Announcing our Series B
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Search built for AI

One API to connect your products to powerful web search

Search
Websets
New

We built

a search engine
an in-house vector DB
semantic retrieval
a hyper-growth company

from scratch for the AI world

Frontier search powered by our AI research lab

Exa's search engine is developed in-house, allowing for full controllability.

Model
Methodology

We ran a standardized, minimal agent harness with access to Exa, Exa Fast, Brave, and Google as a tool. All search APIs use the default parameters, and models can call the search API up to 5 times in sequence before outputting an answer.

Frames ↗

A dataset released by Google designed to test Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications on factuality, retrieval accuracy, and reasoning

MuSiQue ↗

Multi-hop Questions via Single-hop Question Composition, TACL 2022

SimpleQA ↗

A factuality benchmark released by OpenAI that measures the ability for language models to answer short, fact-seeking questions.

Agentic Search

Evaluated by grading the output of an LLM given access to the search engine as a tool

Accuracy (%)
100%90%80%70%60%50%40%30%20%10%0%
80%
Exa
70%
Exa Fast
64%
Brave
67%
Google
(SERP)
40%
Exa
36%
Exa Fast
38%
Brave
38%
Google
(SERP)
94%
Exa
80%
Exa Fast
78%
Brave
39%
Google
(SERP)
Frames
MuSiQue
SimpleQA

Data for every industry

Regardless of your industry, get the most relevant type of data for you.

Coding Agents

Search Stackoverflow, coding docs, and Github repos. Get access to a model specifically trained on high-accuracy code referencing.

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Coding Agents interface
Finance

Get historical data on market movement, company growth, S&P 500, and the news from any time period. Analyze the past for alpha into the future.

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Finance interface
Recruiting

Top-tier search across LinkedIn and people profiles. Find information on candidates pooled from across the web.

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Recruiting interface
Productivity

Access the whole web to search and summarize recent news, trends, or any personal curiosity.

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Productivity interface
Consulting

Instant in-depth research into any industry or topic, pulling from 10k docs, PDFs, and thousands of web pages. Use Websets to find the experts in any field.

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Consulting interface
Marketing

Search across niche reference material, Reddit, and Twitter. Our search index is updated every minute with the latest news and trends.

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Marketing interface

Filters to search over your own subset of the web

Easily filter by domain, location, semantic category, and more. Tailored search for your exact AI workflow.

Legal papers
Financial data
Shopping data
Coding docs
Legal papers
Financial data
Legal papers
Financial data
Shopping data
Coding docs
Legal papers
Financial data
Legal papers
Github repos
Blog posts
Coding docs
Github repos
Blog posts
Legal papers
Github repos
Blog posts
Coding docs
Github repos
Blog posts

Enterprise-ready

Exa gives you full autonomy with our own search index.
Our high-volume search tiers include comprehensive DPAs, SLAs, and high-capacity rate limits.

Zero Data Retention
Zero Data Retention

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

SOC2 Compliance
SOC2 Certified

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

Single Sign-On
Single-Sign On

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

Trusted by world-class teams

See customer stories
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