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Exa AI
Exa provides web search, page-content extraction, and research APIs for AI agents and applications.
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
- Lite search, recommended search types, and search warnings
Added lite search, recommended lite, auto, and deep search types, and added warnings when /search requests don't do what developers expect.
- 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.
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 — “The fastest, most accurate web search API. Give your agents the context they need.” source
- Official SDKs — “SDK support : exa-py and exa-js 2.26.0 log each warning once, so ignored fields surface during development.” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Multi-step agent workflows” source
- Search over your data — “All endpoints now return clean markdown by default, which is better for LLMs, RAG, and general text processing.” source
Get it
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Pricing
- Starting price
- Free
- Prices checked
- 2026-11-06
Starter
Free
- Free $10 credits per month
- MCP server access
- Claude Connector
- ChatGPT plugin
- 50+ integrations
- Access to all endpoints
Enterprise
Price on request
- Everything in Developer
- Zero data retention
- 25 Search QPS
- Custom MSA and DPA
- SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA
- Monthly invoicing