// scorecard · 66/100
verified 1mo agoAgent-readiness20/35
Agent registration (api_key)6/9
Public API5/5
OpenAPI spec0/9
MCP server9/9
llms.txt0/3
Reliability & performance12/15
Actively maintained8/8
Production-ready4/4
Updated recently—
Pricing12/13
Itemized public pricing6/6
Free tier / trial4/4
Free-tier generosity2/3
Docs & DX10/12
Docs quality8/8
Public API2/2
Quickstart / examples—
Security & compliance8/12
SOC 26/6
ISO 270010/2
GDPR0/2
Security / trust page2/2
Openness4/10
Open source0/6
Open / un-gated API4/4
Company maturity0/3
Company size—
Years operating—
// rankings · cost per standard workload
#13 in Scraping$100/ 100k pages
Contents (/contents) endpoint $1 per 1,000 pages, pay-as-you-go. 100k pages = $100/mo.
// 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 · generosity 4/5
Includes: Web search tool calls for agents · Webpage text and highlights · Configurable latency: 180ms to 1s
Limits: 20,000 requests per month
Search$7 /1k requests
- Web search tool calls for agents
- Webpage text and highlights
- Configurable latency: 180ms to 1s
Deep Search$12–15 /1k requests
- Multi-step agent workflows
- Answers with structured outputs
- Web grounded citations
Contents$1 /1k pages per content type
- Full page contents for LLM context
- Token efficient highlights
- Configurable livecrawl policies
Monitors$15 /1k requests
- Identify fresh events on the web
- Runs searches at a specified cadence
- Receive updates with webhooks
// security & compliance
✓ SOC 2✗ ISO 27001✗ GDPR✗ HIPAA
// 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