Tavily-Nebius Acquisition (February 2026)

After Nebius acquired Tavily, a development team started evaluating backup search providers. They set up Scavio's MCP server alongside Tavily's in their Claude Desktop config. Within a week, they found Scavio's multi-platform coverage let them drop two other data vendors they had been using for Amazon and Reddit data, consolidating from three vendors to one.

Tavily-Nebius Acquisition (February 2026) is relevant to Google. Scavio provides a unified API to access data from all of these platforms.

Tavily built a popular AI-optimized search API offering 1K free searches/month and a $30/mo plan for 10K searches. In February 2026, Nebius (a cloud and AI infrastructure company) acquired Tavily. Acquisitions of developer tools historically follow a pattern: initial stability, followed by pricing adjustments, feature consolidation into the parent platform, and eventual sunset of the standalone product. Tavily users face several risks: pricing may increase to align with Nebius's enterprise focus, the API may be absorbed into a larger Nebius product, and development velocity on the standalone API may slow as the team integrates. For teams evaluating alternatives, the key comparison is Tavily ($30/mo for 10K searches, web-only) versus Scavio ($30/mo for 7K credits covering Google, Amazon, YouTube, Walmart, Reddit, and TikTok). Tavily offers more searches per dollar for web-only use, but Scavio covers six platforms under one API. Both offer MCP server support. Teams with existing Tavily MCP integrations can swap to Scavio's MCP server (mcp.scavio.dev/mcp) with minimal code changes since MCP provides a standardized interface.