
Exa API alternatives
Every provider that does what Exa does, per capability, ranked on 38K routed calls from the last 30 days. Switch with one parameter; the input schema doesn't change.
Closest alternatives
| Provider | Shared capabilities | Ranks higher on | Cheaper per verified hit on | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Exa vs SerpApi | |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Exa vs Diffbot |
Alternatives for web search
Exa ranks #1 of 2.
| # | Provider | Grid score | Price | Fill rate | Accuracy | p50 | Per verified hit | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Exa Grid Choice Verified Benchmarked | 96 | $0.005per call | 97.0% | n/a | 900 ms | $0.0052 | Rated 4.7 out of 5(53 reviews) |
| Rank 2 | 75 | $0.015per call | 96.0% | n/a | 1.9 s | $0.016 | Rated 4.4 out of 5(7 reviews) |
Alternatives for extract structured data
Exa ranks #1 of 2.
| # | Provider | Grid score | Price | Fill rate | Accuracy | p50 | Per verified hit | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Exa Grid Choice Verified Benchmarked | 90 | $0.001per call | 88.0% | 89.0% | 1.2 s | $0.0013 | Rated 4.5 out of 5(24 reviews) |
| Rank 2 | 64 | $0.008per call | 90.0% | 93.0% | 3.4 s | $0.0096 | Rated 4.4 out of 5(18 reviews) |
More alternatives in the catalog
Named by the vendor itself, or offering the same capabilities per their docs. These are researched, not yet ranked on routed traffic.
- OpenWeb Ninja3 shared capabilities: Publishes 12 APIs on RapidAPI: JSearch, Real-Time SERP Data, Email Finder, Trustpilot Company and Reviews Data, Local Business Data, and more.
AI Ark2 shared capabilities: People and company search API with async email finding and reverse lookup.
Amplemarket2 shared capabilities: AI sales platform with prospect data, sequences and a documented API.Apollo2 shared capabilities: A large contact database with people and company search.
Coresignal2 shared capabilities: Employee, company and job-posting records refreshed weekly.
Crustdata2 shared capabilities: Real-time people, company, hiring and post data.
Fiber AI2 shared capabilities: People, company and search API with an OpenAPI spec.
Firecrawl2 shared capabilities: Scrape, crawl, map and search the web into LLM-ready data.
Hunter2 shared capabilities: Email finder, verifier and domain pattern search.
Hyperbrowser2 shared capabilities: Cloud browsers, sandboxes and scrape/crawl/extract APIs for AI agents.
Jina AI2 shared capabilities: Reader (r.jina.ai), Search (s.jina.ai), embeddings and reranker APIs.
Questions
What is a cheaper alternative to Exa for web search?
None this month: Exa has the lowest cost per verified result at $0.0052.
What is a cheaper alternative to Exa for extract structured data?
None this month: Exa has the lowest cost per verified result at $0.0013.