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%

Company Search

People Search

Code Search

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