Exa

Web search for AI agents

Category: Data & Analytics
Primary Subcategory: Web Search, Crawling & Extraction for Agents

Integration details

Description

Exa is the search engine for AI. Use Exa to search the web and data sources for code samples, docs, financial data, recent news, companies, people, research papers, and more. Exa is a token-efficient way to search the web.

Integration type: Plugin
Verification status: Not applicable
Platform: ChatGPT
Category: Data & Analytics
Primary Subcategory: Web Search, Crawling & Extraction for Agents
Secondary Subcategories: None listed
Brand: Exa
Access: Account required
First tracked: 2026-09-15
Tool count: 2
Geography: US

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Competing in ChatGPT Web Search, Crawling & Extraction for Agents

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Tools

2 tools agents can invoke

Read a webpage's full content as clean markdown. Use after web_search_exa when highlights are insufficient or to read any URL. Best for: Extracting full content from known URLs. Batch multiple URLs in one call. Returns: Clean text content and metadata from the page(s).
Search the web for any topic and get clean, ready-to-use content. Best for: Finding current information, news, facts, people, companies, or answering questions about any topic. Returns: Clean text content from top search results. Query tips: describe the ideal page, not keywords. "blog post comparing React and Vue performance" not "React vs Vue". Use category:people / category:company to search through Linkedin profiles / companies respectively. If highlights are insufficient, follow up with web_fetch_exa on the best URLs.

Exa FAQ

How do I improve a ChatGPT Plugin's discoverability?

The levers are the listing surface agents actually read: names, descriptions, keywords, tool metadata, and registry health. Which lever matters depends on where discovery breaks, which is what continuous measurement shows.

What are Exa alternatives on ChatGPT?

As of 2026-09-28, Exa competes with Answer Images, Context.dev, DataBlue, Deep research, Firecrawl, Keenable, Keenable SELECT, Lifestyle Helper, Nimble, Nyambot, Octen, Olostep, Page2AI, Parallel Search, Riveter, Search Service, smry, Tako, Tavily, TinyFish, Visualping in ChatGPT Web Search, Crawling & Extraction for Agents, ranked by public Discoverability Score.

Where is this profile measured?

This profile uses the geography attached to the latest public registry snapshot: US. Locale tags are intentionally omitted.

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Competing in ChatGPT Web Search, Crawling & Extraction for Agents

2 tools agents can invoke