Tavily Ranks #1 on SealQA and SimpleQA

Tavily reports that a multi-month overhaul of its search system has placed it first on the SealQA-Hard, SealQA-0, and SimpleQA Verified benchmarks, ahead of several competing search providers. The company emphasizes SealQA as a more useful measure for agentic search than SimpleQA’s relatively straightforward questions or BrowseComp’s more complex, harness-dependent evaluation. Its improvements focused on reranking sources and extracted evidence according to authority, credibility, relevance, and answer quality; removing duplicate or contradictory snippets; and expanding index coverage while improving freshness for rapidly changing topics. To isolate search quality, Tavily evaluated providers using identical settings: each returned up to 10 results, whose snippets were summarized by GPT-5.4 Mini and graded with GPT-4.1-mini using an adapted official SealQA prompt. Tavily argues that stronger retrieval evidence is increasingly important as language-model reasoning improves, while noting that public benchmarks are only one indicator and recommending that teams assess search performance on their own real-world agent queries.

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