Tavily MCP Server
Updated June 2026✓ OfficialThe Tavily MCP server, built by Tavily, provides the Tavily MCP server (tavily-ai/tavily-mcp) is the official, production-ready Model Context Protocol server for Tavily, a search API built specifically for AI agents and RAG pipelines rather than human browsing. It is officially maintained and best for Search.
by Tavily
About
The Tavily MCP server (tavily-ai/tavily-mcp) is the official, production-ready Model Context Protocol server for Tavily, a search API built specifically for AI agents and RAG pipelines rather than human browsing. It exposes four tools: tavily-search runs real-time web searches tuned for LLM consumption (returning clean, ranked, source-cited results instead of raw HTML), tavily-extract pulls the full clean content out of one or more specific URLs, tavily-map builds a structured map of a site's pages starting from a root URL, and tavily-crawl walks a site to gather content across many pages in a single call. Together these let an assistant answer "search for the latest changelog entries for library X and summarize the breaking changes" or "extract the pricing table from these three competitor pages" with grounded, up-to-date, citation-backed data instead of stale training knowledge. Authentication uses a single `TAVILY_API_KEY` from tavily.com (a generous free tier is available). You can run it locally with `npx -y tavily-mcp@latest` in your Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, or Cline config, or connect to Tavily's hosted remote server at mcp.tavily.com for a zero-install setup. Typical use: give a coding or research agent live web access so it can verify facts, read documentation it has never seen, and cite real sources — one of the most widely adopted search servers in the MCP ecosystem.
Installation
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- npm
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- Tavily
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