Exa (Metaphor)
AutomatedAI-powered search API for agents and applications offering real-time web search, deep research, and content retrieval.
Active plans
4
Total changes
4
Last change
Jun 2, 2026
Price trend
no history
What we know about Exa (Metaphor)’s pricing
Moderately activeChanges in 12 months
4
Cadence
Multiple changes per day
Direction
New plan recently added
Category position
Cheaper than 88% of Data Engineering tools (449 compared)
Current pricing
Free Tier
monthlyFree
- 1,000 requests/month
- Web search tool calls for agents
- Webpage text and highlights
- Configurable latency (180ms–1s)
- Basic API access
- No credit card required
Search
usage based$7
$7/1k requests
- Real-time search data
- Token-efficient page contents
- Web search for agents
- Configurable latency
- Scale beyond 1,000 requests
- Pay-as-you-go
Deep Search
usage based$12
$12–15/1k requests
- Multi-step agent workflows
- Structured outputs with citations
- Web-grounded answers
- Complex query optimization
- Research-grade accuracy
- Async deep research runs
Contents
usage based$1
$1/1k pages
- Full page web contents for LLM context
- Token-efficient highlights
- Configurable livecrawl policies
- Per content type pricing
- Optimized for AI ingestion
- Low latency retrieval
Price history
Last 4 changes
| Date | Plan | Change | Old | New | Δ% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2026 | Contents | new plan | — | $1 | — |
| Jun 2, 2026 | Deep Search | new plan | — | $12 | — |
| Jun 2, 2026 | Search | new plan | — | $7 | — |
| Jun 2, 2026 | Free Tier | new plan | — | $0 | — |
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