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exa.ai
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Web search API and AI web researcher for AI applications; category-defining infrastructure.
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Pricing
Free: $0 (20,000 requests/month)
Search: $7 per 1k requests (up to 10 results)
Contents: $1 per 1k pages
Deep Search: $12-15 per 1k requests
Monitors: $15 per 1k requests
Free trial available
DEVELOPER: FREE
STARTER: $119 / month
GROWTH: $599 / month
ENTERPRISE: Starting at $1,800 / month
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Web Search API
- ✦Web Crawling
- ✦LLM Answers
- ✦Websets for data enrichment
- ✦Developer-first platform for AI-powered integrations
- ✦Secure, isolated sandboxes for running JavaScript/Python code
- ✦Automatic management of npm/PyPI dependencies
- ✦Built-in platform plumbing: secrets, webhooks, scheduling, logs, and audit
- ✦Yep Agent (prompt → runnable processes)
- ✦MCP Server/Tools (convert code into AI agent tools)
- ✦Serverless runtime (YepCode Run) and SDK access
- ✦Fast tensor operations
- ✦Differentiable tensors for gradient-based optimization
- ✦Network connectivity
- ✦Integration with Bun and Flashlight
- ✦Support for GPU computation with CUDA (Linux) and CPU computation (macOS)
Use cases
- →Summarize news on any topic
- →Collect information about a company across news, socials, and databases
- →Search for relevant sources and synthesize into a reliable report
- →Ask questions and get answers with RAG
- →Find and evaluate potential candidates for recruiting
- →Building complex API integrations that require custom code and logic beyond what no-code tools offer.
- →Safely running AI-generated scripts in isolated environments with secrets management.
- →Automating workflows that require large datasets, loops, branching, or custom dependencies.
- →Connecting AI agents to external databases, APIs, and services using MCP tools.
- →Creating and manipulating datasets
- →Training small machine learning models
- →Implementing advanced training and inference logic
- →Building applications that require tensor computations
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