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Exa: what it sells, price and AI features

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

Updated . Launches and events from Dec. 17, 2025 to 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.

Site
exa.ai
Founded
2021
Category
Search APIs
Status
Active

On the research maps

  • The social monitoring map

    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.

    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

    Sources: exa.ai, exa.ai and latent.space.

    Exa on the social monitoring map

Launches and dated events, newest first

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

    Launch, . 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. From the social monitoring map.

  2. Publication research

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

    Source: Exa changelog. From the social monitoring map.

  3. Introducing Exa Monitors

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

    Source: Exa changelog. From the social monitoring map.

  4. The `linkedin` category is replaced by the new `people` category.

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

    Source: Exa changelog. From the social monitoring map.

  5. People search benchmark: Exa indexed 1B+ people

    Launch, . 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. From the social monitoring map.

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