Exa is a modern AI search engine with SERP API, website crawler tools, and deep research API. Power your app with web search AI and web crawling API.

The best search API for AI

Powering agents with fast, high-quality web search

Leading brands search the web with Exa

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Benchmarks

Highest performance across every use case

Best-in-class accuracy and latency across the most challenging benchmarks.

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Perplexity
Brave
Accuracy (%)
0%10%20%30%40%50%60%
54.4%
44.5%
21.6%
54.2%
36.7%
19.3%
36%
34.5%
8.2%
FRAMES
Tip-of-Tongue
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Search API

Powerful features built into your search

Structured outputs
 
Structured Output
"content": {
"companies": [
{
"company_name": "General Electric",
"ceo_name": "Larry Culp",
"founded_year": 1892
},
{
"company_name": "RTX",
"ceo_name": "Christopher T. Calio",
"founded_year": 2020
},
{
"company_name": "Boeing",
"ceo_name": "Kelly Ortberg",
"founded_year": 1916
}
]
},
HubSpot

Extracts structured outputs from Exa's database of 70M+ companies.

Deep web research with structured outputs

Structured outputs enable complex enrichment workflows requiring web search.

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Web index
Cursor

Powers their coding agents with Exa's low-latency web search

Industry-leading web index built for agents

Dedicated high quality web indexes for every use case: people, companies, code docs, financial data, and news.

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Token efficiency

Highlights: On

4K CHARS

Wikipedia - Boeing

airplanes , rotorcraft , rockets , satellites , and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and product support services. Boeing is among the largest global aerospace manufacturers ; it is the fourth-largest defense contractor in the world based on 2022 revenue and is the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value. Boeing was founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle , Washington. The present corporation is the result of the merger of Boeing with McDonnell Douglas on August 1, 1997. As of 2023, the Boeing Company's corporate headquarters is located in the Crystal City neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia .

Lovable

Uses highlights to reduce their token budgets and LLM costs by over 50%

Token-efficient contents makes agents smarter

Highlights extract the most relevant excerpts from pages for your query.

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Enterprise-grade security
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Zero Data Retention

Ensure true privacy and compliance with customized ZDR. All queries and data can be automatically purged based on your requirements.

SOC 2 Type II Certified

Our security framework maintains the highest level of compliance with industry standards. Safe information processing and access control.

Single-Sign On

A seamless, secure login experience for your entire team. Built-in team authentication and authorization management.

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OpenRouter
OpenRouter has a laser focus on bringing a great developer experience to all language models, and Exa is the best way we've found for grounding AI in the real world in a model-agnostic way.
Alex Atallah
Alex Atallah
CEO, OpenRouter
Notion
Exa's powerful search capabilities have been instrumental in delivering the high-quality, relevant web content our users need while maintaining our commitment to privacy and user control.
Sarah Sachs
Sarah Sachs
AI Engineering Lead, Notion
Vercel
This is so powerful. Exa is like Perplexity-as-a-service. The infrastructure to ground your AI products on real world data and facts.
Guillermo Rauch
Guillermo Rauch
CEO, Vercel
Anara
Exa's strong coverage and flexible API have been a key differentiator for us. Scientists trust our product further when the relevant papers they expect to see are available to them in the right workflows. The ability to customize search based on the use case easily, is important.
Naveed Janmohamed
Naveed Janmohamed
CEO, Anara
Flatfile
When we saw companies show up in Exa that we hadn't found anywhere else, we knew it was our best option. It delivers, for a few dollars, what we'd been spending hundreds of thousands to assemble.
David Boskovic
David Boskovic
CEO, Flatfile
WebFX
We use Exa for essentially all parts of our research—gathering sources, documenting, creating notes, and building briefs.
Christopher Varner
Christopher Varner
Head of Results Innovation
StackAI
StackAI and Exa are the dream team…Exa is amazing at web search! We're proud to use Exa on our platform and to show our customers how web search can power AI agent workflows.
Bernard Aceituno
Bernard Aceituno
Co-founder and President, StackAI
Databricks
Models are only as good as the data they're trained on, and Exa's search allowed us to get high quality data we couldn't find any other way.
Jonathan Frankle
Jonathan Frankle
Chief AI scientist, Databricks