Tavily Search

Tavily Search on xpay — Real-time web search and content extraction for AI agents, billed per call

Tavily Search is an AI-optimized web search and URL content extraction platform built for agent workflows. Unlike generic search APIs, Tavily is designed to return structured, relevant results that agents can act on immediately—no parsing noise, no irrelevant links. Developers reach for Tavily when they need current information beyond a model's knowledge cutoff, want to extract and analyze page content, or need to crawl and map website structures programmatically. Learn more at tavily.com.

On xpay, you call Tavily's six tools via MCP without signing up for a Tavily account directly. You authenticate once with your xpay API key, pay $0.02 per call, and integrate into Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, or VS Code in under a minute.

What's available

• tavily_search — Search the web for current information on any topic. Returns snippets, source URLs, and relevance scores. Use for news, facts, or data beyond your knowledge cutoff.
• tavily_extract — Extract and parse content from a single URL. Returns raw page content in markdown or text format, stripping ads and boilerplate.
• tavily_crawl — Crawl a website starting from a base URL. Extracts content from multiple pages with configurable depth and breadth limits.
• tavily_map — Map a website's structure without fetching content. Returns a list of all URLs discovered starting from a seed URL.
• tavily_research — Perform comprehensive research on a topic or question. Gathers information from multiple sources and assembles a structured report.
• tavily_skill — Search documentation for libraries, APIs, and tools. Returns relevant documentation chunks tailored to your query, with library context.

When Tavily Search is the right tool

• You need current information (news, stock prices, recent events) that your model doesn't know about.
• You're building an AI research agent that must gather facts from multiple web sources and synthesize them.
• You want to extract structured data from web pages (pricing tables, product specs, reviews) without writing scrapers.
• You're documenting code or learning a library and need fast, accurate documentation lookups.
• You need to audit or monitor a website's structure and content changes over time.
• Your agent must verify claims or fact-check by pulling live sources.

When to choose something else

• You need SEO metrics (backlinks, domain authority, keyword rankings)—use a dedicated SEO API like Semrush or Ahrefs instead.
• You're doing high-volume bulk scraping of thousands of pages—consider a dedicated web scraping service or your own infrastructure.
• You need real-time stock market data or financial feeds—use a financial data API like Alpha Vantage or Polygon instead.
• Your use case is one-time research that doesn't justify API calls—a browser search may be faster and cheaper.
• You need image or video search—Tavily Search focuses on web text and structured content, not multimedia.

Pricing snapshot

All tools are priced uniformly at $0.02 per call. No subscription, no monthly minimums. You're billed only for calls you make.

Quickstart

Install for Claude Code (recommended for Tavily Search alone):

claude mcp add --transport http tavily "https://tavily.mcp.xpay.sh/mcp?key=YOUR_XPAY_KEY"

Replace YOUR_XPAY_KEY with your xpay API key (get it free at xpay.tools after signup with email or Google).

Once connected, your agent can call tools by name: ask Claude to "use tavily_search to find recent AI news" and it will invoke the tool directly with your query.

Install for Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, or VS Code (Copilot):

Add this server entry to your mcp.json configuration file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tavily": {
      "url": "https://tavily.mcp.xpay.sh/mcp?key=YOUR_XPAY_KEY"
    }
  }
}

To use all xpay providers in one connection, substitute the unified endpoint:

claude mcp add --transport http xpay "https://mcp.xpay.sh/mcp?key=YOUR_XPAY_KEY"

Then use xpay_discover() to find tools and xpay_run() to execute them.

Why route Tavily Search through xpay?

• No Tavily Search signup. xpay holds the provider credentials. You authenticate once with your xpay API key and start calling immediately.
• Per-call pricing. Pay $0.02 per tool invocation. No subscription, no monthly fees, no overage surprises. $5 free credit to test.
• MCP-native. Tavily Search is exposed as standard MCP tools. Works natively in Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, and VS Code—no custom SDKs or wrappers.
• Unified billing. If you use multiple providers (Tavily, Apollo, Perplexity, etc.), one xpay account covers all. One bill, one dashboard.
• Agent-friendly. Tools are designed for AI agents to call autonomously. Your agent sees the schema, knows the price, and invokes the right tool for the job.