Exa
Web search for AI agents, with page contents, cited answers, monitors and a research agent.
Updated Sep 27, 2026
Overview
Exa is a web search engine built for AI agents. Its API searches the web in natural language, with categories for company pages and people profiles, returns clean page contents, answers questions with citations, reruns searches on a schedule as monitors, and runs Exa Agent for multi-step research, list building and enrichment with structured output.
The hosted MCP server also works without a key at free rate limits. Signing
in with OAuth (the ?login URL) uses your team's plan and turns on
agent_run; a client without OAuth can send an API key in the x-api-key
header instead. The API takes the key as a Bearer token or in x-api-key.
Usage is pay-as-you-go, and new accounts start with free credits.
Workflows
Workflows that use Exa's tools.
SContributed by Shahzaib0217Prepare a brief and agenda before a sales callGathers what Bridge remembers about the prospect, adds recent company news, generates a meeting brief and writes an agenda to the Notepad.
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SContributed by shipgtmResolve a personal email into its likely companyResearches the person behind a personal email with Exa, enriches the company with Harmonic, and logs the result in HubSpot.
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H- SContributed by shipgtmBuild a cited content cluster from one pillar topic
Researches subtopics with Exa, scores them with Ahrefs, publishes the approved briefs in Webflow, and schedules the next batch in n8n.
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TContributed by thedogwiththedataonitFind Reddit and HN threads where buyers ask for a toolSearches Reddit and Hacker News with Exa, keeps the posts where someone is shopping for your category with Jev, and sends them to Slack.
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S- TContributed by thedogwiththedataonitEmail companies whose job posts show they need your product
Finds new job posts for roles you support with Exa, checks each for a real need or a competitor with Jev, and emails the hiring team.
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Tools
What agents can reach at Exa.
- Answer a question from the web
Searches the web for a question and returns a direct answer or a summary with citations, or JSON that matches an output schema.
- Monitor the web for new results
Creates a monitor that reruns an Exa search on a schedule and sends only new, deduplicated results to your webhook.
- Read web pages
Returns clean text, the most relevant highlights or a summary for one or more known URLs, from Exa's cache or a fresh crawl.
- Run a list-building and research agent
Starts an Exa Agent run that searches and reads the web to build lists, enrich records you pass in or research a question, and returns cited findings with optional schema-validated JSON.
- Search the web
Returns web pages that match a natural-language query, up to 100 per call, with their text, highlights or summaries, and can focus on company pages, people profiles or news.