Tavily

Founded to address the hallucination and knowledge-cutoff limitations of LLM applications, Tavily retrieves current web content, extracts relevant passages, and returns them structured and chunked for immediate consumption by AI models enabling agents to reason over facts rather than generate plausible-sounding but potentially incorrect responses.

In February 2026, Tavily was acquired by Nebius, strengthening its infrastructure and enterprise capabilities.

The platform offers four distinct APIs that serve different web data acquisition needs within AI applications. The Search API performs real-time web queries and returns structured results ranked by relevance to the agent's context.

The Extract API retrieves and parses specific content from target URLs, stripping boilerplate and navigation elements to return clean article text. The Map API discovers all URLs within a website domain, enabling comprehensive site crawling.

The Crawl API systematically traverses web content hierarchies for deep data collection. Together, these four APIs give developers a complete web intelligence toolkit that covers single-query lookups through full-site analysis.

Tavily's infrastructure is designed for production-grade AI workloads with latency predictability as a core engineering priority. A production-grade retrieval stack with intelligent caching and indexing ensures that common queries return near-instantaneously while novel queries are retrieved fresh from the web.

The platform processes every request through security, privacy, and content validation layers that block PII leakage, prompt injection attacks, and malicious source content protecting AI applications from adversarial inputs that could manipulate agent behavior or extract sensitive information.