Exa
Exa publishes a per-endpoint pricing table (Search $7, Deep Search $12–15, Contents $1, Monitors $15, Answer $5, all per 1K requests) with a 1,000-request free monthly tier and a $1,000 startup-grant program. xpay verified anonymous price visibility, public docs, true PAYG metering, and self-serve dashboard checkout; only Enterprise is sales-led.
Start searching for free — Run up to 1,000 requests per month for free
Search $7/1k req; Deep Search $12–15/1k; Contents $1/1k pages; Monitors $15/1k; Answer $5/1k; +$1 per extra result above 10
$0
Self-serve
Self-serve
Self-serve
Self-serve
Contact sales
How Exa scores on the 7 agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing
15 / 15
Usage-based / metered
22 / 25
Self-serve checkout
13 / 15
Public API
15 / 15
Low / no minimum
5 / 10
Unauth automated payment
6 / 10
Bonus (machine-readable pricing)On top of /100 base
0 / 5
Total
76 / 100
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Exa?
Discover price
https://exa.ai/pricing — explicit per-endpoint $/1k-request tableSelect a plan
Five product endpoints + Enterprise distinguishablePay per task
Per-1K-request and per-extra-result rates publishedAvoid a sales call
All endpoints buyable via dashboard signupAPI docs without auth
https://docs.exa.ai — publicEstimate cost upfront
Cost = endpoint rate × requests, trivially computablePros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-03. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- Per-unit billing is published, so an agent can budget for a single task before committing.
- API documentation is reachable without a login — discovery and integration can happen in one session.
- Per-unit rate is concrete enough that an agent can model expected spend before issuing a request.
- A free tier exists, lowering the bar for an agent builder to prototype before committing budget.
- Some tiers are sales-led; the highest-capacity surfaces are not self-serve.
- PPU requires account creation and an issued API key; a fully unauthenticated agent purchase is not yet supported.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
How Exa could lift its score
Exa already lands solidly in Verified. Two missing points: (1) publish /.well-known/ai-pricing.json mirroring the per-endpoint rate table; (2) expose an anonymous one-shot PPU endpoint (Stripe Payment Link or x402) so a no-account agent can run a single search.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | Start searching for free — Run up to 1,000 requests per month for free |
| tier_count | 6 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 0 |
| free_tier | true |
| free_tier_terms | 1,000 free requests/month |
| per_unit_price | Search $7/1k req; Deep Search $12–15/1k; Contents $1/1k pages; Monitors $15/1k; Answer $5/1k; +$1 per extra result above 10 |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 5 |
| sales_only_tiers | 1 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://docs.exa.ai |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
Exa
76
/ 100 (rubric v1.1)Search APIs
Start searching for free — Run up to 1,000 requests per month for free
6
Yes
1,000 free requests/month
Free
Search $7/1k req; Deep Search $12–15/1k; Contents $1/1k pages; Monitors $15/1k; Answer $5/1k; +$1 per extra result above 10
5 / 1
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-03