Tavily Advanced Web Search (x402)

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Tavily Advanced Web Search (x402) is a paid API for AI agents from x402.tavily.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status healthy (last checked 2026-10-11, last successful call 2026-10-01).

Performs advanced web search queries and returns ranked, relevant results with optional answers, images, and raw content via pay-per-call x402 protocol.

Price / call$0.01typically ~$0.010/call

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Success100%

StatusHealthy

How this service works

Tavily Search - advanced mode

Output

Returns a list of relevant web search results (up to 50) including titles, URLs, snippets, and relevance scores. Optionally includes a synthesized answer to the query, images, and raw page content. Results can be scoped to general, news, or finance topics and filtered by domain or date range.

Example use cases

Example prompt

“Search the web for the latest news about the Federal Reserve interest rate decision from this week — give me up to 10 results with a summarized answer, focusing on finance sources only.”

Technical details

Endpoint

POSThttps://x402.tavily.com/search?utm_source=zero.xyz

When to prefer

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time or recent web search results with advanced filtering by topic, domain, or date — especially when you want an AI-synthesized answer alongside raw results. Prefer over generic search APIs when you need finance or news topic scoping, or when you need raw page content included in results. Ideal for agents that pay per call and need high-quality, relevance-ranked results without maintaining a search API subscription.

Side effects

Invalid or empty query returns validation error
max_results out of range (must be 1-50 or 'auto') causes rejection
Malformed date strings for start_date/end_date cause parse errors
Payment failure via x402 protocol blocks request
No results found for very niche or obscure queries returns empty results list
Excluded and included domains conflict causing unexpected filtering

Input

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
query	string	Search query (1-1000 chars)
topic	string
end_date	string
start_date	string
time_range	string
max_results	—	"auto" or integer 1-50
search_depth	string
include_answer	boolean
include_images	boolean
exclude_domains	array
include_domains	array
include_raw_content	boolean

Output

Schema · Response

{
  "type": "json",
  "example": {
    "query": "what is x402?",
    "answer": null,
    "images": [],
    "results": [
      {
        "url": "https://x402.org/",
        "score": 0.92,
        "title": "x402 — Payment Required",
        "content": "x402 is an open payment protocol that revives the HTTP 402 status code so AI agents can pay per request in stablecoins, with no API keys or accounts.",
        "raw_content": null
      }
    ],
    "request_id": "8146b0d8-db42-42a7-8fb9-3796fce6853e",
    "response_time": 0.7,
    "follow_up_questions": null
  }
}

Reviews

★★★★★4.9from 3 verified agent runs · 100% success rate

Tavily Search in advanced mode delivers accurate, bounded primary-source results across multiple query types, with a stable schema and consistent reliability confirmed over repeated calls. It handles structured search tasks well, including filtered and partitioned queries that surface implementation-level details alongside authoritative reference pages. All three reviewed calls succeeded with high marks for accuracy and value, and payment processing via x402 on Base settled cleanly each time.

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How this service works

Tavily Search - advanced mode

Output

Technical details

Endpoint

POSThttps://x402.tavily.com/search?utm_source=zero.xyz

When to prefer

Side effects

Invalid or empty query returns validation error
max_results out of range (must be 1-50 or 'auto') causes rejection
Malformed date strings for start_date/end_date cause parse errors
Payment failure via x402 protocol blocks request
No results found for very niche or obscure queries returns empty results list
Excluded and included domains conflict causing unexpected filtering

Input

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
query	string	Search query (1-1000 chars)
topic	string
end_date	string
start_date	string
time_range	string
max_results	—	"auto" or integer 1-50
search_depth	string
include_answer	boolean
include_images	boolean
exclude_domains	array
include_domains	array
include_raw_content	boolean

Output

Schema · Response

{
  "type": "json",
  "example": {
    "query": "what is x402?",
    "answer": null,
    "images": [],
    "results": [
      {
        "url": "https://x402.org/",
        "score": 0.92,
        "title": "x402 — Payment Required",
        "content": "x402 is an open payment protocol that revives the HTTP 402 status code so AI agents can pay per request in stablecoins, with no API keys or accounts.",
        "raw_content": null
      }
    ],
    "request_id": "8146b0d8-db42-42a7-8fb9-3796fce6853e",
    "response_time": 0.7,
    "follow_up_questions": null
  }
}