Tavily
Web Search Free key (no card)
AuthenticationFree key (no card)
Rate limit1,000 free credits/month, no card; basic search costs 1 credit, advanced search 2
Documentation: docs.tavily.com ยท Checked Sep 13, 2026
About
Tavily bundles web search, content extraction, and AI answers into one simple API made for agents and assistants. One call can search the web and return cleaned page content ready for a language model. The free Researcher plan gives you 1,000 credits a month with no credit card.
Details
Free to start. You may need a free key, but no credit card.
Auth: Free key (no card)
Rate limit: 1,000 free credits/month, no card; basic search costs 1 credit, advanced search 2
Verified: 2026-09-13
Best for: developer business personal
Setup
- Sign up at tavily.com. No card required.
- Copy your API key from the dashboard.
- POST to /search with your api_key and query.
- Use the /extract endpoint to pull full text from result URLs.
Example
POST https://api.tavily.com/search with body {"api_key": "YOUR_KEY", "query": "Tesla Q3 earnings"}Use cases
- Give a chatbot live, cited answers from the web
- Extract the main text from a batch of article URLs
- Build a research agent that searches then reads sources