Exa is pay-as-you-go. There is no subscription and no minimum spend: you load credits and are charged per request, at the rates below.
Start for free. New accounts get $20 in free credits (around 2,800 searches) and the Free Tier adds $10 in credits every month. Get an API key and start building.Scaling up? For high volume, custom indexes, higher rate limits, SLAs, or Zero Data Retention, talk to us about an Enterprise plan with volume discounts.
Products
Search
$7 / 1k requestsReal-time search with token-efficient page contents.
Deep Search
$12–15 / 1k requestsMulti-step research with structured outputs and citations.
Contents
$1 / 1k pagesFull page text, highlights, and summaries for known URLs.
Answer
$5 / 1k requestsAn LLM answer to a question, with citations.
Monitors
$15 / 1k requestsScheduled searches that surface new events on the web.
Agent
$0.012–$1.00 / runAsync deep research, list building, and enrichment.
Search, Contents, Answer, and Monitors
Each endpoint has a base price per request that includes up to 10 results. Additional results and Exa-generated page summaries are billed on top.Agent
Set a fixedeffort on Agent for a predictable per-request price:
With the default
effort: "auto" the run is metered instead, billing what it actually uses up to $5 per run:
Deep Search
Set withtype on /search. Additional results and AI page summaries cost the same as standard search.
Enterprise
For high volume, custom datasets, and stricter security requirements.Powerful search
Up to 1,000 results per search, requests above 25 results, custom rate limits (QPS), tailored moderation, and custom indexes.
Enterprise support
SLAs and MSAs, 1:1 onboarding and support, and Zero Data Retention.
Custom pricing
Volume discounts and postpaid invoice billing.
Talk to us
Get a quote for enterprise volume and terms
Cost glossary
Request
Request
One API call to an endpoint. Prices are quoted per 1,000 requests, so a $7 / 1k rate is $0.007 per call.
Result
Result
One search result returned in a response. The base price covers the first 10 results in a request; every result above 10 adds $1 / 1k results. Requesting
numResults: 20 therefore costs the base price plus 10 additional results.Page and content type
Page and content type
A page is one URL that Exa returns content for. A content type is one view of that page:
text, highlights, or summary. /contents bills each content type separately, so one page with text and highlights counts as two.AI page summary
AI page summary
An Exa-generated summary of a page, produced by an extra LLM call on our side. Billed at $1 / 1k pages on any endpoint that returns one.
Agent Compute Unit (ACU)
Agent Compute Unit (ACU)
The unit of model computation an Agent run consumes, reported as
usage.agentComputeUnits. Longer runs, larger input.data, and more reasoning steps consume more ACUs.Effort
Effort
The Agent parameter that trades cost and latency against thoroughness.
auto bills by consumption (ACUs plus tool calls); a fixed value bills a flat price per request. See Agent effort modes.Contact enrichment
Contact enrichment
An Agent lookup that returns an email address or phone number for a person or company. Billed per contact found, on top of the run’s other costs.
Credits
Credits
Prepaid dollar balance on your account. Usage draws down credits at the rates above.
Billing
Add credits, set up auto recharge, and find your invoices