Tavily's own row in our catalog: Tavily Researcher plan: 1,000 API credits/month, ongoing, no credit card required. Verified 2026-09-08. Rate limits.
Free API paths in our catalog from other providers:
Exa free tier (Exa): New accounts get a $10 onboarding bonus, and the free Starter tier adds $10 in credits every month, with no payment method required. Verified 2026-10-06. Full caveats. Rate limits.
Brave Search API monthly credit (Brave): $5 in free credits every month, auto-applied (~1,000 queries on the base Search plan), 50 QPS capacity. The same $5/month credit also applies to the newer Answers plan ($4 per 1,000 requests + $5 per million input/output tokens, 2 QPS). Card required. Verified 2026-09-16. Full caveats. Rate limits.
Firecrawl free plan (Firecrawl): 1,000 credits/month, which the pricing page now quantifies as "500 searches or 1,000 pages scraped"; 2 concurrent requests; "No cost, no card, no hassle". Verified 2026-09-16. Full caveats. Rate limits.
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