General web search reselling the Tavily Search API
General web search reselling the Tavily Search API: query the live web and get back ranked results (title, URL, snippet, relevance score) plus an optional short synthesized answer, with basic or advanced search depth and optional domain include/exclude filters.
Answeringour last check, 2026-09-24
1 of 1checks answered this week
956 msmedian answer time
$0.03listed price per call
$0.01price it asked us
Paid test badge: not yet. The checks above are free: we call the tool without paying and read the payment request it sends back. The Verified badge needs paid calls whose answers match the promised output, and nobody can buy a badge.
Endpoint
GET https://4yearcycle.com/x402/web-search
| Category | Search and research |
|---|---|
| Provider host | 4yearcycle.com |
| Networks | eip155:8453 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 4 from 3 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.01 | 956 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"depth": "basic",
"max": "5",
"q": "who is Leo Messi"
},
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"depth": {
"default": "basic",
"description": "Search depth. \"advanced\" costs Tavily more upstream but is not priced differently to the buyer yet. Default: basic.",
"enum": [
"basic",
"advanced"
],
"examples": [
"basic",
"advanced"
],
"type": "string"
},
"exclude_domains": {
"description": "Optional comma-separated domains to exclude from results.",
"examples": [
"pinterest.com"
],
"type": "string"
},
"include_domains": {
"description": "Optional comma-separated domains to restrict results to, e.g. wikipedia.org,bbc.com.",
"examples": [
"wikipedia.org",
"nytimes.com,bbc.com"
],
"type": "string"
},
"max": {
"default": "5",
"description": "Maximum number of results to return. Integer 1-10. Default: 5.",
"examples": [
"5",
"10"
],
"pattern": "^\\d{1,2}$",
"type": "string"
},
"q": {
"description": "Search query. Required, 1-400 characters.",
"examples": [
"who is Leo Messi",
"latest news on EU AI Act enforcement"
],
"maxLength": 400,
"minLength": 1,
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"q"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"properties": {
"answer": {
"description": "Tavily's short synthesized answer, null if unavailable",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"count": {
"description": "Number of results returned",
"type": "integer"
},
"query": {
"description": "Query as sent to Tavily",
"type": "string"
},
"responseTimeMs": {
"description": "Upstream Tavily response time in milliseconds",
"type": "integer"
},
"results": {
"description": "Ranked search results, most relevant first",
"items": {
"properties": {
"score": {
"description": "Tavily relevance score for this result (higher = more relevant)",
"type": "number"
},
"snippet": {
"description": "Tavily's extracted content for this result, capped to 500 characters",
"type": "string"
},
"title": {
"description": "Page title as indexed by Tavily",
"type": "string"
},
"url": {
"description": "Source URL",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"title",
"url",
"snippet",
"score"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": "array"
}
},
"required": [
"query",
"count",
"results"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}