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Exa

Web search and crawling API built to feed AI applications with live data

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Introduction

Exa is a web search API and AI researcher for developers building AI products. It returns links, full page content, summaries and metadata, and can produce answers grounded in its search results. Its Websets feature finds and enriches data for sales, recruiting and market research.

Added on
Nov 2, 2026
Website
exa.ai
Pricing model
Freemium
Company
Exa

Product information

What is Exa?

Exa is a business-grade web search and crawling service that retrieves real-time data from the web for AI applications, with low latency, live crawling and content moderation.

How to use Exa?

Call the Exa API to search the web, fetch full page contents, summaries and metadata for URLs, or get LLM answers informed by search results. Websets can be used to find and enrich data.

Core features of Exa

  • Web search API
  • Web crawling
  • LLM answers
  • Websets for data enrichment

Use cases of Exa

  1. 1Summarize news on a topic
  2. 2Gather company information across news, socials and databases
  3. 3Collect sources and synthesize them into a report
  4. 4Answer questions with retrieval-augmented generation
  5. 5Find and assess recruiting candidates

Frequently asked questions about Exa

What is Exa Websets?+

Exa Websets is an AI sourcing agent for sales teams, recruiters and knowledge workers who need verifiable results.

What security does Exa offer?+

It lists zero data retention options, SOC2 certification and Data Processing Agreements.

Which category is Exa in?+

Exa is listed under AI Search Engine.

Tags

ai apiai search engineweb crawlingdeveloper toolsai research tool

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