Tavily
Agent-first search API with a news mode, now owned by Nebius
Founded: Not disclosed | New York and Tel Aviv; part of Nebius | Team: Part of Nebius
Full article textWeb search indexLLM/agent tooling
What is Tavily?
Tavily, founded by CEO Rotem Weiss, sells a search API designed for LLM agents. Its topic=news mode limits results to recent news and returns extracted text that can go straight into a prompt. Nebius, the Nasdaq-listed AI cloud company, agreed to buy Tavily in February 2026 (Bloomberg reported a $275 million price) and later said the deal had closed, with the Tavily brand and pricing kept in place. Billing runs on credits: one per basic search, two per advanced search, about $0.008 each on pay-as-you-go, and 1,000 free credits a month. As a search tool it has no news archive, source taxonomy or clustering.
Typical uses: AI & LLM apps, Research & academia. What sets it apart: Prompt-ready extracted content, with integrations for LangChain and LlamaIndex.
What does the Tavily API include?
REST APIJSONPython SDKNode.js SDKMCP server
| Capability |
|---|
| Full article text |
| Web search index |
| LLM/agent tooling |
Tavily pricing
Short answer: the pricing model is credits; free monthly allowance; pay-as-you-go. Entry price: $30/mo.
| Access model | What it means |
|---|---|
| Free tier | Permanent free allowance, usually with request, history or commercial-use limits |
| Monthly plans | Self-serve subscription with published quotas |
| Pay-as-you-go | Billed per request or credit, with no monthly minimum |
| Enterprise contract | Negotiated licence covering volume, rights and SLA |
API prices and quotas change often. Check Tavily's own pricing page before you commit, and confirm that your use is covered by the licence.
Tavily pros and cons
| Advantages | Things to consider |
|---|---|
| +Ready-made integrations with LangChain, LlamaIndex and other agent frameworks | -No historical news archive or source-level filtering |
| +1,000 free credits a month is enough to prototype an agent | -Freshness depends on the underlying search, with no per-source SLA |
| +One call returns cleaned content, so there is no separate scraping step | -Product priorities may shift under Nebius |
| +Nebius ownership brings funding and its own compute infrastructure |
Tavily vs alternatives
How Tavily compares to the other top News APIs.
| API | Best for | Key difference | Rating | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NewsCatcher | AI products and monitoring tools needing enriched, deduplicated... | Articles arrive already summarised, clustered and geotagged, so there is less post-processing on your side | 4.7 | Full comparison |
| Perigon | Startups wanting enriched news with transparent tiers. | Published plans from $25 with enrichment and saved-query monitors included | 4.5 | Full comparison |
| Webz.io | Data teams needing deep archives and broad source... | Largest claimed source count on this list and history going back to 2008 | 4.4 | Full comparison |
| Dow Jones Factiva | Enterprises needing licensed premium news for AI or... | Publisher-cleared rights to use paywalled premium content in generative-AI products | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| NewsData.io | Small teams wanting wide country coverage on a... | Daily free credits plus filters for 206 countries and 89 languages | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry) | Multilingual event tracking for analysts and research teams. | Merges articles about the same real-world event across languages into one event record | 4.3 | Full comparison |
| LexisNexis Nexis Data+ | Legal, compliance and research teams needing licensed news... | Licensed news, legal filings, patents and sanctions data under one contract | 4.2 | Full comparison |
| Opoint | Monitoring platforms and AML teams needing non-English coverage. | Built as a wholesale feed with heavy non-English and local coverage | 4.2 | Full comparison |
| GNews | Indie developers needing affordable commercial news access. | Two simple endpoints with commercial rights from €49.99 a month | 4.1 | Full comparison |
| GDELT Project | Researchers and data scientists with no budget. | Free global coverage with 15-minute updates and BigQuery access | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| Exa | RAG and agent builders needing semantic news retrieval. | Meaning-based search finds relevant pages even when the keywords differ | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| NewsAPI.org | Developers who want the most documented, familiar news... | More tutorials and community libraries than any other news API, which shortens learning time | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| World News API | Small apps wanting sentiment and geo filters at... | Location-radius and sentiment filters from the $39 plan up | 4.0 | Full comparison |
| Quantexa News API (Aylien) | Existing Aylien users and Quantexa platform customers. | Mature entity, category and sentiment tagging inherited from Aylien's NLP work | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| Brave Search API | Teams wanting an independent, non-Google news search index. | Its own crawler and index, independent of Google and Bing | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| AP Media API | Publishers and platforms licensing AP journalism. | Primary-source wire content with publishing rights from AP itself | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| RavenPack (Bigdata.com) | Quant funds and financial AI products. | Two decades of entity-level news sentiment built for trading signals | 3.9 | Full comparison |
| SerpApi Google News | Developers who specifically want Google News rankings. | Mirrors Google News results and story groupings as JSON | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Reuters Connect | Media companies licensing Reuters wire content. | Reuters' own global reporting with publishing rights | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Mediastack | Hobby projects and low-volume apps on a tight... | Paid plans from $24.99 with commercial use and historical data | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Guardian Open Platform | Students, researchers and non-commercial apps. | Free full article text with editorial tags from a major publisher | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Diffbot | Teams building custom news collection from chosen sites. | Turns any article URL into clean structured data linked to a Knowledge Graph | 3.8 | Full comparison |
| Benzinga | Brokerages and trading apps needing fast market headlines. | Original market newswire plus ratings and earnings events in one feed | 3.7 | Full comparison |
| Marketaux | Fintech side projects needing ticker-tagged news cheaply. | Per-entity sentiment scores on every article, even on the free plan | 3.7 | Full comparison |
| Finnhub | Developers who need market data and news from... | Company news bundled with quotes, fundamentals and estimates | 3.6 | Full comparison |
| TheNewsAPI | Personal projects that need a cheap general feed. | Possibly the cheapest paid tier among general news APIs, if third-party pricing is current | 3.6 | Full comparison |
| NYT Developer APIs | Historians and students researching Times coverage. | Searchable metadata for the full Times archive since 1851 | 3.5 | Full comparison |
| APITube | Developers willing to trial a newer, feature-rich API. | Entity and sentiment filters offered on lower tiers | 3.5 | Full comparison |
| Currents API | Students and hobbyists testing news features for free. | A free tier that developer roundups often single out as generous | 3.4 | Full comparison |
Tavily FAQ
What is Tavily?
Agent-first search API with a news mode, now owned by Nebius
How much does Tavily charge?
Pricing model: credits; free monthly allowance; pay-as-you-go. The cheapest paid access listed is $30/mo. Free access: yes, with limits.
Which formats and SDKs does Tavily support?
Tavily offers REST API, JSON, Python SDK, Node.js SDK, MCP server.
Is Tavily right for enterprise?
Yes, Tavily sells enterprise contracts. Main caveat: No historical news archive or source-level filtering.
What are the best Tavily alternatives?
The best alternatives to Tavily depend on your use case. Top options are:
- NewsCatcher: articles arrive already summarised, clustered and geotagged, so there is less post-processing on your side
- Perigon: published plans from $25 with enrichment and saved-query monitors included
- Webz.io: largest claimed source count on this list and history going back to 2008
Compare Tavily with other News APIs
Tavily vs NewsCatcher Tavily vs Perigon Tavily vs Webz.io Tavily vs Dow Jones Factiva Tavily vs NewsData.io Tavily vs NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry) Tavily vs LexisNexis Nexis Data+ Tavily vs Opoint Tavily vs GNews Tavily vs GDELT Project Tavily vs Exa Tavily vs NewsAPI.org Tavily vs World News API Tavily vs Quantexa News API (Aylien) Tavily vs Brave Search API Tavily vs AP Media API Tavily vs RavenPack (Bigdata.com) Tavily vs SerpApi Google News Tavily vs Reuters Connect Tavily vs Mediastack Tavily vs Guardian Open Platform Tavily vs Diffbot Tavily vs Benzinga Tavily vs Marketaux Tavily vs Finnhub Tavily vs TheNewsAPI Tavily vs NYT Developer APIs Tavily vs APITube Tavily vs Currents API
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