Tavily

Tavily is a hosted API with five endpoints: Search (web results), Extract (clean, LLM-ready page content), Crawl (extract across a whole site), Map (discover URLs on a site), and Research (an autonomous multi-step research agent). Rather than returning a Google-style SERP, Search returns pre-cleaned, ranked snippets intended to be dropped straight into an LLM context window, which is the main way it differs from wrapping a general-purpose search API yourself. It ships official SDKs (Python, JS) and framework integrations (LangChain, CrewAI, n8n, MCP) maintained in the open on GitHub.

Pricing is public and credit-based. Free tier: 1,000 API credits/month, no card required (verified on tavily.com/pricing). Pay-as-you-go is $0.008/credit; monthly subscription tiers bring the effective rate down to $0.005/credit at higher volume (both figures verified directly from the pricing and docs pages). A basic Search call costs 1 credit, an advanced search 2; Extract is priced per 5 successful extractions; Crawl and Map are priced per page. The Research endpoint (the autonomous agent) is credit-metered per run and vendor documentation describes it as costing meaningfully more per call than a single search or extract — we could not independently verify the exact minimum/maximum credit range for Research, so treat any specific number you see quoted elsewhere as unconfirmed. Enterprise tier is custom/quote-only.

Nebius (the AI cloud/infrastructure company) announced an agreement to acquire Tavily on February 10, 2026, confirmed in Nebius's own newsroom post and reported by Bloomberg at a reported $275M (potentially up to $400M with milestones — Nebius has not disclosed the price itself). At announcement, the deal was pending, expected to close within weeks. Nebius's statement says Tavily will 'continue operating under its current brand, serving existing customers,' and founder/CEO Rotem Weiss and the team join Nebius to keep leading the product. That's a normal, well-telegraphed acquisition rather than an acquihire-and-shutdown, but it is a material change for anyone building a multi-year dependency: pricing, roadmap priorities, and support structure are now Nebius's call, not an independent founder's, and no public commitment covers pricing or API stability beyond the general continuity language in the announcement.

Tavily was founded in late 2024 by Rotem Weiss and Assaf Elovic (with Yuval Rozio of Alpha Wave Global), growing out of Elovic's 2023 open-source GPT Researcher project. It raised a $5M seed (July 2024) and a $20M Series A (August 2025, led by Insight Partners and Alpha Wave Global) — about $25M total prior to the Nebius acquisition. As of the Series A, the team was roughly 30 people split across Tel Aviv, New York, and Abu Dhabi.

Tavily publishes its client SDKs and integrations as open source under MIT. As of today: tavily-python has 1,364 GitHub stars and was pushed to in the last three weeks; tavily-mcp (its Model Context Protocol server) has 2,338 stars and was updated yesterday; tavily-js has 93 stars; langchain-tavily has 25 stars and was updated within two weeks. These are client libraries, not the underlying search product — Tavily's actual search/crawl engine is closed and only accessible as a paid hosted API. Star counts and recent commit activity are a genuine, independently-checkable signal of active maintenance and real developer usage, distinct from the vendor's own '2M+ developers / 300M+ monthly requests' claims, which we could not corroborate independently.

Tavily publishes a Trust Center (trust.tavily.com, hosted via Vanta) and states on its own channels that it holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification with zero data retention by default; it also claims GDPR/CCPA/HIPAA/PCI coverage. The trust center itself is client-rendered JavaScript, so we could not independently pull the certificate list from the raw page — this is a vendor claim corroborated by the existence of a genuine third-party (Vanta) compliance workflow, not a source we verified certificate-by-certificate. Tavily also runs a public status page (status.tavily.com, via incident.io) showing uptime history and past incidents, which is a real operational-transparency signal many API vendors skip.

Trustpilot shows no reviews for Tavily as of this check. G2's review page is blocked to automated fetching, so we could not pull its rating or review count from a primary source — any specific G2 star rating you see cited elsewhere should be treated as unverified. This is consistent with a company that's under two years old and whose customers are developers integrating an API, not end users who leave star ratings; absence of reviews here is a normal function of the product category and company age, not a red flag.