Exa vs. Perplexity Sonar API
Exa provides full developer control, returns full page contents, and is cheaper compared to Perplexity's API.
Try the API for freeExa outperforms the competition
Exa's search combined keyword and embedding based search to achieve best-in-class scores in result accuracy, giving your LLM the highest quality data.
Checkout our API PageSimple QA comparison Scores
38.40%
88.70%
90.04%
*Note, if SimpleQA scores are not provided we try to maximize each API's score
Why Exa ?
Full Control:
Exa allows domain filtering, category filtering, date filtering, custom prompts and more, while Perplexity does not.
Get URLs and contents:
Go beyond LLM answers, choose between getting URLs, full page contents, snippets, and even enable sub-page crawling
Higher rate limits:
Exa can reach 100s of QPS, while Perplexity maxes at 30 QPS
Compare by features
Features
AI Answering
Customizable
Fixed Output
Keyword Search
Neural Search (embeddings based)
Full Page Text Retrieval
Filter by Domain (site: xyz.com)
Filter by Data category (e.g. company, person, news)
Not dependent on Google
QPS
5-100 QPS
1-30 QPS