Exa Search

AI-powered semantic search, find-similar, and content extraction

Available Tools

• web_search_exa: Search the web for any topic and get clean, ready-to-use content.

Best for: Finding current information, news, facts, or answering questions about any topic. Returns: Clean text content from top search results, ready for LLM use. — $0.02/call

• company_research_exa: Research any company to get business information, news, and insights.

Best for: Learning about a company's products, services, recent news, or industry position. Returns: Company information from trusted business sources. — $0.02/call

• get_code_context_exa: Find code examples, documentation, and programming solutions. Searches GitHub, Stack Overflow, and official docs.

Best for: Any programming question - API usage, library examples, code snippets, debugging help. Returns: Relevant code and documentation, formatted for easy reading. — $0.02/call

Quick Start

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "exa": {
      "url": "https://exa.mcp.xpay.sh/mcp?key=YOUR_XPAY_KEY"
    }
  }
}

Pricing

Pay per tool call from your XPay wallet. No subscriptions, no minimums.

Get an API key at xpay.tools.

Tools: 2 Category: Web Search & Research

When to Use

Use Exa Search tools when you need to ai-powered semantic search, find-similar, and content extraction. All tools are available through xpay✦'s single MCP connection.

MCP Connection

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "xpay": {
      "url": "https://mcp.xpay.sh/mcp?key=YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
}

For Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http xpay "https://mcp.xpay.sh/mcp?key=YOUR_API_KEY"

Available Tools

• Web Search Exa — Search the web for any topic and get clean, ready-to-use content.

  Best for: Finding current information, news, facts, people, companies, or answering questions about any topic.
  Returns: Clean text content from top search results.
  
  Query tips: 
  describe the ideal page, not keywords. "blog post comparing React and Vue performance" not "React vs Vue".
  Use category:people / category:company to search through Linkedin profiles / companies respectively.
  If highlights are insufficient, follow up with web_fetch_exa on the best URLs. — $0.02/call — [SKILL.md](https://xpay.tools/skills/exa/web-search-exa/SKILL.md)
  

• Web Fetch Exa — Read a webpage's full content as clean markdown. Use after web_search_exa when highlights are insufficient or to read any URL.

Best for: Extracting full content from known URLs. Batch multiple URLs in one call. Returns: Clean text content and metadata from the page(s). — $0.02/call — SKILL.md

How to Execute

1. xpay_discover — Search for tools: xpay_discover("exa")
2. xpay_details — Get input schema: xpay_details("exa/TOOL_NAME")
3. xpay_run — Execute: xpay_run("exa/TOOL_NAME", { ...inputs })
4. xpay_balance — Check credits

Links

• Provider page: https://xpay.tools/exa/
• All providers: https://xpay.tools/explore
• Docs: https://docs.xpay.sh