Exa Search
Exa web search, advanced retrieval, and API-key research
About
Search the web and retrieve clean webpage content through Exa’s hosted MCP server.
See the official Exa MCP documentation for setup, tools, and authentication details.
Choose a tool profile when connecting:
Current Obot versions display the profiles in a dropdown. On older Obot versions that display a text field instead, enter one of the values below exactly as shown.
| Profile | Value | Capabilities |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Search | web_search_exa,web_fetch_exa |
Web search and page retrieval |
| Advanced Search | web_search_exa,web_fetch_exa,web_search_advanced_exa |
Basic tools plus advanced search controls |
| Search + Research Agent | web_search_exa,web_fetch_exa,web_search_advanced_exa,agent_run |
Advanced tools plus multi-step Exa Agent research |
Features
- Web Search: Find current information, news, facts, people, and companies with clean, ready-to-use content.
- Page Retrieval: Fetch one or more known URLs as clean markdown.
- Advanced Search: Control categories, domains, dates, content extraction, and subpage crawling.
- Research Agent: Run Exa Agent for multi-step research, list building, enrichment, and structured output.
- Authenticated Access: Use your Exa API key for search and page retrieval, and enable Exa Agent when needed.
What you’ll need to connect
An Exa API key from the Exa dashboard is required to connect through this catalog entry. Exa provides free credits; account usage and plan limits are managed by Exa. The Search + Research Agent profile can incur usage-based Agent charges.
See the official Exa MCP setup documentation, pricing, and security documentation.
⚠️ Upgrade notice
If you’re upgrading this server, note that this replaces the Obot-hosted Exa Search server with Exa’s official hosted MCP server.
- Reconnect required: Add an Exa API key and select a tool profile.
- New capabilities: Advanced search, webpage fetching, and Exa Agent are enabled.
- Tool changes: Legacy code-context and crawling tools are replaced by the hosted server’s current tools and parameters.
Configuration
Environment variables
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
EXA_TOOLS | Select a tool profile from the entry description. On older Obot versions, enter one of the listed comma-separated values exactly as shown. | Yes |
Request headers
| Header | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
x-api-key | API key from the Exa dashboard. Sent in the documented x-api-key header. | Yes |
Remote runtime
- Url Template
https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp?tools=${EXA_TOOLS}