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Overview
Exa is a search API designed for AI agents, offering search, crawling, and research capabilities through one API. It delivers high-accuracy, token-efficient results with highlights, structured JSON output, and low latency.
✨ Features
Agent Search
High-accuracy web search purpose-built for AI agents.
Token Efficiency
Highlights extract relevant excerpts, cutting tokens by up to 90%.
Structured Output
Returns extracted web data as structured JSON.
Research Agent
Async deep research and content crawling endpoints.
⚖️ Pros & Cons
Pros
✓ Generous free tier of 20,000 requests/month
✓ Fast, accurate, agent-focused results
✓ Flexible usage-based pricing
Cons
✗ Usage-based costs can add up at scale
✗ Geared toward developers, not end users
💰 Pricing
Free
$0/mo
- 1,000 search requests/month
- Web search tool calls for agents
- Webpage text and highlights
- Configurable latency options
Search
$7/1K requests
- Real-time web search data
- Webpage text and highlights
- Agent integration
- Contents from $1/1K pages
Deep Search
$12/1K requests
- Multi-step agent workflows
- Structured outputs
- Web-grounded citations
- $12-15 per 1K requests
Enterprise
Custom
- Volume discounts
- Higher rate limits
- Dedicated support
- $1,000 startup/education grants