At a glance
- Availability: Experimental (how to enable).
- Auth: API key.
- Connection: The key from
EXA_API_KEYis sent as thex-api-keyheader. - Docs: https://docs.exa.ai/reference/getting-started
Credentials
Set these per environment. See Connect an integration.| Variable | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
EXA_API_KEY | Yes | Exa API key from the Exa dashboard Docs. |
Setup
- Create an Exa account: Go to https://dashboard.exa.ai and sign up - new accounts include free credits for testing.
- Create an API key: Open https://dashboard.exa.ai/api-keys and create a key with a descriptive name (e.g. ‘Veryfront Integration’).
- Store the key: Add it to your .env file as EXA_API_KEY=…
- Verify access: Run the Search tool with a simple query. A 401 means the key is invalid; a 402 means you are out of credits.
- All endpoints are billed per request from your credit balance; Answer also incurs LLM generation cost
- Deep search types cost more than fast/instant - use type ‘auto’ unless you need depth
Tools
| Tool | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Search | Read | Search the web with Exa’s neural and keyword search |
| Get Contents | Read | Get parsed page contents, summaries, and metadata for a list of URLs |
| Find Similar Links | Read | Find pages similar in meaning to a given URL |
| Answer | Write | Get an LLM-generated answer to a question grounded in Exa search results with citations |
Example prompts
- Use Exa to search the web for a topic I provide and summarize the top results.
- Find pages similar to a URL I provide using Exa and explain how they relate.