# Can I replace Tavily with an AI agent?

A web search API built for AI agents, with extract, crawl and map endpoints, billed in API credits. Yes, an agent running looot covers the jobs listed here.

## What Tavily does and what looot covers

- Search the web for an agent: covered. Providers: exa, tavily, linkup, parallel, brave-search.
- Read pages as text: covered. Providers: jina, steel, context-dev, scrapegraphai.
- Answer a question with sources: covered. Providers: exa, linkup.
- Map a site's URLs: covered. Providers: firecrawl, tavily, context-dev.
- Search news: covered. Providers: serpapi, serper, brave-search.
- Deep research on a topic: partial. Providers: linkup, youcom. Research runs differ by provider in depth, time and output shape.

## Agent prompt to replace Tavily

Use looot to search the web for the question I give you, read the five best sources, and write a short answer with a link for each claim. If you have not yet, set up https://looot.ai/skill.md first. Then search the looot catalog for each step, check the price of each endpoint before you call it, run the cheapest one that fits, and show me the results as a table.

## Can an AI agent replace Tavily?

For the jobs listed on this page, yes. An agent running looot can do each of them by calling catalog endpoints. You still pick the provider and check the result.

## Is there a free Tavily alternative?

looot has no monthly seat. You pay per call to the provider you pick, and the catalog shows each endpoint's price before you run it. Whether that comes out cheaper than Tavily depends on your volume.

## What does Tavily cost?

List prices change, so check Tavily's own pricing page. This page does not repeat them. The looot side is read live from the catalog on the web version of this page.

## What is a good Tavily alternative for an AI agent?

An agent with a looot connection can call the providers behind Tavily's data jobs directly. The providers used here are exa, tavily, linkup, parallel, brave-search, jina, steel, context-dev, scrapegraphai, firecrawl, serpapi, serper, youcom.

## Which Tavily features does looot not cover?

Every job listed here has at least partial coverage. Check the notes on partial jobs.

## How do I replace Tavily with looot?

Paste the agent prompt on this page into your coding agent. It sets up looot, finds the endpoints for each job and runs them. You can edit the prompt to match your own inputs.

## Do I need a Tavily account to use looot?

No. looot calls its own providers and does not connect to your Tavily account. Your existing Tavily data stays where it is.

## Can I still call Tavily through looot?

Yes. Tavily search, extract, crawl and map are in the looot catalog. Your agent can call Tavily per search from one balance, or send the same query to Exa, Linkup, Parallel or Brave and compare the results.

## Related apps

- /can-i-replace/exa
- /can-i-replace/perplexity
- /can-i-replace/firecrawl

## Last reviewed

2026-11-03. Live prices are on the web page, read from the catalog.

## Agent skill for this page

https://looot.ai/can-i-replace/tavily/skill.md sets an agent up for exactly the jobs on this page, with the live price of each, and offers the page's starter task once the user has picked a job and seen the price. The line to give an agent is under "Give this to your agent" below.

## For agents

### Give this to your agent

```text
set up looot for Tavily jobs - https://looot.ai/can-i-replace/tavily/skill.md
```