Search the web

Tavily

Web search API for AI agents that returns ranked results with snippets or full page content, plus extract, crawl and research endpoints.

Rate limits

Endpoint	Development key (per minute)	Production key (per minute)
Default (search, extract, map)	100	1,000
`/crawl`	100	100
`/research` (create)	20	20
`/usage` (per 10 minutes)	10	10

Source3Rate limits

Other limits

Over-limit response: 429 Too Many Requests, optionally with Retry-After3
Flex tier: On non-paying plans, searches with max_age_hours can be refused with 434 under heavy load3
Domain list size: include_domains up to 300, exclude_domains up to 1504
Keyless limits: Not published

Read from Tavily’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/search-the-web/tavily.md