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Exa
Last updated 2026-08-04 · benchmark measured 2026-08-04 — deterministic & reproducible
Exa is a web search and crawling API for AI applications and agents.
Is Exa production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Exa 86 out of 100 — the simple average of its 6 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 Standards. 6 of the seven frames returned a score; Accessibility was not measurable on this service and is recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 80/100
- Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
- Security — 100/100
- Privacy — 75/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 75/100
- Discoverability — 85/100
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 — 137 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.
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