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Exa Search API
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Exa Search API is a paid API for AI agents from api.exa.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.007/call, status healthy (last checked 2026-10-12, last successful call 2026-10-07).
Searches the web using neural, keyword, or AI-powered search modes and returns full page content, highlights, or summaries
Price / call$0.007typically ~$0.0070/call
Success98%
StatusHealthy
How this service works
Exa /search endpoint
Output
Returns a list of up to 10 web results (capped at 10 for x402), each potentially including the full page text, extracted highlights, and/or an AI-generated summary, along with URL and title metadata.
Example use cases
Research papers on a topic
“Do a semantic search for recent research papers and articles about CRISPR gene editing therapies, and give me the top 5 results with summaries so I can get up to speed quickly.”
Find authoritative sources for fact-checking
“I need to fact-check a claim that electric vehicles have a higher lifetime carbon footprint than gas cars — search the web using neural mode and pull back highlights from the most authoritative sources you can find.”
Latest news on a company
“Search the web for the latest news about OpenAI from the past few weeks and give me 5 results with summaries and the published dates so I can see what's been happening.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://api.exa.ai/search?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose Exa Search when you need semantically rich web search with neural or AI-powered relevance ranking, or when you need full page text/highlights/summaries returned inline rather than just URLs. Prefer over generic search APIs when conceptual similarity matters more than keyword matching, or when you need the 'deep' or 'deep-reasoning' modes for thorough research tasks.
Side effects
- Invalid search type enum value returns 400 error
- numResults exceeds 10 for x402 tier returns error
- Empty or missing query string causes validation failure
- Network timeout on deep or deep-reasoning search types due to longer processing
- Payment not processed correctly via x402 protocol results in 402 response
Input
{
"type": "neural",
"query": "artificial intelligence",
"contents": {
"text": true,
"summary": true,
"highlights": true
},
"numResults": 5
}Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| type | string | Search type: auto, keyword, neural, deep-lite, deep, deep-reasoning |
| query | string | Search query |
| contents | object | Content fields to include: text, highlights, summary |
| numResults | number | Number of results to return (max 10 for x402) |
Output
{
"_bytes": 262144,
"_preview": "{\"requestId\":\"c20e215d2bf8d947de06c66fcef85e76\",\"resolvedSearchType\":\"\",\"results\":[{\"id\":\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence\",\"title\":\"Artificial intelligence\",\"url\":\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence\",\"publishedDate\":\"2026-05-26T00:00:00.000Z\",\"score\":1,\"text\":\"Artificial intelligence\\n\\nArtificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of research in engineering, mathematics and computer science that develops and studies methods and software that enable machines to perceive their environment and use learning and intelligence to take actions that maximize their chances of achieving defined goals.\\n\\nHigh-profile applications of AI include advanced web search engines, chatbots, virtual assistants, autonomous vehicles, and play and analysis in strategy games(e.g., chess and Go). Since the 2020s, generative AI has become widely available to generate images, audio, and videos from text prompts.\\n\\nThe traditional goals of AI research include learning, reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, natural language processing, and perception, as well as support for robotics. To reach these goals, AI researchers have used techniques including state space search and mathematical optimization, formal logic, artificial neural networks, and methods based on statistics, operations research, and economics. AI also draws upon psychology, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, and other fields. Some companies, such as OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Meta, aim to create artificial general intelligence(AGI) – AI that can complete virtually any cognitive task at least as well as a human.\\n\\nArtificial intelligence was founded as an academic discipline in 1956, and the field went through multiple cycles of optimism throughout its history, followed by periods of disappointme",
"_truncated": true,
"_contentType": "application/json; charset=utf-8"
}Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"results": [
{
"url": "https://example.com",
"score": 0.99,
"title": "Example"
}
]
}
}Tags
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Reviews
Exa's /search endpoint delivers consistently reliable structured results across diverse query types — people research, multilingual regulatory lookups, date-bounded social content, and academic paper discovery — with clean JSON output and fast response times. Accuracy ratings are predominantly 5/5, with minor dips on travel and geographic queries where older or unverified sources occasionally appear. Overall sentiment is strongly positive, making it a dependable fallback or primary search layer for agent workflows.
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