Exa: search API for agents

Exa is a search API over Exa's own web index. You send a natural language query, you get ranked pages plus optional highlights. Site: exa.ai. Docs: exa.ai/docs.

Get a key at dashboard.exa.ai/api-keys. New accounts start with credits, no card required. If you only need Google-style SERP JSON, this is a different product: Exa ranks for agents, not for a browser results page.

Call search first

Default type is auto (~1s). Other types: fast, instant, deep, deep-lite, deep-reasoning. Optional category values include company, people, news. Coding agents should also read the coding-agent search reference.

pip install exa-py
# npm install exa-js

curl -sS -X POST 'https://api.exa.ai/search' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EXA_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"query":"Solana Firedancer RPC landing","contents":{"highlights":true}}'

The rest of the surface

Dashboard onboarding at dashboard.exa.ai/onboarding generates a stack-specific snippet. Skills live at exa-labs/agent-skills.

People and links