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Exa Search API

Web-scale retrieval API designed for AI-first search and research workflows.

verifiedRecently verifiedSource: manual
Health low (30)

Best for

  • Research copilots and citation-grounded assistant responses.

Limitations

  • Broad discovery queries can become expensive without caching.
  • Requires good ranking prompts to reduce citation noise.

Use carefully when

  • Strictly closed-network workloads.

Quickstart

  1. Use domain constraints and query templates for stable precision.
  2. Cache high-frequency prompts and citations.

Setup checklist

  • • API key required: Yes
  • • SDK quality: high
  • • Self-host difficulty: easy

Health Meter

  • • Setup complexity: 35
  • • Safety & misuse risk: 32
  • • License/compliance risk: 18

Good baseline for controlled deployment.

Capabilities

  • webSearchtrue
  • semanticRetrievaltrue
  • freshnessWindowHours12
  • citationSupporttrue

Benchmarks

retrievalPrecision
85.1
citationCoverage
84.9
latencyP95Ms
980

Community reviews

1 reviews • avg 4

Good retrieval quality

4

Citation quality is solid when templates are constrained by intent and domain.

Samples

RAG citation pack

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Last verified: 24/2/2026, 2:24:25 am • Source: https://livebench.ai/
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