OrioSearch: Your AI Agent need WebSearch – Self-hosted, Tavily-compatible web search API

Summary: OrioSearch is an open-source, self-hosted web search and extraction API fully compatible with Tavily. It integrates with various LLMs like Ollama and OpenAI to provide AI-generated answers with citations, supporting over 70 search engines via SearXNG and DuckDuckGo fallback. It offers parallel web and image search with multi-tier extraction, reranking, SSE streaming, and Redis caching.

What it does

OrioSearch acts as a drop-in replacement for Tavily’s API, enabling web and image search with customizable query parameters. It supports AI answer synthesis using external LLMs and delivers results with caching and streaming features.

Who it's for

It is designed for developers building AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines who require control over search APIs without changing existing code.

Why it matters

OrioSearch eliminates dependency on third-party search API rate limits and costs by providing a self-hosted, extensible search solution compatible with popular LLMs.