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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Tavily vs Linkup

Tavily Search API vs Linkup for web search. Price: $8 per 1000 queries vs $5 per 1000 queries — edge Linkup Free/mo: 1000 vs 4000 — edge Linkup Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
Tavily Search API compared with Linkup per decision axis
AxisTavily Search APILinkupEdge
Price$8 per 1000 queries$5 per 1000 queriesLinkup
Relevance13.67——
Latency998 ms——
Free/mo10004000Linkup
LLM-ready✓✓—
Strengths & caveats
TavilyPurpose-built for RAG/agents with clean LLM-ready output and huge developer adoption (3M+ monthly SDK downloads); solid measured latency (~1s). Basic search at $8/1k (advanced $16/1k) is the priciest per-query of the search-native group, and it ranked mid-table (13.67, rank 5) below Brave/Exa in the independent eval; ownership now sits under Nebius.LinkupLow entry price for standard search ($5/1k raw results, $6/1k with a sourced answer), clean LLM-ready output, and a recurring $20 monthly credit worth about 4000 standard queries. Deep search is 10x the standard price ($50/1k raw, $55/1k sourced), so the cheap entry price only holds for standard queries; not covered by the one independent multi-provider eval available, so its relevance/latency rank is unverified; its top SimpleQA claims are vendor self-reported (Tier 3) and conflict with rival self-reports.
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