Exa
The fastest, most accurate web search API for AI agents

Exa is a web search API and AI search engine built specifically for AI agents and LLM-powered applications. It offers multiple search modes ranging from fast real-time lookups to deep multi-step reasoning searches, along with specialized indexes for people, companies, research papers, and more. Developers can extract structured content, highlights, and grounded answers from live web data via a simple API.
Developers integrate Exa's API to perform web searches across multiple speed/depth modes and retrieve token-efficient, structured content from live web pages for use in AI workflows
AI developers and engineers building LLM-powered applications and agents
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
- Company
- Exa Labs Inc.
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