Exa
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About Exa
Exa is a search API that gives AI agents access to real-time web data and structured content.
Developers building AI agents and applications use Exa to retrieve current web information for their projects. It suits teams building agents that need to search across general web content, news, companies, research, people, and financial data.
- Search across full web, news, companies, research, people, and financials
- Returns results in under 180ms
- Extracts relevant excerpts to reduce tokens by up to 90%
- Covers company search, people search, and code search
Good to know: Free API trial available; serves 500,000 developers.
Key features
- Fast search results: Exa Instant returns results in under 180ms, faster than other search providers.
- Token-efficient excerpts: Highlights feature extracts the most relevant web excerpts, reducing tokens passed to models by up to 90%.
- Specialized search verticals: Handles company search, people search, and code search alongside general web queries.
At a glance
- Category: AI Research
- Type: Web scraping & data extraction
- Jobs: Research & Analyze
- Evidence: Not yet reviewed
- Website: exa.ai
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Sources: Details checked on the tool’s own website · Researched by AI Made Easy
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