# Exa, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /v0/websets: People search API

> Describe your ICP and get a perfect list of matches

Exa's people search API on its Starter plan. It returns 4 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Location, Photo.
The cheapest of the 225 priced plans is [StartupHub.ai, $500 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/startuphub-ai/500-yearly/llms.txt), at $0.0083 per 1,000.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/exa/49-monthly
- Get it: https://websets.exa.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://exa.ai/docs/websets/api/websets/create-a-webset
- Sold by: Exa (https://exa.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-21

## In the answer

- Completeness: 31%
- Experience: ✓
- Education: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓

## Price

- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $49

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Describe your ICP and get a perfect list of matches

## 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: search.query. Optional: search.entity (type "person"), search.count, search.criteria, search.maxPeoplePerCompany, search.recall, search.exclude, search.scope, title, import, enrichments, exclude, externalId, metadata
- Method: POST
- Path: /v0/websets

## 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 40 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, full name, location, current position, current company, current company location, picture URL, job history title, job history location, job history start date, job history end date, job history company ID, job history company, job history company LinkedIn URL, education degree, education start date, education end date, education school ID, education school, education school LinkedIn URL, 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

## Exa's plans (3)

- [Exa, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /v0/websets](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/exa/49-monthly/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Exa, $449 monthly, Pro, POST /v0/websets](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/exa/449-monthly/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Exa, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v0/websets](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/exa/contact-us/llms.txt): 31% complete

## Exa's calls (2)

- `POST /v0/websets/{webset}/searches`: [Exa, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /v0/websets/{webset}/searches](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/exa/49-monthly-starter-post-v0-websets-webset-searches/llms.txt)
- `POST /v0/websets`: [Exa, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /v0/websets](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/exa/49-monthly/llms.txt)

## Exa's APIs (4)

- [Exa: cached company discovery API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/exa/free-world-agentkit-free-trial/llms.txt)
- [Exa: cached people search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-people-search-apis/exa/free-world-agentkit-free-trial/llms.txt)
- [Exa: company discovery API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v0/websets/{webset}/searches](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exa/49-monthly-starter-post-v0-websets-webset-searches/llms.txt)
- [Exa: company discovery API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v0/websets](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exa/49-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Exa: people search API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v0/websets](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/exa/49-monthly/llms.txt)

## Exa: people search API alternatives

- [SignalHire, $49 monthly, Emails & Phones](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/signalhire/49-monthly-emails-phones/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [BetterContact, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/bettercontact/15-monthly/llms.txt): 23% complete
- [Leadscart, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/leadscart/29-monthly/llms.txt): 15% complete, live
- [LoneScale, $200 monthly, Starter, POST /trigger/contact-sourcing](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/lonescale/200-monthly-starter-post-trigger-contact-sourcing/llms.txt): 15% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-21.

- 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/llms.txt
- 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/websets/api/teams/get-team-info.md
- https://exa.ai/docs/websets/api/websets/create-a-webset.md
- https://exa.ai/docs/websets/api/websets/items/list-all-items-for-a-webset.md
- https://exa.ai/docs/websets/api/websets/searches/create-a-search.md
- https://exa.ai/docs/websets/quickstart.md
- https://exa.ai/llms.txt
- https://exa.ai/msa
- https://exa.ai/pricing
- https://exa.ai/terms-of-service
- https://exa.ai/websets
- https://websets.exa.ai/pricing