Search the web
Exa
Web search API with its own index that returns ranked pages with full text, highlights or summaries.
Billing
- Pricing model
- Pay as you go with prepaid credits1
- Free tier
- $10 in credits on sign-up, reset to $10 on the first of each month; one-time $10 onboarding bonus2
- Card required for free tier
- No1
- Minimum spend
- None1
- Billing period
- Credits are charged per request; the free balance resets each calendar month2
- Out of credit
- Requests return
402 Payment Required2
Prices
Default first, then advertised. Results above 10 add $1 per 1,000 results: auto with 20 results is $7 + 10 x $1 = $17 per 1,000 requests. /contents is $1 per 1,000 pages for each content type.
| Request | $ per 1,000 requests (up to 10 results) | Note |
|---|---|---|
/search with type left out (default is auto) | 7 | Default for a request that omits type |
/search lite | 4 | Advertised starting price; no live fetch |
/search instant | 4 | Legacy type |
/search deep-lite | 12 | About 4 seconds |
/search deep | 12 | 4-15 seconds |
/search deep-reasoning | 15 | Legacy type, 12-40 seconds |
/answer | 5 | |
/monitors | 2 |
Source1Pricing
Defaults and extras
- Default search type
auto7- Advertised price
- From $4 per 1,000 requests (the
litetype)1 - Extra results
- $1 per 1,000 results above 101
- AI summaries
- $1 per 1,000 pages1
/contentscharging- Each content type is billed separately1
- Pay per call without an account
/searchand/contentsby x402; same prices as API key billing10- Volume pricing
- Enterprise plan only1
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