CrawlHQ vs. Tavily
Tavily is excellent for AI agent web search. CrawlHQ does that and adds crawling, extraction, monitoring, and the full data pipeline — with INR pricing.
- ✓ Search + Scrape + Extract + Watch
- ✓ No subscription, pay-as-you-go
- ✓ 500 free credits, no card required
- ✗ Search-only — no scrape, extract, or watch
- ✗ USD billing, FX conversion cost
- ✗ Can't crawl arbitrary URLs
Feature Comparison
| Feature | CrawlHQ | Tavily |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-engine web search | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI-optimised search results | ✓ | ✓ |
| Raw HTML scraping | ✓ | — |
| JavaScript rendering | ✓ | — |
| HTML → Markdown (LLM-ready) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured JSON extraction (schema-defined) | ✓ | — |
| PDF extraction | ✓ | — |
| Change detection & webhooks | ✓ | — |
| Credential & breach monitoring | Soon | — |
| Dark web / Tor crawling | Soon | — |
| Video & audio transcription | Soon | — |
| Domain enrichment | Soon | — |
| INR billing (no FX conversion) | ✓ | — |
| No monthly subscription | ✓ | — |
| Crawl arbitrary URLs (not just search) | ✓ | — |
Tavily's strengths
Tavily is purpose-built for AI agents that need to search the web. Its API is clean, the results are pre-processed for LLM consumption, and it integrates natively with LangChain and LlamaIndex. If web search for agents is all you need, Tavily is excellent.
When CrawlHQ is the better fit
Tavily can't crawl a specific URL you give it — it searches the web and returns what it finds. CrawlHQ does both: search for discovery, then crawl specific URLs for extraction. For AI agents that need to follow up search results with deep extraction, change monitoring, or PDF analysis, CrawlHQ handles the entire pipeline. Plus INR billing — meaningful for Indian AI teams.
Stop Prompting. Start Building.
AI search tools give you probable answers. CrawlHQ gives you deterministic, auditable, structured web intelligence — in your database, on your schedule, under your control.