Exa AI
The search engine for finding the best content on the internet.
Overview
Exa AI (formerly Metaphor) is a search platform designed to find content based on concepts and meaning, rather than just keywords. It's primarily an API for developers to build applications that can search for similar content, discover experts, or find information expressed in a specific style. It uses a transformer-based architecture to understand the relationship between content on the web.
✨ Key Features
- Neural search API
- Search by concept or meaning, not just keyword
- Find similar content to a given URL
- Filter results by domain, date, etc.
- Highlights feature to extract relevant text
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Searches based on meaning and concepts, not keywords
- Ability to search using a URL to find similar content
- Designed to power AI agents and applications
Unique Value: Enables developers to build applications that can search the web how a human would, by understanding the underlying meaning and concepts of content.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Powering 'related articles' features
- Finding datasets or code repositories based on a natural language description
- Discovering companies or people based on their web content
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- General purpose, consumer-facing web search
- Keyword-heavy, precise search queries
🏆 Alternatives
Unlike traditional search APIs, Exa is not based on keywords. Unlike vector databases, Exa provides a pre-computed model of the public web, requiring no data ingestion from the user.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Enterprise tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
Free tier: 1,000 API requests per month
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