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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Exa: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/exa/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/exa/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/exa.md",
  "title": "Exa: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Exa is on the social monitoring map. We record 5 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 19, 2026.",
  "period": "Dec. 17, 2025 to Oct. 19, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
  "company": {
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    "slug": "exa",
    "name": "Exa",
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    "site": "https://exa.ai",
    "summary": "Neural web search API with people and company indexes. Its people search can return profiles together with recent professional posts, giving agents searchable third-party social content.",
    "founded": 2021,
    "categories": [
      "serp-search"
    ],
    "status": "active",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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    "category_names": [
      "Search APIs"
    ]
  },
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  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
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  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "Neural web search API with people and company indexes. Its people search can return profiles together with recent professional posts, giving agents searchable third-party social content.",
    "source": {
      "name": "exa.ai",
      "url": "https://exa.ai/"
    },
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  },
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      "map": "social-monitoring",
      "title": "The social monitoring map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-exa",
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      "name": "Exa",
      "site": "https://exa.ai",
      "category": "Search APIs",
      "what": "Neural web search API with people and company indexes. Its people search can return profiles together with recent professional posts, giving agents searchable third-party social content.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "exa.ai",
        "url": "https://exa.ai/"
      },
      "price": "Free tier: $10 credits/mo (up to 2,500 Lite searches). Search per 1,000 requests: lite/instant $4, auto/fast $7 (10 results; +$1 per 1k results above 10); deep $12-15. Contents $1 per 1k pages per content type. No separate people-search price on the page.",
      "price_published": true,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "Platforms",
        "items": [
          "LinkedIn"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed user or customer base (Reports more than 400,000 developers; also $250M Series C at $2.2B (May 2026, a16z).)",
      "founded": "2021",
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        "name": "latent.space",
        "url": "https://latent.space/wiki/exa-ai-bf3d55d5/"
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          "name": "exa.ai",
          "url": "https://exa.ai/pricing"
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        {
          "name": "latent.space",
          "url": "https://latent.space/wiki/exa-ai-bf3d55d5/"
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    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/exa/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-10-19",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Lite search: $4 / 1k requests with up to 10 results",
      "summary": "New Lite search type at $4 per 1,000 requests (up to 10 results, +$1 per 1k beyond); supports company and people categories.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-exa"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Exa changelog",
        "url": "https://exa.ai/docs/changelog"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/exa/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-07-23",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Publication research",
      "summary": "The pdf, github and tweet search categories are being deprecated; no replacement for X data is named.",
      "kind": "Deprecation",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-exa"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Exa changelog",
        "url": "https://exa.ai/docs/changelog"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/exa/#event-3",
      "on": "2026-03-30",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Introducing Exa Monitors",
      "summary": "Monitors run Exa searches on a schedule and deliver results to a webhook; priced $15 per 1k.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-exa"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Exa changelog",
        "url": "https://exa.ai/docs/changelog"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-4",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/exa/#event-4",
      "on": "2025-12-19",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "The `linkedin` category is replaced by the new `people` category.",
      "summary": "Exa dropped its LinkedIn-only search category for web-wide people search. Calls using category='linkedin' must switch to 'people'.",
      "kind": "Deprecation",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-exa"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Exa changelog",
        "url": "https://exa.ai/docs/changelog"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-5",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/exa/#event-5",
      "on": "2025-12-17",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "People search benchmark: Exa indexed 1B+ people",
      "summary": "Exa blog post on its people search; says it indexed 1B+ people with ingestion built for 50M+ updates per week; use category 'people'.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-exa"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Exa blog",
        "url": "https://exa.ai/blog/people-search-benchmark"
      }
    }
  ]
}