Exa

Alternatives to Exa

Ranked by category and the features they share with Exa.

1. 
   Tavily Tavily

   A web search and extraction API made for agents and RAG pipelines.

   Pay per use API

   search apiweb searchmcp Exa vs Tavily
2. 
   You.com You.com

   AI search and research agents for teams, with a web search API for developers.

   Free plan + paid API

   search apiweb search Exa vs You.com
3. 
   Perplexity Perplexity AI

   An answer engine that searches the web and replies with cited sources, plus its Comet browser.

   Free plan + paid API

   web search Exa vs Perplexity
4. 
   OpenAI API OpenAI

   GPT models for text, vision, images, audio and realtime voice, plus the Agents SDK.

   Pay per use API

   embeddings Exa vs OpenAI API
5. 
   Gemini API Google

   Gemini models with long context and native video and audio input, through AI Studio and Vertex AI.

   Pay per use API

   embeddings Exa vs Gemini API
6. 
   Cohere Cohere

   Models for enterprise search and RAG: Command, Embed and Rerank, deployable privately.

   Pay per use API

   embeddings Exa vs Cohere
7. 
   Claude API Anthropic

   Claude models for developers, with tool use, prompt caching, batches and skills; also on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

   Pay per use API

   mcp Exa vs Claude API
8. 
   Mistral AI Mistral AI

   European models, open-weight and commercial, with an API and on-premises deployment.

   Pay per use Open source API

   embeddings Exa vs Mistral AI
9. 
   OpenRouter OpenRouter

   One API and bill for hundreds of models from every major provider, with fallbacks.

   Pay per use API

   Exa vs OpenRouter
10. 
    Groq Groq

    Very fast inference for open models on Groq’s own LPU chips.

    Pay per use API

    Exa vs Groq