Tavily MCP
Tavily Search and Extract APIs as MCP tools, with both local stdio and hosted streamable transports at https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp. 1,891 GitHub stars and 14 commits on main in the last 30 days.
“Tavily Search and Extract APIs as MCP tools, with both local stdio and hosted streamable transports. 1,891 GitHub stars and 14 commits on main in the last 30 days. Tavily is search-tuned for agent contexts: shorter, citation-friendly results compared with raw web search APIs.”
INSTALL THIS SERVER
{
"mcpServers": {
"tavily": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"tavily-mcp@latest"
],
"env": {
"TAVILY_API_KEY": "<your-tavily-key>"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"tavily": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"tavily-mcp@latest"
],
"env": {
"TAVILY_API_KEY": "<your-tavily-key>"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"tavily": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"tavily-mcp@latest"
],
"env": {
"TAVILY_API_KEY": "<your-tavily-key>"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"tavily": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"tavily-mcp@latest"
],
"env": {
"TAVILY_API_KEY": "<your-tavily-key>"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"tavily": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"tavily-mcp@latest"
],
"env": {
"TAVILY_API_KEY": "<your-tavily-key>"
}
}
}
}
4 TOOLS AVAILABLE
OUR ASSESSMENT
- 1,891 GitHub stars and MIT licence.
- 14 commits on main in the last 30 days.
- Hosted streamable transport at https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp with OAuth flow.
- Search results are tuned for LLM consumption: shorter, citation-friendly snippets.
- Extract tool handles JS-rendered pages.
- Crawl tool covers multi-page extraction in a single tool call.
- Tavily is a paid service; free tier has request caps.
- Extract and crawl operations can stall on heavy pages; budget the agent tool-call timeout accordingly.
- Hosted MCP requires a Tavily account and API key in the URL query string.
TAVILY_API_KEY embedded in URL query string for the hosted MCP carries the same risks as any URL-bearing token (logs, browser history). Prefer the Authorization header or stdio mode for production agents. Search and extract results contain third-party content; treat the stream as untrusted.
Agents that need search results pre-formatted for LLM citation; workflows where the agent extracts content from URLs as a follow-up to search; teams that want a hosted MCP option (mcp.tavily.com) with no local install.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
ADOPTION METRICS
// Reading this1,891 stars on the tavily-ai/tavily-mcp repo. 14 commits on main in the last 30 days.
// Reading thisThird-ranked in search; LLM-tuned snippet format and hosted streamable transport are the editorial pillars.
SOURCES & VERIFICATION
We don't take any single directory's word for it. Before scoring, we cross-reference 5 public MCP sources, install the server ourselves against the clients we cover, and record when we last re-verified.
The same server, 5 different lenses. We reconcile these signals into our editorial score, which is why our number sometimes diverges from a directory-aggregate star count.
| Source | Their rating | Their star count | Their downloads | Last synced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationSwitch This page | 4.3editorial | 1,891 | — | MAY 3, 2026 |
| PulseMCP | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
| MCP.so | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
| Glama | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
| Smithery | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
| Official MCP Registry | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
// Counts are directory-reported; we don't adjust them. Discrepancies usually come from different snapshot times or star-caching.
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