---
name: "xpay-exa-web-search-exa"
description: "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."
version: "1.0.0"
price: "$0.02/call"
provider: "Exa Search"
---

# 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.

**Provider:** Exa Search
**Price:** $0.02/call
**Pricing model:** Flat rate per call

## When to Use

Use this tool when you need to 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.. This is part of the Exa Search provider on xpay✦.

## MCP Connection

Connect to xpay✦ to access this tool (and 1+ others):

```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"
```

## How to Execute

Use the xpay✦ meta-tools to run this tool:

1. **`xpay_details`** — Get full input schema: `xpay_details("exa/web_search_exa")`
2. **`xpay_run`** — Execute: `xpay_run("exa/web_search_exa", { ...inputs })`

## Input Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|-----------|------|----------|-------------|
| `numResults` | number | No | Number of search results to return (must be a number, default: 10). |
| `query` | string | Yes | Natural language search query. Should be a semantically rich description of the ideal page, not just keywords. Optionally include category:<type> (company, people) to focus results — e.g. 'category:people John Doe software engineer'. |

## Pricing

- **Cost:** $0.02/call
- **Balance check:** Use `xpay_balance` to check remaining credits
- Get your API key at [xpay.tools](https://xpay.tools/account/settings/api-keys/) — $5 free credits included

## Related Skills

- [Exa Search (all tools)](https://xpay.tools/skills/exa/SKILL.md) — 2 tools
- [Web Fetch Exa](https://xpay.tools/skills/exa/web-fetch-exa/SKILL.md) — $0.02/call

## Links

- Tool page: https://xpay.tools/exa/web-search-exa/
- Provider: https://xpay.tools/exa/
- All tools: https://xpay.tools/explore