Tavily

Tavily is a search API company founded in 2023 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company was built specifically to address the limitations of general-purpose search engines when used within AI agent workflows and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, where raw web results often require significant post-processing before they are usable by large language models.

Tavily's primary product is a REST API that queries the web in real time and returns cleaned, structured, and relevance-ranked content tailored for LLM input. The API is commonly used in agentic frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex, where AI systems need to retrieve up-to-date factual information during reasoning or task execution. The service offers configurable search depth, domain filtering, and result summarization to reduce token overhead in downstream model calls.

Tavily is an early-stage company with a small team. It has gained traction within the developer and AI research community, particularly among builders of autonomous agent systems. Specific funding details have not been publicly disclosed.