Exa vs. Serper API
Exa provides full developer control, neural search, and direct answer generation, compared to Serper's limited controllability.
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%
75.10%
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, content retrieval or URL-only retrieval and more. while Serper just returns Google's default results.
Get page contents:
Go beyond just URLs, get full page contents, summaries, or snippets. You can also enable sub-page crawling and live crawling.
Privacy-Focused:
Exa can offer zero data retention while Serper cannot.
Compare by features
Features
Keyword Search
(via Google)
Filter by Domain (site: xyz.com)
Full Page Text Retrieval
Neural Search (embeddings based)
Answer Generation (LLM)
Live Crawling (fresh data)
Sub-page Crawling
Privacy-Focused
(Google logs queries)
Filter by Data Category (e.g. company, person, news)