Exa pricing and alternatives: company discovery API, POST /v0/websets/{webset}/searches

Exa's site llms.txt Best cached company discovery API in 2026

69% complete: 9 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$49 monthly, Starter, POST /v0/websets/{webset}/searchesThe cheapest of the 128 priced plans is Context.dev, $9,500 yearly, at $0.0063 per 1,000.

Plan: Starter one of Exa's 3 plans

Call: POST /v0/websets/{webset}/searches one of Exa's 2 calls

API: Company discovery API one of Exa's 4 APIs

About this item

Freshness. Exa doesn't say how fresh a search's results are.
9 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Industry, Type and status, Images, Employees, Headquarters, Locations, Funding, Revenue and budgets.
A monthly subscription. You pay $49 for 8,000 credits.
One call. You call POST /v0/websets/{webset}/searches. You send webset, query and count. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. Or the provider sends the answer to your webhook.
Who can get it: anyone not in a U.S.-embargoed country or on a U.S. restricted-party list. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Exa: company discovery API alternatives

We list other providers' plans billed monthly. These plans come closest to this plan in number of key fields.

	This planExa, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /v0/websets/{webset}/searches	Forager, $50 monthly	Instantly, $9 monthly	Cleanlist, $89 monthly	RouterGrowth, $99 monthly
$ per 1,000	not published	not published	not published	no limit	not published
Completeness	69%	77%	62%	54%	31%
Billing	monthly	monthly	monthly	monthly	monthly
Pay	$49	$50	$9	$89	$99
Enough for	not published	2,250 pages a month	not published	no limit	not published
Who can get it	anyone not in a U.S.-embargoed country or on a U.S. restricted-party list	anyone 18 or over and legally capable of forming binding contracts (for a legal entity, someone authorized to bind it)	anyone with authority to bind the entity they represent, on an Outbound plan, which API access comes with	anyone	anyone

Company discovery API plans

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-24.

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Description
Industry
Type and status
Images
Technologies, not in the answer
Employees
Social profiles, not in the answer
Headquarters
Locations
Funding
Revenue and budgets
Parents, not in the answer
Phones, not in the answer

Price
Billing	monthly
$ a month	$49

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Most per search	100
Also pays for	from the same budget: Create a webset · Create an enrichment · Create an import · Preview a webset

In their words
Their pitch	Creates a new Search for the Webset. The default behavior is to reuse the previous Search results and evaluate them against the new criteria.

Data
Keep data	self-serve: nothing copied or stored past a browser's temporary display cache, unless its terms or Exa in writing allow more, Enterprise, under its Master Subscription Agreement: no limit, the output is yours
Use data	self-serve: as its documentation allows, the output for your own internal business purposes, nothing resold or sublicensed, no competing product, Enterprise: also through your own products to your end users, no competing product, no benchmarks shared

Plan
Pay	$49
You get	8,000 credits a month

Rate limit
Per second	20
Concurrent	2
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	by polling or webhook

The call
You send	webset, query, count. Optional: entity.type "company", entity.description, criteria[].description, exclude[].source, exclude[].id, scope[].source, scope[].id, scope[].relationship.definition, scope[].relationship.limit, recall, behavior, metadata
Method	POST
Path	/v0/websets/{webset}/searches

About the plan
Plan	Starter
Who can get it	anyone not in a U.S.-embargoed country or on a U.S. restricted-party list

The 42 fields the plan's answer can hold

item ID, item source, item source ID, item source entity ID, item scope ID, webset ID, entity type, URL, relevance description, text, name, location, employee count, industry, description, logo URL, founded year, headquarters address, headquarters city, headquarters state, headquarters postal code, headquarters country, headquarters country code, annual revenue, total funding, last funding round name, last funding round date, last funding round amount, monthly visits, monthly unique visitors, evaluation criterion, evaluation reasoning, evaluation satisfied, evaluation references, enrichment ID, enrichment status, enrichment format, enrichment result, enrichment reasoning, enrichment references, item created at, item updated at