What is Exa AI?
Exa AI is a web search API, AI search engine, and website crawler for building search and research agents.Offers web crawling, vertical search (company, people, code), and structured outputs covering 70M+ companies.
Produces token-efficient excerpts and highlights to reduce LLM token consumption by up to 90% for agent workflows.Returns grounded citations and enriched, machine-readable extracts for downstream analytics and knowledge bases.
Delivers low-latency responses (around 180 ms) suited for interactive agents and real-time applications.Includes SOC 2 Type II compliance, configurable data retention, team authentication, and single sign-on support.
Accessible via REST API with SDKs, an API playground, and integrations for developers, researchers, and enterprise search use cases.
Exa AI pricing
FreemiumVerify on the official pricing page.
View plansExa AI's key features
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Website crawler for building search and research agents
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Vertical search (company, people, code)
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Token-efficient excerpts and highlights to reduce LLM token consumption
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Grounded citations and enriched, machine-readable extracts for analytics and knowledge bases
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Accessible via REST API with SDKs, API playground, and integrations
Exa AI use cases
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Build a compliance-ready enterprise search for customer support and legal teams using exa's low-latency web search API and crawler to index documentation and tickets, surface token-efficient excerpts with grounded citations for agents, and enforce role-based access controls for sensitive data
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Power autonomous agent workflows and research assistants that perform real-time company, people, and code intelligence by feeding exa's vertical search and machine-readable extracts into agents, providing grounded citations for auditability and minimizing token costs with concise excerpts
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Create real-time monitoring and analytics pipelines that crawl websites and codebases to detect changes, generate token-efficient summaries and machine-readable extracts for downstream ML models, and deliver secure, enterprise-ready alerts and dashboards with access controls
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Who is Exa AI for?
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Software developers
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Data engineers
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Product managers
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Market researchers
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Sales teams
Exa AI FAQ
Is Exa AI free?
Partly. Exa AI has a free plan with usage limits, and paid plans unlock the full feature set. Plans include Contents at $1/1k pages, Search at $7/1k requests, Exa search at $7/1k requests and Monitors at $15/1k requests.
What are the best alternatives to Exa AI?
The closest alternatives to Exa AI are GPT Researcher, Algolia, Extruct AI, SearchCans and Coveo. You can compare them side by side in the alternatives section further down this page.
Does Exa AI have an API?
Yes. Exa AI offers an API, so you can call it from your own applications instead of using the interface directly.
