Tavily builds a real-time search engine for AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows, providing APIs for web search and content extraction that deliver fresh, structured web context to language models. The company's Search API combines searching, scraping, filtering and extraction in a single call, with a median latency of 180ms. A separate Content Extraction API returns structured content from web sources for agent pipelines.
Technical work spans real-time web search, information retrieval, web scraping and content extraction, large language model optimization and AI agent infrastructure. Security and trust features are built into the retrieval layer, including content validation and filtering, PII protection and defences against prompt injection and malicious sources.
The platform is used by more than one million developers worldwide and serves over 100 million API requests per month under a 99.99% uptime SLA. Tavily partners with IBM, JetBrains, Databricks and MongoDB, and its tools are aimed at teams moving AI agents from prototypes to production across AI/LLM, RAG and agentic AI applications, with a global developer base.
