Search with Tavily

Tavily searches the open web and is tuned for LLMs. Pin a query to Tavily with one field, and its results come back in the same shape as every other provider’s.

Pinned to Tavily, answered in 1,548 ms.

Results from Tavily

1
Alexander Graham Bell | Biography, Education, Family, Telephone, Inventions, & Facts | Britannica britannica.com
2
Who Invented That? The Telephone - Association of Old Crows crows.org
3
Did Alexander Graham Bell invent the telephone? | National Museums Scotland nms.ac.uk
4
BU, Bell, and Celebrating 150 Years of the Invention of the Telephone | BU Today | Boston University bu.edu
5
1870s – 1940s: Telephone | Imagining the Internet | Elon University elon.edu

Recorded from live searches on 8 October 2026.

Pin a query to Tavily

Over HTTP, send "requested_provider": "tavily" with the query.
In an agent connected over MCP, ask it to search with Tavily.

Results come back in the same shape for every provider, as the docs describe. Leave the field out, and Grounder routes each query to the provider most likely to answer it well.

search.shShell

curl https://api.grounder.net/v1/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GROUNDER_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "who invented the telephone",
    "top_k": 5,
    "requested_provider": "tavily"
  }'

import os
import httpx

KEY = os.environ["GROUNDER_KEY"]

r = httpx.post(
    "https://api.grounder.net/v1/search",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {KEY}"},
    json={
        "query": "who invented the telephone",
        "top_k": 5,
        "requested_provider": "tavily",
    },
    timeout=30,
).json()

for hit in r["results"]:
    print(hit["rank"], hit["title"], hit["url"])

const res = await fetch("https://api.grounder.net/v1/search", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.GROUNDER_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    query: "who invented the telephone",
    top_k: 5,
    requested_provider: "tavily",
  }),
})

const { results } = await res.json()

claude mcp add --transport http grounder \
  https://api.grounder.net/mcp
# then /mcp, grounder, Authenticate

Filters Tavily applies

Set them under filters. A filter a provider can’t apply returns 400 unsupported_filter.

Filter	Keeps
`domains`	Only these sites, or with `"mode": "exclude"`, none of them.
`recency`	The last so many days, or a `range` of dates.

request.jsonJSON

{
  "query": "who invented the telephone",
  "top_k": 5,
  "requested_provider": "tavily",
  "filters": {
    "domains": { "values": ["britannica.com"] }
  }
}

Already calling Tavily?

Swap the base URL and key; keep your code. This endpoint takes Tavily’s request and returns Tavily’s response shape, but Grounder routes each query, so any provider may answer it.

base URLDiff

- https://api.tavily.com/search
+ https://api.grounder.net/compat/tavily/search
        