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Exa AI
Exa provides web search, page-content extraction, and research APIs for AI agents and applications.

In inglese
Exa is an API platform for searching the web, extracting page text and highlights, running research agents, monitoring topics, and returning structured results with citations.
Developers use it for coding agents, chatbots, news monitoring, people and company search, voice agents, and data enrichment. Usage is billed by endpoint and request volume; enterprise controls, custom indexes, and premium data providers may cost extra.
Features
- Search API for web results, page contents, highlights, and summaries
- Contents API extracts text, highlights, and summaries from URLs
- Agent API runs asynchronous deep research with structured outputs and citations
- Monitors API runs scheduled searches and sends updates through webhooks
- People, company, web, and scholarly publication search
- MCP server access for Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients
- Snapshot searches the web as it existed on a selected date
Use cases
- Ground coding agents with current documentation, repositories, and changelogs
- Build chatbots and voice agents that use current web information
- Monitor competitors, funding rounds, regulations, and research publications
- Enrich company and people records with public web data
- Research markets, companies, academic publications, and news
- Backtest web-based research or trading signals using historical snapshots
Pros
Cons
Latest updates
- Agent Ultra
Added Agent Ultra, an effort mode for Exa Agent with configurable cost and time budgets and the option to stop runs early.
- Exa Agent and Exa Connect in MCP
Exa Agent and Exa Connect data sources are available through Exa MCP for MCP clients.
- Introducing Exa Connect
Launched Exa Connect, giving Exa Agent access to public and private data sources from listed partners.
- Dynamic Highlights (research preview)
Dynamic Highlights selects excerpts across the full result set and can be enabled with a request header.
- Publication research
Expanded publication search to 350 million publications, added enriched organization and people results, and introduced the publication search category.
Capabilities
- Knows the whole codebase — “Search over millions of GitHub repos, docs, and Stack Overflow with high-accuracy code retrieval.” source
- No code retained — “Zero data retention . Your queries and results are never stored or trained on.” source
- API — “We released a new class of frontier web research agents that are accessible via API.” source
- Official SDKs — “Highlights are back in the JavaScript SDK as of exa-js v2.0.11, returning key sentences with relevance scores.” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Multi-step agent workflows” source
Get it
Security
Pricing
- Starting price
- Free
- Prices checked
- 2026-09-24
Starter
Free
- Free $10 credits per month
- MCP server access
- Claude Connector
- ChatGPT plugin
- 50+ integrations
- Access to all endpoints
Developer
- $7 /1k requests
- $0.012–$1.00 /run
- $1 /1k pages per content type
- $12–15 /1k requests
- $15 /1k requests
- $15
- $5
- $1
- $1
- PAYGO usage-based billing
- Standard email support
- Pay via card or bank account
- SOC 2 Type II
- Up to 25 Search QPS
- 50 Agent concurrency
Enterprise
Price on request
- Custom MSA and DPA
- Zero data retention
- SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA
- Monthly invoicing
- SSO and SCIM for Exa Dashboard
- Organization unified billing