Exa
exa.ai · Crawling · 1 record · JSON
Exa Crawling
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| Free tier | USD 10 in credits on signup, reset to USD 10 on the first of each month, no payment method; a one-time USD 10 bonus after onboarding unit requests; metered on request-count |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a search request |
| Retention | credit balance resets monthly, so unused credit does not accumulate |
| Egress | not applicable: results are JSON, no bytes are stored |
| Identity | email signup states no payment method required |
| Limits | |
| Binding | request-rate |
| Interface | rest REST at api.exa.ai, bearer key; exa-py and exa-js SDKs; hosted MCP at mcp.exa.ai |
| Tooling | exa-py, exa-js, hosted MCP |
| Composes with | Powers the broker's default search leg; its /contents endpoint is a read path billed per page and per content type |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The broker's own status.json reports a 50-unit free pool for this deployment, which is the operator's account, not the vendor tier. The rank-1 position comes from the Artificial Analysis search index as recorded in the platform's research report, not from a measurement here. |
| Evidence rung | documented no call to api.exa.ai from this corpus |
| Checked | 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21 |
Evidence (2)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | exa.ai/pricing | free tier is USD 10 of credit a month, reset monthly, no payment method; lite search USD 4 per 1,000 requests, auto and fast USD 7, contents USD 1 per 1,000 pages, answer USD 5, monitors USD 15 |
| 2026-10-22 | withheld | the broker's unpinned search answered provider exa |
Unknown or withheld values (2)
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