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Tavily MCP

Tavily MCP is an MCP server that 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… It has 2,460 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y tavily-mcp.

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Install Tavily MCP

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tavily-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tavily-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env TAVILY_API_KEY=your-value --transport stdio tavily-mcp -- npx -y tavily-mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tavily-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tavily-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "tavily_api_key",
      "description": "TAVILY_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "tavily-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tavily-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "${input:tavily_api_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
TAVILY_API_KEYsecretYesYour Tavily API key from tavily.com
DEFAULT_PARAMETERSNoJSON string with default search parameters (e.g., {"includeimages": true, "maxresults": 15})

About Tavily MCP

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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How do I install the Tavily MCP MCP server?

Add the command npx -y tavily-mcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Tavily MCP free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (TAVILY_API_KEY) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.

Is Tavily MCP actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 15, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.