CrawlerData vs Tavily for AI agents

How they differ

CrawlerData returns what Google shows, as structured JSON: organic positions with real destination links, AI Overview with its cited sources, People Also Ask, ads, local pack, news, images, and Google Shopping products and sellers. It costs $1.00 to $0.30 per 1,000 requests, against $5.00 to $8.00 per 1,000 basic Tavily searches.

Tavily returns web results with content summaries. Its API docs do not say which search engine the results come from, and it documents no Shopping or product endpoint.

At a glance

List prices in USD, excluding tax, as published on October 13, 2026. "Not published" means we could not find it on Tavily's public pages. Per-1,000 figures marked "our arithmetic" divide a plan price by its volume.

Moving from Tavily

Swap the search call and map the fields. Where your agent read results[].content, give it our organic snippets plus the AI Overview text and People Also Ask questions. In MCP clients, add our server URL with your API key and the tools appear next to Tavily's.

import requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.tavily.com/search",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TAVILY_KEY"},
    json={"query": "best crm software", "max_results": 5, "include_answer": True},
)
data = res.json()
context = [(r["title"], r["url"], r["content"]) for r in data["results"]]

import requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.crawlerdata.com/v1/jobs",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
    json={"endpoint": "google-search", "params": {"query": "best crm software", "country": "us"}, "queue": "live"},
)
data = res.json()
result = data["result"]  # None if data["job"]["status"] == "failed" (0 credits)
context = [(r["title"], r["link"], r["snippet"]) for r in result["organic_results"][:5]]
overview = (result.get("ai_overview") or {}).get("text")

• Give the tool a generous HTTP timeout, about 200 seconds as in our integration guides, rather than a short default.
• Cache results by query and country: a cache hit costs nothing, and every request sent costs 1 credit.
• A failed search costs 0 credits, so the tool can safely retry or try a different query.

Full request and response schemas are in the OpenAPI spec, with runnable code in the examples repo. AI clients can connect to the MCP server at https://api.crawlerdata.com/mcp with the same API key.

Sources

All checked on October 13, 2026 (as of Oct 2026). Spotted something out of date? Email contact@crawlerdata.com and we will correct it.

• Tavily pricing (www.tavily.com/pricing)
• Tavily API credits (costs per call, plans) (docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits)
• Tavily Search API reference (docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search)
• Tavily MCP server (docs.tavily.com/documentation/mcp)
• CrawlerData pricing