Sifthound vs Tavily: search benchmark

25 September 2026 · Sifthound 0.2.1 · 45 queries

Results

Sifthound
basic
Tavily
basic
Sifthound
advanced
Tavily
advanced
Factual answer found (of 25)24252525
Official docs returned (of 10)9793
Official docs ranked first (of 10)3171
Median latency1.61s1.25s2.19s2.81s
95th percentile latency3.03s3.09s4.55s5.02s
Errors (of 45)0000
Cost per 1,000 searches$0$8$0$16

Highlighted: better within each mode. Sifthound's cost excludes its server. Tavily's is pay-as-you-go ($0.008 per credit).

Method

Caveats

Reproduce it

pip install -r bench/requirements.txt
docker compose up -d
TAVILY_API_KEY=tvly-... python bench/run.py --delay 6
python bench/report.py bench/results/<timestamp>

Code and queries: bench/. A full run uses about 135 Tavily credits.