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  "slug": "tavily",
  "name": "Tavily",
  "url": "https://www.tavily.com",
  "cat": "search",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Search API built for RAG agents",
  "price": "Free: 1,000 API credits/month, no card required. Pay-as-you-go $0.008 per credit ($8 per 1K). Project plans on a sliding scale starting around 4,000 credits/mo. Free for students. Enterprise custom.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "A search API designed as an LLM tool rather than a browser replacement: one call runs the search, fetches the pages, extracts the relevant passages and returns a short synthesized answer alongside sources. Also exposes extract, crawl and map endpoints for site-scoped retrieval.",
  "why": "The default web-search tool in most LangChain and LangGraph agent templates, so models reach for it unprompted. 1,000 free credits a month genuinely covers a side project.",
  "warn": "Advanced search costs more credits than basic, so a naive agent loop can burn the monthly free tier in a day. Results skew toward summarized text over raw page HTML.",
  "install": "npm i @tavily/core",
  "category": {
    "key": "search",
    "name": "Search, vector & RAG",
    "desc": "Keyword search, vector stores, and web-search APIs for agents — three different things.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://www.tavily.com/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T18:09:22.039+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}