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Use cases

Developer

Pay as you go

Use the Search API with no commitment with our flexible per-request pricing

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Everything in starter, plus:

  • PAYGO usage-based billing
  • Standard email support
  • Pay via card or bank account
  • SOC 2 Type II
  • 10 Search QPS
  • 25 Agent concurrency

Data

  • Self-serve Exa Connect data providers

Enterprise

Custom

Tailored for your organization to solve for large scale requirements and enterprise needs

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Everything in developer, plus:

  • Custom MSA and DPA
  • Zero data retention
  • SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA
  • Monthly invoicing
  • SSO for Exa Dashboard
  • Enterprise support with dedicated Slack channel
  • Enterprise SLAs
  • Custom Search QPS & Agent Concurrencies
  • Up to 1,000 results per search

Data

  • Custom, tailored indexes
  • Premium Exa Connect data providers
  • Bring your own data provider

Products

Search
$7/1k requests

Web search tool calls for agents

Webpage text and highlights

Configurable latency: 180ms to 1s

Agent
$0.012–$1.00/run

Asynchronous deep research runs

Structured outputs with citations

Access leading data providers

Contents
$1/1k pages per content type

Full page contents for LLM context

Token efficient highlights

Configurable livecrawl policies

Reasoning...
{
"name":
"ceo":
"founded":
}
Deep Search
$12–15/1k requests

Multi-step agent workflows

Answers with structured outputs

Web grounded citations

Daily at 9:00AM
Weekly, Mondays
Daily at 6:00PM
Monitors
$15/1k requests

Identify fresh events on the web

Runs searches at a specified cadence

Receive updates with webhooks

Use cases

Coding agents

Search over millions of GitHub repos, docs, and Stack Overflow with high-accuracy code retrieval.

  • Search docs, repos, and changelogs in real time
  • Use sub-200ms search options inside latency-sensitive agent loops
  • Ground code generation with current package and API references
Docs SearchRepo SearchChangelog Lookup

Exa Search

$7/1k requests
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Customer Stories

Cursor uses Exa to get the latest docs for more accurate code

Coding agents use Exa for low latency search across millions of repos.

Endpoint pricing

EndpointSearchDeep SearchDeep-Reasoning SearchContentsMonitorsAnswer
Base price, with up to 10 results(per 1k requests)$7$12$15$1(per 1k pages)$15$5
Cost per additional result above 10(per 1k requests)$1$1$1-$1-
AI page summaries(per 1k pages)$1$1$1$1$1-

Agent pricing

By default, Agent uses effort: auto. Compute and tool usage scale to the task. Choose a fixed effort mode for predictable per-request pricing.

For request parameters, run lifecycle events, and examples, see the Agent docs.

Usage components

Agent Compute Units$0.10 / ACU
Search tool calls$0.005 / search
Email contact enrichment$0.02 / email
Phone contact enrichment$0.07 / phone number

Fixed effort modes*

Minimal$0.012 / request
Low$0.025 / request
Medium$0.10 / request
High$0.50 / request
X-high$1.00 / request

*Contact enrichment for emails and phone numbers is billed separately.

Exa Connect pricing

Pull live data from specialized third-party providers through a single Exa integration. Billed on top of Agent usage.

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Self-serve providers

Jinko
Financial Datasets
Affiliate.com
Particle
Fiber.ai
Baselayer
Similarweb

Available on request

ZoomInfo
Crunchbase
Harmonic
DefinitiveHealthcare

Benefits

No separate contracts or API key required for self-serve providers
Bring-your-own-key supported for any data provider
Integrate a data provider you already use with Exa
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Startup and Education Grants

Build comprehensive web search into your startup or education project—for free.

$1000 worth of free credits

Build, launch, and test search