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Tavily Pricing Calculator (2026): Plan Cost per Search at Your Volume

Tavily pricing, checked Nov 9, 2026 (tavily.com/pricing and its API credits docs): the free Researcher plan gives 1,000 API credits a month, pay as you go is $0.008 per credit, and monthly plans are Project $30 for 4,000 credits, Bootstrap $100 for 15,000, Startup $220 for 38,000 and Growth $500 for 100,000. A basic search costs 1 credit and an advanced search 2, and credits reset on the first day of each month. switch402 /v1/search is $0.008 per successful call with no plan. Honest answer: Tavily's free 1,000 credits cost less than either for light use, and a monthly plan costs less than switch402 at $0.008 once you run more than 3,750 basic searches a month on Project, 12,500 on Bootstrap, 27,500 on Startup or 62,500 on Growth. Enter your monthly searches to see the plan minimum and unused-credit cost next to switch402.

Your switch402 cost
$6.00
a month for 750 searches
Your cost per search actually used
$0.008
flat, charged only on success
Tavily Project plan minimum
$30.00
a month, whatever you use
Unused credits on that plan
3,250
of 4,000 API credits, $24.38 of the plan price

On switch402 you pay only for the searches you actually use: 750 x $0.008 = $6.00 a month, with no subscription minimum and no unused credits.

The Tavily plan shown is the lowest-priced plan that covers this volume for this request type. Its minimum is billed whatever you use; unused credits are valued at the plan price per included credit.

Tavily planPriceIncluded API credits
Project$30.00/mo4,000
Bootstrap$100.00/mo15,000
Startup$220.00/mo38,000
Growth$500.00/mo100,000

Credits reset on the first day of each month. Past a plan's credits, pay as you go bills $0.008 per credit, and pay as you go alone is also $0.008 per credit with no plan. Source: docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits, checked Nov 9, 2026. Monthly billing prices. switch402: $0.008 USDC on Base per successful call, from its live API quote.

  • No signup or API key

    Your agent pays per call over x402.

  • No monthly commitment

    Nothing to cancel, no unused credits.

  • Pay only for successful calls

    Charged only after a provider returns content; errors are never charged.

  • Automatic failover

    If a provider fails, the call goes to the next healthy one.

If every provider fails you get a 502 and are not charged.

How the plans work: Tavily credits explained: 1 or 2 credits per search, plans from $30.

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All seven side by side: scraping API pricing compared at 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000 pages.

Migrate in a few lines

Live: POST https://api.switch402.com/v1/scrape with {"url": "..."} returns the page as markdown. $0.008 USDC on Base per call over x402, charged only on success.

# Unpaid request: returns HTTP 402 with the x402 payment requirements
curl -i -X POST https://api.switch402.com/v1/scrape \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -H 'user-agent: my-agent/1.0' \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com"}'
# Pay $0.008 USDC on Base with any x402 client and retry (see the other tabs).

FAQ

Is switch402 web search live?
Yes. POST https://api.switch402.com/v1/search with {"q": "...", "limit": 10} returns up to 10 ranked results (title, URL, snippet) for $0.008 USDC on Base per call, paid over x402 and charged only when at least one result comes back.
How much does Tavily cost?
Per tavily.com/pricing and docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits, checked Nov 9, 2026: Researcher free (1,000 credits a month, no card), pay as you go $0.008 per credit, Project $30 (4,000 credits, $0.0075 each), Bootstrap $100 (15,000, $0.0067), Startup $220 (38,000, $0.0058) and Growth $500 (100,000, $0.005). Enterprise is custom.
How many credits does a Tavily search use?
A basic search is 1 credit and an advanced search 2. Extract costs 1 credit per 5 successful URLs (2 on advanced), Map 1 credit per 10 pages returned, and Crawl is mapping plus extraction. Failed extractions and failed maps are not charged.
When is Tavily cheaper than switch402?
For basic searches: always within the free 1,000 credits a month, and on a monthly plan once you use most of it (above 3,750 searches on Project, 12,500 on Bootstrap, 27,500 on Startup, 62,500 on Growth). Tavily pay as you go is the same $0.008 as switch402. switch402 costs less than a plan you are not filling, and in months with uneven or no usage, since there is no plan minimum. Advanced searches use 2 credits, so they cost twice as much on Tavily; switch402 has one search type.
Do Tavily credits roll over?
No. Per Tavily's pricing FAQ, API credits reset on the first day of each month, whatever your billing date. If you run out, requests stop until the reset unless you upgrade or use pay as you go.
Where do the numbers come from?
Tavily's public pricing page (plans, free tier, reset rule) and its API credits documentation (plan table, per-credit prices and credits per request), checked Nov 9, 2026, plus switch402's live /v1/search terms at $0.008. Prices can change; check the sources before you decide.
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