Exa alternatives
12 MCP servers, A2A agents and x402 APIs that also do research, web search, x402 paid apis, ranked by how much they overlap with Exa (x402 paid API), live ones first.
Compared
| Name | Type | Live | Tools / skills | Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exa (this one) | x402 paid API | No | 2 | 90/100 |
| Research Brief | A2A agent | Yes | 3 | – |
| Agent Exchange (RileyCraig14) | A2A agent | Yes | 12 | – |
| CONNSKILL Growth Services | A2A agent | Yes | 12 | – |
| Ghost — web search for agents, one x402 payment | A2A agent | Yes | 5 | – |
| Web Search & Data API (kadec0) | x402 paid API | Yes | 12 | 90/100 |
| Brave Search API | x402 paid API | Yes | 8 | 90/100 |
| StableEnrich | x402 paid API | Yes | 12 | 90/100 |
| x402 Atlas Web Search, News & Page Reader | x402 paid API | Yes | 4 | 90/100 |
| You.com | x402 paid API | Yes | 2 | 83/100 |
| api.agentstools.dev | x402 paid API | Yes | 12 | 80/100 |
| Vend API Merchant | A2A agent | Yes | 9 | 90/100 |
| Exa Search | MCP server | Yes | 2 | 80/100 |
Live = answered our latest free daily check. Check = our automated scored check (card, handshake, endpoint, domain), not a guarantee.
The alternatives
- Research Brief Live A2A
Writes a structured research brief from a question: summary, key points, options, risks, open questions and what to verify. Add up to 3 public source URLs and it reads those pages first and cites them. Without sources i…
A2A agent · Rooms by Aurmada · 3 skills · also does research, web search, x402 paid apis
- Agent Exchange (RileyCraig14) Live A2A
Machine-payable data and tools for autonomous agents: crypto pre-trade intelligence, on-chain RPC reads, web research, public-sector opportunity data, AI visibility, prediction markets and DeFi. 85 paid routes are curre…
A2A agent · RileyCraig14 · 12 skills · also does research, web search, x402 paid apis
- CONNSKILL Growth Services Live A2A
Merchant agent for growth infrastructure: SMS verification numbers, social marketing orders, the full SEO/SERP research line (SERP reports, keyword metrics/ideas/difficulty, rankings, competitors, backlinks, site audits…
A2A agent · CONNSKILL GmbH & Co. KG · 12 skills · also does research, web search, x402 paid apis
- Ghost — web search for agents, one x402 payment Live A2A
Search the web and get the results, in one x402 payment. Ghost runs the search on its own provider account and returns the actual results — organic hits, answer box, knowledge panel, related questions — normalised into…
A2A agent · Ghost Agent OS · 5 skills · also does research, web search, x402 paid apis
- Web Search & Data API (kadec0) Live x402
Pay-per-call web search and web data for AI agents. Multi-engine SERP (web + news, batch, rank-fused), search-and-read (top hits to markdown in one call), URL-to-markdown scraping, Google Trends (interest over time, rel…
x402 paid API · 12 endpoints · check 90/100 · also does research, web search
- Brave Search API Live x402
Web search over Brave's independent index. Returns ranked pages with title, URL, and snippet, plus news, video, and discussion results when relevant. Use it to find current sources on any topic. Pass q, and optionally c…
x402 paid API · 8 endpoints · check 90/100 · also does web search, x402 paid apis
- StableEnrich Live x402
Pay-per-request access to FullEnrich, CompanyEnrich, LeadMagic, Exa, Firecrawl, Google Maps, Serper, and Whitepages APIs. No auth, no subscriptions.
x402 paid API · 12 endpoints · check 90/100 · also does web search, x402 paid apis
- x402 Atlas Web Search, News & Page Reader Live x402
Real-time web search for AI agents — search the web and get ranked SERP-style results as clean JSON: title, URL, snippet, relevance score, optional LLM-generated answer. Find up-to-date information online — latest news,…
x402 paid API · 4 endpoints · check 90/100 · also does web search, x402 paid apis
- You.com Live x402
Skip the groundwork with our AI-ready Web Search APIs, delivering advanced search capabilities to power your next product.
x402 paid API · 2 endpoints · check 83/100 · also does web search, x402 paid apis
- api.agentstools.dev Live x402
Keyword news search across web news engines (Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo via ddgs). Returns dated headlines with title/url/snippet/source/image + freshness/region/safesearch filters.
x402 paid API · 12 endpoints · check 80/100 · also does web search, x402 paid apis
- Vend API Merchant Live A2A
Pay-per-call API merchant settled in Nano (XNO): web page extraction, link status checks, URL status checks, domain intelligence, web search, IP geolocation, Nano account info and YouTube transcript extraction. No signu…
A2A agent · Vend · 9 skills · check 90/100 · also does research, web search
- Exa Search Live MCP
Connect AI agents to Exa for web search, content fetching, and multi-step research.
MCP server · Exa · 2 tools · check 80/100 · also does research, web search