Exa

Deep-Reasoning Search tier ($15/1k requests) removed from endpoint pricing; Deep Search card now $12/1k requests (was $12–15/1k). Search tiers renamed: Instant Search → Lite Search ($4/1k unchanged) and Fast / Auto Search → Auto Search ($7/1k unchanged).

New Instant Search endpoint at $4/1k requests added; existing Search renamed Fast / Auto Search and stays $7; Search entry price now shown as 'From $4' instead of $7.

Free/Starter plan sign-up credit terms changed from $20 sign-up bonus plus $10/month to $10/month plus a $10 onboarding bonus, cutting first-month total credits from $30 to $20

Starter and Developer plan rate limits raised: Starter QPS 5→10 and Agent concurrency 3→50; Developer QPS 10→25 (now "Up to") and Agent concurrency 25→50 Enterprise plan adds SCIM to the SSO entitlement ("SSO and SCIM for Exa Dashboard") and a new "Organization unified billing" bullet

Answer endpoint: removed the $1/1k-request fee for results beyond 10 and the $1/1k-page AI-summary fee — both now show as not applicable, while Search, Deep Search, and Monitors still charge $1 for both.

Free tier changed from a fixed monthly request quota (up to 20,000 requests/month) to a credit-based model: $20 credit on sign-up plus $10 in credits per month.

Exa's Agent product per-run price range upper bound cut in half, from $2.00/run to $1.00/run, now matching the existing X-high fixed-effort rate of $1.00/request shown elsewhere on the page.

Agent plan feature bullet changed from 'Beta access available now' to 'Access leading data providers', indicating GA launch and Exa Connect data provider integration.

Free tier monthly request limit increased from 1,000 requests/month to 20,000 requests/month, now also shown as a dedicated Free Tier card

Quarterly roll-up · includes Jun 29 weekly, May 25 weekly, Apr 6 weekly

New Agent endpoint added for async deep research, list building, and enrichment at $0.025–$2.00/run with detailed ACU-based pricing and fixed effort modes (Low $0.025, Medium $0.10, High $0.50, X-high $2.00). Explicit Free Tier product card added to pricing page, prominently showcasing 1,000 free requests per month. Previously mentioned only in header text; now a dedicated product tier.

Custom index added as a new feature in the Enterprise plan, listed under Powerful search alongside Tailored moderation.

Startup/Education program rebranded as 'Startup and Education Grants' with explicit $1,000 in free credits. Previously listed as generic discounts with no stated credit value. Pricing restructured: Pay as you go plan removed; endpoint model adopted. Search repriced from $5/1k to $7/1k base (up to 10 results). Free tier changed from $10 credits to 1,000 requests/month.

Quarterly roll-up · includes 4 weeklies

Search API feature updated from Built-in summary to Built-in text and highlights [Added optional $1/1k summaries pricing] Contents API pricing unit clarified to per content type [Previously $1/1k pages, now explicitly $1/1k pages per content type]

Agentic Search latency improved: minimum latency reduced from 6s to 4s (33% faster for fastest queries) Search pricing restructured to tiered result-based model: $7/1k requests now covers 1-10 results with $1 per additional result beyond 10; Agentic Search added optional reasoning mode pricing: +$3/1000 requests when reasoning enabled (base price $12/1k requests unchanged)

Enhanced Startup and Education program with $1000 grant [Renamed from 'Discounts' to 'Grants'; specified $1000 credit value] Free tier expanded from $10 in free credits to 1,000 requests free every month

Replaced 'neural' search mode with new 'Instant' (sub-200ms) search mode; search types now Instant, Fast, Auto instead of Fast, auto, neural [before: line 157, after: line 157]

Search API pricing restructured from three separate options (Auto/Fast, Neural, Keyword) to two consolidated options (Fast/auto/neural, Deep) Deep search option added at $15 per 1k requests for 26-100 results

Auto search rebranded to 'Auto / Fast' with updated description from 'AI auto decides search type' to 'Combined keyword and neural search', and latency changed from 'higher' to 'higher / lowest'

Research API pricing tier added with two model options (exa-research and exa-research-pro) offering agent search operations ($5/1k), agent page reads ($5-10/1k), and reasoning tokens ($5/1M)

Answer API pricing introduced at $5 per 1k answers - new API capability for direct answers backed by citations (available in both exa and exa-pro models)