# Exa on looot

Exa gives your agent 5 jobs through looot: answer web, search the web and get ranked results, extract the article behind a URL and 2 more jobs. 5 endpoints run today, from $0.001 per result.

## At a glance

- Category: Enrichment
- Access: Runs on looot's platform key: you do not need your own Exa account
- Price: from $0.001

## Choose it when

- You want the lowest price to answer web: $0.005 per call, the cheapest of 2 providers on looot.
- You want the best run record to answer web: 99.7% of 3,534 runs without an error, median 2.0 s over 30 days, the highest of 2 providers with 10+ runs.
- You want the lowest price to extract the article behind a URL: $0.001 per result, the cheapest of 4 providers on looot.
- You want the best run record to extract the article behind a URL: 100% of 17 runs without an error, median 345 ms over 30 days, the highest of 2 providers with 10+ runs.
- You need to similar web: Exa is the only provider on looot that runs this job today.

## Endpoints and jobs

| Endpoint | Job | Price | Runs (30 days) | Benchmark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [answer a question from the web](/public-catalog/exa-answer) | `web.answer` | $0.005 per call | 99.7% of 3,534 runs without an error, median 2.0 s | [Answer web](/benchmarks/web-answer) |
| [Neural web search](/public-catalog/exa-search) | `web.search` | $0.007 per call | 100% of 767 runs without an error, median 1.5 s | [Search the web and get ranked results](/benchmarks/web-search) |
| [Get page contents for URLs](/public-catalog/exa-contents) | `web.article.extract` | $0.001 per result | 100% of 17 runs without an error, median 345 ms | no benchmark yet |
| [find similar pages](/public-catalog/exa-find-similar) | `web.similar` | $0.007 per call | not enough runs to rank | no benchmark yet |
| [Create a run](/public-catalog/exa-agent-runs-post) | `agent.runs.create` | $0.15 per call | not enough runs to rank | no benchmark yet |

## How the numbers are measured

Run numbers are looot's own runs of each endpoint over the last 30 days: the share that completed without an error, and the median time to answer. An endpoint with fewer than 10 runs in that window shows "not enough runs to rank" and is never ranked. Prices are what looot charges per call or per result, fee included, read from the live catalog; you prepay credit and each call is charged when it runs.

Read 2026-11-10 23:22 UTC.

## Related pages

- [Exa alternatives](/alternatives/exa)
- [Exa MCP](/mcp/exa)

## For agents

The minimal request for answer a question from the web (`exa-answer`). Replace each <placeholder> with your value and send a new idempotency key per run.

### MCP

```json
{
  "endpointId": "exa-answer",
  "input": {
    "query": "<query>"
  },
  "idempotencyKey": "<a new id per run>"
}
```

### REST

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"exa-answer","input":{"query":"<query>"},"idempotencyKey":"<a new id per run>"}'
```

### CLI

```bash
looot run exa-answer --input '{"query":"<query>"}'
```