exa-ai
Exa is a web search API built specifically for AI agents, offering fast, token-efficient, and citation-grounded search results, structured enrichments across millions of companies, and enterprise-grade privacy and security controls.
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exa-ai
Exa provides a web search API specifically designed to power AI agents and agentic workflows. It emphasizes token-efficient highlights and concise excerpts to reduce model input size while preserving grounding and citations, and offers structured enrichments across large knowledge sets (notably company data). The platform advertises very low latency (Exa Instant returns under 180ms), best-in-class accuracy across demanding retrieval benchmarks (FRAMES, Tip-of-Tongue, Seal0), and enterprise-grade security controls including Zero Data Retention, SOC 2 Type II certification, and Single-Sign On. The product is targeted at teams building coding agents, research and crawling agents, and other production agent workflows.
Exa is a web search API and AI web researcher for AI applications.
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Search API for AI Agents
A web search API designed to make agents smarter and provide context across docs, repos, and the web ("Search API Designed to make your Agent smarter", "Web search, built for AI agents").
Token-efficient highlights
Specialized model extracts concise excerpts and highlights to reduce token usage (claims up to 90% token reduction and concise excerpts powering up to 25T tokens passed to models each week).
Structured enrichments
Extracts structured enrichments across 70M+ companies and returns structured outputs with grounded citations ("Extracts enrichments as structured outputs across 70M+ companies").
Low-latency Instant search
Exa Instant returns results in under 180ms, enabling fast agent interactions and low-latency retrieval.
Benchmark-leading accuracy
Claims best-in-class accuracy across challenging retrieval benchmarks including FRAMES, Tip-of-Tongue, and Seal0.
API Playground & Try API
Interactive API Playground and 'Try API for free' onboarding to test the API and examples before integration.
Enterprise security controls
Provides Zero Data Retention options, SOC 2 Type II certification, and Single-Sign On for team access control and compliance.
Pricing
Try API for free via the API Playground (site offers a free try/test option); no explicit paid tier prices shown on the page.
Use Cases
Coding agents
Power coding assistants with token-efficient search across documentation and code repositories to supply concise context to models ("Powers their coding agents with smart token-efficient search across docs and repos").
Research and crawling agents
Configure for fast results or deep research with structured outputs and grounded citations to support research agents and data collection pipelines.
Enterprise search and enrichment
Provide company and people search, structured enrichments across large company datasets, and agentic lead-generation workflows (case study mentions powering lead engines and company/person search verticals).
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Getting Started
- 1 Visit the Exa website and sign up for access (site provides Sign up and Contact Sales links).
- 2 Try the API using the API Playground or the 'Try API for free' option to experiment with endpoints and highlights.
- 3 Integrate the Search API into your agent or application to retrieve token-efficient excerpts, structured enrichments, and grounded citations.
Support
Docs
Product documentation and developer docs accessible via the site's Docs link.
Contact Sales
Contact Sales link for enterprise inquiries and custom deployments.
API Dashboard
Developer dashboard and API management available (API Dashboard link in navigation).
Community & Social
Community and updates via Twitter and Discord links in the site navigation.
GitHub
Repository and developer resources linked via GitHub in the site footer/navigation.
API
https://exa.ai/docs
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