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You.com vs Exa

You.com (You.com) 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.

AttributeYou.com

You.com

Exa

Exa

SegmentSearch & ResearchSearch & Research
VersionARIExa Agent
Entry costFree tier · from $15/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 tiersStarter free · Developer free
Model stackfrontier mixagentic 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 windown/a
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d02
OriginGlobalGlobal
CapabilitiesARI research agent, Web API, Custom agentsNeural search, Contents retrieval, Websets, Answer endpoint, Research API, Web Search API, Deep Research, Structured JSON Extraction

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Embeddings-based web search designed to feed retrieval pipelines and agents.

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