{
 "title": "Crawl4AI Cloud vs Tavily",
 "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/tavily/",
 "facts_read_on": "2026-11-12",
 "crawl4ai_live_prices": "https://crawl4ai.com/v1/prices",
 "rule": "Tavily facts restate Tavily's own pages; not_published means their pages say nothing, not that the feature is missing.",
 "short_answer": "A Crawl4AI search costs 1 credit ($1.00 per 1,000); a Tavily search costs $5.00 to $8.00 per 1,000, and an advanced search $10.00 to $16.00. Crawl4AI pages cost $0.10 per 1,000 plain and $0.50 with a real browser, and a failed call costs nothing; Tavily Extract costs $1.00 to $3.20 per 1,000 URLs. Crawl4AI also returns Google's own results page with ads and maps, gets past bot checks on hard sites and runs 93 recipes for named sites; Tavily's own blog sends protected sites to other vendors. Crawl4AI runs in the EU, Singapore and the US and refunds within 14 days; Tavily's EU endpoint is not generally available and its fees are non-refundable. Agents set Crawl4AI up from one message and run their own budget with 17 MCP tools.",
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   "tavily_per_1000": "$5.00–$8.00",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "Google results with ads and maps",
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   "tavily_per_1000": "Not offered",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "A query plus the top pages' text",
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   "tavily_per_1000": "$5.00–$8.00",
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  },
  {
   "job": "News on a topic",
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   "tavily_per_1000": "$5.00–$8.00",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "One page to Markdown",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$0.10",
   "tavily_per_1000": "$1.00–$1.60",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "A LinkedIn profile as rows",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$1.00",
   "tavily_per_1000": "Not offered",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  }
 ],
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   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "SSO (SAML, OIDC)",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "tavily": "Not published",
   "tavily_quote": null,
   "tavily_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "SCIM user sync",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "tavily": "Not published",
   "tavily_quote": null,
   "tavily_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Teams, roles and audit log",
   "crawl4ai": "From Builder ($99), no seat limit",
   "tavily": "More workspaces: Enterprise; audit log not published",
   "tavily_quote": "Creating more than one workspace is an Enterprise feature.",
   "tavily_source": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/platform/managing-organizations",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Zero data retention",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "tavily": "On request",
   "tavily_quote": "Tavily offers Zero Data Retention for queries and results upon request",
   "tavily_source": "https://www.tavily.com/enterprise",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "IP allowlist and key limits",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "tavily": "Not published",
   "tavily_quote": null,
   "tavily_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Static exit IPs",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "tavily": "Not published",
   "tavily_quote": null,
   "tavily_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Where data is processed",
   "crawl4ai": "EU, Singapore or US, your choice",
   "tavily": "US; EU endpoint \"not generally available\"",
   "tavily_quote": "The EU endpoint is currently available for selected customer evaluations, initially focused on existing customers. It is not generally available … account, support, usage and billing data remain in shared US systems",
   "tavily_source": "https://www.tavily.com/eu",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Deployment",
   "crawl4ai": "Cloud, dedicated fleet, inside your network, managed pipeline; one engine",
   "tavily": "Managed API only; self-host not published",
   "tavily_quote": "including, without limitation, any right to obtain possession of any source code",
   "tavily_source": "https://www.tavily.com/terms",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "DPA and invoice billing",
   "crawl4ai": "Every Enterprise plan",
   "tavily": "DPA in their security packet",
   "tavily_quote": "DPA, NDA, SLA, and full security packet available",
   "tavily_source": "https://tavily.com/competitors/serp",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Refunds",
   "crawl4ai": "14 days, if no credits were used",
   "tavily": "None: \"non-refundable\"",
   "tavily_quote": "To the extent permitted by applicable law, all Fees and other amounts paid are non-refundable and non-cancelable",
   "tavily_source": "https://www.tavily.com/terms",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Status page",
   "crawl4ai": "Hourly uptime per service, public",
   "tavily": "3 components, one aggregate bar",
   "tavily_quote": "Availability metrics are reported at an aggregate level across all tiers and error types.",
   "tavily_source": "https://status.tavily.com",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Uptime and response SLA",
   "crawl4ai": "Typical: 99.9% a month; service down: first answer within 1 hour, 24/7; part broken: 4 business hours; a question: 1 business day; 5% of the month's fee back if missed, 10% under 99%",
   "tavily": "Enterprise only; targets not published",
   "tavily_quote": "Enterprise-grade support and SLAs",
   "tavily_source": "https://www.tavily.com/pricing",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Support",
   "crawl4ai": "A named engineer",
   "tavily": "Slack channel, account manager, AI engineer",
   "tavily_quote": "Personal Slack channel · Dedicated account manager · AI engineer for technical assistance and optimizations",
   "tavily_source": "https://docs.tavily.com/faq/faq",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Security assurance",
   "crawl4ai": "Controls monitored every day in Drata, with the evidence kept; dependencies watched for known vulnerabilities; SOC 2 audit by Sensiba under way, report target January 2027. Security pack on request: policies, audit status, DPA, questionnaire answers.",
   "tavily": "SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001",
   "tavily_quote": "Tavily’s security program includes SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 credentials",
   "tavily_source": "https://www.tavily.com/enterprise",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "How you pay",
   "crawl4ai": "Credits in every plan: Free, Starter $10, Builder $99, Scale $499",
   "tavily": "Credits at $0.005 to $0.008: Project $30 to Growth $500",
   "tavily_quote": "Monthly plans: $0.0075 - $0.005 per credit",
   "tavily_source": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits",
   "not_published": false
  },
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   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "1,000 searches",
   "crawl4ai": "$1.00, Google results page included (/serp)",
   "tavily": "$5.00 to $8.00 basic; $10.00 to $16.00 advanced",
   "tavily_quote": "Advanced Search (`advanced`): Each request costs 2 API credits.",
   "tavily_source": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "1,000 plain / browser / hard pages",
   "crawl4ai": "$0.10 / $0.50 / $2.00",
   "tavily": "Extract: $1.00–$1.60 basic, $2.00–$3.20 advanced; hard sites not published",
   "tavily_quote": "Every 5 successful URL extractions cost 1 API credit",
   "tavily_source": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Failed calls",
   "crawl4ai": "Free, blocked pages included",
   "tavily": "Failed extract free; search not published",
   "tavily_quote": "You never get charged if a URL extraction fails.",
   "tavily_source": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "A page already cached",
   "crawl4ai": "Half price",
   "tavily": "Cached copies by default",
   "tavily_quote": "Tavily serves cached copies and fetches pages live as needed.",
   "tavily_source": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Unused credits",
   "crawl4ai": "Extra credits never expire",
   "tavily": "Reset on the 1st of each month",
   "tavily_quote": "Your API credits reset on the first day of each month, regardless of the billing date.",
   "tavily_source": "https://docs.tavily.com/faq/faq",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Refunds",
   "crawl4ai": "14 days, if no credits were used",
   "tavily": "None",
   "tavily_quote": "all Fees and other amounts paid are non-refundable and non-cancelable",
   "tavily_source": "https://www.tavily.com/terms",
   "not_published": false
  },
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   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Formats",
   "crawl4ai": "Markdown, HTML, links, media, metadata, tables; engine and cache on every answer",
   "tavily": "Markdown or plain text",
   "tavily_quote": "sets the format of extracted content: `markdown` (default) or `text`",
   "tavily_source": "https://docs.tavily.com/changelog",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Google results as data",
   "crawl4ai": "/serp: organic ranks, ads, local pack, AI overview",
   "tavily": "Not offered",
   "tavily_quote": "SerpApi returns what Google shows. Tavily returns what the pages actually say",
   "tavily_source": "https://tavily.com/competitors/serp",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Whole site",
   "crawl4ai": "/site deep crawl (500 pages a call); /scan up to 50,000 URLs",
   "tavily": "/crawl and /map; a crawl costs map + extract",
   "tavily_quote": "Crawl Cost = Mapping Cost + Extraction Cost",
   "tavily_source": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Named sites",
   "crawl4ai": "93 recipes; a LinkedIn profile 1 credit",
   "tavily": "No catalog; their blog points to Apify",
   "tavily_quote": "Apify when a pre-built scraper already exists for your target site.",
   "tavily_source": "https://tavily.com/blog/7-best-firecrawl-alternatives-for-ai-agents-in-2026",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "JSON by your schema",
   "crawl4ai": "/extract on any page; median 1.87 credits",
   "tavily": "Research only: 4 to 250 credits a call",
   "tavily_quote": "Per-request minimum 15 credits (pro) / 4 credits (mini)",
   "tavily_source": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Documents",
   "crawl4ai": "PDF, Word and Excel; a PDF costs one page",
   "tavily": "Not published",
   "tavily_quote": null,
   "tavily_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Change monitoring",
   "crawl4ai": "Watch (beta)",
   "tavily": "An agent skill that writes local files",
   "tavily_quote": "The skill doesn't start a scheduler unless you ask.",
   "tavily_source": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/agent-skills",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Hard sites",
   "row": "Bot checks and CAPTCHA pages",
   "crawl4ai": "Gets past them on hard sites; a page we cannot get costs nothing",
   "tavily": "Not published; their blog sends them to other vendors",
   "tavily_quote": "Bright Data and Scrapfly are stronger fits for public pages with serious anti-bot, proxy, CAPTCHA, or browser-rendering requirements.",
   "tavily_source": "https://tavily.com/blog/7-best-firecrawl-alternatives-for-ai-agents-in-2026",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Hard sites",
   "row": "Proxies",
   "crawl4ai": "standard, or extra with rented residential addresses (4x); country choice",
   "tavily": "Search country boost only",
   "tavily_quote": "Boost search results from a specific country.",
   "tavily_source": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "MCP",
   "crawl4ai": "Hosted, no install; key or OAuth; 17 tools",
   "tavily": "Remote and local; 5 tools",
   "tavily_quote": "tavily_search · tavily_extract · tavily_crawl · tavily_map · tavily_research",
   "tavily_source": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/mcp",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "Setup",
   "crawl4ai": "One message sets it up in 7 coding agents",
   "tavily": "A setup prompt for any assistant",
   "tavily_quote": "Paste this into any AI assistant to let it set up Tavily itself:",
   "tavily_source": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/keyless",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
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   "tavily": "A usage endpoint, 10 calls per 10 minutes",
   "tavily_quote": "The usage endpoint has a separate rate limit of 10 requests per 10 minutes.",
   "tavily_source": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/rate-limits",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Open source",
   "row": "License",
   "crawl4ai": "Apache 2.0, 87,236 GitHub stars",
   "tavily": "API closed; SDKs and MCP server MIT",
   "tavily_quote": "MIT",
   "tavily_source": "https://github.com/tavily-ai",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Open source",
   "row": "Self-host",
   "crawl4ai": "The same engine as the Cloud",
   "tavily": "Not published",
   "tavily_quote": null,
   "tavily_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  }
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   "name": "Tavily credits and pricing",
   "url": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits"
  },
  {
   "name": "Tavily pricing page",
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   "name": "Tavily search API reference",
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  {
   "name": "Tavily EU endpoint",
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  {
   "name": "Tavily terms",
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  },
  {
   "name": "Tavily enterprise",
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  },
  {
   "name": "Tavily vs SerpApi page",
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  {
   "name": "Tavily blog: Firecrawl alternatives (names Crawl4AI)",
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   "name": "Crawl4AI prices",
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  {
   "name": "Crawl4AI legal",
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