Exa Search
by api.munition.io in Search & web
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.
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
- Passed
- 3 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
category | string | No | One of: company, research paper, news, pdf, github, tweet, personal site, linkedin profile, financial report, people. |
contents | object | No | Which page contents to include. Omit for metadata only. |
endPublishedDate | string (date-time) | No | |
excludeDomains | array of string | No | |
includeDomains | array of string | No | |
numResults | integer | No | Default: 10. |
query | string | Yes | Natural-language search query. |
startPublishedDate | string (date-time) | No | |
type | string | No | 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 --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 $0.01 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)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
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| 3 h ago | Passed | 402 | 521 ms | $0.01 |
| 7 h ago | Passed | 402 | 418 ms | $0.01 |
| 11 h ago | Passed | 402 | 349 ms | $0.01 |
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