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Tavily pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /search, Search, basic

Tavily's sitellms.txt
17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 27 plans we rank by price is Firecrawl, $399 monthly, at $1.596 per 1,000 searches.
Plan: Keyless access one of Tavily's 9 plans
Call: POST /search, Search, basic one of Tavily's 2 calls
API: Web search API Tavily's only API

About this item

  • Live. The call searches the web when you make it.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Date.
  • Nothing to pay. Tavily limits how many calls you get, but doesn't say how many.
  • One call. You send query to POST /search. You set search_depth to "basic". The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone, no account and no API key. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Tavily: web search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planTavily, free, Keyless access, POST /search, Search, basicTinyFish, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00
Completeness17%17%
Billingfreefree
Pay$0$0
Enough fornot published360,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelive
Who can get itanyone, no account and no API keyanyone at least 18 years old who can form a legally binding contract

Web search API pricing: plans compared

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.

  1. docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits.md
  2. docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search
  3. docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/openapi.json
  4. docs.tavily.com/documentation/keyless.md
  5. docs.tavily.com/documentation/rate-limits.md
  6. docs.tavily.com/faq/faq.md
  7. tavily.com/acceptable-use-policy
  8. tavily.com/terms
  9. tavily.com/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text, not in the answer
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search20
Also pays forTavily Extract
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchTavily 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
Freshnesslive
Keep datano 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 sendquery, search_depth "basic". 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
MethodPOST
Path/search
About the plan
PlanKeyless access
Who can get itanyone, 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

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