About Exa
Exa is a search engine built for AI that helps researchers find research papers on information retrieval. It serves developers and researchers who need a reliable API to access and extract web data for AI workflows.

Key Features
For researchers and developers, the value lies in a single API that unifies search, crawl, and semantic retrieval across multiple data sources, making AI workflows simpler:
Search
Query a list of results and their contents via a single API, returning results with embedded data.
Crawl
Retrieve all pages on a site and obtain their contents.
Answer
Generate natural-language summaries of web search results.
In-house vector database
Stores embeddings and enables fast semantic retrieval across data sources.
Summary
Best for AI researchers, ML engineers, and product teams building AI-powered search and retrieval workflows.
Pricing
View pricingPay as you go
$5 / per 1k requests
- Fast
- Auto
- Neural
Deep
$15 / per 1k requests
- Deep search capabilities
Text
$1 / per 1k pages
- Webpage contents from search results
Highlights
$1 / per 1k pages
- AI-retrieved webpage snippets
Summary
$1 / per 1k pages
- LLM summaries of webpages
Direct answers
$5 / per 1k answers
- Direct answers backed by citations
exa-research
$5 / per 1k tasks
- Agent search operations
- Medium latency
exa-research-pro
$5 / per 1k tasks
- Agent page reads
- Higher latency
Custom
Custom pricing / N/A
- High volume
- Custom datasets
- Enterprise security
- Tailored moderation