Search the web
Exa
Web search API with its own index that returns ranked pages with full text, highlights or summaries.
Rate limits
Limits apply to the whole team across all keys. Buying $1,000 of credit within 30 days raises the limit to 25 QPS for 90 days.
| Endpoint | Limit |
|---|---|
/search, /answer, /chat/completions | 10 QPS |
/search with deep-lite, deep or deep-reasoning | 5 QPS |
/contents | 100 QPS |
/agent/runs, /responses | 5 QPS and 50 active runs |
/websets/* | 20 QPS |
Source2Billing and rate limits
Other limits
- Maximum results per search
- 1009
- Over the limit
429 Too Many Requests; wait forRetry-After2- Concurrency (Agent runs)
- 50 active runs2
- Maximum cache age (
maxAgeHours) literejectsmaxAgeHours,livecrawlandlivecrawlTimeoutwith a 4007- Keyless MCP network
- Direct IPv4 only4
- Blocked regions
- API access blocked from sanctioned regions, including Russia, Ukraine and Venezuela12
Read from Exa Labs’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/search-the-web/exa.md