Alternatives

Best Exa alternatives

10 tools similar to Exa, ranked by how closely they match what it does among chat assistants. 9 have a free option.

Exa alternatives at a glance

Tool	Pricing	Compare
Exa(this tool)	Freemium
DeepSeek	Freemium	vs Exa
Grok	Freemium · from $8/mo	vs Exa
AlphaSense	Paid	vs Exa
Gemini	Freemium · from $19.99/mo
Ahrefs	Freemium
You.com	Freemium
Scalenut	Freemium
BenchSci	Enterprise
Elicit	Freemium
Hebbia	Enterprise

Top 10 alternatives to Exa

DeepSeek

Free

Chat assistants

Frontier AI models with world-class reasoning — free to chat, open to build on

Free to use with API options available

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Free tierEveryoneAPIOSSSelf-host

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Grok

Free

Chat assistants

xAI's witty, real-time AI — has live access to X (Twitter) data and minimal content restrictions.

Free tierEveryoneAPI

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AlphaSense

Free

Chat assistants

AI-powered market intelligence and search platform for financial professionals

Free tier available · Enterprise pricing on request

TegusSalesforceDeveloper Portal APIMobile App+1

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Gemini

Free

Chat assistants

Google's multimodal AI assistant with deep Search and Workspace integration

Free tier available

Google

Free tierEveryoneAPI

Google10M+ users

Ahrefs

Free

Chat assistants

AI marketing platform powered by big data — dominate search, AI, and beyond

Free plan available · Enterprise pricing available

Google Search ConsoleGoogle Business ProfileSlack

Free tierEveryoneAPI

Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), others10M+ users

You.com

Free

Chat assistants

The leading web search APIs for AI agents and LLMs

Free tier: 100 queries/day. Web Search API: $5.00/1k calls. Contents API: $1.00/1k pages. Answer API: $5.00/1k calls. Research API (Lite): $12.00/1k calls. Finance Research API (Deep): $110.00/1k calls. $100 free credit to get started. Volume discounts and annual savings available.

Python SDKMCP ServerREST APIAgent Skills

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