aid: exa
name: Exa
description: >-
  Exa is a neural web search API designed for AI agents and applications. It
  combines a purpose-built web index with embedding-based retrieval to deliver
  highly relevant results across categories such as full web, news, companies,
  research, people, and financials. Exa exposes search, contents, find similar,
  and answer endpoints, with multiple search modes ranging from fast
  sub-second responses to deeper multi-step research. It also returns
  token-efficient highlights and summaries that reduce LLM input costs and
  supports structured output extraction across more than 70 million indexed
  companies. Exa is SOC 2 Type II certified, offers Zero Data Retention, and
  ships Python and JavaScript SDKs.
type: Index
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Search
  - Neural Search
  - AI Agents
  - LLMs
  - Web Index
  - Retrieval
  - Answer
  - Contents
  - Find Similar
  - Research
  - SOC 2
  - MCP
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/exa/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
  - aid: exa:search-api
    name: Exa Search API
    description: >-
      The Exa Search API provides neural web search, contents retrieval, find
      similar, and grounded answers for AI agents. Multiple speed modes range
      from fast 250ms searches to deep research lasting tens of seconds, and
      category indexes cover companies, people, news, and research papers.
    humanURL: https://exa.ai/docs
    baseURL: https://api.exa.ai
    tags:
      - Search
      - Contents
      - Find Similar
      - Answer
      - Highlights
      - Summaries
      - REST
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://exa.ai/docs
      - type: GettingStarted
        url: https://dashboard.exa.ai/onboarding
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://dashboard.exa.ai
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://exa.ai/docs/reference/search
      - type: SDK
        url: https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-py
      - type: SDK
        url: https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-js
      - type: GitHubRepository
        url: https://github.com/exa-labs
      - type: Pricing
        url: https://exa.ai/pricing
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://dashboard.exa.ai/api-keys
    features:
      - name: Neural Search
        description: Embedding-based search across a purpose-built web index optimized for AI agents.
      - name: Contents API
        description: Extract clean page contents and highlights from URLs returned by search.
      - name: Find Similar
        description: Discover semantically similar pages given a seed URL.
      - name: Answer API
        description: Generate grounded answers with citations using live search results.
      - name: Speed Modes
        description: Fast, Auto, and Deep modes trade latency for comprehensiveness and reasoning depth.
      - name: Category Indexes
        description: Specialized indexes for companies, people, news, research papers, and financials.
      - name: Structured Output
        description: Extract structured JSON from results using an output schema across 70M+ companies.
      - name: Token-Efficient Highlights
        description: Return condensed highlights to reduce LLM input tokens by up to 90 percent.
      - name: Enterprise Controls
        description: SOC 2 Type II, Zero Data Retention option, and SSO for enterprise customers.
    useCases:
      - name: Agent Web Search
        description: Equip agents with a web search tool tuned for relevance and freshness.
      - name: Deep Research
        description: Run multi-step research with citation-grounded answers and contents.
      - name: Competitor and Market Intel
        description: Find similar companies, monitor news, and extract structured firmographics.
      - name: RAG Over the Web
        description: Use search and contents endpoints as a web retrieval layer for RAG pipelines.
      - name: Lead and People Search
        description: Query the People and Companies indexes for sales and recruiting workflows.
    integrations:
      - name: LangChain
      - name: LlamaIndex
      - name: CrewAI
      - name: Vercel AI SDK
      - name: OpenAI
      - name: Anthropic
      - name: Model Context Protocol
      - name: LangGraph
      - name: Pydantic AI
      - name: Mastra
    authentication:
      - type: API Key
        description: Authenticate with an API key via the x-api-key header.
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://exa.ai
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://exa.ai/docs
  - type: Blog
    url: https://exa.ai/blog
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/exa-labs
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://exa.ai/pricing
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://exa.ai/terms
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://exa.ai/privacy-policy
  - type: Discord
    url: https://discord.gg/HCShtBqbfV
  - type: X
    url: https://x.com/exaailabs
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/exa-ai
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com