People search API

Exa, pay as you go

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$0.70per 1,000 peopleThe median plan costs $3.225 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 89% of the 451 priced plans.

Plan: x402 or MPP, paid per request one of Exa's 6 plans

Call: POST /search Exa's only call

POST /searchPay as you go$0.70 per 1,000

About this item

Freshness. Exa's pages don't say how fresh the list of people a search finds is.
Nothing to buy first: you pay as you go. You pay per call.
One call. You send its inputs to POST /search. The call returns the people your filters find.
Who can get it: AI agents paying in USDC over x402 or MPP, no Exa account or API key needed. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Compare with similar plans

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

	This planExa, pay as you go	Hunter, $6,900 yearly	Tomba, $2,499 monthly	Prospeo, $441 yearly	Snov.io, $891 yearly
$ per 1,000	$0.70	$0.69	$0.714	$0.735	$0.743
Billing	pay as you go	yearly	monthly	yearly	yearly
Pay	per call	$6,900	$2,499	$441	$891
Enough for	as many as you pay for	1,000,000 pages a year	700 pages a month	24,000 pages a year	5,000 pages a month
Who can get it	AI agents paying in USDC over x402 or MPP, no Exa account or API key needed	anyone 18 or over (in India, businesses only)	anyone 18 or over, on request	anyone	anyone of legal age

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-14.

Product details

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

Price
$ per 1,000	$0.70
Billing	pay as you go

Charges
Per	page of 10
Most per search	10
Extra fields	AI summary: +$1.00

Not found
$ per 1,000	$7.00

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	per call

Rate limit
Per second	10

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	query, category "people", 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	x402 or MPP, paid per request
Who can get it	AI agents paying in USDC over x402 or MPP, no Exa account or API key needed

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, full name, first name, last name, location, job history title, job history location, job history start date, job history end date, job history company ID, job history company, education degree, education start date, education end date, education school ID, education school, research works count, citation count, h-index, first publication year, latest publication year, research areas, notable works