Exa Ranks #1 on the Artificial Analysis Search Index
The Exa Team
Oct 19, 2026
The Artificial Analysis Search Index is a leading independent benchmark for search providers. Exa 3.0 ranks #1 for quality, while requiring the fewest search queries per task.
Exa 3.0 introduced improvements across the retrieval stack including:
- Training a larger embedding model with more compute and data than any previous model.
- Making Dynamic Highlights generally available, using 95% fewer tokens than full page text while improving answer quality.
- Adding billions of documents to our index across useful data types like products, local businesses, flights, events, sports, weather, and more.
Exa’s high-quality results let agents do 20% to 50% fewer search queries per task than other providers, while achieving higher accuracy. Budget options like DeepSeek Search end up needing 1.5x more queries than Exa, which eats away at any cost gains they might have.
Read Artificial Analysis’ full report to see more results and details on their evaluation methodology.
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