Tavily, founded in late 2023 by Rotem Weiss and Assaf Elovic, builds a search API designed specifically for AI agents and LLM applications, returning clean, structured web results optimized for models to consume rather than the raw HTML a human-facing search engine returns.
Fast adoption across agent-building frameworks, notably as a default search tool integration in the LangChain ecosystem, drove Tavily's growth and led to Tavily becoming part of AI infrastructure company Nebius, which continues operating and developing the product under its own name and API.
Pricing includes a free tier with a monthly search-credit allowance before usage-based paid plans apply. For a developer building an AI agent with LangChain or a similar framework that needs a search tool designed for LLM consumption out of the box, Tavily's default-integration position addresses that directly.
