Exa

A fancy tool designed to enhance AI applications by connecting them to web-based knowledge. Search API for AI agents that need real-time web data, deep research, and structured content from one endpoint. Try our API for free. Exa is an AI-powered search engine and API that retrieves the best real-time web data using neural search techniques, embeddings, and agentic endpoints. It helps AI systems find accurate, contextually relevant information instead of just keyword-based matches. Exa focuses on semantic meaning and user intent through neural architectures, so it delivers cleaner, more precise results for complex queries. Traditional engines prioritize ads and broad relevance, while Exa emphasizes controllability and quality for AI workflows. Developers building AI agents, RAG systems, coding tools, finance models, recruiting platforms, and research applications use Exa. Companies like Cursor, Notion, Vercel, and consulting firms integrate it for grounded, up-to-date web access. Key endpoints include Search for results and snippets, Contents for full page data, Answer for natural language summaries, Research for in-depth structured outputs, and Websets for handling thousands of results on complex queries. Advanced filters cover categories, dates, domains, locations, and more. Exa pulls real-time web data with low-latency options in modes like Fast or Neural search. It performs well on benchmarks for freshness and accuracy in dynamic topics. Its agentic search capabilities and parallel processing make it ideal for agents that need to iteratively research, verify facts, or explore large datasets without hallucination risks.