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AI-generated answers powered by Exa web search. Ask a factual or open-ended question and receive a synthesized answer with source citations.

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https://api.ai-open-models.com/v1/exa/answer
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How to call it

POST https://api.ai-open-models.com/v1/exa/answer

Each call costs $0.011 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.

Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.

Example request

From the listing.

POST https://api.ai-open-models.com/v1/exa/answer
content-type: application/json

{
  "query": "What are the latest production uses of x402 payments?",
  "system_prompt": "Provide a concise, evidence-based answer and cite the most relevant sources."
}

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
querystringYesQuestion or research request to answer using relevant web sources.
system_promptstringNoOptional instructions controlling the answer's focus, format, or style.

Example response

The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.

{
  "answer": "x402 is being used to meter access to APIs, model inference, and agent tools through per-request payments.",
  "citations": [
    {
      "author": "Example Author",
      "id": "https://example.com/x402",
      "published_date": "2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "title": "Production adoption of x402 payments",
      "url": "https://example.com/x402"
    }
  ],
  "request_id": "web-answer-example"
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.011.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.ai-open-models.com/v1/exa/answer' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"query":"What are the latest production uses of x402 payments?","system_prompt":"Provide a concise, evidence-based answer and cite the most relevant sources."}'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://api.ai-open-models.com/v1/exa/answer' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"query":"What are the latest production uses of x402 payments?","system_prompt":"Provide a concise, evidence-based answer and cite the most relevant sources."}' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode
JavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.011 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.011" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.011 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.ai-open-models.com%2Fv1%2Fexa%2Fanswer&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.ai-open-models.com/v1/exa/answer", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "query": "What are the latest production uses of x402 payments?",
    "system_prompt": "Provide a concise, evidence-based answer and cite the most relevant sources."
  }),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());
Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.011 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.011"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.post(
        "https://api.ai-open-models.com/v1/exa/answer",
        json={
            "query": "What are the latest production uses of x402 payments?",
            "system_prompt": "Provide a concise, evidence-based answer and cite the most relevant sources.",
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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