# Exa, pay as you go: People search API

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

Exa's people search API on its x402 or MPP, paid per request plan, $0.70 per 1,000 people.
The median plan costs $3.225 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 89% of the 451 priced plans.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/exa/pay-as-you-go
- Get it: https://exa.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://exa.ai/docs/reference/search
- Sold by: Exa (https://exa.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-14

## 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

## Exa's plans (6)

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

## Exa's calls (1)

- `POST /search`: [Exa, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/exa/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Similar plans of other providers

- [Hunter, $6,900 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/hunter/6900-yearly/llms.txt): $0.69 per 1,000
- [Tomba, $2,499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/tomba/2499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.714 per 1,000
- [Prospeo, $441 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/prospeo/441-yearly/llms.txt): $0.735 per 1,000
- [Snov.io, $891 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/snov-io/891-yearly/llms.txt): $0.743 per 1,000

## Sources

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

- 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