Exa: Pricing, Features & Alternatives

Exa runs its own web index and ranks results by meaning rather than keywords, so a query can describe the kind of page wanted ("startups building browser agents that raised a seed round") instead of guessing the words on it. One request can return the result list and the page contents, cleaned as text, highlights or an AI summary, which saves a separate scraping step. Beyond plain search it sells Deep Search, an Answer endpoint, Monitors that re-run a query on a schedule, and an Agent API that runs multi-step research.

Pricing is pay as you go with no subscription. Search is $7 per 1,000 requests for the auto and fast types ($4 for lite), with up to 10 results; contents cost $1 per 1,000 pages per content type. Deep Search is $12 per 1,000. Every account gets $10 of free credit at signup and a balance that resets to $10 on the first of each month. Enterprise adds custom indexes, up to 1,000 results per search and SLAs. As of October 2026.