Exa Answer
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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.
https://api.ai-open-models.com/v1/exa/answer- Price
- $0.011
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 61 ms
- 95 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 2 h ago, next any minute now
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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
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
query | string | Yes | Question or research request to answer using relevant web sources. |
system_prompt | string | No | Optional 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 --decodeJavaScript: 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)Security scan
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Recent checks
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| 2 h ago | Passed | 402 | 72 ms | $0.011 |
| 7 h ago | Passed | 402 | 27 ms | $0.011 |
| 12 h ago | Passed | 402 | 61 ms | $0.011 |
| 17 h ago | Passed | 402 | 68 ms | $0.011 |
| 22 h ago | Passed | 402 | 61 ms | $0.011 |
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| 26 h ago | Passed | 402 | 41 ms | $0.011 |
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| 44 h ago | Passed | 402 | 27 ms | $0.011 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 88 ms | $0.011 |
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