Exa vs. You.com API
Exa provides more developer flexibility and higher accuracy for RAG use cases.
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%
73.86%
90.04%
*Note, if SimpleQA scores are not provided we try to maximize each API's score
Why Exa ?
Full Developer Control:
Exa allows for more developer control - from filtering by data category, date and domain.
Get contents with Exa:
Exa allows you to get full page contents for web RAG, while you.com only returns snippets.
Livecrawling and sub-pages:
You.com only offers pre-cached snippets, while Exa can support live-crawling and sub-page crawling.
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Features
Keyword Search
Domain Filtering (site: xyz.com)
Neural Search (embeddings based)
Full Page Text Retrieval
Live Crawling (fresh data)
Date Filtering
Filter by Data Category (e.g. company, person, news)