What can an AI agent do with Exa?

An Exa AI agent can search the web using natural language, find pages semantically similar to a given URL, retrieve full page contents, and filter results by category, all automatically. It's well-suited for research, competitive intelligence, and any workflow where an AI agent needs accurate, up-to-date web information rather than stale training data.

How is Exa different from a regular search API?

Traditional search APIs match keywords. Exa uses neural embeddings to understand meaning, so it surfaces results that are conceptually relevant even when they don't share exact keywords. This makes it much more useful for AI agents doing open-ended research.

What kinds of content can Exa search?

Exa can search the general web and also supports category-filtered searches for news, research papers, GitHub repositories, PDFs, and more. You can scope searches by date to ensure freshness.

Does my AI agent store the web content it retrieves?

Web content fetched by Exa is processed during task execution but not permanently stored. Only task outputs: summaries, reports, extracted data - are saved to your run history.

Developer tools

Exa, run by an agent.

An AI agent that searches the web with neural precision for research and intelligence workflows.

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What needs your approval

Exa never changes anything without you.

Anything that creates, edits or deletes in Exa waits for your approval. Approve a recurring task once and it runs unattended after that.

Connecting Exa

About 5 minutes

Auth: API key
Setup: About 5 minutes

Where to get access

Create an API key in the Exa dashboard.

dashboard.exa.ai

Example tasks

Real work people hand to an agent that uses Exa.

monitor competitors by searching for recent news and product updates on a weekly schedule
research a topic in depth by finding and reading the most semantically relevant articles
find similar companies or content to a given example for lead generation or benchmarking
gather up-to-date information from the web to ground AI-generated reports in real sources