Strongest fit
Who it is built for
- Developers building web-enabled AI agents
- Teams adding current web context to applications
- Workflows that need research, enrichment, or monitoring APIs
Exa
Web search, crawling, and research APIs for AI agents
Exa is an AI search platform for developers building agents and applications that need web data. Its APIs provide web search, page contents, deep research agents, monitors, and structured outputs with citations.
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- Best for
- Developers building web-enabled AI agents
- Pricing signal
- Free
- Primary category
- Search APIs
- Last verified
- Jul 30, 2026
The decision
Should Exa make your shortlist?
Start with the job, the team, and the constraints. Product fit becomes much clearer when those three line up.
Practical use cases
Jobs it can take on
- Search the web for documents, repositories, and current information
- Retrieve page contents and token-efficient highlights for model context
- Run asynchronous research and enrichment tasks with structured outputs
Before you choose
Know the tradeoffs
- Usage beyond the free tier is billed by requests, pages, runs, and optional enrichment components.
- The product is an API platform intended for developer integration.
Inside the product
What you can actually do with it.
The core product capabilities, grouped around the work they enable.
Search API
Exa provides web search for agents with configurable latency and token-efficient page contents.
Contents retrieval
The Contents API returns full web page content and highlights optimized for AI context.
Agent API
Exa Agent runs asynchronous deep research, list-building, and enrichment workflows with structured outputs.
Typical workflow
Create an Exa account and use the dashboard onboarding flow to set up an integration and API key. Call the relevant API endpoint for search, contents, monitoring, or agent research, then use the returned web data in your application or agent.
Plans and official links
Plans and accessFree.
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Starting pointFree
Free plan
See plans- Provider
- Exa Labs Inc.
- Based in
- US
Official destinations
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