Exa Search
by Exa Web Search in Search & web
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.
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
- 3 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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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
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
category | string | No | Optional Exa category filter. One of: company, publication, news, personal site, financial report, people. |
end_published_date | string (date-time) | No | Optional latest publication date in ISO 8601 format. |
exclude_domains | array of string | No | Optional domains or domain paths excluded from results. |
include_domains | array of string | No | Optional domains or domain paths allowed in results. |
num_results | integer | No | Number of results to return, from 1 to 10. Default: 5. |
objective | string | No | Optional broader goal explaining which sources and facts should rank highest. |
query | string | Yes | Search query describing the information the agent needs. |
start_published_date | string (date-time) | No | Optional 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 --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%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)Security scan
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Recent checks
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| 3 h ago | Passed | 402 | 62 ms | $0.011 |
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| 18 h ago | Passed | 402 | 62 ms | $0.011 |
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