# Tavily, free, Keyless access, POST /search, Search, advanced: Web search API

> Tavily Search API is a specialized search engine designed for LLMs and AI agents. It provides real-time, customizable, and RAG-ready search results and extracted content, enabling AI applications to retrieve and process data efficiently.

Tavily's web search API on its Keyless access plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Date.
Tavily limits how many calls you get, but doesn't say how many.
The cheapest of the 27 plans we rank by price is [Firecrawl, $399 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/399-monthly/llms.txt), at $1.596 per 1,000 searches.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-advanced
- Get it: https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/keyless.md
- Its API docs: https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search
- Sold by: Tavily (https://www.tavily.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Date: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: Tavily Extract

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Tavily Search API is a specialized search engine designed for LLMs and AI agents. It provides real-time, customizable, and RAG-ready search results and extracted content, enabling AI applications to retrieve and process data efficiently.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "solely for Customer’s internal business purposes, including for integration with Customer Applications", "Customer will not, in whole or in part: [...] (ii) license, sublicense, resell, distribute, lease, rent, lend, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of the Services (provided, that integration of the Services in Customer Applications in accordance with this Agreement will not constitute a violation of this subsection), [...] (v) access the Services in order to build a competitive product or service, (vi) compete with Tavily or its business, [...] (viii) use any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering or extraction methods through the Services (provided, that reasonable use of Tavily APIs in accordance with this Agreement will not constitute a violation of this subsection), [...] (x) disclose to any third party any performance information or analysis relating to the Services, [...] (xv) use the Services or the Output in any manner that is dangerous, high-risk or violates applicable law, (xvi) use the Services or the Output to make automated decisions without human oversight that have a significant adverse impact on individual rights in high-risk areas such as employment, healthcare, finance, legal, housing, insurance or social benefits", "Customer shall comply with, and shall ensure that all Users, end users of Customer Applications, and any third parties accessing the Service, and/or accessing or using the Output, comply with Tavily's Acceptable Use Policy"

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## The call

- You send: query, search_depth "advanced". Optional: chunks_per_source, max_results, topic, time_range, start_date, end_date, include_published_date, filter_by_published_date, include_answer, include_raw_content, include_images, include_image_descriptions, include_favicon, include_domains, exclude_domains, include_domains_mode, country, language, filter_by_language, auto_parameters, exact_match, include_usage, safe_search
- Method: POST
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Keyless access
- Who can get it: anyone, no account and no API key

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, query, answer, query images, query image descriptions, page title, URL, snippet, relevance score, raw content, published date, favicon, result images, result image descriptions, result ID, selected parameters, response time, credits used

## Tavily's plans (9)

- [Tavily, free, Keyless access, POST /search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-advanced/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Tavily, free, Researcher, POST /search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/free-researcher-post-search-search-advanced/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Tavily, pay as you go, Pay As You Go, POST /search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-advanced/llms.txt): $16.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Tavily, pay as you go, x402, paid per request](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/pay-as-you-go-x402-paid-per-request/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Tavily, $30 monthly, Project, POST /search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/30-monthly-project-post-search-search-advanced/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Tavily, $100 monthly, Bootstrap, POST /search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/100-monthly-bootstrap-post-search-search-advanced/llms.txt): $13.333 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Tavily, $220 monthly, Startup, POST /search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/220-monthly-startup-post-search-search-advanced/llms.txt): $11.579 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Tavily, $500 monthly, Growth, POST /search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/500-monthly-growth-post-search-search-advanced/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Tavily, contact us, Enterprise, POST /search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/contact-us-enterprise-post-search-search-advanced/llms.txt): 17% complete, live

## Tavily's calls (2)

- `POST /search`, Search, advanced: [Tavily, free, Keyless access, POST /search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-advanced/llms.txt)
- `POST /search`, Search, basic: [Tavily, free, Keyless access, POST /search, Search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-basic/llms.txt)

## Tavily's APIs (1)

- [Tavily: web search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-advanced/llms.txt)

## Tavily: web search API alternatives

- [TinyFish, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tinyfish/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-27.

- https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits.md
- https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search
- https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/openapi.json
- https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/keyless.md
- https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/rate-limits.md
- https://docs.tavily.com/faq/faq.md
- https://tavily.com/acceptable-use-policy
- https://tavily.com/terms
- https://www.tavily.com/pricing