The best search API for AI
Powering agents with fast, high-quality web search
Highest performance across every use case
Best-in-class accuracy and latency across the most challenging benchmarks.
Accuracy
Exa leads across FRAMES, Tip-of-Tongue, and Seal0 — the most demanding retrieval benchmarks.
Latency
Exa Instant returns results in under 180ms, faster than any other search provider.
Search Verticals
Best-in-class across company search, people search, and code — not just general web queries.
| Provider | Accuracy (%) |
|---|---|
| Exa | 62% |
| Parallel | 37% |
| Brave | 36% |
Powerful features built into your search
Structured Output
"content": {
"companies": [
{
"company_name": "General Electric",
"ceo_name": "Larry Culp",
"founded_year": 1892
},
{
"company_name": "RTX",
"ceo_name": "Christopher T. Calio",
"founded_year": 2020
},
{
"company_name": "Boeing",
"ceo_name": "Kelly Ortberg",
"founded_year": 1916
}
]
},
Extracts structured outputs from Exa's database of 70M+ companies.
Deep web research with structured outputs
Structured outputs enable complex enrichment workflows requiring web search.
Industry-leading web index built for agents
Dedicated high quality web indexes for every use case: people, companies, code docs, financial data, and news.
Token-efficient contents makes agents smarter
Highlights extract the most relevant excerpts from pages for your query.
Enterprise-grade security and controls
Zero Data Retention
Ensure true privacy and compliance with customized ZDR. All queries and data can be automatically purged based on your requirements.
SOC 2 Type II Certified
Our security framework maintains the highest level of compliance with industry standards. Safe information processing and access control.
Single-Sign On
A seamless, secure login experience for your entire team. Built-in team authentication and authorization management.
Trusted by world-class teams
OpenRouter has a laser focus on bringing a great developer experience to all language models, and Exa is the best way we've found for grounding AI in the real world in a model-agnostic way.
Alex Atallah
CEO, OpenRouter