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

Tavily's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 243 plans we rank by price is Keenable, free, Keyless, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.Context.dev, Serpex and Search1API are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Keyless access one of Tavily's 9 plans
Call: POST /search, Search, fast one of Tavily's 4 calls
API: Web search API Tavily's only API

About this item

  • Live. The call searches the web when you make it.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text, Answer.
  • 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 "fast". 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

The table starts with Tavily's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Tavily's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Tavily, $500 monthly, Growth, POST /search, Search, fastStaan, pay as you go, Pay for what you use, POST /search/web, Web Search for AI APISearch1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /askNimble, pay as you go, Pay as you go, POST /v2/search, Search, standardBrave Search API, top-up from $5
$ per 1,000 searches$5.00$4.501$5.00$5.00$5.00
Completeness50%33%33%17%33%
Billingmonthlypay as you gopay firstpay as you gopay first
Pay$500monthly$5monthly$5
Enough for100,000 calls a monthas many as you pay foras many as you pay foras many as you pay for1,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter the Terms, or authorized to bind the companyanyone who signs upanyoneanyone who signs upanyone with a credit card

Every web search API provider we score, ranked

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
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
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
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, search_depth "fast". 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
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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