Exa vs. Tavily API
Exa provides total developer control, full content extraction, and direct answer generation, compared to Tavily's limited customization.
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.
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Why Exa ?
Full Control:
Exa allows domain filtering, category filtering, date filtering, content retrieval or URL-only retrieval and more while Tavily doesn't.
Get 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 has a proprietary search engine and can offer zero data retention, while Tavily does not and relies on routing queries to Google.
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