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

6 of the 60 sites closest to Exa match.

  1. 01
    Bolt bolt.new English Free plan 1 tracker

    Bolt AI builder: Websites, apps & prototypes

    Build and scale high-performing websites & apps using your words. Join millions and start building today.

    Compare Bolt with Exa →
  2. 02
    Ably ably.com English Free plan 2 trackers

    Ably | Realtime platform for chat, AI and live apps at scale

    Ably is the realtime platform built for scale and reliability. Power live chat, messaging, collaborative apps, and AI experiences that never drop.

    Compare Ably with Exa →
  3. 03
    Retool retool.com English Free plan 2 trackers

    Build internal software better, with AI. | Retool

    Build, deploy, and manage internal tools with Retool's unified engine. Connect to any database, API, or LLM. Leverage AI throughout your business.

    Compare Retool with Exa →
  4. 04
    Mintlify mintlify.com English Free plan 1 tracker

    Mintlify - The documentation platform for agents

    Self-updating documentation for startups, enterprises, and agents.

    Compare Mintlify with Exa →
  5. 05
    Notion notion.com Top 10K English Free plan 1 tracker

    The AI workspace that works for you. | Notion

    Build Custom Agents, search across all your apps, and automate busywork. The AI workspace where teams get more done, faster.

    Compare Notion with Exa →
  6. 06
    Cursor cursor.com Top 10K English Free plan 2 trackers

    AI Coding Agent for Building Ambitious Software | Cursor

    Built to make you extraordinarily productive, agents turn ideas into code. Accelerate development by handing off tasks to Cursor.

    Compare Cursor 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
9,213
Vector
384-d
Query
88 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.

similarity × popularity

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