TinyFish is faster and more accurate. Tavily stops at search and extract.
TinyFish delivers more accurate search, cleaner extractions, and broader coverage. Search and Fetch are free.
How they compare.
Benchmarks, not adjectives.
Every number on this page comes from a reproducible test. Same inputs, every provider, scored the same way.
Search quality
A 250-question sample from OpenAI SimpleQA measured first-result correctness and end-to-end answer rate over the top 10 results.
Production latency
A 1,200-query latency sample compared p50, p99, worst-case timing, and request errors for synchronous search calls.
Fetch coverage
A 45-URL benchmark across common web pages and major news publishers measured usable content coverage and content-to-noise signal.
TinyFish search is faster and more accurate than Tavily.
TinyFish's first result answers the question correctly more often. Over thousands of agent calls, that gap compounds into fewer retries, fewer hallucinations, and faster task completion.
TinyFish fetch returns cleaner content than Tavily.
When your agent fetches a page, every character goes into your LLM's context window. Noisy extractions cost you twice: you pay more tokens, and your agent's answers get worse because the LLM reasons over navigation bars and ad placeholders instead of actual content.
TinyFish returns 90% content, 10% noise. Tavily returns 77% content, 23% noise. That 23% is not free: it inflates token costs and dilutes the context your agent reasons over.
TinyFish reaches all 15.
Across 15 news articles from five major publishers, TinyFish reaches all 15. Tavily fails on 3.
TinyFish continues beyond Tavily search and fetch.
Most web APIs stop at search and extract: find a page, read it. Production agents hit login walls, dynamic forms, anti-bot challenges, and multi-page workflows. Tavily does not have an answer for these. TinyFish does.
Web Agent
Navigates pages autonomously, fills forms, authenticates, and returns structured JSON. 89.9% on Mind2Web.
Stealth Browser
Raw CDP control with engine-level fingerprint management and sub-250ms cold starts. Not header spoofing: actual browser-level stealth.
Credential Vault
Stores logins so your agent accesses authenticated content without exposing passwords.
This is what built for agents from the ground up means. Search and fetch are the starting point, not the ceiling.
Search and Fetch are free.
At 10K searches + 10K fetches per month, the bill speaks for itself.
Common questions.
On a 250-question sample from OpenAI's SimpleQA benchmark, TinyFish's first result contains the correct answer 49.2% of the time vs Tavily's 45.6%. Over the top 10 results, TinyFish answers 86.8% of questions correctly vs 80.8%.
Across 1,200 production queries tested in parallel, TinyFish is 2x faster at every percentile: 556ms vs 1,109ms at p50, 1,347ms vs 2,548ms at p99.
TinyFish returns 90.5% content and 10% noise. Tavily returns 77.2% content and 23% noise. On a 45-URL benchmark, TinyFish extracts usable content from 42/45 pages vs Tavily's 36/45.
No. Tavily covers search and extract. TinyFish adds a Web Agent for multi-page navigation and form filling, a Stealth Browser with engine-level anti-bot protection, and a Credential Vault for authenticated content access.
TinyFish Search and Fetch are free. Tavily charges about $8 per 1,000 credits for both. At 10,000 searches + 10,000 fetches per month, TinyFish costs $0. Tavily costs about $160.
Yes. TinyFish works through REST API, SDKs, MCP, CLI, and Skill, and integrates with LangChain, Google ADK, n8n, Dify, and other popular agent platforms.