Search built for models\, not people.
Exa searches the web by meaning rather than keywords and returns clean structured content ready to feed a language model — the retrieval layer for grounded AI applications.
Pricing is pure usage: $7 per 1\,000 searches with $20 in starting credits and $10 monthly free. No seats\, no subscription\, costs that scale with what you actually build. This is developer infrastructure\, not a consumer tool.
Quick Information
Platform
Web
Pricing
Free credits + usage-based pricing
API
Available
Category
Search
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Neural search by meaning\, not keywords
- Content returned model-ready
- $20 starting credit plus $10 monthly free
- Pure usage pricing — no seats
- Zero data retention available
Cons
- Developer product — needs engineering
- Costs scale directly with volume
- Deep Search and Agent tiers get expensive
- Not a consumer search tool