Compare 1 free alternatives to Exa for AI / ML. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, each with the date we last verified it.

Best Exa Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

1 free alternative in AI / ML. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Exa Situation

Risk Level: caution
Why: discovered 2026-09-03 · effective date unknown — The free tier now offers $20 in credits on sign-up with $10/month, and 5 Search Queries Per Second (QPS). Previously 1,000 free searches/month with an API key, and no API key was required for x402. Source ↗
Category: AI / ML
Pricing Page: exa.ai/pricing

Recent Pricing Changes (1)

reduced discovered 2026-09-03 · effective date unknown high impact
The free tier now offers $20 in credits on sign-up with $10/month, and 5 Search Queries Per Second (QPS). Previously 1,000 free searches/month with an API key, and no API key was required for x402. Source ↗

All Free Alternatives (1)

1 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 0 are demoted with the reason named, and 0 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.

Left out of this list: Hugging Face (shares no subtype with this product), Groq (shares no subtype with this product), Google Gemini API (shares no subtype with this product), Mistral AI (shares no subtype with this product), OpenRouter (shares no subtype with this product), Cloudflare Workers AI (shares no subtype with this product), Cerebras (shares no subtype with this product), Cohere (shares no subtype with this product), OpenAI (shares no subtype with this product), Pinecone (shares no subtype with this product), Qdrant (shares no subtype with this product), Deepgram (shares no subtype with this product), Kaggle (shares no subtype with this product), Roboflow (shares no subtype with this product), Scale AI (shares no subtype with this product), AssemblyAI (shares no subtype with this product), Replicate (shares no subtype with this product), Baseten (shares no subtype with this product), Weights & Biases (shares no subtype with this product), Comet ML (shares no subtype with this product), Clarifai (we have not classified this record), Neptune.ai (we have not classified this record), Labelbox (shares no subtype with this product), Composio (shares no subtype with this product), DeepAR (none of this category's subtypes apply), Maxim AI (shares no subtype with this product), OCR.Space (shares no subtype with this product), Parseur (shares no subtype with this product), Reducto (shares no subtype with this product), paperspace (shares no subtype with this product), Arize AX (shares no subtype with this product), Audio Enhancer (none of this category's subtypes apply), Braintrust (shares no subtype with this product), Clair (none of this category's subtypes apply), Keywords AI (shares no subtype with this product), Langfuse (shares no subtype with this product), LangSmith (shares no subtype with this product), Langtrace (we have not classified this record), LangWatch (shares no subtype with this product), Lumenfall.ai (shares no subtype with this product), Mediaworkbench.ai (none of this category's subtypes apply), Othor AI (none of this category's subtypes apply), Pollinations.AI (shares no subtype with this product), Portkey (shares no subtype with this product), ReportGPT (none of this category's subtypes apply), Zenable (none of this category's subtypes apply), xAI (shares no subtype with this product), Anthropic API (shares no subtype with this product), GitHub Models (shares no subtype with this product), NVIDIA NIM (shares no subtype with this product), Ollama Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), LLM7.io (shares no subtype with this product), SiliconFlow (shares no subtype with this product), Zhipu AI (shares no subtype with this product), DeepSeek API (shares no subtype with this product), MiniMax (shares no subtype with this product), GPU-Bridge (we have not classified this record), Google Vertex AI Agent Engine (we have not classified this record), Google Vector Search 2.0 (shares no subtype with this product), Google Gemini Embedding 2 (shares no subtype with this product), Alibaba Cloud Qwen Code (none of this category's subtypes apply), E2B (shares no subtype with this product), Together AI (shares no subtype with this product), Fireworks AI (shares no subtype with this product), Modal (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

Tavily AI stable
Free
AI / ML Read and confirmed 2026-09-02
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-09-17
query_key
alternative-to:Exa
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1

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Exa?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 1 free alternatives to Exa, each listed below with its tier, category and the date we last verified it. Of those, 1 carries no recorded demerit. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is Exa's free tier still available?
Exa has a free tier (Free), but it's flagged as "caution" because of one specific recorded change, discovered 2026-09-03: The free tier now offers $20 in credits on sign-up with $10/month, and 5 Search Queries Per Second (QPS). Previously 1,000 free searches/month with an API key, and no API key was required for x402. Source: https://exa.ai/pricing
How many free alternatives to Exa exist?
There are 1 free alternatives to Exa tracked on AgentDeals across the AI / ML category.
Has Exa changed their pricing?
Exa has 1 recorded pricing change. The most recent was discovered 2026-09-03: The free tier now offers $20 in credits on sign-up with $10/month, and 5 Search Queries Per Second (QPS). Previously 1,000 free searches/month with an API key, and no API key was required for x402. Source: https://exa.ai/pricing

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