Exa

Exa is a high-performance search API designed specifically for AI agents. It enables fast, accurate, and token-efficient web retrieval through a developer-friendly API.

Key Features

• Structured Outputs: Extract data in user-defined JSON schemas from a database of 70M+ companies, enabling complex enrichment workflows.
• Token-Efficient Highlights: Reduce LLM token usage by over 50% by returning only the most relevant excerpts from web pages for a given query.
• Dedicated Web Indexes: Purpose-built indexes for company, people, code, financial data, and news searches, delivering higher accuracy than general-purpose search.
• Low Latency: Exa Instant delivers results in under 180ms, making it suitable for real-time agent applications.
• Enterprise-Grade Security: SOC 2 Type II certification, optional Zero Data Retention, and SSO support.

Use Cases

• Retrieving structured company data for AI-powered CRM or market intelligence.
• Powering coding agents with real-time documentation and code examples.
• Conducting deep web research with automatic source summarization.
• Reducing token costs and improving LLM context precision with highlights.

Who It’s For

Exa is built for AI developers, data scientists, and enterprises integrating web search into AI applications and agents.

Key Benefits

• High accuracy across demanding benchmarks
• Low latency (<180ms) with Exa Instant
• Token-efficient highlights reduce LLM costs by over 50%
• Structured outputs for complex data extraction