Tavily MCP

Name: Tavily MCP
Author: tavily-ai

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tavily-mcp · by tavily-ai

Production ready MCP server with real-time search, extract, map & crawl.

2.4k 26.6k/wk 4 tools GitHub npm

No known CVEs

MIT license

Actively maintained

Last commit 6d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

4 tools · ~220 tok

Grade A · 0.1% of 200K ctx

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Tavily MCP is an MCP server that production ready MCP server with real-time search, extract, map & crawl. Its tool list has not been published yet over stdio, sse and http, requires no API key, and scores 96/100 on MCPpedia's security, maintenance and efficiency rubric.

Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tavily-mcp": {
      "env": {
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
      },
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tavily-mcp@latest"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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Required API Keys

TAVILY_API_KEYTavily API Key

1. Sign up at tavily.com
2. Go to your dashboard
3. Copy your API key

Open Tavily API Key page

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What Tavily Mcp does

The Tavily MCP server provides: - search, extract, map, crawl tools - Real-time web search capabilities through the tavily-search tool - Intelligent data extraction from web pages via the tavily-extract tool - Powerful web mapping tool that creates a structured map of website - Web crawler that systematically explores websites

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Why this score

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Score breakdown

96/100across 5 weighted dimensions

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Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

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Tools (4)

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~220 tokens total

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Tavily Mcp safe to use?: Tavily Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Tavily Mcp?: Tavily Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Tavily Mcp do?: Tavily Mcp provides 4 tools: tavily-search, tavily-extract, tavily-map, tavily-crawl. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Tavily Mcp?: Tavily Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Tavily Mcp actively maintained?: Tavily Mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 6 days ago. It has 2,351 GitHub stars.

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{ "mcpServers": { "tavily-mcp": { "env": { "TAVILY_API_KEY": "your-api-key" }, "args": [ "-y", "tavily-mcp@latest" ], "command": "npx" } } }

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Tavily Mcp safe to use?

Tavily Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install Tavily Mcp?

Tavily Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What can Tavily Mcp do?

Tavily Mcp provides 4 tools: tavily-search, tavily-extract, tavily-map, tavily-crawl. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with Tavily Mcp?

Tavily Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is Tavily Mcp actively maintained?

Tavily Mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 6 days ago. It has 2,351 GitHub stars.