# Exa, free, Starter: Company discovery API

> The search endpoint lets you search the web and extract contents from the results.

Exa's company discovery API on its Starter plan, $0.00 per 1,000 companies.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exa/free-starter
- Get it: https://exa.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://exa.ai/docs/reference/search
- Sold by: Exa (https://exa.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-17

## 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

## Exa's plans (6)

- [Exa, free, World AgentKit free trial](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exa/free-world-agentkit-free-trial/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000
- [Exa, free, Starter](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exa/free-starter/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000
- [Exa, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exa/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.70 per 1,000
- [Exa, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exa/5-pack/llms.txt): $0.70 per 1,000
- [Exa, $1,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exa/1000-pack/llms.txt): $0.70 per 1,000
- [Exa, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exa/contact-us/llms.txt)

## Exa's calls (1)

- `POST /search`: [Exa, free, Starter](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exa/free-starter/llms.txt)

## Similar plans of other providers

- [Apollo, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/apollo/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000
- [BetterContact, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bettercontact/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000
- [CompanyEnrich, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/companyenrich/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000
- [Coresignal, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/coresignal/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000

## Sources

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

- https://exa-public.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Exa%20-%20Online%20Master%20Subscription%20Agreement%20%28v2.2026-09-17%29.pdf
- https://exa.ai/blog/company-search-benchmarks
- https://exa.ai/blog/people-search-benchmark
- https://exa.ai/docs/admin/billing
- https://exa.ai/docs/admin/faqs
- https://exa.ai/docs/admin/pricing
- https://exa.ai/docs/changelog
- https://exa.ai/docs/exa-spec.json
- https://exa.ai/docs/integrations/payments/mpp/quickstart
- https://exa.ai/docs/integrations/payments/nevermined
- https://exa.ai/docs/integrations/payments/x402/agentkit
- https://exa.ai/docs/integrations/payments/x402/quickstart
- https://exa.ai/docs/llms.txt
- https://exa.ai/docs/reference/search
- https://exa.ai/docs/search/best-practices
- https://exa.ai/docs/search/data/companies-people
- https://exa.ai/docs/search/data/news
- https://exa.ai/docs/search/data/overview
- https://exa.ai/docs/search/quickstart
- https://exa.ai/llms.txt
- https://exa.ai/msa
- https://exa.ai/pricing
- https://exa.ai/terms-of-service