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  "slug": "exa",
  "name": "Exa",
  "url": "https://exa.ai",
  "cat": "search",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Neural web search API for agents",
  "price": "$20 free credits at signup (about 2,800 searches) plus $10 in free credits every month, no card. Search $7 per 1K requests for 10 results, $1 per 1K extra results, Contents $1 per 1K pages per content type, Answer $5 per 1K requests.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "A web search API built on an embeddings index rather than a keyword index, so you query by meaning and describe the page you want instead of guessing keywords. Returns cleaned page contents, highlights and AI summaries in the same call, plus an Answer endpoint that cites its sources.",
  "why": "When an agent needs sources rather than blue links, Exa hands back full extracted text in one round trip. The recurring $10 monthly credit means a small agent never sees a bill.",
  "warn": "Neural search costs more per query than SERP resellers and can miss exact-string lookups — switch to keyword or auto mode for those. Rate limited to 5 QPS on the free tier.",
  "install": "npm i exa-js",
  "category": {
    "key": "search",
    "name": "Search, vector & RAG",
    "desc": "Keyword search, vector stores, and web-search APIs for agents — three different things.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://exa.ai/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T17:12:38.21+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}