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Tavily
✓ verifiedFreemium
Real-time web search and content-extraction API that grounds AI agents with fresh, structured data for research and RAG.
1.3M visits/mo8.9K saves
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exa.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Search, crawling and research API built for AI agents, with token-efficient results and structured web-data enrichment.
761K visits/mo1.7K saves
Pricing
Basic: $0
Unlimited: $20
Pay As You Go: $0.008/credit
Free: $0 (20,000 requests/mo)
Search: $7/1k requests
Contents: $1/1k pages
Deep Search: $12-15/1k requests
Monitors: $15/1k requests
Agent: $0.012-$1.00/run
Core features
- ✦AI-powered web scraping for personalization
- ✦Personalized first-line intros for cold emails
- ✦Customizable prompts for AI processing
- ✦Integration with existing workflows
- ✦Real-time web search API
- ✦Page content extraction and crawling
- ✦LLM-optimized structured/chunked output
- ✦Built-in PII and prompt-injection filtering
- ✦High-throughput, low-latency infrastructure
- ✦Drop-in integrations with major LLM providers
- ✦Web search API tuned for agents
- ✦Full-page contents with token-efficient highlights
- ✦Asynchronous agents for deep research and enrichment
- ✦Structured outputs with grounded citations
- ✦Web monitors that track new events on a schedule
- ✦Zero data retention and SOC 2 Type II controls
Use cases
- →Generating personalized email openers for B2B cold outreach
- →Improving open and reply rates for cold emails
- →Saving time on prospect research and personalization
- →Grounding AI agents with live web data to reduce hallucination
- →Building research or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications
- →Powering AI-driven search assistants
- →Enterprise-scale agents needing reliable web access
- →Give coding agents current docs and repo context
- →Power chatbots with real-time web answers
- →Enrich company and people data at scale
- →Monitor the web for fresh events
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