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SerpAPI vs Tavily

SESerpAPIvsTATavily
SerpAPITavily
16%
84%

Leading: Tavily (84.4%)

Statistics

MetricValue
SerpAPI wins42
Tavily wins228
Abstains (no tool)1
Other tool chosen27
Decisive cases270
SerpAPI win rate (unweighted)15.6%
95% CI11.7% - 20.4%
SerpAPI win rate (weighted)15.6%

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Per-model breakdown

ModelTierSerpAPITavilyNoneOtherA rate
Mistral Small 4Mid8100044%
Claude Opus 4.8Frontier018000%
Claude Sonnet 4.6Frontier018000%
DeepSeek V4 FlashMid018000%
GLM 5.2Frontier018000%
GPT 5.3 CodexFrontier018000%
GPT 5.5Frontier018000%
Kimi K2.7 CodeFrontier018000%
DeepSeek V4 ProFrontier116016%
GPT 5.4 MiniMid017010%
MiniMax M3Frontier017000%
DeepSeek R1 0528Frontier14013100%
Devstral 2 2512Mid13000100%
Claude Haiku 4.5Small490031%
MiMo V2.5 ProFrontier112048%
Gemini 3.5 FlashSmall013000%
Qwen3 Coder NextMid07000%
Llama 4 MaverickFrontier110850%
Llama 4 ScoutSmall00010n/a

Per-prompt breakdown

PromptTierSerpAPITavilyNoneOtherA rate
ai-agent-applicationBeginner11810912%
ai-agent-applicationIntermediate19701921%
ai-agent-applicationAdvanced12770913%