What can an AI agent do with Tavily?

A Tavily AI agent can search the web, extract content from specific URLs, retrieve the latest news, and build rich context for RAG pipelines, all returning clean, structured results your agent can reason over without extra parsing. All Tavily actions are read-only.

How is Tavily different from a regular search API?

Tavily is optimized for AI agents, not browsers. Results are pre-ranked and cleaned, no HTML, no ads, no boilerplate, so your agent gets directly usable content. It also supports answer-mode queries that return a single synthesized response rather than a list of links.

Can my agent search for real-time information with Tavily?

Yes. Tavily searches the live web on every request, so your agent always has access to up-to-date information. This makes it well suited for news monitoring, market research, and any workflow where stale data would produce wrong answers.

Is Tavily suitable for RAG pipelines?

Tavily is purpose-built for RAG. Its search-context action returns results pre-formatted for injection into LLM prompts, and its extract action pulls clean text from specific URLs - both are standard building blocks for retrieval-augmented generation workflows.

Developer tools

Tavily, run by an agent.

An AI agent that searches the web with AI-optimized precision for research and RAG workflows.

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What needs your approval

Tavily never changes anything without you.

Some read-only Tavily operations run on their own so your agent can gather what it needs. Anything that creates, edits or deletes waits for your approval.

A real run

An example of how a run works, including the approval step. Not a Tavily run.

Google Ads

Paid search

Working

review last week's google ads and cut wasted spend.

Queried Google Ads · last 7 days · 4 campaigns

Analyzed search terms · 312 terms · 18 with zero conversions

Drafted changes · 12 negative keywords · 2 budget shifts

Found $1,840/mo going to search terms that never convert. I'd add 12 negatives and move that budget to your two best campaigns. This changes the account, so it's your call before I touch anything.

Plan approval

Add 12 negative keywords stops $1,840/mo on terms with 0 conversions · reversible
Shift budget move the freed spend to your 2 best campaigns · roas 4.2×

Waiting for your approval. Nothing runs until a human decides.

example

Connecting Tavily

About 5 minutes

Auth: API key
Setup: About 5 minutes

Where to get access

Get your Tavily API key from the dashboard at app.tavily.com. Free tier includes 1,000 API credits/month.

docs.tavily.com

Example tasks

Real work people hand to an agent that uses Tavily.

research a topic and compile a structured briefing document automatically on a schedule
power a RAG pipeline by fetching fresh web context before generating an answer
monitor competitors by searching for their latest news and product announcements daily
answer customer questions grounded in live web data rather than stale training knowledge