Exa

“You should consider using something like Exa or Firecrawl.”

“if you're going paid, Parallel, Firecrawl, Tavily and Exa are all pretty good now”

“It's literally like, at my volumes, a couple bucks here and there.”

“Exa and tavily #1, brave #2, searx last”

“I pay the Exa premium for semantic retrieval with far higher SNR, plus the academic index”

“Exa even has a pretty good MCP and free tier”

“Extraction of main content from HTMLs, the index stores markdown representations (free of headers/footers/sidebars/menus etc)”

“Claude with Exa search performs better that Claude with native search”

“they charge for the 'feature' of not storing your data”

“I am pretty sure exa specifically say it trains on your data in it's privacy policy”

“I've since given my agent access to Exa, Tavily, and SearXNG so it can filter through today's low quality search results for me”

“with web search, exa and fetch built into harnesses this is no longer a problem”

“use multiple because they return different sets”

“exa is particularly strong for entity and people search but can be bad at latest news”

“has worked well for me, returning markdown for a URL”

“Exa charges 7$ per 1000 queries, and charges additionally for each result that is out of top-10.”

“exa.ai/about looks interesting to me”

“Exa could be great in some for example people search but is pretty bad at getting the latest content of the page”

“for inference you generally just want the best web search available, which obviously I'd argue is Exa”

“Currently using exa/searxng/scrapling with pretty good success”

“For applications where I am not concerned about my queries being passed through a US provider, I have had success with exa”

“I've only recently learned Exa pricing is a bit crazy (especially on searches where you source 30-40 sources)”

“Or Exa if you want to pay. Any of them work.”

“I’ve since paid for a search API(linkup, exa, and valyu)”

“Pair it with good search skills (Tavily, Brave, Exa)”

“this alone makes the model far more useable.”

“agents + EXA has replaced almost all of my search now”

“I've had generally good experiences with Exa, I use it as an MCP in all my various coding tools”

“Brave, Exa, and Tavily all offer a free tier for websearch”

“Exa reached higher performance with 70% less training compute”

“Query Data is used to improve our products and technology, including by training and fine-tuning models”

“both log by default with enterprise opt in for zdr.”

“it's not just one API call, it's 4 different tools (web search, code search, crawling, advanced search)”

“When I tried adding Exa through the GUI, it didn't stick.”

“I use Exa search to help me prepare for calls by getting background info on customers and businesses”

“Exa searches thousands of repos for current best practices before implementing.”

“the integrations with exa for search, LSP servers on local machine, syntax highlighting, steering prompts”

“Firecrawl or Exa are pretty good for that”

“a good way to not only grab a bunch of useful programs like exa and bat”

“they had me email the support, which they ignored and required a follow up”