Exa

Depot pick for research-style agent search. Pair with Firecrawl when you need full page content.

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Depot pick for research-style agent search. Pair with Firecrawl when you need full page content. Strengths: Semantic/neural search quality; Excellent for research agents; Clean developer API.

Overall

8.3

curated_estimate

confidence: high · as of 2026-10-19

Capability fit

9.0

Price / performance

8.2

Latency / reliability

8.4

Developer & agent DX

9.2

Privacy / data retention

7.5

Lock-in risk (higher = worse)

4.5

Maturity / track record

8.0

Lock-in risk: higher = more lock-in (worse). Overall already inverts this dimension.

Sources: Exa: https://exa.ai

Depot pick for research-style agent search. Pair with Firecrawl when you need full page content.

Strengths

· Semantic/neural search quality
· Excellent for research agents
· Clean developer API

Weaknesses

· Different recall profile than keyword SERP
· Cost at high volume
· Complement not always replace keyword search

Pricing notes

Neural/embeddings-oriented web search API; usage-based; great for research agents.

Regions: globalLast reviewed: 2026-10-19Status: active

Sourced pricing

Contract status unit_mismatch · unit_mismatch. Single normalized $/1M: null. Machine list: /api/pricing?provider=exa

Search instant base up to 10 results · usd_per_1k_requests · $4 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
Search fast/auto base up to 10 results · usd_per_1k_requests · $7 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
Search deep base up to 10 results · usd_per_1k_requests · $12 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
Search deep-reasoning base up to 10 results · usd_per_1k_requests · $15 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
Answer base · usd_per_1k_requests · $5 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
Monitors base · usd_per_1k_requests · $15 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
Additional result above 10 · usd_per_1k_requests · $1 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
Contents · usd_per_1k_pages · $1 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
AI page summaries · usd_per_1k_pages · $1 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
Agent compute · usd_per_acu · $0.1 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
Agent search tool call · usd_per_search · $0.005 · unit_mismatch · normalized null
Agent effort minimal · usd_per_request · $0.012 · unit_mismatch · normalized null

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