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Tavily vs SerpAPI

TATavilyvsSESerpAPI
TavilySerpAPI
85%
15%

Leading: Tavily (85.0%)

Statistics

MetricValue
Tavily wins267
SerpAPI wins47
Abstains (no tool)1
Other tool chosen31
Decisive cases314
Tavily win rate (unweighted)85.0%
95% CI80.7% - 88.6%
Tavily win rate (weighted)85.0%

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Per-model breakdown

ModelTierTavilySerpAPINoneOtherA rate
Claude Opus 4.8Frontier21000100%
Claude Sonnet 4.6Frontier21000100%
DeepSeek V4 FlashMid21000100%
GLM 5.2Frontier21000100%
GPT 5.3 CodexFrontier21000100%
GPT 5.5Frontier21000100%
Kimi K2.7 CodeFrontier21000100%
Mistral Small 4Mid1290057%
GPT 5.4 MiniMid20001100%
MiniMax M3Frontier20000100%
DeepSeek V4 ProFrontier1910195%
DeepSeek R1 0528Frontier017130%
Gemini 3.5 FlashSmall16000100%
MiMo V2.5 ProFrontier1510494%
Claude Haiku 4.5Small950064%
Devstral 2 2512Mid013000%
Qwen3 Coder NextMid8000100%
Llama 4 MaverickFrontier1101050%
Llama 4 ScoutSmall00012n/a

Per-prompt breakdown

PromptTierTavilySerpAPINoneOtherA rate
ai-agent-applicationBeginner951201089%
ai-agent-applicationIntermediate822211079%
ai-agent-applicationAdvanced901301187%