SERP API

Tavily Search API

Web search API for AI agents on a monthly credit allowance.

Provider: Tavily
Plans recorded: 6
Checked: 2026-09-29 – 2026-10-01
Pricing page: tavily.com/pricing

Plans

Values that apply to one plan. "Not stated" means the official pages do not say; it is not an estimate.

Plan	Price	Included	Extra usage	Concurrency	Rate limit	Buy
Researcher (Free)Free plan	Free¹⁴	1,000 credits every month¹⁵	No extra usage¹⁶	Not recorded	100 per minute¹⁷¹⁸¹⁹	Pricing pageChoose the plan on the page
ProjectSubscription	$30/month²⁰ Not stated²¹	4,000 credits per month²⁰	$8 per 1,000 extra²²²³	Not recorded	1,000 per minute¹⁷¹⁸²⁴	Pricing pageChoose the plan on the page
BootstrapSubscription	$100/month²⁵ Not stated²¹	15,000 credits per month²⁵	$8 per 1,000 extra²²²³	Not recorded	1,000 per minute¹⁷¹⁸²⁴	Pricing pageChoose the plan on the page
StartupSubscription	$220/month²⁶ Not stated²¹	38,000 credits per month²⁶	$8 per 1,000 extra²²²³	Not recorded	1,000 per minute¹⁷¹⁸²⁴	Pricing pageChoose the plan on the page
GrowthSubscription	$500/month²⁷ Not stated²¹	100,000 credits per month²⁷	$8 per 1,000 extra²²²³	Not recorded	1,000 per minute¹⁷¹⁸²⁴	Pricing pageChoose the plan on the page
Pay As You GoPay as you go	$8 per 1,000 credits²²²⁸²³	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	1,000 per minute¹⁷¹⁸²⁴	Pricing pageChoose the plan on the page

Applies to every plan

Recorded for the product or the provider; a plan-level value or a listed exception replaces it.

Units per search: 1 credit¹²
Billing of failed requests: Not stated³⁴
Search response mode: Real time⁵
Search results by country: Not stated⁶⁷
Parsed search result types: Parsed: organic, images⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹¹²
Unused credits roll over: Not offered¹³

Agent access

Machine-readable channels Tavily publishes, checked 2026-09-30. Only listing requests were sent; no tool was called.

MCP server: https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/
Asks for credentials (Bearer); publishes OAuth metadata.
llms.txt: docs.tavily.com/llms.txt
llms-full.txt: docs.tavily.com/llms-full.txt
OpenAPI: docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/openapi.json 3.0.3 · 10 paths
Facts also in these documents: 24 of the 29 quoted facts recorded for Tavily are stated in the same words in these documents.

Collection notes

The pricing page slider does not render its price in page text; plan prices come from the official credits documentation. Extract, Map, Crawl and Research endpoints are not modelled as page scraping.

Sources and notes

Each number points to the provider's own sentence, as it appears on the page on the date shown.

Basic Search ( basic ): Each request costs 1 API credit .
docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits · official docs · read 2026-09-29
Advanced search costs 2 credits per request.
You never get charged if a URL extraction fails.
docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits · official docs · read 2026-09-29
Stated only for Extract and Map (failed URL extractions are not charged); search is not covered.
Power your AI with real-time web search
tavily.com/pricing · official pricing · read 2026-09-29
country enum<string> Boost search results from a specific country. This will prioritize content from the selected country in the search results. Available only if topic is general .
docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search · official docs · read 2026-09-29
The country setting boosts results from the chosen country (general topic only); whether it sets the country of the results is not stated.
results object[] required A list of sorted search results, ranked by relevancy.
docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search · official docs · read 2026-09-29
images object[] required A list of query-related images from image search.
docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search · official docs · read 2026-09-29
include_images boolean default: false Include images in the response. Returns both a top-level images list of query-related images
docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search · official docs · read 2026-09-29
How the value follows from the source: The ranked result list is recorded as organic results.
Images are returned when include_images is true. The generated answer is not a search-engine AI Overview.
Your API credits reset on the first day of each month, regardless of the billing date.
tavily.com/pricing · official pricing · read 2026-09-29
Researcher 1,000 Free -
docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits · official docs · read 2026-09-29
You get 1,000 free API Credits every month. No credit card required.
docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits · official docs · read 2026-09-29
If you exhaust your monthly credits, requests will stop until your credits reset or you upgrade to a paid plan.
tavily.com/pricing · official pricing · read 2026-09-29
Environment Requests per minute (RPM) Development 100 Production 1,000
docs.tavily.com/documentation/rate-limits · official docs · read 2026-09-29
Access to production keys requires either an active Paid Plan or PAYGO enabled.
docs.tavily.com/documentation/rate-limits · official docs · read 2026-09-29
How the value follows from the source: Without a paid plan or pay as you go only development keys (100 RPM) are available.
Project 4,000 $30 $0.0075
docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits · official docs · read 2026-09-29
Annual prices are not shown.
Pay-as-you-go : $0.008 per credit (allows you to be charged per credit once your plan’s credit limit is reached).
docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits · official docs · read 2026-09-29
How the value follows from the source: $0.008 per credit × 1,000.
Production key limit.
Bootstrap 15,000 $100 $0.0067
docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits · official docs · read 2026-09-29
Startup 38,000 $220 $0.0058
docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits · official docs · read 2026-09-29
Growth 100,000 $500 $0.005
docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits · official docs · read 2026-09-29
Pay As You Go $0.008 / credit For flexible usage Pay only for what you use
tavily.com/pricing · official pricing · read 2026-09-29

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