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Tavily pricing
How Tavily meters basic and advanced search, what remains open, and which AI-search workloads fit.
one default result set; no fan-out
Fixed for this page; volume is the control.Every available option was priced in advance from published vendor rules. Changing a control only switches between those checked options; nothing is sent anywhere and no account is needed.
Your job
What Tavily counts
What you pay
Successes you want
100,000 standard searches
Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.
- ÷ 1
Attempts you are billed for
100,000 standard searches
Tavily bills failed fetches. This workload assumes none fail, so nothing is added here.
- × 1
What the meter counts
100,000 credits
One attempt is one billed unit for this workload.
- =
Cash per month
$500.00 /mo
Growth. Cheapest of every eligible purchase option, not the first plan that fits.
Bars share one linear scale across the 3 counted stages, so a multiplier shows as length. Units differ by stage and are labelled. Cash is not on that scale.
100,000 standard searches → 100,000 credit → Growth $500.00/mo = $5.00 per 1,000 searches
Cheaper for this job
Same 100,000 standard search calls with one default-depth result set per call, ranked by what you would actually be billed. Unknown totals never enter the numeric order.
Every Tavily plan
| Plan | Monthly | If billed yearly | Prepaid pack | Included | Simultaneous sessions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project | $30.00 | n/a | n/a | 4,000 credit | n/a |
| Bootstrap | $100.00 | n/a | n/a | 15,000 credit | n/a |
| Startup | $220.00 | n/a | n/a | 38,000 credit | n/a |
| Growth your job | $500.00 | n/a | n/a | 100,000 credit | n/a |
| Pay as you go | Not published | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
What consumes a unit
This is where a bill actually grows. One operation is not one billed unit, and the multiplier is published here rather than on the pricing page.
| Operation | Costs | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| search.query | 1 credit | request | source |
| search.deep | 2 credit | request | source |
What Tavily does not publish
- Search failure billing is not explicitly documented.
- The public pricing guide does not state whether unused monthly credits roll over.
- A tutorial reference to ultra-fast search at 0.5 credit conflicts with current API pricing references that group it with one-credit searches.
- No customer-side caching, redistribution, or attribution restriction was found in the reviewed first-party pages.
What Tavily is
Tavily is a search API built for applications and AI agents that need web results as input to retrieval, research, and answer-generation workflows. Its public API family also documents extract and map operations, but the recorded product meter here is centered on search. Exa, Brave Search API, and Perplexity’s developer search products are its three nearest named competitors. Tavily differs in the reviewed pricing material by making the search-depth choice itself the main multiplier: basic and advanced searches draw different amounts from one credit balance. Sources: Tavily, Tavily API credits, Exa, Brave Search API, and Perplexity, retrieved 2026-07-26.
How billing works
One unit is a credit. A basic search request consumes one credit, while an advanced search request consumes two. These are replacement rates based on the selected search depth, not two charges stacked on the same call. The ongoing free plan renews its search-credit allowance monthly, and paid plans publish an overage path per credit. The buyer mistake to avoid is counting API calls without preserving search depth. Two applications can issue the same number of calls but consume different credit totals if one defaults to advanced search. Source: Tavily API credits, retrieved 2026-07-26.
The pricing guide explicitly says failed Extract and Map calls are not billed, but it does not make the same statement for Search. Tavily’s FAQ advertises zero data retention, which is relevant to teams sending sensitive query context, but downstream storage and redistribution permissions remain separate procurement questions. Sources: Tavily API credits and Tavily FAQ, retrieved 2026-07-26.
What Tavily does not publish clearly
- Whether a failed Search request consumes credits. Source reviewed: Tavily API credits, retrieved 2026-07-26.
- Whether unused monthly credits roll into the next billing period. Source reviewed: Tavily API credits, retrieved 2026-07-26.
- A complete customer-side rule for caching, redistribution, and attribution of returned content. Sources reviewed: Tavily API credits and Tavily FAQ, retrieved 2026-07-26.
- A clean resolution of an older tutorial reference to a fractional-credit search mode against the current pricing guide’s one-credit grouping. Source reviewed: Tavily API credits, retrieved 2026-07-26.
Who it suits
Tavily suits agent and retrieval teams that can label each request basic or advanced and budget directly from that mix. It is less suitable when procurement requires explicit Search failure treatment, rollover, and redistribution terms without a support exchange. The reason is that the primary search multiplier is clear, while several contract edges around unsuccessful calls and downstream use are not answered on the reviewed public pages. Sources: Tavily API credits and Tavily FAQ, retrieved 2026-07-26.
Answer
Tavily costs $500.00 for 100,000 standard searches on its Growth offer. Every figure is sourced and dated.
Recorded 2026-07-26 from the vendor's own pricing page.The published price on this page matched the vendor page when it was rechecked.