Company discovery API

Exa, free, Starter

Exa's site llms.txt

$0.00per 1,000 companies

Plan: Starter one of Exa's 6 plans

Call: POST /search Exa's only call

POST /searchFree, Starter$0.00 per 1,000

About this item

Freshness. Exa's pages don't say how fresh the list of companies a search finds is.
Nothing to pay. You get $10 of credit a month, enough for about 1,428 pages a month. Unused credit expires: on the 1st of each calendar month, no rollover.
One call. You send its inputs to POST /search. The call returns the companies your filters find.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Compare with similar plans

Other providers' plans with the closest prices per 1,000.

	This planExa, free, Starter	Apollo, free	BetterContact, free	CompanyEnrich, free	Coresignal, free
$ per 1,000	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Billing	free	free	free	free	free
Pay	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Enough for	about 1,428 pages a month	75 pages a month	500 results, once	500 results, once	not published
Who can get it	anyone not in a U.S.-embargoed country or on a U.S. restricted-party list, the monthly credits on a user's first team only	anyone with a work email, for business use only, not as a consumer, users of legal age	businesses and professionals	anyone of legal age	the first to sign up with a business email from each company email domain

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-17.

Product details

We list each column of this plan's row on the sheet that has a value.

Price
$ per 1,000	$0.00
Billing	free

Charges
Per	page of 10
Extra fields	AI summary: +$0.00

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	The search endpoint lets you search the web and extract contents from the results.

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	$0
You get	$10 a month
Enough for	about 1,428 pages a month
Expires	on the 1st of each calendar month, no rollover

Rate limit
Per second	10

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	query, category "company", type, numResults, includeDomains, userLocation, contents (text, highlights, summary, extras, maxAgeHours, livecrawlTimeout, snapshotAsOf, subpages, subpageTarget), additionalQueries, outputSchema, objective, systemPrompt, moderation, compliance
Method	POST
Path	/search

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 monthly credits on a user's first team only

The 47 fields in the plan's answer

request ID, title, URL, published date, author, document ID, image, favicon, text, highlights, highlight scores, subpages, links, image links, rich image links, rich links, code blocks, cost in dollars, search time, synthesized output, output citations, output confidence, entity ID, entity type, entity version, name, founded year, description, employee count, headquarters address, headquarters city, headquarters postal code, headquarters country, annual revenue, total funding, last funding round name, last funding round date, last funding round amount, monthly visits, country traffic rank, average visit duration, monthly visits history, research works count, citation count, research areas, notable works, top researchers