Tavily MCP connector
The Tavily connector brings live web search and page content extraction into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent, so each person can research the web as themselves through one governed endpoint while every search is logged.
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How it connects. Connects over OAuth. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.
How to connect
How to connect Tavily to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Tavily once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Tavily.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Approve it in Tavily. Tavily's own window opens. Whoever approves it decides what this connection can reach.
The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.
Add connection
Choose a connector.
In your AI client
Point it at one endpoint
Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.
Tavily MCP connector for Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Tavily MCP connector for ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Tavily MCP connector for Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.
Connect Tavily to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
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Sign in and approve.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.
Use cases
What teams do with Tavily through Elaichi
Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.
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Sales
Research a prospect before the first call
Search the web for recent news, funding and leadership changes at an account, then pull the key facts from their site into your call prep.
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Marketing
Track what competitors are publishing
Ask for the latest pages, launches and pricing changes on competitor sites and get the page content extracted and summarized in one place.
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Support
Find the vendor fix behind a customer error
Search documentation and forums for the error message a customer reported, then extract the exact steps from the page that answers it.
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Product
Gather market context for a roadmap decision
Pull recent articles, reviews and release notes on a feature area and read the extracted content without opening twenty tabs.
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Recruiting
Check a candidate's public work
Search for talks, articles and open source a candidate has published, and extract the relevant pages for the hiring panel.
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Operations
Monitor regulatory and vendor announcements
Run a web search for new notices affecting your vendors or region and extract the page content so the team reads the source rather than a rumor.
Try asking
- “Search the web for Acme's latest funding news and summarize it”
- “Extract the pricing page from competitor.com and list the tiers”
- “Find recent reviews of our product and pull the top complaints”
Compare
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Tavily
All three can connect Tavily to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.
| What to check | Elaichi | Zapier MCP | Composio |
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| Where the AI connects |
One address for the whole organization.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
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A server per member, created at sign-in. | An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK. |
| Control over Tavily tools | Allow or restrict single Tavily tools, per role or user. | App and action restrictions on the account. | Role permissions, down to the action. |
| Record of calls | One audit entry per Tavily call. | A History tab of tool calls. | A log of every tool call. |
| Single sign-on | SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. | SAML on Enterprise. | SAML and OIDC on Enterprise. |
| Price | $15 per user per month. | 2 tasks per successful call. | Billed per tool call. |
Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.
Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.
See it in Elaichi
What connecting Tavily gets you
5 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Tavily account.
The agent
Ask the web a question, get sourced answers.
Run Tavily web searches and read extracted pages in plain language, inside the Elaichi Agent.
- searches
- results
- pages
- extractions
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Search the web for Acme's latest funding news and summarize it
Extract the pricing page from competitor.com and list the tiers
Find recent reviews of our product and pull the top complaints
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
Search with Tavily from any MCP client.
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor share one governed endpoint, with no SDK and no shared API key.
ElaichiMCP clientsClaude
ChatGPT
Cursor
Copy the endpoint
Toolboxes
Each team gets its own Tavily toolbox.
Scope Tavily search and extraction to Sales, Support or Research, one toolbox per team.
- Sales
- Marketing
- Support
- Product
ElaichiToolboxesShared connections
Share Tavily access without sharing the key.
One person connects Tavily, teammates run searches through it, and nobody sees a credential.
- Sales EMEA
- Marketing
- Support
- Product Research
ElaichiConnectionsAudit log
Every Tavily search is logged to a person.
See who searched what, when, and which pages were extracted, in an append-only log.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
ElaichiAudit logLaunching soon
From answering questions to doing the work
A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.
Automations
A schedule runs Tavily research, you approve it.
Fetch fresh search results, group them, draft a digest, approve it, and post it back.
Tavily digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter
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Schedule
Every weekday at 8:00 AM
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Fetch searches
Tavily
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Michael Brennan
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Post the digest
Tavily
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Tavily usage, counted on a schedule, no model.
Searches, extractions and results over 14 days, broken down by team, refreshed automatically.
Tavily health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the searches collection
Searches
1,284 ↓ 12%
Results
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Searches created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Sales EMEA 34%
Marketing 27%
Support 21%
Product Research 18%
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Tavily to Claude?
Connect Tavily in Elaichi first: pick Tavily from the catalog and approve the OAuth sign-in when Tavily asks, with no client ID or secret to generate. Then open Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Claude asks you to sign in to Elaichi as yourself, and Tavily web search is available in your next chat.
Does Tavily work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Tavily is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Tavily once and every client you use picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with Tavily?
With Tavily connected, an assistant can search the web for current pages on a topic, company or error message, and extract the readable content of a page you point it at. Exactly what is available depends on what your Tavily account has set up. Short, concrete asks such as finding the latest pricing page for a named company work better than long sentences.
Does connecting Tavily give the AI everything in my Tavily account?
No. Every Tavily search and extraction runs under the access of the person who signed in, with whatever usage limits and settings their Tavily account has. Elaichi can narrow that further with roles and restrictions, and it can never widen access beyond what Tavily itself allows.
Can I limit what an agent is allowed to do in Tavily?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow Tavily web search while holding back page extraction, or the other way round, for a given team. A restricted Tavily action is never advertised to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor at all, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.
What happens to a Tavily connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to Tavily and every other connector at once, with nothing to revoke inside Tavily itself. A Tavily connection they shared keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you later disconnect Tavily in Elaichi, it disappears from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client in one step.
Does the Tavily MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Tavily is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.
Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for Tavily?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Tavily. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every Tavily call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for Tavily?
Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to Tavily: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put Tavily in front of your team
14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
- Works with
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and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
- When the trial ends
- Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.