stack is built for production scale: Tavily advertises the ability to handle thousands of web queries in seconds, with intelligent caching and indexing keeping latency predictable — the site cites figures including 99.99 percent uptime and 180 ms response times — and requests pass through security, privacy, and content-validation layers designed to block PII leakage, prompt injection, and malicious sources. Tavily has become a standard component in agent frameworks and is used by teams building research, sales intelligence, and support agents.
Tavily is freemium: a free tier provides 1,000 API credits per month with no credit card required, and paid plans scale credit volume and throughput for production workloads.
Tavily is for developers and AI teams building agents, RAG pipelines, and research products that need reliable, real-time web knowledge — from indie builders prototyping search-grounded chatbots to enterprises running retrieval at scale.