Tavily AI free tier includes Real-time web search API for AI agents, with search, extract, crawl and research endpoints… Verified October 2026. Compare with 6 alternatives in AI / ML.
Subtypes in AI / ML: web_search_api — answers a query with current web results shaped for a model to read. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://tavily.com/, where it says: “Fast and secure APIs for web search and content extraction” How we use this.
Tavily AI's free tier offers Real-time web search API for AI agents, with search, extract, crawl and research endpoints… It's stable — the change we last considered recording was refused on 2026-08-29, and we read the page again on 2026-10-03 and confirmed the terms above. Best for ai / ml workloads — 6 alternatives available.
Real-time web search API for AI agents, with search, extract, crawl and research endpoints. The free Researcher plan gives 1,000 API credits per month with no credit card required, resetting on the first of each month. A basic search costs 1 credit and an advanced search 2; extract costs 1 credit per 5 successful URLs (2 at advanced depth); research costs 4 to 250 credits per request. Search and Extract can also be called without an API key, free and rate-limited. Pay-as-you-go costs $0.008 per credit; the Project plan is $30 per month for 4,000 credits.
We read that on 2026-10-03 from https://www.tavily.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page writes "tavily", the domain we cite Tavily AI from, and states "$0.008" and "1,000 API credits / month" and "4,000 API credits / month" and "1,000 free API credits per month".
Researcher Free / month For new creators 1,000 API credits / month No credit card required Email support
No recorded pricing changes for Tavily AI. This is a good sign — stable pricing.
How Tavily AI compares against every one of the 6 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| Tavily AI | Free | stable |
| Linkup | Free | stable |
| Exa | Free | caution |
| Parallel | Free | stable |
| You.com | Free | stable |
| Serper | Free Credits | stable |
| Jina AI | Free Credits | stable |
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We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.
curl https://agentdeals.dev/api/changes?vendor=Tavily%20AI
curl https://agentdeals.dev/pricing-changes/feed.xml?vendor=Tavily%20AI
Look up Tavily AI programmatically with the AgentDeals MCP server:
{
"tool": "search_deals",
"arguments": {
"query": "Tavily AI",
"limit": 5
}
}