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Tavily pricing and alternatives

What Tavily costs, what a credit buys, and the alternatives if your agent's questions are about markets and filings.

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Tavily at a glance

Free
1,000 credits a month, no card
Plans
$30 to $500 a month
Pay as you go
$0.008 a credit
Enterprise
custom

What Tavily costs

Tavily sells monthly credit plans, with a free plan and pay-as-you-go on top. Credits reset on the 1st of each month.

PlanCredits a monthPricePer credit
Researcher (free)1,000$0—
Project4,000$30$0.0075
Bootstrap15,000$100$0.0067
Startup38,000$220$0.0058
Growth100,000$500$0.005
Pay as you goPer use—$0.008

A basic search costs 1 credit and an advanced search 2. Every 5 successful URL extractions cost 1 credit, and research costs 4 to 250 credits a request. On the free plan, "requests will stop until your credits reset or you upgrade". Production keys need a paid plan or pay-as-you-go.

When to use Tavily

Choose it for web search, extraction and crawling. Choose Finks when your agent's questions are about markets and filings, and every result needs a finance source.

  1. 01

    Fixed monthly plans

    Credit plans from $30 to $500 a month, with pay-as-you-go on top.

  2. 02

    Search, extract, crawl and map

    Five tools from one API (search, extract, crawl, map and research), with a "finance" topic for search.

  3. 03

    Try it without a key

    You can try Search and Extract with "No account, no API key".

Alternatives to Tavily

  • Finks

    Best for: AI agents that search financial sources in plain English and need the passage that answers, with its source.

    Finks is a search API built for AI agents. Your agent searches in plain English and gets back the results that answer it, each linked to its source. Today that covers news, SEC filings and earnings call transcripts.

    Filing results can carry the matching passage in the filing's own words, which your agent can quote and cite. The Finks MCP server adds the same search to Claude, Cursor or any MCP-compatible client.

    Tavily's finance topic searches the web for filings and market news. Finks returns the filing itself, with the matching passage, and every result names its source.

    What Finks does not do

    Finks does not search the open web. If your agent needs general web results, keep Tavily or another web search API for them.

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    Get set up in minutes. Free tier, no card required. Paid plans start at $29 a month (Starter).

    Request

    POST /v1/search
{
  "query": "material cybersecurity incident disclosed in Item 1.05",
  "types": ["filing"],
  "event_types": ["cybersecurity_incident"],
  "depth": "deep",
  "limit": 3
}

    Response

    {
  "type": "filing",
  "title": "Nutex Health Inc. — 8-K Item 1.05, Material Cybersecurity Incidents",
  "published_at": "2026-08-31T20:25:25Z",
  "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1479681/000162828026059602/nutx-20260831.htm",
  "matched": "passage",
  "passage": {
    "section_id": "8-k/item-1.05",
    "text": "…Nutex Health Inc. (the “Company”) became aware of unauthorized activity involving data stored on its computer network…"
  }
}

    Live response, 26 Oct 2026, test key (fewer fields than a production key)

  • Exa

    Best for: pay-as-you-go web search with no subscription.

    Exa charges per request: search from $4 per 1,000 requests, deep search from $12. It gives $10 in free credits a month with no payment method required.

    Exa pricing and alternatives

  • Brave Search API

    Best for: its own web index at high throughput.

    Brave charges $5 per 1,000 search requests, with $5 in free credits a month (a card is needed but not charged) and 50 requests a second. Its standard terms don't allow storing results.

    Brave Search API pricing and alternatives

  • Perplexity Search API

    Best for: cheap raw web results with batching.

    Perplexity's Search API costs $5 per 1,000 requests, and up to five queries in one request count as one. Fast Search costs $1 per 1,000.

    Perplexity API pricing and alternatives

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Questions about Tavily pricing

Is Tavily free?

Yes, with limits. The free Researcher plan gives 1,000 credits a month with no card. Requests stop when the credits run out, until they reset on the 1st.

How much does Tavily cost?

Plans run from $30 a month for 4,000 credits to $500 a month for 100,000 credits. Pay-as-you-go costs $0.008 a credit. Prices checked 20 Oct 2026.

Tavily vs Exa: what's the difference?

Tavily sells monthly credit plans and also offers pay-as-you-go. Exa is pay-as-you-go per request with no subscription. Both have a free tier.

Does Tavily have an MCP server?

Yes. Tavily runs a remote MCP server at mcp.tavily.com that you use with your API key.

What are Tavily's rate limits?

100 requests a minute on development keys and 1,000 a minute on production keys.

Does Finks replace Tavily?

Not for general web search. Finks returns the passages that answer a question, each with its source; today that covers news, SEC filings and earnings call transcripts. Use Tavily for general web search and Finks for the finance answers behind it.

Finks makes this page. We took every price and limit from each company's own website on 20 Oct 2026 and link to each source. Prices change, so check them before you buy.

Sources

Add sourced finance results to your web search

Finks returns news, SEC filings and earnings call passages, each with its source.

Try Finks for free