Exa
Search and contents API for AI apps.
Where it ranks
- Web search API for agents: Runner-up (62.3/100)
Pricing
Free $10 credits/mo (+$10 bonus); search from $4 per 1k requests.
Source: https://exa.ai/pricing, checked 2026-10-19
Public signals
| GitHub stars | n/a (no public repo tracked) |
|---|---|
| 7-day star change | unknown (needs 7 days of snapshots) |
| Latest stable release | unknown |
| Hacker News, last 30 days | 3 stories, 6 points · top: ATLAS: Evaluating Agents on Search-Intensive Tasksquery |
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Recent releases
- Lite search type, recommended search types, and search warnings Oct 19, 2026 changelog
New type: "lite" on /search for latency- and cost-sensitive work ($4 per 1k requests with up to 10 results, cache-only content). fast, instant and deep-reasoning become legacy. Responses add warnings and notices arrays; exa-py and exa-js 2.26.0 surface them.