It aims to price deep research like standard search.
Stockfish-level web search
Introducing Exa Agent: frontier web research at less than half the cost of GPT 5.5 and Opus.
/agent orchestrates a mixture of cost-effective models to complete any web research task, from simple data enrichments to building gigantic lists.
Users praise the Exa team as great for launching an agent that delivers GPT-5.5 level web research at half the cost.
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Today we're launching Exa Agent: Opus/GPT 5.5 quality web research at 2-10x lower cost.
It's our most powerful endpoint, particularly good at deep research and list-building - as cheaply as possible.
Basically you can now use a deep research API for close to the cost of a search API.
As the world wrestles with the cost of big models, we'll keep pushing the price/performance frontier 🫡
Introducing Exa Agent: frontier web research at less than half the cost of GPT 5.5 and Opus.
/agent orchestrates a mixture of cost-effective models to complete any web research task, from simple data enrichments to building gigantic lists.
@WilliamBryk The exa team is great