Exa
Search engine built for AIs—live web retrieval for research agents.
Managed
Best when agents need live web search with semantic understanding—retrieving fresh, relevant web content for research, fact-checking, or knowledge grounding.
Selection advice
Choose Exa when your agent needs to search the live web with AI-native relevance—not just keyword matching but semantic understanding of what it's looking for.
Best for
- web search for AI
- live retrieval
- research agents
- content grounding
Not ideal for
- agents that only search private/internal knowledge
- teams that cannot use commercial APIs
Core concepts
semantic searchweb retrievalcontent extractionembeddings search
Minimal implementation shape
Let the agent query Exa with a natural language research question, retrieve and extract relevant web content, and ground its answer in fresh citations.