# Tavily Search

> Tavily Search is a paid API for AI agents from Tavily API at mpp.orthogonal.com, paid per call via MPP, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Execute a real-time web search query and return structured results using Tavily Search.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://mpp.orthogonal.com/tavily/search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: Tavily API
- Docs: https://api.tavily.com
- Website: https://api.tavily.com
- Tags: web-search, extraction, crawl, search, web
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/tavily-api-tavily-search-f18fb616
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_E9EKx1u3GQ8OT9RsHuJpK

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability tavily-api-tavily-search-f18fb616 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the web for the latest news on OpenAI's newest model releases and give me the top results with titles and URLs.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time, up-to-date web search results for a query — especially for current events, news, or information that may not be in a training corpus. Prefer this over static knowledge retrieval when freshness matters. Use Extract instead if you already have a specific URL and want its full content.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or invalid query returns an error response
- Rate limit exceeded returns a 429 error
- Network timeout if Tavily's upstream is slow
- Malformed request body returns a 400 validation error
- No results found for highly obscure or nonsensical queries

## How this service works

Execute a search query using Tavily Search.

## Output

A list of ranked web search results including page titles, URLs, and content snippets relevant to the query, sourced in real-time from the web.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/tavily-api-tavily-search-f18fb616/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mpp.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mpp.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)