Exa expands free tier to 20,000 requests/month and recuts Agent pricing
Exa raised its free tier from 1,000 to 20,000 requests per month and repriced the Agent endpoint: headline range now $0.012–$1.00/run, X-high cut from $2.00 to $1.00, plus a new $0.012 Minimal mode.
Free tier 1,000 requests/mo; Agent $0.025–$2.00/run (Low–X-high), Agent Compute Units $0.0001/ACU, in-agent search $0.007/search.
Free tier 20,000 requests/mo; Agent $0.012–$1.00/run with a new Minimal mode ($0.012), X-high $1.00, Agent Compute Units $0.10/ACU, in-agent search $0.005/search. Core endpoints (Search $7, Deep $12–15, Contents $1, Monitors $15, Answer $5) unchanged.
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Exa made two notable moves to its usage-based AI search pricing without touching its core per-1k-request endpoint rates.
The free tier grew 20×, from 1,000 to 20,000 requests per month, lowering the barrier to evaluation while the $10 onboarding credit and $7/month carded-account credits stay in place.
The Agent endpoint was restructured: a new Minimal fixed-effort mode was added at $0.012/request (now the headline floor), the X-high mode was halved from $2.00 to $1.00/request, Agent Compute Units are now metered at $0.10/ACU, and in-agent search tool calls dropped from $0.007 to $0.005/search. Core endpoints — Search ($7/1k), Deep Search ($12–15/1k), Contents ($1/1k pages), Monitors ($15/1k), and Answer ($5/1k) — held steady.
The free tier jumped from 1,000 to 20,000 requests per month. The Agent endpoint was repriced: the headline range moved from $0.025–$2.00 to $0.012–$1.00 per run, a new Minimal fixed-effort mode ($0.012/request) was added, X-high dropped from $2.00 to $1.00, Agent Compute Units are now $0.10/ACU, and in-agent search tool calls fell from $0.007 to $0.005/search. Core endpoint rates (Search $7, Deep $12-15, Contents $1, Monitors $15, Answer $5) held steady.