# Vaaya Exa Search

> Vaaya Exa Search is a paid API for AI agents from vaaya.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Performs AI-powered web search via Exa using neural, keyword, or deep search modes and returns relevant results

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://vaaya.ai/api/run/exa/search
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/vaaya-exa-search-f3005a2c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nJjFCf2HXuZLAuUZ_rkxw

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability vaaya-exa-search-f3005a2c -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the web for the top 10 recent articles about AI agent frameworks using neural search — I want the most semantically relevant results, not just keyword matches.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need AI-powered semantic web search (neural mode) rather than basic keyword search, especially for go-to-market research, contact enrichment, or discovering relevant web content without setting up your own Exa API account. Ideal for agents that need plug-and-play search with no API key management, paid per call at $0.01 USDC.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or missing query returns a validation error
- numResults exceeding 100 triggers a schema violation
- Invalid search type enum value causes request rejection
- Exa upstream outage may result in timeout or error response
- Insufficient USDC balance causes payment failure via x402

## How this service works

Exa — semantic web search via our API key. numResults up to 100. For people/lead discovery set category:"people" with an open ICP query.

## Output

A list of web search results from Exa including URLs, titles, and content snippets relevant to the query, filtered and ranked by the chosen search type (neural, keyword, deep, etc.)

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
     "required": [
      "query"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "type": {
       "enum": [
        "auto",
        "neural",
        "keyword",
        "deep-lite",
        "deep",
        "deep-reasoning"
       ],
       "type": "string"
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string",
       "minLength": 1
      },
      "contents": {},
      "numResults": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 100,
       "exclusiveMinimum": 0
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/vaaya-exa-search-f3005a2c/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from vaaya.ai](https://www.zero.xyz/host/vaaya.ai/llms.txt)