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Exa Search

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Exa-powered web search for AI agents. Find relevant web sources with optional task objective, category, domain, and publication-date filters. Returns ranked URLs and query-relevant highlights for grounding, RAG, research, and fact finding.

POST
https://api.ai-open-models.com/v1/exa/search
Price
$0.011
per call in USDC
Uptime
100%
last 30 days
Response time
71 ms
157 ms slowest 5%
Last check
Passed
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How to call it

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

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/search
content-type: application/json

{
  "category": "news",
  "num_results": 5,
  "objective": "Find recent, credible sources explaining production adoption and merchant usage.",
  "query": "latest developments in x402 payments"
}

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
categorystringNoOptional Exa category filter. One of: company, publication, news, personal site, financial report, people.
end_published_datestring (date-time)NoOptional latest publication date in ISO 8601 format.
exclude_domainsarray of stringNoOptional domains or domain paths excluded from results.
include_domainsarray of stringNoOptional domains or domain paths allowed in results.
num_resultsintegerNoNumber of results to return, from 1 to 10. Default: 5.
objectivestringNoOptional broader goal explaining which sources and facts should rank highest.
querystringYesSearch query describing the information the agent needs.
start_published_datestring (date-time)NoOptional earliest publication date in ISO 8601 format.

Example response

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

{
  "request_id": "exa-search-example",
  "results": [
    {
      "author": "Example Author",
      "highlights": [
        "The report describes recent production adoption of x402 payments."
      ],
      "id": "https://example.com/x402",
      "published_date": "2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "score": 0.91,
      "title": "Production adoption of x402 payments",
      "url": "https://example.com/x402"
    }
  ],
  "search_time_ms": 850
}

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/search' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"category":"news","num_results":5,"objective":"Find recent, credible sources explaining production adoption and merchant usage.","query":"latest developments in x402 payments"}'

# 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/search' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"category":"news","num_results":5,"objective":"Find recent, credible sources explaining production adoption and merchant usage.","query":"latest developments in x402 payments"}' \
  | 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%2Fsearch&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.ai-open-models.com/v1/exa/search", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "category": "news",
    "num_results": 5,
    "objective": "Find recent, credible sources explaining production adoption and merchant usage.",
    "query": "latest developments in x402 payments"
  }),
});
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/search",
        json={
            "category": "news",
            "num_results": 5,
            "objective": "Find recent, credible sources explaining production adoption and merchant usage.",
            "query": "latest developments in x402 payments",
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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