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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
Pricing
- Starting price
- Free
- Pricing checked
- 2026-09-19
Starter
Free
- $20 credits on sign-up with $10 credits every month
- MCP server access
- Claude Connector and ChatGPT plugin
- 50+ integrations and access to all endpoints
- 10 Search Queries Per Second and 50 Agent concurrency
Developer
Pay as you go
- PAYGO usage-based billing
- Standard email support
- Pay via card or bank account
- SOC 2 Type II
- Up to 25 Search QPS and 50 Agent concurrency
Enterprise
Custom
- Custom MSA and DPA
- Zero data retention
- SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA
- SSO and SCIM for Exa Dashboard
- Enterprise support, SLAs, and custom limits