#1 Tavily Alternative
Tavily gives your agents web search. Context.dev gives them the web itself: scrape any URL with stealth included, extract structured data with AI, and resolve any domain into brand and company intelligence. One key, one flat bill.
Tavily → Context.dev
Why Switch
Search tells your agent where to look. The hard part is reliably getting and structuring what's there, especially when the site fights back.
Your agents need more than search results
Tavily answers “what pages mention X?” and it does that well. But most agent workflows then need to actually read a specific site: pull the pricing page, extract the product catalog, grab the docs as Markdown. That second step is where Context.dev lives: direct URL scraping with stealth included, full-site crawling, and structured extraction, not just snippets from a search index.
Stealth scraping on every request
When your agent needs a page behind Cloudflare, DataDome, or Akamai, a search snippet is not enough. You need the page. Context.dev runs bot-detection bypass and automatic proxy escalation on every scrape, on every plan, so protected pages come back as clean Markdown instead of empty shells.
Brand intelligence a search API cannot return
Retrieve Brand resolves company profiles by domain, name, email, ticker, transaction descriptor, or direct URL. Read available logos, colors, descriptions, social profiles, addresses, and EIC industry labels. Get Styleguide provides typography and font assets in a separate call.
Research with a JSON output shape
Use Scrape with CSS parsing rules for fields on a known page, or give Answers a research task and an example JSON shape. Answers returns json_content and source URLs in Fast or Ultra mode.
Search when you need it, without the lock-in
Plenty of teams run Tavily for discovery and Context.dev for everything after the click. But if your workload is mostly “fetch and understand this site,” you can consolidate on one API: scraping, crawling, extraction, screenshots, and brand data on a single key.
Monthly credit plans
Plans include a monthly credit allowance shared across APIs. Base scraping costs 1 credit across selected formats; other APIs and optional features have their own credit costs. Enable overage when you need usage beyond the allowance.
Full Comparison
Give your agents the whole web
Scraping with stealth included, structured AI extraction, and brand data from any domain. Everything after the search result, on one flat subscription.