Tavily
FreemiumLiveLast verified 27 Sept 2026
Web search, page extraction, site crawl and cited research reports returned as clean text for LLM agents.
Example request
curl -s 'https://api.tavily.com/usage' -H 'Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY'
Free tier, in plain English
The free Researcher plan gives 1,000 credits a month with no card, about 1,000 basic searches. Search and Extract can also be tried without any key at a low rate limit.
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