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Exa

Search the web by natural-language query and return relevant pages with optional content.

Capability
Web search
Current price
$0.0098/search
Availability
Ready to run
Last accepted verification

What this API does

Search the web semantically and return ranked sources with titles, public URLs, publication details and optional extracted text.

Agents select this operation with tool ID exa.search, then inspect its current executable contract before a run.

Public input and output shape

Input

numResultsinteger · optional

Value supplied for num results.

minimum: 1 · maximum: 100

querystring · required

Search terms used to find relevant records.

minLength: 1

textboolean · optional

Value supplied for text.

Output

resultsarray

Returned results value.

Example request and output

This reviewed worked example is shared with inspect. Inspect also returns the current executable schema and price estimate before a paid run.

Request

{
  "tool_id": "exa.search",
  "input": {
    "text": true,
    "query": "recent breakthroughs in solid-state batteries",
    "numResults": 5
  }
}

Output

{
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-026-02226-w",
      "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-026-02226-w",
      "text": "Researchers report that a nanoscale grain-boundary interphase improved fracture toughness, ionic conductivity and cycling performance in garnet-electrolyte solid-state batteries.",
      "title": "Nanoengineered doping overcomes sintering and grain-boundary limitations in all-solid-state lithium batteries with garnet electrolytes | Nature Nanotechnology",
      "publishedDate": "2026-07-13T00:00:00.000Z"
    }
  ]
}
Teaching errors and limitations
  • invalid_input: query is requiredexample: {"query":"solid-state batteries","numResults":5}
Updated
18 August 2026

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