Tavily
Tavily publishes Researcher (free, 1K credits/mo) / Pay-As-You-Go ($0.008/credit) / Project (slider) / Enterprise tiers with the lowest-friction PAYG entry in the search-API category. xpay verified the no-card free tier, an explicit per-credit rate, public docs at docs.tavily.com, and self-serve checkout via the dashboard.
Find a plan to power your AI Agents
Pay-as-you-go: $0.008 per credit; Project: slider-priced from 4,000 credits
$0
Self-serve
Contact sales
Available
How Tavily scores on the 7 agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing
15 / 15
Usage-based / metered
22 / 25
Self-serve checkout
10 / 15
Public API
15 / 15
Low / no minimum
8 / 10
Unauth automated payment
6 / 10
Bonus (machine-readable pricing)On top of /100 base
0 / 5
Total
76 / 100
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Tavily?
Discover price
https://tavily.com/pricing — four plan cards visibleSelect a plan
Researcher / PAYG / Project / Enterprise distinguishablePay per task
$0.008 per credit PAYG explicitly publishedAvoid a sales call
Three tiers self-serve, only Enterprise contact-salesAPI docs without auth
https://docs.tavily.com — publicEstimate cost upfront
Per-credit unit price + credit-per-call documentedPros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-03. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- Per-unit billing is published, so an agent can budget for a single task before committing.
- API documentation is reachable without a login — discovery and integration can happen in one session.
- Per-unit rate is concrete enough that an agent can model expected spend before issuing a request.
- A free tier exists, lowering the bar for an agent builder to prototype before committing budget.
- Some tiers are sales-led; the highest-capacity surfaces are not self-serve.
- PPU requires account creation and an issued API key; a fully unauthenticated agent purchase is not yet supported.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
How Tavily could lift its score
Tavily already lands solidly in Verified — and is among the most agent-native pricing pages in the batch. To reach 100/100: publish /.well-known/ai-pricing.json mirroring the per-credit rate, and expose an anonymous one-shot PPU endpoint so a no-account agent can buy a search.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | Find a plan to power your AI Agents |
| tier_count | 4 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 0 |
| free_tier | true |
| free_tier_terms | Researcher: 1,000 API credits/month free, no card |
| per_unit_price | Pay-as-you-go: $0.008 per credit; Project: slider-priced from 4,000 credits |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 2 |
| sales_only_tiers | 1 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://docs.tavily.com |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
Tavily
76
/ 100 (rubric v1.1)Search APIs
Find a plan to power your AI Agents
4
Yes
Researcher: 1,000 API credits/month free, no card
Free
Pay-as-you-go: $0.008 per credit; Project: slider-priced from 4,000 credits
2 / 1
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-03