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Exa

AI-native search API — semantic search for LLM applications

PriceFree (1,000 searches/mo) / $0.003/searchReviewed2026-03-20

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Exa is a search API built for AI applications. Unlike Google's keyword matching, Exa understands meaning — search for concepts, find similar content, and get clean text extraction from any URL. Used by AI agents for web research.

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The API is exactly what AI agents need — semantic search that returns clean, structured content instead of HTML soup. Integrated it into our agent pipeline in an hour.

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Better than Google Custom Search for AI use cases. The text extraction alone saves you from building a scraping pipeline. Pricing is reasonable for the value.

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Exa is building the search layer for the agentic web. As AI agents need to research and gather information, Exa becomes essential infrastructure.

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