Exa vs. Perplexity Sonar API
Exa offers full developer control, page content retrieval, and significantly higher limits on domain filtering, results, and concurrency compared to Perplexity.
Try the API for freeExa outperforms the competition
Exa's search combines keyword and embedding-based search to achieve best-in-class scores in result accuracy, giving your LLM the highest quality data.
Explore our APISimple QA comparison Scores
88.70%
90.04%
*Note, if SimpleQA scores are not provided we try to maximize each API's score
Why Exa?
Full Control:
Exa offers flexible search types tailored to quality, speed, or cost needs, plus higher limits on domain filtering and number of results returned compared to Perplexity.
Get URLs and contents:
Go beyond LLM answers, choose between getting URLs, full page contents, snippets, or structured output based on your desired schema.
Higher rate limits:
Exa can reach 100s of QPS, while Perplexity maxes at 30 QPS
Compare by features
Features
AI Answering
Filter by Domain (site: xyz.com)
Starter Credits
Full Page Text Retrieval
Filter by Data category (e.g. company, news, people)
Not dependent on Google
Maximum Results
100
20
QPS
5-100
1-30