> For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL. > For a complete documentation index, see https://docs.empiriolabs.ai/llms.txt. > For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://docs.empiriolabs.ai/_mcp/server. # Exa Search > Web search engine for finding pages, retrieving similar pages, crawling, and dedicated code search across the open web for AI agents. ![Exa Search](https://media.empiriolabs.ai/model-logos/exa-search.png) [Exa](/providers/exa) · Research & Search `POST /v1/search` Web search engine for finding pages, retrieving similar pages, crawling, and dedicated code search across the open web for AI agents. ## At a glance | Field | Value | | ------------------- | --------------------------- | | Model id | `exa-search` | | Model release date | - | | Input modalities | Text | | Output modalities | Text | | Context window | - | | Weight precision | - | | Features | web_search, semantic_search | | Native inference | No | | New | No | | Supported endpoints | `POST /v1/search` | ## Pricing | Charge | Spec | Rate | | -------------------------------------------- | ----------- | -------- | | Search, Auto or Fast (up to 10 results) | per search | \$0.0084 | | Search, Instant or Neural (up to 10 results) | per search | \$0.0048 | | Search, Deep (up to 10 results) | per search | \$0.0144 | | Find Similar (up to 10 results) | per search | \$0.0048 | | Each Result Above 10 | per page | \$0.0012 | | Result Summary | per page | \$0.0012 | | Contents: Text, Highlights or Summary (each) | per page | \$0.0012 | | Code Search | per request | \$0.0048 | ## Example request ```bash curl https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/search \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer $EMPIRIOLABS_API_KEY' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{"model": "exa-search", "query": "latest LLM benchmarks 2026"}' ``` ## Parameters | Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | | ---------------------- | ------- | -------- | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `query` | string | yes | - | Search query (or URL for `similar`) | | `operation` | enum | no | `"search"` | search runs a web search, similar finds pages like a given URL, contents returns the text of given URLs, and code returns code context for a query. · Allowed: `search`, `similar`, `contents`, `code` | | `search_type` | enum | no | `"auto"` | Search algorithm: auto, instant, neural, deep, or fast. Alias of type. · Allowed: `auto`, `instant`, `neural`, `deep`, `fast` | | `type` | enum | no | `"auto"` | Search algorithm: auto, instant, neural, deep, or fast. auto picks the best mode per query. · Allowed: `auto`, `instant`, `neural`, `deep`, `fast` | | `num_results` | number | no | `10` | How many results to return (1-100). · Range: 1 – 100 | | `category` | enum | no | - | Restrict results to a category, such as research paper, news, or github. · Allowed: `company`, `research paper`, `news`, `github`, `tweet`, `movie`, `song`, `personal site`, `pdf`, `linkedin profile`, `financial report` | | `include_domains` | string | no | - | Comma-separated allowlist of domains. Only results from these domains are returned (e.g. arxiv.org, github.com). | | `exclude_domains` | string | no | - | Comma-separated denylist of domains to filter out of results. | | `include_text` | string | no | - | Comma-separated text snippets that must appear | | `exclude_text` | string | no | - | Comma-separated text snippets to exclude | | `start_crawl_date` | string | no | - | Only return results crawled after this date. ISO 8601 (e.g. 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z). | | `end_crawl_date` | string | no | - | Only return results crawled before this date. ISO 8601. | | `start_published_date` | string | no | - | Only return results published after this date. ISO 8601. | | `end_published_date` | string | no | - | Only return results published before this date. ISO 8601. | | `return_text` | boolean | no | true | Return each result's full page text. Alias of text. | | `show_content` | boolean | no | true | Return each result's full page text. Alias of text. | | `text` | boolean | no | true | Return each result's full page text. | | `text_max_chars` | number | no | `2000` | Cap on the cleaned-text length per result. · Range: 100 – 100000 | | `include_html_tags` | boolean | no | false | Keep HTML tags in the extracted text. | | `return_highlights` | boolean | no | false | Get AI-selected key snippets from each result. Alias of highlights. Not used by operation code. | | `highlights` | boolean | no | false | Include relevant text snippets ("highlights") per result. Not used by operation code. | | `highlights_query` | string | no | - | Query used to score which sentences become highlights. | | `highlights_sentences` | number | no | `3` | Number of sentences to include per highlight. · Range: 1 – 10 | | `highlights_per_url` | number | no | `3` | Max highlights returned per URL. · Range: 1 – 10 | | `return_summary` | boolean | no | false | Get an AI-generated summary of each result. Alias of summary. Not used by operation code. | | `summary` | boolean | no | false | Return an LLM-generated summary of each result. Not used by operation code. | | `summary_query` | string | no | - | Custom summary prompt (only when summary=True) | | `livecrawl` | enum | no | - | Fetch a fresh crawl instead of cached content: always, preferred, fallback or never. When omitted, Exa's default applies. · Allowed: `always`, `fallback`, `never`, `preferred` | | `subpages` | number | no | `0` | Number of related subpages to fetch alongside each main result. · Range: 0 – 10 | | `subpage_target` | string | no | - | Keyword guiding which subpages to fetch (e.g. "pricing"). | | `code_tokens` | enum | no | `"dynamic"` | Max tokens of code to include when scraping code-heavy pages. · Allowed: `dynamic`, `5000`, `10000`, `20000` | | `disable_formatting` | boolean | no | false | Return the results as JSON instead of formatted Markdown. | ## Notes **Operations** * search, similar pages, contents, code search **Search types** * Auto, Instant (sub-150ms), Neural (embeddings), Deep Search (Exa 2.1), Fast **Categories** * Company, Research Paper, News, PDF, GitHub, Tweet, Personal Site, LinkedIn Profile, Financial Report --- *Machine-readable schema:* `GET https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/models/exa-search`.