Exa
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- Developer Tools
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- No. 522Tools index
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Type
- TOOL
- Use case
- Data, Retrieval & Knowledge
- Interfaces
- API
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- @exaailabs
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About
Exa is a web search API built specifically for AI agents, offering real-time search, web crawling, and deep research capabilities in a single API. It provides token-efficient content extraction, structured outputs, and sub-180ms latency, making it ideal for powering coding agents, research pipelines, and autonomous AI workflows.
What it does
The site describes a broader product lineup beyond core search, including Contents, Agent, and Monitors APIs and Exa Connect for third-party data providers. It states the platform offers zero data retention, SOC 2 Type II certification, and single sign-on, and reports benchmark comparisons against Perplexity and Brave on accuracy tests.
Stated on the product site
- Products
- The product lineup includes a Search API, Contents API, Agent API, Monitors API, Integrations, and Exa Connect.
- Security
- Zero Data Retention is available to purge queries and data automatically based on customer requirements.
- Controls
- The Search API includes configurable agent effort levels (Auto, Low, Medium, High) and a choice of Object or Text output.
- Enrichment
- The Agent API extracts enrichments as structured outputs across a company dataset described as 70M+ companies.
- Benchmarks
- The site states its search leads competitors Perplexity and Brave on the FRAMES, Tip-of-Tongue, and Seal0 retrieval benchmarks.
Not stated on the site
- The page does not state pricing or plan tiers for the Search, Contents, Agent, or Monitors APIs.
- The page does not specify which embedding or retrieval model architecture underlies the search results.
- The page does not describe rate limits, query quotas, or SLAs included with each plan.
- The page does not explain what data access or cost is required to use Exa Connect's third-party providers.
Written from the product site at exa.ai.
What it can do
Search the web in real-time
Natural language or keyword query → Ranked list of relevant web results with URLs and metadata
Crawl and extract content from web pages
URL or search query → Token-efficient extracted text content from the target page
Perform deep research across multiple sources
Research topic or question → Aggregated, structured information from multiple web sources
Return structured outputs from web searches
Search query with defined output schema → Structured data conforming to the specified format
Retrieve real-time web data for AI agents
Agent-generated query or task context → Low-latency search results suitable for autonomous AI workflows
Power coding agent research pipelines
Programming-related query or documentation lookup request → Relevant code references, documentation, and technical content
Fetch and summarize live web content
Topic or URL → Condensed, readable content extracted from live web pages
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