Tavily
companyOpenness profile
1 product on the map — 1 closed.
Openness
1 high confidence1.0
- license
- Proprietary(API-only)
- source
- closed(no self-hostable core
- managed
- cloud SaaS with API keys, credits, rate limits
A closed search and scraping API. Only the client SDKs are open; the search service itself is proprietary, with no self-hostable core.
- https://docs.tavily.com/ recorded 2026-08-13
Hosted Search, Extract, Crawl, Map and Research endpoints behind an API key. Developer Resources lead with "API Credits Overview - Learn how Tavily API credits work" and "Rate Limits - Understand Tavily's rate limits and policies". The navigation's Open Source group is "popular open source projects that showcase Tavily's use cases", i.e. consumers of the API. No self-hosting or source-available option documented.