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title: "Tavily vs Brave vs Serper, Independently Benchmarked, 2026 | Openbenchmarks"
description: "Tavily vs Brave vs Serper: Brave Search llm-context leads at 94.0% accuracy on 300 company-news questions, independently benchmarked Oct 21, 2026. Serper was not tested."
url: https://openbenchmarks.com/web-search/tavily-vs-brave-vs-serper
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independently benchmarked · 300 questions · updated Oct 21, 2026

# Tavily vs Brave vs Serper, 2026

Tavily vs Brave vs Serper: Brave Search llm-context leads at 94.0% accuracy on 300 company-news questions, independently benchmarked Oct 21, 2026\. Serper was not tested.

**What this page compares.** This page ranks measured results from 3 boards: company-news factual lookup (web search APIs), coding-agent documentation tickets (search and page fetch) and multi-turn company search (search only). Every configuration of Tavily and Brave Search that ran is shown, on the same questions. Serper was not tested, so this page makes no head-to-head claim about it.

**How to read the result.** The table ranks every complete run by its score on the same questions. Latency and cost are shown beside it and not blended into the score.

\[01\] measured ranking

## Company-news factual lookup, web search APIs, ranked by accuracy

Every row ran the same 300 questions. Provider names link to the official docs for the configuration measured.

| Rank | Provider | Accuracy | Answer recall @5 | Median search time | $ / 1k queries | $ / 1k correct | Result tokens | Accuracy / 1k tokens | List price |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Brave Search llm-context](https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/services/llm-context) count=10 | **94.0%** | 94.7% | 590 ms | $5.00 | $5.32 | 2,064 | 45.6 | [$5.00 / 1k queries](https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing) |
| 2 | [Brave Search web](https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/services/web-search) count=10 · result\_filter=web | **93.3%** | 91.7% | 613 ms | $5.00 | $5.36 | 817 | 114 | [$5.00 / 1k queries](https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing) |
| 3 | [Tavily advanced](https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search) search\_depth=advanced | **93.0%** | 92.7% | 4.2 s | $16.00 | $17.20 | 2,210 | 42.1 | [$16.00 / 1k queries](https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits) |
| 4 | [Tavily basic](https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search) search\_depth=basic | **87.7%** | 87.7% | 1.7 s | $8.00 | $9.13 | 1,639 | 53.5 | [$8.00 / 1k queries](https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits) |

### Coding-agent documentation tickets, search and page fetch, ranked by task completion

| Rank | Provider | Task completion | Mean search time | Median task time | Median cost / task | Median task tokens | Completion / 1k tokens | List price |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Tavily advanced](https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search) search\_depth=advanced | **60.0%** | 3.4 s | 46.4 s | $0.15 | 26,269 | 2.28 | [$16.00 / 1k queries](https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits) |
| 2 | [Tavily basic](https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search) search\_depth=basic | **59.0%** | 1.5 s | 32.4 s | $0.11 | 27,405 | 2.15 | [$8.00 / 1k queries](https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits) |

### Multi-turn company search, search only, ranked by F1

| Rank | Provider | F1 | Precision | Recall | Median task time | Median cost / task | Median task tokens | List price |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Tavily advanced](https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search) tavily-advanced | **41.1%** | 83.7% | 29.8% | 92.2 s | $1.03 | 237,706 | [$16.00 / 1k queries](https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits) |
| 2 | [Tavily basic](https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search) tavily-basic | **36.5%** | 82.5% | 25.7% | 63.0 s | $0.61 | 142,692 | [$8.00 / 1k queries](https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits) |
| 3 | [Brave Search](https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/services/web-search) brave | **28.0%** | 66.9% | 19.3% | 43.5 s | $0.27 | 49,005 | [$5.00 / 1k queries](https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing) |

\[02\] how it was measured

## How the ranking was measured

* Every API received the same natural-language question about a recent company event, one search per question, up to 10 results.
* Each answer is a single verifiable value pinned to an official wire or newsroom URL, fixed before any vendor ran.
* Accuracy is whether the returned results let the same answering model extract the correct value.
* Latency is the search request time. Cost is the recorded list price for the calls made, per 1,000 queries and per 1,000 correct answers.
* The runner and published data are open in [openbenchmarks-labs/factual-lookup-company-news-search ↗](https://github.com/openbenchmarks-labs/factual-lookup-company-news-search) and [openbenchmarks/OB-News-Websearch ↗](https://huggingface.co/datasets/openbenchmarks/OB-News-Websearch). The full methodology is on the [Web Search Benchmark →](https://openbenchmarks.com/web-search#methodology-factual-lookup)

\[03\] faq

## Questions answered by this comparison

### Which provider leads tavily vs Brave vs Serper?

Brave Search llm-context leads this table at 94.0% accuracy, on 300 company-news questions.

### How was this measured?

Every API received the same natural-language question about a recent company event, one search per question, up to 10 results. Each answer is a single verifiable value pinned to an official wire or newsroom URL, fixed before any vendor ran. Accuracy is whether the returned results let the same answering model extract the correct value. Latency is the search request time. Cost is the recorded list price for the calls made, per 1,000 queries and per 1,000 correct answers.

### How should speed and cost be read beside the score?

Brave Search llm-context recorded 590 ms median search time and $5.00 per 1,000 queries. The most accurate configuration is rarely the fastest or the cheapest, so each is reported in its own column.

### Was Serper tested?

No. Serper was not run on this benchmark. The rows are tested alternatives on the same questions; this page makes no claim that any of them is more accurate, faster or cheaper.

### What does this page not test?

This page ranks measured results from 3 boards: company-news factual lookup (web search APIs), coding-agent documentation tickets (search and page fetch) and multi-turn company search (search only). Every configuration of Tavily and Brave Search that ran is shown, on the same questions. Serper was not tested, so this page makes no head-to-head claim about it.

\[04\] related comparisons

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