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Consensus vs Exa

Consensus (Consensus) and Exa (Exa) both sit in Search & Research. Exa is the cheaper entry point at Free tier includes $10/mo in credits. Pay-as-you-go thereafter (e.g. Search at $7/1k requests, Contents at $1/1k pages).. Exa shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (2 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeConsensus

Consensus

Exa

Exa

SegmentSearch & ResearchSearch & Research
Version2025 platformExa Agent
Entry costFree tier · from $9/moFree tier includes $10/mo in credits. Pay-as-you-go thereafter (e.g. Search at $7/1k requests, Contents at $1/1k pages).
Pricing tiersFree free · Premium $9 · Enterprise freeStarter free · Developer free
Model stackGPT-5.2agentic models · embedding · Exa Agent API · Exa Auto · Exa Custom Search Models · Exa Search API · Exa Search Embedding Model · Exa Search Model · Exa Search Models · Exa Search Neural Model
Context windowNot publishedn/a
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d02
OriginGlobalGlobal
CapabilitiesConsensus meter, Study snapshots, Pro analysis, 220M paper corpus, CopilotNeural search, Contents retrieval, Websets, Answer endpoint, Research API, Web Search API, Deep Research, Structured JSON Extraction

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