# Exa | Web Search API, AI Search Engine, & Website Crawler

Real-time AI search engine with a powerful web search API, web crawling API, SERP API, and deep research tools.

- Status: ✓ On-chain verified
- Category: [Search & Retrieval](https://x402looker.com/category/search-retrieval/)
- Website: https://api.exa.ai

## What it does

Real-time AI search engine with a powerful web search API, web crawling API, SERP API, and deep research tools. Search and extract structured content from websites and live data.

Audience: ai-agents, developers. Tags: search, crawl, crawler, serp.

## Pricing

- Pricing model: per-request
- Price hint: $0.007/request
- Accepted tokens: USDC
- Chain: base
- Facilitator: coinbase

## How agents pay

1. The agent sends a plain request and receives an HTTP 402 response describing the price and payment requirements.
2. The agent signs a payment payload for the exact amount on base and attaches it to a retried request.
3. The facilitator verifies and settles the payment, then the service returns the paid response.

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## Facet hubs

- Chain hub: [Base services](https://x402looker.com/chain/base/)
- Facilitator profile: [Coinbase](https://x402looker.com/facilitator/coinbase/)
- Price band: [Micro ($0.01 or less per request)](https://x402looker.com/price-band/micro/)

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Last updated: 2026-08-13
Last checked: 2026-09-28 — lapsed (unreachable at the last two weekly checks). Weekly automated check, not continuous monitoring.