exa.ai

Exa

Who runs Exa, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web search API alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Tavily

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Exa

Exa exa.ai

Search API for AI agents that need real-time web data, deep research, and structured content from one endpoint. Try our API for free.

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Exa tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

tracker that follows visitors

5 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool
  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Exa

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Exa, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than ExaNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

14 of the 60 sites closest to Exa match.

  1. 01
    Mojeek mojeek.com English No trackers

    Mojeek

    Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.

    Compare Mojeek with Exa →
  2. 02
    DeepSeek deepseek.com Top 1K English No trackers

    DeepSeek | Into the Unknown

    DeepSeek is an AI research company focused on building world-leading general artificial intelligence. We develop and open-source frontier LLMs including DeepSeek-V4, DeepSeek-R1, and DeepSeek-Coder. Chat with DeepSeek AI or integrate via API.

    Compare DeepSeek with Exa →
  3. 03
    DeepInfra deepinfra.com English No trackers

    Machine Learning Models and Infrastructure | DeepInfra

    DeepInfra offers cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and production-ready machine-learning models and infrastructures for deep-learning models.

    Compare DeepInfra with Exa →
  4. 04
    DigitalOcean digitalocean.com Top 1K English No trackers

    AI-Native Cloud | DigitalOcean

    Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built for control, performance, and economics at scale.

    Compare DigitalOcean with Exa →
  5. 05
    Ideogram ideogram.ai English No trackers

    Ideogram | AI apps and models in one platform

    Use purpose-built AI apps, access major image and video models through one API, and build on Ideogram 4.0, our open model.

    Compare Ideogram with Exa →
  6. 06
    Microsoft Bing bing.com Top 100 English No trackers

    Search - Microsoft Bing

    Search with Microsoft Bing and use the power of AI to find information, explore webpages, images, videos, maps, and more. A smart search engine for the forever curious.

    Compare Microsoft Bing with Exa →
  7. 07
    Shodan shodan.io Top 10K English No trackers

    Shodan Search Engine

    Search Engine for the Internet of Things

    Compare Shodan with Exa →
  8. 08
    Devin codeium.com English No trackers

    Devin Desktop | Devin

    Manage any agent, locally or in the cloud, from one command center. Plan, review, and ship with a team of agents.

    Compare Devin with Exa →
  9. 09
    Kimi kimi.com English No trackers

    Kimi AI Official Site | K3.1 Pro Launches with Upgraded Coding & Agentic Capabilities

    Kimi K3.1 Pro is now live. Easily tackle complex coding projects, build 3D models, and conduct in-depth financial research. More powerful agentic capabilities help you complete more complex tasks efficiently.

    Compare Kimi with Exa →
  10. 10
    Hoppscotch hoppscotch.io English No trackers

    Hoppscotch • Open source API development ecosystem

    Helps you create requests faster, saving precious time on development.

    Compare Hoppscotch with Exa →
  11. 11
    ChatGPT chatgpt.com Top 1K English No trackers

    ChatGPT: Chat, Work, Create & Code with AI

    Use ChatGPT to answer questions, write, create images, complete work, and code—all in one place. Get started for free or download the app.

    Compare ChatGPT with Exa →
  12. 12
    DuckDuckGo duckduckgo.com Top 1K English No trackers

    DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.

    The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

    Compare DuckDuckGo with Exa →
  13. 13
    Startpage.com startpage.com English No trackers

    privacy-focused online search engine

    Compare Startpage.com with Exa →
  14. 14
    Claude claude.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Claude by Anthropic | The AI for problem solvers

    Claude is an AI assistant built by Anthropic and designed to be helpful, honest, and harmless, so you can do your best work.

    Compare Claude with Exa →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Exa’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Exa uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Exa adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 14 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,215
Vector
384-d
Query
35 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Exa’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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