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# Exa Answer

> Quick LLM-style answer to a natural-language question, grounded in fresh Exa web search results with inline citations and source links.

![Exa Answer](https://media.empiriolabs.ai/model-logos/exa-answer.png)

[Exa](/providers/exa) · Research & Search

`POST /v1/answer`

Quick LLM-style answer to a natural-language question, grounded in fresh Exa web search results with inline citations and source links.

## At a glance

| Field               | Value                                                                                                                                                          |
| ------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Model id            | `exa-answer`                                                                                                                                                   |
| Model release date  | -                                                                                                                                                              |
| Input modalities    | Text                                                                                                                                                           |
| Output modalities   | Text                                                                                                                                                           |
| Context window      | -                                                                                                                                                              |
| Weight precision    | -                                                                                                                                                              |
| Features            | web_search, answer_engine                                                                                                                                      |
| Native inference    | No                                                                                                                                                             |
| New                 | No                                                                                                                                                             |
| Supported endpoints | `POST /v1/answer`, `POST /v1/search`, `POST /v1/chat/completions`, `POST /v1/responses`, `POST /v1/messages`, `POST /v1beta/models/exa-answer:generateContent` |

## Pricing

| Charge | Spec        | Rate   |
| ------ | ----------- | ------ |
| Answer | per request | \$0.01 |

## Example request

```bash
curl https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/answer \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer $EMPIRIOLABS_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"model": "exa-answer", "query": "What is RAG?"}'
```

## Parameters

| Parameter            | Type    | Required | Default | Description                                                                                                                                                     |
| -------------------- | ------- | -------- | ------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `query`              | string  | yes      | -       | The natural-language query to search/research/answer.                                                                                                           |
| `text`               | boolean | no       | false   | Show short source text snippets in the answer.                                                                                                                  |
| `disable_formatting` | boolean | no       | false   | Return the answer without EmpirioLabs formatting: citations stay as plain \[N] markers and no References block is added. The citations array is still returned. |

## Notes

LLM-style answer informed by Exa search results. For deeper analysis use Exa Research.

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*Machine-readable schema:* `GET https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/models/exa-answer`.