# Exa MCP: use Exa from your agent through looot

Search the web by meaning and pull page text for your agent through one MCP connection. Exa is one of the providers behind looot; your agent calls its endpoints through the looot MCP connection.

## What your agent can do with Exa

- Search the web by meaning: covered.
- Find company news: covered.
- Fetch page contents: covered.
- Find similar pages: covered.

## Example prompts for Exa

- Research a topic: Use looot to search with Exa for recent coverage of agent frameworks and summarise the five best sources.
- Company news: Use looot to find news about Stripe from the last 30 days and list the headlines with links.
- Similar pages: Use looot to find pages similar to https://example.com/blog/pricing and list what they have in common.

## Is there a Exa MCP server?

looot gives your agent one MCP connection. Exa is one of the providers behind looot; your agent calls its endpoints through the looot MCP connection. You add looot once and reach every provider in the catalog from it.

## How do I use Exa with Claude Code?

Add the looot MCP connection to Claude Code once, using the setup at https://looot.ai/skill.md. Then ask Claude Code to use looot for the job. Exa is one of the providers behind looot; your agent calls its endpoints through the looot MCP connection.

## How do I use Exa with Cursor?

Add the looot MCP connection in Cursor's MCP settings, then ask the agent to use looot. Exa is one of the providers behind looot; your agent calls its endpoints through the looot MCP connection.

## Does Exa work with ChatGPT?

It works in any client that can add an MCP connection. Where your ChatGPT plan lets you add one, add looot and ask it to use looot. Exa is one of the providers behind looot; your agent calls its endpoints through the looot MCP connection.

## What can I do with Exa through looot?

The jobs on this page: search the web by meaning, find company news, fetch page contents, find similar pages. The page marks any job whose endpoints are not in the live catalog.

## What does Exa cost through looot?

You pay per call. The price of each endpoint is shown before you run it, so your agent can check it first and pick the cheapest one that fits.

## Do I need a Exa account to use it through looot?

You connect to looot, not to Exa. looot makes the provider call for you and bills each call at the price shown before the run.

## How does my agent find the right Exa endpoint?

It searches the looot catalog for the task, reads the endpoint's parameters and price, and then calls it. You do not have to read Exa's docs first.

## What can I use with Exa in looot?

Providers that often go with Exa are Tavily, Linkup, Firecrawl, Jina. All of them sit behind the same looot MCP connection.

## Used together with

- tavily
- linkup
- firecrawl
- jina

## Last reviewed

2026-10-02. Live prices are on the web page, read from the catalog.