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Exa

Exa sells web search and content-retrieval APIs for developers building AI applications and agents.

StageLate-stage

Founded—

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Product

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Search API API service Sold on its own

  Exa's Search API retrieves web results and returns page content, structured data, and LLM-generated summaries.

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both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSScrapeGraphAIUndisclosedSearch API and ScrapeGraphAI both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMrScraperUndisclosedSearch API and Web Scraper API both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePParallelLate-stageSearch API and Search API both list search answers; same layer and the same scale band (growth-stage private).1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareAAssemblyAILate-stageSearch API and AssemblyAI Speech Understanding API both list summarization; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBoundaryUndisclosedSearch API and BAML both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareKKadoaUndisclosedSearch API and Web Scraping OS both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCrawl4AIUndisclosedSearch API and Crawl4AI both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLLinkupEarly-stageSearch API and Linkup Search API both list search answers; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLandbaseEarly-stageSearch API and AI Agents do comparable work on search answers and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCContext.devEarly-stageSearch API and Context.dev both list search answers; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSpeechmaticsUndisclosedSearch API and Summarization both list summarization; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAAutomation AnywhereUndisclosedSearch API and Document Automation both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent, agent platform and 5 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLLlamaIndexUndisclosedSearch API and LlamaParse both list document extraction; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSnowflakePublicSearch API and Document AI both list document extraction; Exa's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMAMistral AILate-stageSearch API and Mistral OCR both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDatabricksLate-stageSearch API and Document Intelligence both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, agent platform and 6 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHCHuawei CloudUndisclosedSearch API and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) both list document extraction; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareYYou.comLate-stageSearch API and You.com ARI both list search answers; Exa's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNCNAVER CloudUndisclosedSearch API and CLOVA OCR both list document extraction; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUUpstageLate-stageSearch API and Document OCR both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTencentPublicSearch API and Tencent Cloud OCR both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNANomic AIUndisclosedSearch API and Nomic Agent API both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBaiduPublicSearch API and Baidu OCR (General Text Recognition) both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDropboxPublicSearch API and Dropbox Dash do comparable work on document extraction, search answers and summarization; Exa's scale not recorded; ships application rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMMicrosoftPublicSearch API and Azure Language in Foundry Tools do comparable work on document extraction and summarization; Exa's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCHCohere HealthLate-stageSearch API and Policy Studio both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; ships AI agent, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareAAmazonPublicSearch API and Amazon Bedrock Data Automation both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBABrowse AIUndisclosedSearch API and Browse AI both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; scale not recorded for either; ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareJJsonifyUndisclosedSearch API and Jason both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareOOrigamiUndisclosedSearch API and Chat Agent both list search answers; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareEEvenUpLate-stageSearch API and MedChrons™ do comparable work on document extraction and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMAMoonshot AILate-stageSearch API and Kimi do comparable work on document extraction, search answers and summarization; Exa's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, agent platform and 2 more rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerComparePPerplexityLate-stageSearch API and Perplexity Search API both list search answers; Exa's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSASarvam AILate-stageSearch API and Sarvam Document Digitisation both list document extraction; Exa's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlphabet (Google)PublicSearch API and Google Cloud Natural Language API both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAirtableAcquiredSearch API and Field Agents do comparable work on document extraction and search answers; Exa's scale not recorded; Airtable is acquired, with no independent scale; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareIIroncladUndisclosedSearch API and Contract Review Agent both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCrestaLate-stageSearch API and Cresta Summary Agent do comparable work on document extraction and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareUUniphoreLate-stageSearch API and Conversation Insights Agent both list summarization; Exa's scale not recorded; ships application, data service and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNNaverPublicSearch API and AI Briefing do comparable work on search answers and summarization; Exa's scale not recorded; ships application rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareALAI21 LabsLate-stageSearch API and AI21 Studio do comparable work on document extraction and search answers; Exa's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEElicitEarly-stageSearch API and Elicit Research Agent both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareBBrowserbaseEarly-stageSearch API and Browserbase Search API both list search answers; Exa's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBoxPublicSearch API and Box Extract both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, agent platform and 3 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareIIBMPublicSearch API and IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding both list document extraction; Exa's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHiveLate-stageSearch API and Hive OCR API both list document extraction; Exa's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDocusignPublicSearch API and Docusign CLM both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare44ParadigmPublicSearch API and 4Paradigm Smart Archive both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded; ships application, hardware and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareVSVeeva SystemsPublicSearch API and Veeva Falcon MLR both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, agent platform and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareGGlean (Glean Technologies)Late-stageSearch API and Glean Assistant do comparable work on search answers and summarization; Exa's scale not recorded; ships application and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNNeo4jLate-stageSearch API and Neo4j LLM Knowledge Graph Builder both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded; ships agent platform, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareUUiPathPublicSearch API and UiPath Communications Mining both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCAContextual AILate-stageSearch API and Contextual AI RAG Component APIs both list document extraction; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHyperWriteUndisclosedSearch API and Scholar AI do comparable work on search answers and summarization; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareOOpenTextPublicSearch API and OpenText Fax Aviator do comparable work on document extraction and summarization; scale not recorded for either; ships agent platform and application rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareYYandexPublicSearch API and Yandex Vision OCR both list document extraction; Exa's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHyperbrowserUndisclosedSearch API and Hyperbrowser Web Scraping both list document extraction; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKakaoPublicSearch API and Kanana in KakaoTalk do comparable work on search answers and summarization; Exa's scale not recorded; ships agent platform and application rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareXxAIAcquiredSearch API and Grokipedia both list search answers; Exa's scale not recorded; xAI is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCohereLate-stageSearch API and Parse both list document extraction; Exa's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSAPPublicSearch API and SAP Document AI both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, application and 4 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareIIntuitPublicSearch API and Project Management Agent both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareZZ.ai (Zhipu AI)PublicSearch API and AMiner do comparable work on search answers and summarization; Exa's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareOOraclePublicSearch API and OCI Document Understanding both list document extraction; Exa's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKitaEarly-stageSearch API and Kita Capture both list document extraction; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZoomPublicSearch API and Zoom Summarizer API both list summarization; Exa's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAAleph AlphaLate-stageSearch API and PhariaAI do comparable work on document extraction and summarization; scale not recorded for either; ships application, developer tool and 3 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTTwilioPublicSearch API and Conversation Intelligence both list summarization; Exa's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDifyEarly-stageSearch API and Dify Knowledge Pipeline both list document extraction; Exa's scale not recorded; ships agent platform and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAnthropicLate-stageSearch API and Claude do comparable work on search answers and summarization; Exa's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, agent platform and 3 more rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHHarveyLate-stageSearch API and Horizon Scanning both serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; Exa's scale not recorded; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCVViZUndisclosedSearch API and CVViZ AI Resume Parser both list document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to extract facts from text; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAntinuousUndisclosedSearch API and Antinuous both list search answers; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare

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Stage, from total funding

Company disclosure · 23 Oct 2026

"Exa just raised $250M at a $2.2B valuation led by a16z"

Valuation

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Founded

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Public listing

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Description

Official documentation · 23 Oct 2026

Company page: "web search API. Give your agents the context they need."

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