Tavily is the search API built specifically for AI agents — returning grounded, factual results optimised for LLM consumption rather than raw HTML. Trusted by LangChain, AutoGPT, and thousands of agent builders.
Features:
- Real-time web search returning clean, structured results
- Search depth control: basic (fast) or advanced (comprehensive)
- Domain filtering — restrict or exclude specific sources
- News-focused search mode for recent events
- Raw content extraction from any URL
- Source citation with titles, URLs, and publication dates
- AI-optimised output — no noise, just the relevant content
- Supports up to 20 results per query with content previews
Why Tavily over Brave Search?
- Purpose-built for AI agents, not humans
- Returns content already parsed for LLM consumption
- Better filtering and relevancy for factual queries
- Trusted by the LangChain and LlamaIndex ecosystems
Free tier: 1,000 searches/month.
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