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Exa Search

by api.munition.io in Search & web

x402 APIPassing, checked 3 h ago

Munition Exa Search: x402-paid neural web search for AI agents. Pay 0.01 USDC per query and get up to 25 ranked results (title, url, date, author, optional page text/highlights/summary) from Exa's semantic index. Supports categories (news, research paper, company, github, people…), domain include/exclude and date filters.

POST
https://api.munition.io/v1/exa/search
Price
$0.01
per call in USDC
Uptime
100%
last 30 days
Response time
432 ms
559 ms slowest 5%
Last check
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How to call it

POST https://api.munition.io/v1/exa/search

Each call costs $0.01 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.munition.io/v1/exa/search
content-type: application/json

{
  "numResults": 5,
  "query": "x402 payment protocol for AI agents",
  "type": "auto"
}

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
categorystringNo One of: company, research paper, news, pdf, github, tweet, personal site, linkedin profile, financial report, people.
contentsobjectNoWhich page contents to include. Omit for metadata only.
endPublishedDatestring (date-time)No
excludeDomainsarray of stringNo
includeDomainsarray of stringNo
numResultsintegerNo Default: 10.
querystringYesNatural-language search query.
startPublishedDatestring (date-time)No
typestringNo One of: auto, neural, keyword, fast. Default: "auto".

Example response

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

{
  "meta": {
    "resultCount": 1,
    "searchedAt": "2026-09-09T00:00:00.000Z"
  },
  "query": "x402 payment protocol for AI agents",
  "results": [
    {
      "author": null,
      "publishedDate": "2025-05-06T00:00:00.000Z",
      "score": 0.21,
      "title": "x402 — HTTP-native payments",
      "url": "https://www.x402.org/"
    }
  ],
  "searchType": "neural"
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.01.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.munition.io/v1/exa/search' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"numResults":5,"query":"x402 payment protocol for AI agents","type":"auto"}'

# 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.munition.io/v1/exa/search' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"numResults":5,"query":"x402 payment protocol for AI agents","type":"auto"}' \
  | 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 $0.01 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.01" });
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 $0.01 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.munition.io%2Fv1%2Fexa%2Fsearch&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.munition.io/v1/exa/search", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "numResults": 5,
    "query": "x402 payment protocol for AI agents",
    "type": "auto"
  }),
});
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 $0.01 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.01"})
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.munition.io/v1/exa/search",
        json={
            "numResults": 5,
            "query": "x402 payment protocol for AI agents",
            "type": "auto",
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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