Tavily

1,000 free API credits/month, no card required

What Tavily does

  • 1,000 free API credits/month, no card required
  • Search + Extract + Research + Crawl + Map endpoints
  • 300M+ monthly requests, 2M+ developers

Tavily — straight answers

What is Tavily?

Tavily is listed under AI Search & Answer Engines, in the Research & Learning category on Flocci AI Tools. 1,000 free API credits/month, no card required. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at tavily.com.

Is Tavily free?

Tavily is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 391 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.

What can Tavily do?

Tavily does 3 things the catalog singles out: 1,000 free api credits/month, no card required; search + extract + research + crawl + map endpoints; 300m+ monthly requests, 2m+ developers.

What is the best free alternative to Tavily?

Morphic is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same AI Search & Answer Engines sub-category and is free. Perplexica, Scira and ChatGPT Search also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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Perplexity

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freemium
  • Cited, real-time answers (1B+ queries/quarter)
  • Focus modes and file uploads
  • Comet browser and Spaces
  • Strong free tier

ChatGPT Search

AI Search & Answer Engines
freemium
  • Real-time web answers inside ChatGPT
  • Inline citations and follow-ups
  • Combines search with reasoning
  • Available on the free tier

Grok DeeperSearch

AI Search & Answer Engines
freemium
  • Live search across X and the open web
  • Best for breaking news and trends
  • Reasoned, sourced summaries
  • Free daily queries

Komo

AI Search & Answer Engines
freemium
  • Fast, ad-free AI search
  • Explore, chat and research modes
  • Privacy-oriented
  • Free to use

Kagi Assistant

AI Search & Answer Engines
trial
  • Bundled with Kagi's paid ad-free search subscription
  • Lets users pick underlying model (Claude, GPT, Gemini)
  • Deep research/thread mode with citations

Exa

AI Search & Answer Engines
freemium
  • Search API built specifically for AI agents/LLMs, not humans
  • Indexes 80B+ documents, sub-180ms answers
  • Structured JSON extraction across companies/code/docs

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