Exa

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We built

a search engine

an in-house vector DB

semantic retrieval

from scratch for the AI world

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One API for all web data

A full suite of functionality across 5 endpoints.

Frontier search powered by our AI research lab

Exa's search engine is developed in-house, allowing for full controllability.

Methodology

Independent Search Engines

[Low Latency <1s]

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FRAMES

Tip-of-the-Tongue

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SimpleQA

Data for every industry

Regardless of your industry, get the most relevant type of data for you.

Coding Agents

Search Stackoverflow, coding docs, and Github repos. Get access to a model specifically trained on high-accuracy code referencing.

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Coding Agents interface

Finance

Get historical data on market movement, company growth, S&P 500, and the news from any time period. Analyze the past for alpha into the future.

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Finance interface

Recruiting

Top-tier search across LinkedIn and people profiles. Find information on candidates pooled from across the web.

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Recruiting interface

Productivity

Access the whole web to search and summarize recent news, trends, or any personal curiosity.

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Productivity interface

Consulting

Instant in-depth research into any industry or topic, pulling from 10k docs, PDFs, and thousands of web pages. Use Websets to find the experts in any field.

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Consulting interface

Marketing

Search across niche reference material, expert blogs, and social platforms like Twitter. Our search index is updated every minute with the latest news and trends.

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Marketing interface

Filters to search over your own subset of the web

Easily filter by domain, location, semantic category, and more. Tailored search for your exact AI workflow.

Filters

Enterprise-ready

Exa gives you full autonomy with our own search index.
Our high-volume search tiers include comprehensive DPAs, SLAs, and high-capacity rate limits.

Zero Data Retention

Zero Data Retention

Ensure true privacy and compliance with customized ZDR. All queries and data can be automatically purged based on your requirements.

SOC2 Compliance

SOC 2 Type II Certified

Our security framework maintains the highest level of compliance with industry standards. Safe information processing and access control.

Single Sign-On

Single-Sign On

A seamless, secure login experience for your entire team. Built-in team authentication and authorization management.

OpenRouter

OpenRouter has a laser focus on bringing a great developer experience to all language models, and Exa is the best way we've found for grounding AI in the real world in a model-agnostic way.

Alex Atallah

Alex Atallah

CEO, OpenRouter

Notion

Exa's powerful search capabilities have been instrumental in delivering the high-quality, relevant web content our users need while maintaining our commitment to privacy and user control.

Sarah Sachs

Sarah Sachs

AI Engineering Lead, Notion

Vercel

This is so powerful. Exa is like Perplexity-as-a-service. The infrastructure to ground your AI products on real world data and facts.

Guillermo Rauch

Guillermo Rauch

CEO, Vercel

Anara

Exa's strong coverage and flexible API have been a key differentiator for us. Scientists trust our product further when the relevant papers they expect to see are available to them in the right workflows. The ability to customize search based on the use case easily, is important.

Naveed Janmohamed

Naveed Janmohamed

CEO, Anara

Flatfile

When we saw companies show up in Exa that we hadn't found anywhere else, we knew it was our best option. It delivers, for a few dollars, what we'd been spending hundreds of thousands to assemble.

David Boskovic

David Boskovic

CEO, Flatfile

WebFX

We use Exa for essentially all parts of our research—gathering sources, documenting, creating notes, and building briefs.

Christopher Varner

Christopher Varner

Head of Results Innovation

StackAI

StackAI and Exa are the dream team…Exa is amazing at web search! We're proud to use Exa on our platform and to show our customers how web search can power AI agent workflows.

Bernard Aceituno

Bernard Aceituno

Co-founder and President, StackAI

Databricks

Models are only as good as the data they're trained on, and Exa's search allowed us to get high quality data we couldn't find any other way.

Jonathan Frankle

Jonathan Frankle

Chief AI scientist, Databricks