# Exa: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/exa/
Covers: Dec. 17, 2025 to Oct. 19, 2026
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, 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

> Exa is on the social monitoring map. We record 5 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 19, 2026.

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: [exa.ai](https://exa.ai/).

## Facts

- Site: [exa.ai](https://exa.ai/)
- Founded: [2021](https://latent.space/wiki/exa-ai-bf3d55d5/)
- Category: Search APIs
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The social monitoring map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-exa)

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: [exa.ai](https://exa.ai/).

- Category: Search APIs
- 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.
- Platforms: LinkedIn
- 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](https://latent.space/wiki/exa-ai-bf3d55d5/)

Sources: [exa.ai](https://exa.ai/), [exa.ai](https://exa.ai/pricing) and [latent.space](https://latent.space/wiki/exa-ai-bf3d55d5/).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### Lite search: $4 / 1k requests with up to 10 results

Launch, Oct. 19, 2026. New Lite search type at $4 per 1,000 requests (up to 10 results, +$1 per 1k beyond); supports company and people categories.

Source: [Exa changelog](https://exa.ai/docs/changelog). From [the social monitoring map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-exa).

### Publication research

Deprecation, July 23, 2026. The pdf, github and tweet search categories are being deprecated; no replacement for X data is named.

Source: [Exa changelog](https://exa.ai/docs/changelog). From [the social monitoring map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-exa).

### Introducing Exa Monitors

Launch, March 30, 2026. Monitors run Exa searches on a schedule and deliver results to a webhook; priced $15 per 1k.

Source: [Exa changelog](https://exa.ai/docs/changelog). From [the social monitoring map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-exa).

### The \`linkedin\` category is replaced by the new \`people\` category.

Deprecation, Dec. 19, 2025. Exa dropped its LinkedIn-only search category for web-wide people search. Calls using category='linkedin' must switch to 'people'.

Source: [Exa changelog](https://exa.ai/docs/changelog). From [the social monitoring map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-exa).

### People search benchmark: Exa indexed 1B+ people

Launch, Dec. 17, 2025. Exa blog post on its people search; says it indexed 1B+ people with ingestion built for 50M+ updates per week; use category 'people'.

Source: [Exa blog](https://exa.ai/blog/people-search-benchmark). From [the social monitoring map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-exa).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology