What is Exa?
Web search and page extraction built for AI agents.
Who is Exa best for?
Exa is best for developers building AI agents that need live web search and clean page text.
Coding agents
Search reaches GitHub repos, docs and changelogs, with options under 200 ms that fit inside an agent's loop.
Chatbots and voice assistants
Results come back as page text and highlights, with latency you can set from 180 ms to 1 second, to ground replies in current pages.
Lead and company research
People and company indexes, contact enrichment and third-party data providers feed list-building and enrichment runs.
News and change monitoring
Monitors run a search on a schedule and send new results to a webhook.
How much does Exa cost?
Exa is free to start with $10 of API credits every month, then pay as you go: Search costs $7 per 1,000 requests and page contents $1 per 1,000 pages.
- $10 of API credits every month, no card needed
- Every endpoint, plus MCP server, Claude and ChatGPT connectors
- 10 searches per second, 50 agent runs at once
- Contents $1 per 1,000 pages, Deep Search $12 to $15 per 1,000
- Agent runs $0.012 to $1.00 each, by effort level
- Up to 25 searches per second, email support
Search's $7 covers up to 10 results; each extra result adds $1 per 1,000 requests, and AI page summaries cost $1 per 1,000 pages. Monitors cost $15 and Answer $5 per 1,000 requests. In auto mode, Agent bills $0.10 per compute unit and $0.005 per search, and contact lookups cost $0.02 per email or $0.07 per phone number. Enterprise is priced on request, with zero data retention, HIPAA, SSO and up to 1,000 results per search. Startups and education projects can apply for up to $1,000 in free credits. Full pricing on exa.ai. We checked these prices on .
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How do I connect Exa Labs to my AI agent?
Exa Labs MCP is Exa Labs's official MCP server. Add it to your agent once, then ask it to search the live web, code and research sources with Exa.
Connects your agent to Exa's search engine, so it can find current pages, code examples and in-depth research on a topic. It is free and open source.
$ claude mcp add --transport http exa-labs https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp
Claude Code connects to Exa Labs over the web.
Exa Labs's setup guide covers the sign-in.
Then ask your agent
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- On the web
- Sign-in
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Questions about Exa
What is Exa?
Web search and page extraction built for AI agents.
Who is Exa for?
Exa is best for developers building AI agents that need live web search and clean page text.
Is Exa free?
Yes. Exa's Starter plan is free, with $10 of API credits every month, no payment method and access to every endpoint. Past that, the Developer plan bills per request, from $7 per 1,000 searches, and startups or education projects can apply for up to $1,000 in credits.
How much does Exa cost?
Exa's paid plans are Developer at $7 per 1,000 searches, pay as you go.
Does Exa Labs have an MCP server?
Yes. Exa Labs MCP is Exa Labs's official MCP server, so agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and GitHub Copilot can search the live web, code and research sources with Exa. Exa Labs runs it on the web.
Where can I try Exa?
On its official website, exa.ai.
Does Exa work with Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?
Yes. Exa runs an MCP server for Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients, plus a Claude connector and a ChatGPT plugin, all on the free Starter plan. The hosted MCP server can even be tried without an API key at low usage.
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