Exa
Embeddings-based web search designed to feed retrieval pipelines and agents.
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Exa vs Consensus
Exa (Exa) and Consensus (Consensus) 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.
| Attribute | Exa Exa | Consensus Consensus |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Search & Research | Search & Research |
| Version | Exa Agent | 2025 platform |
| Entry cost | Free tier includes $10/mo in credits. Pay-as-you-go thereafter (e.g. Search at $7/1k requests, Contents at $1/1k pages). | Free tier · from $9/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Starter free · Developer free | Free free · Premium $9 · Enterprise free |
| Model stack | agentic 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 | GPT-5.2 |
| Context window | n/a | Not published |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 2 | 0 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Neural search, Contents retrieval, Websets, Answer endpoint, Research API, Web Search API, Deep Research, Structured JSON Extraction | Consensus meter, Study snapshots, Pro analysis, 220M paper corpus, Copilot |
Consensus
Searches peer-reviewed papers and summarises what the literature concludes.
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