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title: "Exa"
description: "Exa on looot as of 2026-09-28: 13 jobs through 18 endpoints, how you reach it, what it costs, and how to run it."
---

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## What it's good for

Exa is in Web data, SEO/AEO. Reach for it to search the web and get ranked results; extract the article behind a URL; answer web.

As of 2026-09-28 (catalog revision 85280) it serves 13 jobs through 18 endpoints.

## Jobs

| Job id | What it does | Endpoints |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [`monitors.runs`](/catalog/web-data) | Runs monitors | 4 |
| [`monitors.create`](/catalog/web-data) | Create monitors | 2 |
| [`monitors.get`](/catalog/web-data) | Get monitors | 2 |
| [`agent.runs.create`](/catalog/web-data) | Create agent runs | 1 |
| [`agent.runs.events`](/catalog/web-data) | Events agent runs | 1 |
| [`agent.runs.get`](/catalog/web-data) | Get agent runs | 1 |
| [`agent.runs.stop`](/catalog/web-data) | Stop agent runs | 1 |
| [`monitors.batch`](/catalog/web-data) | Batch monitors | 1 |
| [`monitors.trigger`](/catalog/web-data) | Trigger monitors | 1 |
| [`web.answer`](/catalog/web-data) | Answer web | 1 |
| [`web.article.extract`](/catalog/web-data) | Extract the article behind a URL | 1 |
| [`web.search`](/catalog/seo-aeo) | Search the web and get ranked results | 1 |
| [`web.similar`](/catalog/web-data) | Similar web | 1 |

## Access

- **Runs on looot's key** for 18 endpoints: nothing to set up, the run spends your looot balance. You can connect your own key instead; see [Bring your own key](/guides/bring-your-own-key).

## Price basis

18 charged at the cost the provider reports. A call that fails at the provider costs $0; see [What's free](/money/free-and-failures).

## Free first in fallback

No. Every endpoint bills on each answer, found or not, so a fallback walk pays for a miss here. See [Free first](/concepts/free-first).

## Run it

A job run takes shared input names, not Exa's own field names; looot maps them for each provider. For `job:web.article.extract`, `url` is taken by 3 of its 3 providers. See [Job inputs](/concepts/job-inputs).

Example input for `looot run` or the MCP [`run`](/mcp-tools/run) tool, with placeholder values:

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```bash CLI
looot run job:web.article.extract --input '{"url":"https://example.com"}'
```

```json MCP
{
  "endpointId": "job:web.article.extract",
  "input": {
    "url": "https://example.com"
  },
  "idempotencyKey": "<new unique key>"
}
```

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A job run picks among all the job's providers. To run Exa itself, name one of its endpoints (MCP [`search`](/mcp-tools/search) with `{"filters": {"provider": "exa"}}` lists them), for example `exa-contents`: `looot inspect exa-contents` prints its exact input fields and price.

## In the live catalog

- Browse: [looot.ai/public-catalog/exa-monitors-runs](https://looot.ai/public-catalog/exa-monitors-runs), or search [looot.ai/public-catalog](https://looot.ai/public-catalog?text=Exa) for Exa.
- Every endpoint, no account needed: `curl "https://api.looot.ai/v1/public-catalog?provider=exa"`

Exa's name and logo are trademarks of their owner, shown to identify the provider.

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