Consensus
Searches peer-reviewed papers and summarises what the literature concludes.
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Consensus vs Exa
Consensus (Consensus) and Exa (Exa) both sit in Search & Research. Consensus is the cheaper entry point at Free tier · from $9/mo. Exa shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (1 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Consensus Consensus | Exa Exa |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Search & Research | Search & Research |
| Version | 2025 platform | 3.0 |
| Entry cost | Free tier · from $9/mo | Free tier · from $1,000/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Free free · Premium $9 · Enterprise free | Starter free · Developer free · Enterprise $1000 |
| Model stack | GPT-5.2 | agentic models · embedding · Exa 3.0 · Exa Agent API · Exa Auto · Exa Custom Search Models · Exa Deep · Exa Instant · Exa neural search models · Exa Search · Exa Search API · Exa Search Embedding Model · Exa Search Model · Exa Search Models · Exa Search Neural Model · neural search model |
| Context window | Not published | n/a |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 0 | 1 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Consensus meter, Study snapshots, Pro analysis, 220M paper corpus, Copilot | Neural search, Contents retrieval, Websets, Answer endpoint, Research API, Web Search API, Deep Research, Structured JSON Extraction |
Exa
Embeddings-based web search designed to feed retrieval pipelines and agents.
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