Metaphor Systems

Entity enrichment, KYC intelligence, list building, and deep research — one API for frontier web research at a fraction of the cost.

The Deep Research API supports complex, multi-step searches, browsing, and synthesis across the live web for AI agents.

The web search service provides AI agents with fresh web data.

The Exa blog covers AI research and semantic search technology and describes how its neural network search engine provides web data for AI applications.

Exa is now available on Google Cloud through Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform grounding and Gemini Enterprise's Agent Marketplace.

Exa Highlights extracts dense, query-specific excerpts from web pages so agents can reason over less context with higher accuracy.

AI agents will search the web more than humans this year. Exa raises $250M Series C at a $2.2B valuation led by a16z to power all agents with the highest quality web search.

Foundation Models for Search

Exa offers pay-as-you-go pricing for AI web search, deep research, and Websets, with free-tier and enterprise pricing.

The company offers a search API for AI agents that provides real-time web data, deep research, and structured content from one endpoint. The API is available to try for free.

Exa is a standalone search API with full query control, domain filtering, and 7 content categories. Google Grounding is a Gemini-only tool with no developer control over search parameters.

The page compares Exa and Parallel on latency, accuracy, and search breadth, presents p50 benchmarks and agent evaluations, and discusses when to choose each API.

Compare Exa and Perplexity API side-by-side. Exa scored 64.8% vs Perplexity's 60.1% on a 500-query independent eval. Full page content, query-dependent highlights, 1,200-domain filtering, people/company/code search that Perplexity lacks.

Exa provides developers with a custom search engine for LLMs and other AI applications.

Exa provides sales and support for demos, onboarding, product questions, and tailored solutions.

Exa sales provides custom demos and information about enterprise plans and pricing for its AI search API and Websets products.

The Search API provides AI agents with real-time web data, deep research, and structured content through one endpoint.

Exa AI's Privacy Policy describes the data it collects and how it is used.