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SearchTavily

Tavily

Web search API built for LLM agents and RAG pipelines.

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Model-agnostic
Verified
Jun 1, 2026

Search-as-a-tool for LLM agents — returns scrape-friendly results tuned for retrieval rather than ranking. Native integrations across LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, and the major agent surfaces.

Capabilities 2

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Web scraping (primary capability)
  • Web research agent (primary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Retrieval-tuned, scrape-ready results
  • Native in LangChain, CrewAI, LangGraph
  • Simple API built for agents
  • Free tier to start
  • Not a general consumer search
  • Volume pricing scales up
  • Less control than raw web scraping

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  • View Exa details
    SearchFREEMIUM

    Exa

    Exa Labs

    Neural search API. Find pages by meaning, not keywords.

    Semantic search engine that indexes the open web with embeddings — pass a description, get matching pages. Strong for research-style queries and find-similar workflows; formerly known as Metaphor.

    Semantic 'find pages like this' retrieval
    Index narrower than Google-scale crawlers
    • semantic-search
    • neural
    • research
    • api
  • View Linkup details
    SearchFREEMIUM

    Linkup

    Linkup

    Production-grade web search API for AI agents.

    A web search API built for LLMs and agents. Linkup returns sourced, cited answers with full-text snippets in seconds, plus a Fetch endpoint for URL extraction and a Research endpoint that runs multi-step, chain-of-thought deep research. It integrates via MCP and SDK wrappers for OpenAI, LangChain, CrewAI, and more, and offers zero-data-retention enterprise hosting.

    Strong SimpleQA benchmark result
    API-only, no end-user app
    • web-search
    • search-api
    • grounding
    • agents
    • +1
  • View Brave Search API details
    SearchFREEMIUM

    Brave Search API

    Brave Software

    Independent search index. Privacy-respecting, non-Google.

    API access to Brave's independently-crawled search index. Useful when you need a non-Google source, want to dodge upstream rate limits, or have privacy posture requirements that rule out scraping competitors.

    Independent index, not resold Bing/Google
    Smaller index than Google
    • search-api
    • independent-index
    • privacy
  • View Jina AI details
    SearchFREEMIUMOpen core

    Jina AI

    Jina AI

    Search-foundation APIs — Reader, embeddings, and reranker — for grounding LLMs.

    A suite of search-foundation APIs for retrieval and RAG: a Reader that turns any URL or web search into LLM-ready markdown, multilingual multimodal embeddings, and a reranker. One key spans every service, the Reader is open source, and the embedding models are also released as open weights for self-hosting.

    One key spans Reader, embeddings, reranker
    Acquired by Elastic (Oct 2025); roadmap may shift
    • search
    • embeddings
    • reranker
    • rag
    • +1