Exa pricing and rate limits
Cost at your volume
| Tier | Monthly cost | Breakdown |
|---|---|---|
| Free$0 / mo | $0 / mo cheapest | base $0 + Search requests: unpriced (excludes unpriced usage) |
| Pay as you go$0 base + usage | $40 / mo | base $0 + Search requests overage $40 |
| CustomContact sales | unlisted | Contact sales |
Cheapest: Free at $0/mo.
Example volumes you can edit; not vendor data. Costs use the shared Overage cost function, identical to the API and MCP. Usage the vendor does not price is excluded, never guessed. Optional add-ons are not included in these totals. Overage marked pay-as-you-go applies only if you enable it; otherwise the allowance is a hard cap.
Tiers
| Item | Free | Pay as you go | Custom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base price | |||
| Price | $0 / moFreesource | $0 base + usageUse the Search API with no commitment with our flexible per-request pricingsource | Contact salesprice unlisted |
| Included | |||
| Vendor credits | 10 / mo Free $10 credits per monthsource 10 / once A user’s first team also earns a one-time $10 bonus when that user completes onboarding in the dashboard. The bonus does not expire.source | unlisted | unlisted |
| Overage rates | |||
| Search requests | unlisted | $0.004 per 1 |Base price, with up to 10 results(per 1k requests)|$4|$7|$12|$1(per 1k pages)|$15|$5|source$4 / 1,000 requests | unlisted |
| Rate limits | |||
| Search requests per secondper org | 1010 Search Queries Per Second (QPS)source | 25Up to 25 Search QPSsource | unlisted |
| Features | |||
| soc2 | unlisted | yes | yes |
| support ticket | unlisted | yes | unlisted |
| sso | unlisted | unlisted | yes |
| support slack | unlisted | unlisted | yes |
| uptime sla | unlisted | unlisted | yes |
Prices in USD, per the vendor's billing period. Hover or focus a number for the line it came from, with a link to the stored snapshot. "unlisted" means the vendor does not publish it; we never fill the gap.
Rate limits
| Tier | Metric | Limit | Window | Scope | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Search requests | 1010 Search Queries Per Second (QPS)source | per second | per org | documented |
| Pay as you go | Search requests | 25Up to 25 Search QPSsource | per second | per org | documented |
Change timeline
No changes recorded.
Tracking began 2026-10-24; no change has been detected since.
Sources
| URL | Kind | Last captured | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|
| exa.ai/pricing | pricing | 2026-10-24 | snap_exa-pricing-0_20261023T210653Z |
| exa.ai/docs/admin/billing | limits | 2026-10-24 | snap_exa-limits-0_20261023T210703Z |
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