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Exa
Last updated 2026-08-04 · benchmark measured 2026-10-30 — deterministic & reproducible
Exa is a web search and crawling API for AI applications and agents.
Exa at a glance
Exa is a web search and crawling API that provides real-time search, page contents, deep research, and monitoring for AI applications and agents.
Good for
- Giving coding agents low-latency search across docs, repos, and Stack Overflow
- Building chatbots or voice agents that need real-time web search results with citations
- Running scheduled web monitoring that sends updates via webhooks
Pricing
Free tier: $10 credits/month + $10 bonus. Search $4-7/1k requests, Deep Search $12-15/1k, Contents $1/1k pages, Monitors $15/1k, Agent $0.012-$1.00/run. Enterprise: custom.
Questions people ask
What can I build with Exa?
Exa is designed for AI agents, coding agents, chatbots, voice agents, and LLM applications that need web search, page contents, or ongoing web monitoring.
How fast is Exa's search?
Search latency ranges from about 180ms to 1 second depending on the configuration you choose.
Does Exa support structured outputs and citations?
Yes, Deep Search and Agent runs provide structured outputs with web-grounded citations.
Is there a free way to try Exa?
Yes, the Starter plan is free and includes $10 in credits per month plus a $10 onboarding bonus, with no payment method required.
Can Exa notify me about new web content automatically?
Yes, the Monitors API runs searches on a specified schedule and sends updates through webhooks.
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Legit.Show scored Exa 90/100 on 2026-10-30, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/exa-ai/2026-10-30
Is Exa production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Exa 90 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Exa (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 49/100
- Accessibility — 92/100
- Security — 100/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
- Privacy — 100/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 89/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 158 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who built it
Will Bryk, Jeff Wang · product account @ExaAILabs
Who it's for
AI agents · Coding agents · Chatbots · Voice agents · LLM applications
Pricing
Free tier with $20 credits on sign-up; Search $7/1k requests; Deep Search $12-15/1k requests; Contents $1/1k pages; Monitors $15/1k requests; Agent $0.012-$1.00/run; Enterprise custom pricing
Sources and updates
- Description
- Taken from exa.ai's own website on 2026-08-04.
- Operator
- Exa Labs Inc., as named in exa.ai's terms, privacy page or footer.
- Benchmark
- Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-10-30.
Put together from public information, without Exa's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.
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