Tavily or Stophy? Pick by what your agent needs back
Both give an agent web search in one call. Tavily returns short excerpts and can add an answer. Stophy returns Google or web results and the pages behind them, at $0.0015 a search.
Pick Tavily if
- You want an answer with the results. Tavily adds an LLM-written answer when you send include_answer.
- You want excerpts sized for a prompt. Tavily cuts each result into chunks of about 500 characters.
- You want research tasks. Tavily's research endpoint runs a multi-step search for 4 to 250 credits.
- You need more than 600 calls a minute. Tavily production keys take 1,000.
- You search a little every month, for free. Tavily gives 1,000 credits every month. Stophy gives $5 once.
Pick Stophy if
- You search a lot. A basic Tavily search costs 1 credit, $0.008 pay as you go or $0.005 on Growth. Stophy charges $0.0015, or $0.0008 when you top up $500 at a time.
- You want more results. Tavily returns up to 20. Stophy's web search returns up to 100 in one call, at $0.0015 per 10.
- You want what Google shows. google.search returns Google's own results, page by page.
- Your agent needs more than search. 137 endpoints cover Reddit, YouTube, Amazon, LinkedIn, Zillow and more.
Try it with no key
Terminal
You get 20 web results, free, up to 50 calls a day. New accounts start with $5.
Switch your calls
| Tavily | Stophy |
|---|---|
| /search | web.search or google.search |
| /extract | web.scrape |
| /crawl | web.crawl |
| /map | web.map |
| /research | No match. chatgpt.search and gemini.search return an AI answer with its sources. |
Checked November 2, 2026 on docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits, docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search, docs.tavily.com/documentation/rate-limits.