specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Exa
providerId: exa-ai
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - AI
  - Search
  - LLM
  - Agents
description: 'Reconciled plans and per-request pricing for the Exa API — neural web search, contents extraction, answers, research, monitors, agent runs, and websets. Source: exa.ai/pricing and docs.exa.ai.'
sources:
  - https://exa.ai/pricing
  - https://exa.ai/docs/reference/search-api-guide
  - https://exa.ai/docs/websets/api-guide
plans:
  - id: exa-free
    name: Free
    type: free
    description: 1,000 free requests per month with full access to Search, Contents, latency tiers (180ms–1s), and basic features.
    entries:
      - label: Monthly free requests
        name: free-requests
        type: quota
        metric: request
        limit: 1000
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
  - id: exa-search
    name: Search
    type: usage-based
    description: Real-time web search with token-efficient page contents and configurable latency. Pay per 1,000 requests.
    entries:
      - label: Search requests
        name: search-requests
        type: metered
        metric: request
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1000
        price: '7.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Additional results above 10
        name: additional-results
        type: metered
        metric: result
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1000
        price: '1.00'
        userMultiplied: false
  - id: exa-deep-search
    name: Deep Search
    type: usage-based
    description: Multi-step agent workflows with structured outputs and web-grounded citations.
    entries:
      - label: Deep search request (low)
        name: deep-low
        type: metered
        metric: request
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1000
        price: '12.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Deep search request (high)
        name: deep-high
        type: metered
        metric: request
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1000
        price: '15.00'
        userMultiplied: false
  - id: exa-contents
    name: Contents
    type: usage-based
    description: Full page contents for LLM context, with highlights and configurable livecrawl policies.
    entries:
      - label: Pages per content type
        name: contents-pages
        type: metered
        metric: page
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1000
        price: '1.00'
        userMultiplied: false
  - id: exa-monitors
    name: Monitors
    type: usage-based
    description: Scheduled searches that identify fresh events on the web and notify via webhooks.
    entries:
      - label: Monitor runs
        name: monitor-runs
        type: metered
        metric: request
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1000
        price: '15.00'
        userMultiplied: false
  - id: exa-agent
    name: Agent
    type: usage-based
    description: Multi-step Exa Agent runs with effort modes — low, medium, high, x-high — plus search and enrichment add-ons.
    entries:
      - label: Agent run (low effort)
        name: agent-low
        type: metered
        metric: run
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.025'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Agent run (medium effort)
        name: agent-medium
        type: metered
        metric: run
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.10'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Agent run (high effort)
        name: agent-high
        type: metered
        metric: run
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.50'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Agent run (x-high effort)
        name: agent-xhigh
        type: metered
        metric: run
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '2.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Search call inside an agent run
        name: agent-search-call
        type: metered
        metric: call
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.007'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Email enrichment
        name: agent-email-enrich
        type: metered
        metric: enrichment
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.02'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Phone enrichment
        name: agent-phone-enrich
        type: metered
        metric: enrichment
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.07'
        userMultiplied: false
  - id: exa-enterprise
    name: Enterprise
    type: contract
    description: Custom-priced contract for high-volume usage, custom datasets, dedicated support, and SSO.
    entries:
      - label: Custom contract
        name: enterprise-contract
        type: contract
        metric: contract
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: contract
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: 'Contact'
        userMultiplied: false
  - id: exa-startup-grant
    name: Startup/Education Grant
    type: credit
    description: $1,000 in free credits for qualifying startups and educational projects.
    entries:
      - label: Grant credits
        name: grant-credits
        type: credit
        metric: usd
        limit: 1000
        timeFrame: contract
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false