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Tavily vs SerpAPI

TATavilyvsSESerpAPI
TavilySerpAPI
84%
16%

Leading: Tavily (84.4%)

Statistics

MetricValue
Tavily wins228
SerpAPI wins42
Abstains (no tool)1
Other tool chosen27
Decisive cases270
Tavily win rate (unweighted)84.4%
95% CI79.6% - 88.3%
Tavily win rate (weighted)84.4%

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Per-model breakdown

ModelTierTavilySerpAPINoneOtherA rate
Claude Opus 4.8Frontier18000100%
Claude Sonnet 4.6Frontier18000100%
DeepSeek V4 FlashMid18000100%
GLM 5.2Frontier18000100%
GPT 5.3 CodexFrontier18000100%
GPT 5.5Frontier18000100%
Kimi K2.7 CodeFrontier18000100%
Mistral Small 4Mid1080056%
GPT 5.4 MiniMid17001100%
MiniMax M3Frontier17000100%
DeepSeek V4 ProFrontier1610194%
DeepSeek R1 0528Frontier014130%
Gemini 3.5 FlashSmall13000100%
MiMo V2.5 ProFrontier1210492%
Claude Haiku 4.5Small940069%
Devstral 2 2512Mid013000%
Qwen3 Coder NextMid7000100%
Llama 4 MaverickFrontier110850%
Llama 4 ScoutSmall00010n/a

Per-prompt breakdown

PromptTierTavilySerpAPINoneOtherA rate
ai-agent-applicationBeginner81110988%
ai-agent-applicationAdvanced77120987%
ai-agent-applicationIntermediate70191979%