Tavily is a Search MCP server that lets Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and any MCP-compatible AI agent aI-optimized web search and extraction. Install in 1 minute with mcpizy install tavily.
Connect your Tavily account once — MCPizy stores the credentials encrypted and uses them whenever you run a recipe in managed mode.
mcpizy install tavilynpx -y tavily-mcptavily_searchAI-optimised web search with citations
Inputs
querystringrequiredmax_resultsnumberoptionaltavily_extractExtract content from one or more URLs
Inputs
urlsstring[]requiredtavily_crawlCrawl a website and return structured content
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urlstringrequiredtavily_mapReturn the site map of a URL
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urlstringrequiredWorks identically across clients. Only the config file path differs.
~/.claude.json{
"mcpServers": {
"tavily": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"tavily-mcp@latest"
],
"env": {
"TAVILY_API_KEY": "tvly-..."
}
}
}
}.cursor/mcp.json{
"mcpServers": {
"tavily": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"tavily-mcp@latest"
],
"env": {
"TAVILY_API_KEY": "tvly-..."
}
}
}
}~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json{
"mcpServers": {
"tavily": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"tavily-mcp@latest"
],
"env": {
"TAVILY_API_KEY": "tvly-..."
}
}
}
}Create an API key in the Tavily dashboard (free tier available)
TAVILY_API_KEYPaste any of these prompts into Claude Code, Cursor or another MCP-compatible client.
“Search the web for 'latest iPhone 17 release date' and give me 3 sources”
Uses: tavily_search
“Extract the full text of these 5 research papers”
Uses: tavily_extract
“Map the structure of docs.anthropic.com”
Uses: tavily_map
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If Tavily doesn't fit your stack, these Search MCP servers solve similar problems.
The Tavily MCP server is an Search Model Context Protocol server that lets Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code with Copilot, and other MCP-compatible AI agents aI-optimized web search and extraction. It exposes Tavily's capabilities as tools the AI can call directly from your editor or CLI.
The fastest way is the MCPizy CLI: run `mcpizy install tavily` and MCPizy will add the server to your `.claude.json` automatically. You can also install it manually by adding an entry under `mcpServers` in `.claude.json` with the command `npx -y tavily-mcp` and restarting Claude Code.
Yes. The Tavily MCP server is free and open source (see the GitHub repository linked on this page). You may still need a Tavily account or API key to connect the server to the underlying service, but the MCP layer itself has no MCPizy subscription cost.
Yes. Any MCP-compatible client works — including Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor (via `.cursor/mcp.json`), Windsurf, VS Code with Copilot Chat, and custom agents built on the MCP SDK. The same install command targets all of them; only the config file path differs.
Once installed, your AI agent can aI-optimized web search and extraction directly inside your conversation. Typical use cases include asking Claude Code or Cursor to run Tavily operations, inspect results, chain Tavily with other MCP servers (see our Workflow Recipes), and automate repetitive search tasks without leaving your editor.