Exa Connect

Give your Exa Agent live access to premium data partners, alongside Exa web search, in a single run.

Exa Connect integrates premium data partners into the Exa Agent loop. Attach a provider to a run, and the Exa Agent queries that partner’s database alongside web search before combining the results into one grounded, structured answer.

New to agent runs? Start with the Exa Agent guide, then come back to attach data partners.

Prefer MCP? Exa Agent and Exa Connect are available in Exa MCP. Enable tools=agent_run to run multi-step research, list-building, enrichment, and structured output from Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients.

Why Exa Connect

• Premium data without separate integrations. Access partner data without signing contracts or wiring up an SDK. You call one Exa API.
• Exa handles the plumbing. We manage provider authentication, tool selection, retries, and result ranking.
• The Exa Agent chooses the source. When your outputSchema asks for “monthly visits from Similarweb” or “verified officers,” the Exa Agent calls the matching partner tool instead of guessing from a web page.
• Web and partner data in one run. Connect complements Exa web search. The Exa Agent uses each source where it is strongest and cites the results.

How it works

1. Attach one or more providers via the dataSources array on POST /agent/runs.
2. The Exa Agent selects the right tool for each step based on your query and outputSchema: partner data or Exa web search.
3. Partner results are fused with web research into your structured output, with sources attached.

Pricing

Exa Connect pricing is additive with standard Agent run pricing. You pay the usual Agent compute and search costs, plus the provider call charge for each Exa Connect tool call.

Provider	Price
Fiber.ai	$0.02 / credit
Similarweb	$0.03 / call
Baselayer	$0.10 – $4.00 / order (varies by operation)
Affiliate.com	$0.015 / call
Particle	$0.015 / call
Financial Datasets	$0.01 / call
Jinko	$0.005 / call

Fiber.ai bills in credits rather than per call, because its own charge varies by call: a search costs 2 credits plus 1 per result returned, a company or person lookup is billed per candidate returned (so raising a company lookup’s numResults to disambiguate an ambiguous name costs more), and a contact reveal 2–5 credits depending on whether you ask for work email, personal email, or phone. You are charged the credits Fiber reports for each call; calls that return no match are free. See Fiber.ai pricing.

Baselayer bills per order, and the rate depends on the operation: a KYB business search is $1.00, a UCC lien search is $2.00 per state searched, a litigation/bankruptcy docket search is $1.00 per category, watchlist screening is $0.10–$0.25 per list requested, industry classification and website analysis are $0.35 each, web presence is the sum of the selected analyses ($0.15–$0.35 each), and an international business search is $4.00. Follow-up reads of a prior business search (business lookup, officers, registrations, officer reverse lookup) are free. See Baselayer pricing.

Python

from exa_py import Exa

exa = Exa()
run = exa.agent.runs.create(
    query="Profile Anthropic: total funding and estimated monthly web traffic.",
    data_sources=[{"provider": "fiber"}, {"provider": "similarweb"}],
    output_schema={
        "type": "object",
        "required": ["company"],
        "properties": {
            "company": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": ["name", "totalFunding", "monthlyVisits"],
                "properties": {
                    "name": {"type": "string"},
                    "totalFunding": {"type": "string", "description": "from Fiber.ai"},
                    "monthlyVisits": {"type": "number", "description": "from Similarweb"},
                },
            }
        },
    },
)
run = exa.agent.runs.poll_until_finished(run.id)

Data partners

Fiber.ai

GTM & recruiting. B2B database of companies and people for lead discovery and contact research.

Similarweb

Web analytics. Traffic estimates, global rankings, and competitor discovery for any domain.

Baselayer

Compliance & KYB. Verify US businesses: officers, registrations, and risk signals.

Affiliate.com

Commerce. Product catalog search with pricing, brands, and merchant links.

Particle

Media intelligence. Search podcast transcripts with speaker attribution and timestamps.

Financial Datasets

Finance. Prices, fundamentals, earnings, SEC filings, ownership, and stock screening for 27,000+ U.S. tickers.

Jinko

Travel. Flight and Hotel search with real-time pricing.

Need a source that isn’t listed above? See our Additional providers, which are available upon request by contacting our team.

Usage

Combining providers

Attach as many partners as your task needs. The Exa Agent calls each one where it is strongest and blends the results with web search into a single structured answer:

{
  "dataSources": [
    { "provider": "similarweb" },
    { "provider": "fiber" },
    { "provider": "harmonic" }
  ]
}

For a full walkthrough, including how to shape your query and outputSchema so every partner fires, see Combining providers.