Exa is listed under AI Search & Answer Engines, in the Research & Learning category on Flocci AI Tools. Search API built specifically for AI agents/LLMs, not humans. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at exa.ai.
Exa is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 426 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.
Exa works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on the web and an API.
Exa does 3 things the catalog singles out: Search api built specifically for ai agents/llms, not humans; indexes 80b+ documents, sub-180ms answers; structured json extraction across companies/code/docs.
Metaso AI Search (Mita) is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same AI Search & Answer Engines sub-category and is free. Morphic, Scira and Baidu AI Search also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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