Agent-readiness
auth.md
MCP server
llms.txt
OpenAPI
Auth: api_key
Rankings
Overview
Exa is an AI-native web search, people/company search, and enrichment API for building GTM and research agents.
Best for: Developer-led GTM, RevOps, AI SDR, sales intelligence, recruiting, and market-research teams that need programmable people/company discovery, structured web research, and enrichment inside agents or internal workflows.
Pricing
Free Tier
$0/mo
Search
$7/1k requests
Contents
$1/1k pages per content type
Deep Search
$12-15/1k requests
Agent
$0.012-$2.00/run
Monitors
$15/1k requests
Enterprise
Custom
Features
- Real-time AI web search API
- Website crawling and clean page-content extraction
- Token-efficient webpage highlights
- Deep Search and deep-reasoning search with structured outputs
- Web-grounded answers and citations
- Websets for async list building, verification, and enrichment
- People Search over 1B+ professional profiles
- Company Search over 50M+ companies
- Monitors with scheduled searches and webhooks
- Email and phone contact enrichment add-ons
Pros
- Powerful for agentic GTM workflows that need live, structured web data
- Strong people/company search coverage and natural-language list building
- Generous free tier for testing and early usage
- Developer-friendly API, SDKs, MCP, and many AI-framework integrations
Cons
- Usage-based pricing can be harder to forecast than seat-based GTM tools
- Not a full CRM, dialer, email sequencer, or sales-engagement suite by itself
- Some premium data-provider access is per-call and/or requires request-based enablement
- Best results usually require technical setup and thoughtful query, criteria, and enrichment design