Tavily
Real-time web search, extract, and crawl APIs built specifically for AI agents and RAG.
Acquired Tavily
Acquired · February 2026
Still operating. Nebius announced an agreement to acquire Tavily, the search API built for AI agents, on February 10, 2026, for $275 million, with up to about $67 million more tied to performance targets. The deal completed on February 19, 2026. Founder Rotem Weiss and his team joined Nebius, and Tavily continues under its own brand.
Acquired by Nebius.
Last known pricing: Free plan with 1,000 API credits/month; pay-as-you-go at $0.008 per credit; monthly project plans.
Is Tavily shut down?
No — Tavily is still operating. Its acquisition by Nebius was announced on February 10, 2026, and the product continues to ship. We list it in the ToolDirectory.AI graveyard's acquired-but-operating section and watch for post-acquisition changes.
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Overview
Tavily: Connect Your AI Agents to the Web
Tavily is the real-time search engine purpose-built for AI agents and RAG workflows — fast and secure APIs for web search, extraction, research, and crawling, all through a single integration. Trusted by 1M+ developers around the world, Tavily is the web access layer for the agentic stack.
Where general search APIs return raw blue links, Tavily returns live web data extracted, chunked, and ready for models to reason over without hallucinating. A production-grade retrieval stack with intelligent caching keeps latency predictable as traffic grows, and built-in security and content validation layers block PII leakage, prompt injection, and malicious sources before they hit your models.
Acquisition note (February 2026): Nebius agreed on February 10, 2026 to buy Tavily for $275 million plus contingent payments, and completed the acquisition on February 19, 2026. Tavily's search API remains available under its own brand as part of Nebius's AI cloud platform.
Key Features:
- Real-time web search built for AI agents
- Content extraction with model-ready chunking
- Web crawling and deep research APIs
- Single, secure API surface
- Production-grade retrieval stack with intelligent caching
- Predictable latency at scale
- PII leakage and prompt injection protection
- Content validation against malicious sources
- Benchmarks against Perplexity Search, Google, and others
- Free tier with paid certification program
Ideal Use Case:
Tavily is ideal for any team building AI agents that need fresh, grounded web context — from RAG chatbots to autonomous research agents to enterprise copilots. Especially strong for teams that need predictable latency, security guarantees, and one API surface for search, extract, and crawl.
Why Use Tavily:
- Purpose-built for AI agents, not human search
- One API for search, extract, crawl, and research
- Live web data chunked and ready for LLMs
- Built-in security against prompt injection and PII leaks
- Trusted by 1M+ developers
FAQ
Who owns Tavily? Tavily is owned by Nebius, which announced the $275 million acquisition on February 10, 2026 and completed it on February 19, 2026. Tavily still operates under its own brand.
Is Tavily free to try? Yes — free tier with API credits, plus a Tavily Certification program that earns more credits.
What's the difference vs. Google or Bing APIs? Tavily returns extracted, chunked, and validated content ready for LLMs, not raw search results.
Does Tavily handle prompt injection? Yes — content validation layers block PII leakage, prompt injection, and malicious sources.
What APIs does Tavily expose? Search, Extract, Crawl, and Research — all under one secure API.
tl;dr:
Tavily is the web access layer for AI agents — real-time search, extraction, research, and crawling APIs built for RAG and agentic workflows. Trusted by 1M+ developers.
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