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Tavily vs Linkup

Two grounding APIs for LLMs, one now owned by Nebius and one independently funded.

Verified 5 August 2026·Figures from vendors' own pages

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Price

ProviderOwn index?$ / 1,000 queriesSource
TavilyAcquired

Credit-based at $0.008 per credit pay-as-you-go. A basic search is 1 credit (~$8 per 1,000), an advanced search 2 credits (~$16 per 1,000), and a deep research request 4 to 250 credits.

No

No publicly documented independent web index

$8Tavily pricing
unlob — Build

$29 per month for 50,000 requests.

Yes

Our own crawl and index

$0.58This page
unlob — Scale

$199 per month for 500,000 requests.

Yes

Our own crawl and index

$0.40This page
Rates are the cheapest directly comparable web search call — roughly ten results, no extraction and no summarisation — because that is the only way a table across credit systems, token pricing and per-request pricing means anything. Where a vendor does not publish a flat per-1,000 rate they are omitted from this table and covered in full on the landscape page. Figures read from each vendor’s own pricing page on 5 August 2026.

Where each one wins

Neither product on this page is ours. This comparison exists because it is asked often and answered badly.

Tavily

  • Tavily: ecosystem maturity, LangChain and LlamaIndex integrations, deep research requests.
  • Linkup: native parallel search, a sub-second tier, European base, and reported accuracy benchmarks.

Linkup

  • Linkup: native parallel search, a sub-second tier, European base, and reported accuracy benchmarks.

The substantive differences

TavilyLinkup
OwnershipTavily: Nebius Group, since February 2026.Linkup: independent.
PricingTavily: credits at $0.008 pay-as-you-go.Linkup: per plan and search depth.
Distinct featureTavily: search plus extraction in one call.Linkup: native parallel search.

Sources

Every figure on this page was read from the vendor's own pricing page or funding announcement on the date shown.

Frequently asked questions

Are Tavily and Linkup direct competitors?

Yes — both sell LLM-oriented grounding over web content, both target agent developers, and both compete on retrieval quality rather than index ownership.

Check the claims yourself

The free tier is 10,000 requests a month with no card. That is enough to test coverage, latency and result quality against your own queries — which is a better comparison than this page.

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