tech
January 28, 2026
Introducing Exa Research: Agentic Web Research Agents
Exa's new Research endpoint. Agentic web research agents that don't stop until they find what you need.
TL;DR
- Launch of `/research`, an agentic search tool for automated web research.
- Provides structured outputs and insights from research.
- Offers two versions: `exa-research` (economical) and `exa-research-pro` (quality-focused).
- `exa-research` adapts model and webpages read based on task difficulty.
- `exa-research-pro` uses smarter models for higher quality.
- Pricing is competitive: $5/1k searches and $5/1k webpages read for `exa-research`; $5/1k agent searches and $10/1k webpages read for `exa-research-pro`.
- Reasoning models for research planning are priced at $5/1M reasoning tokens.
- The integration is OpenAI compatible and available as an asynchronous-first endpoint.