# Exa

> Search API and agentic search engine that gives AI agents fast, token-efficient access to web and company data

Source: https://dontaskagain.com/exa
Website: https://exa.ai/?utm_source=dontaskagain
Pricing: Freemium
Categories: [Research](https://dontaskagain.com/categories/research.md), [Web scraping](https://dontaskagain.com/categories/web-scraping.md)
Listed: 2026-10-23
Updated: 2026-10-23

Exa is a search engine built for AI agents. Developers' agents and apps use its APIs to search a large index of public web and private data, fetch page contents, run deep research and monitor the web, getting back results, answers or structured output.

**Key features:**

- Search API with latency modes from about 450ms to deep research.
- Categories for news, companies, research papers, people and financials.
- Contents API with token-efficient highlights for LLM context.
- Agent API for asynchronous deep research with cited, structured output.
- Monitors that run searches on a schedule and send updates by webhook.
- Search over GitHub repos and docs for coding agents.

Exa offers an MCP server, a Claude connector, a ChatGPT plugin and 50+ integrations. The free Starter plan includes $10 of credits a month with no payment method. Pay-as-you-go pricing starts at $4 per 1,000 searches, $1 per 1,000 pages of contents and $0.012 to $1 per agent run. Exa is SOC 2 Type II compliant, and Enterprise adds HIPAA, zero data retention, SSO and custom indexes.

## More research agents

- [Manus](https://dontaskagain.com/manus.md): General-purpose agent that turns a prompt into finished slides, websites, research, designs, videos and more
- [ChatGPT agent](https://dontaskagain.com/chatgpt-agent.md): ChatGPT's agent mode, which browses websites, fills forms, runs code and completes multi-step tasks on its own computer
- [Perplexity](https://dontaskagain.com/perplexity.md): Answer engine that searches the web with citations and, via Computer, completes handed-off projects as deliverables
- [Genspark](https://dontaskagain.com/genspark.md): AI workspace whose agents research, write and produce slides, sheets, docs, designs, media and code from one prompt
- [Claude](https://dontaskagain.com/claude.md): Anthropic's assistant that searches the web, runs code, creates files and completes tasks across connected apps
- [Elicit](https://dontaskagain.com/elicit.md): Research agent that searches academic papers and trials, screens studies and writes fully cited reports
- [Consensus](https://dontaskagain.com/consensus.md): Academic search engine that runs deep literature reviews over peer-reviewed papers and shows where evidence agrees
- [You.com](https://dontaskagain.com/you-com.md): Web search, contents and research APIs that give AI agents and LLM apps fresh, cited web results
- [Undermind](https://dontaskagain.com/undermind.md): Research agent that reads hundreds of papers, follows citation trails and reports on the literature you need
- [Parallel](https://dontaskagain.com/parallel.md): Web APIs that let AI agents search, extract, monitor and run cited multi-step research tasks across the web