---
name: "xpay-exa"
description: "AI-powered semantic search, find-similar, and content extraction"
version: "1.0.0"
provider: "Exa Search"
tools: 2
---

# Exa Search

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

## 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

```json
{
  "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](https://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

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

For Claude Code:
```bash
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](https://xpay.tools/skills/exa/web-fetch-exa/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