# Exa — AI Compare Ninja

> Provide web search, crawling, contents, monitoring, and deep-research agents through an API.

## Overview
- **Category:** Development & Code (Agent & RAG frameworks)
- **Status:** Active · checked - Active Starter, Developer, and Enterprise offers. Formerly Metaphor.
- **Paid from:** $7 / $1 / Usage (Search & contents)
- **Free access:** Free plan ($20 signup + $10 monthly, all endpoints, 5 QPS/3 agents.)
- **Website:** https://exa.ai/
- **Canonical URL:** https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/exa

## What it does
- Provide web search, crawling and cleaned page contents through a retrieval API
- Deep search, monitoring and asynchronous research agents
- Claude connector, ChatGPT plugin and 50+ integrations
- AI page summary and search tool calls (e.g. $1/1k pages or $0.005 per call)
- Free with a permanent monthly allowance for searches and content pages

## In brief
Provide web search, crawling, contents, monitoring, and deep-research agents through an API.

Starter provides $20 signup credit and $10 monthly credit without a payment method. The current endpoint table lists $7 per 1,000 Search requests, $12 for Deep Search, $15 for Deep-Reasoning Search and Monitors, $1 per 1,000 Content pages, and $5 per 1,000 Answer requests. Agent runs have their own prices by fixed effort; with Auto, compute and tool use can scale.


## Limits
Starter provides $20 signup credit and $10 monthly credit without a payment method. The current endpoint table lists $7 per 1,000 Search requests, $12 for Deep Search, $15 for Deep-Reasoning Search and Monitors, $1 per 1,000 Content pages, and $5 per 1,000 Answer requests. Agent runs have their own prices by fixed effort; with Auto, compute and tool use can scale.

## Pricing tiers
| Tier | Price | Period | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Starter Free | free | Month | $20 signup credit and $10/month; All endpoints; 5 search QPS and 3 agent concurrencies; MCP, Claude connector, ChatGPT plugin, and 50+ integrations; No payment method |
| Developer PAYGO | pay as you go | Usage | 10 search QPS; 25 agent concurrencies; Card or bank account; SOC 2 Type II; Standard support |
| Search & contents | $7 / $1 | Usage | Search includes up to 10 results; Additional result $1/1k requests; AI page summary $1/1k pages; Answer endpoint $5/1k requests |
| Deep / monitor / agent | $15 / $1 | Usage | Deep search $12, deep-reasoning $15/1k; Monitors $15/1k; Agent minimal/low/medium/high/x-high: $0.012/$0.025/$0.10/$0.50/$1; ACU $0.10, search tool call $0.005; Email $0.02, phone $0.07 enrichment |
| Enterprise | contact sales | Contract | Custom QPS and agent concurrency; Up to 1,000 results/search; Custom indexes and premium providers; ZDR, SSO, SLA, and dedicated Slack |

## Sources
All details regarding plans, limits, and features are based on official vendor documentation and the primary sources verified below.

- https://exa.ai/pricing?tab=api
- https://exa.ai/assets/Exa_Labs_Terms_of_Service.pdf

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*Source: AI Compare Ninja (2026) - https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/exa*