- Starting price
- $0.012–$1.00per run
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Website
- exa.ai
- Social media
- @exaailabs
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 pricingPlans and prices as listed on exa.ai as of Sep 24, 2026.
Starter
$0 / monthly
- Free $10 credits per month
- MCP server access
- Claude Connector
- ChatGPT plugin
- 50+ integrations
- Access to all endpoints
- 10 Search Queries Per Second (QPS)
- 50 Agent concurrency
Developer
$0 / pay as you go
- Everything in starter
- PAYGO usage-based billing
- Standard email support
- Pay via card or bank account
- SOC 2 Type II
- Up to 25 Search QPS
- 50 Agent concurrency
Enterprise
$0 / custom
- Everything in developer
- Custom MSA and DPA
- Zero data retention
- SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA
- Monthly invoicing
- SSO and SCIM for Exa Dashboard
- Organization unified billing
- Enterprise support with dedicated Slack channel
- Enterprise SLAs
- Custom Search QPS & Agent Concurrencies
- Up to 1,000 results per search
Agent
$0.012–$1.00 / per run
- Asynchronous deep research runs
- Structured outputs with citations
- Access to leading data providers
Contents
$1 / per 1k pages
- Full page contents for LLM context
- Token efficient highlights
- Configurable livecrawl policies
Search
$7 / per 1k requests
- Web search tool calls for agents
- Webpage text and highlights
- Configurable latency: 180ms to 1s
Deep Search
$12–15 / per 1k requests
- Multi-step agent workflows
- Answers with structured outputs
- Web grounded citations
Monitors
$15 / per 1k requests
- Identify fresh events on the web
- Runs searches at a specified cadence
- Receive updates with webhooks
