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Exa MCP

search built for agents rather than humans

free tier; paid api beyond it#multi-step-research#list-building#not-just-fetching-links

the only search server with a genuine agent primitive — `agent_run` does multi-step research and structured enrichment, which no competitor matches.

exa is neural search designed for machine consumption. the tools are `web_search_exa`, `web_fetch_exa`, `web_search_advanced_exa` with full filter control over domains and dates, and `agent_run`, which kicks off a multi-step research or enrichment task and returns structured output.

that last one is the differentiator. every other search server on this list returns results; this one will go and do a piece of research.

the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.

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mcp servers
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free tier; paid api beyond it
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our verdict

the only search server with a genuine agent primitive — `agent_run` does multi-step research and structured enrichment, which no competitor matches.

we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.

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