Exa Review 2026
Web search, built for AI agents
What is Exa?
A web search API built for AI agents, offering search, crawling, contents extraction, and research agents in one platform. Provides token-efficient highlights, structured outputs with citations, and enrichment across 70M+ companies.
Best for
Mixed
Use cases
- Powering AI agent search
- Coding agent context retrieval
- Deep research and list building
- Data enrichment
Key features
Web search API for agents
Website crawling and contents extraction
Deep research agents with structured outputs
Token-efficient highlights
Company and people search verticals
Grounded citations
Pricing
Model
freemium
Price range
Free tier up to 20,000 requests/month; usage-based from $7/1k search requests, deep research and agent runs priced per use; enterprise available.
Free tier
Yes
Integrations
Exa integrates with 2 tools including:
APILLM frameworks
Market position
Market score
48
Share of voice
Category rank
#7 of 117
GTM Developer Tools
60-day move
+27
Places moved
Notable customers
AWSHubSpotDatabricksMonday.comCursorCognitionGroqBrowserbaseLovableGamma
Market data from Adam's GTM Report.
Companies hiring for Exa experience
View all 37 →- LondonGTM150K – 220K
- New York CityGTM$250K – 315K
- San Francisco, CaliforniaGTM$115K – 225K
- San Francisco, CaliforniaGTM$220K – 335K
- LondonGTM180K – 265K
- San Francisco, CaliforniaGTM$165K – 325K
- IndiaGTM$150K – 250K
- LondonGTM200K – 300K
- San Francisco, CaliforniaMarketing$175K – 240K
- LondonMarketing150K – 225K
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