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exa.ai
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Web search API and AI web researcher for AI applications; category-defining infrastructure.
👁 761K/mo♥ 1.7K
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
Unlocker API: Starts from $1.05/1k req
Crawl API: Starts from $1.05/1k req
SERP API: Starts from $1.05/1k req
Browser API: Starts from $5.88/GB
Scrapers: Starts from $300/mo
Datasets: Starts from $250/mo
Functions: Starts from $2.7/1k req
RetailInsights: Starts from $1,000/mo
Residential Proxies: Starts from $3.53/GB
Datacenter Proxies: Starts from $0.9/IP
ISP Proxies: Starts from $1.3/IP
Mobile Proxies: Starts from $5.88/GB
Custom Scraper: Starts from $300/mo
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)
- ✦Multi-engine support (Google, Duckduckgo, Bing, Yandex, Baidu)
- ✦Real-time structured SERP data
- ✦Pay-per-successful-request pricing
- ✦Full JavaScript support
- ✦Precise geo-location targeting
- ✦Structured data delivery in JSON or HTML
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
- →Organic keyword tracking
- →Brand protection
- →Price comparison
- →Market research
- →Detect copyright infringements
- →Ad intelligence
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