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Exa Startup Credits

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Exa Startup Credits: $1,000 in free credits for Exa's AI web search API

$1,000 in free Exa credits for startups building agents that need real web context — the search API used by Cursor, Cognition, and OpenRouter.

  • Verified Exa Startup Credits discount
  • Founder-friendly onboarding
  • No-risk cancellation window
  • Annual savings stack with renewals
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What you get $1,000 in free credits for Exa's AI web search API

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About Exa Startup Credits

Exa is the web-search API built for AI — it powers search inside Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and OpenRouter — and its pricing page offers startups and education projects $1,000 in free credits to build search into their product. If your agent needs live web context (research agents, RAG over fresh pages, lead enrichment), this covers a lot of requests before you ever pay, and it stacks on top of Exa's standing free tier.

What you get

  • $1,000 worth of free Exa API credits for your startup or education project
  • Credits apply to Exa's search, page-contents, and crawling endpoints used by agents
  • Configurable latency modes from fast (~180ms) to deeper 1s-class searches
  • Sits on top of Exa's standard free tier (up to 20,000 requests/month free, per Exa's pricing page)

Eligibility

  • Startups and education projects building web search into their product
  • No published funding-stage or company-age gates — eligibility is confirmed when you contact Exa
  • Aimed at teams not yet on a paid Exa plan; apply before scaling paid usage

How to apply

Use the contact button in the startup grants section of exa.ai/pricing and describe what you're building. There's no published batch cadence — requests are handled directly by the Exa team, so apply before you start paying per-request.

Capabilities

  • • Onboarding that ships in under an hour
  • • Permission roles for founders, ops, and partners
  • • Native integrations with the rest of your stack
  • • Audit-ready exports + reporting
  • • Friendly migration path from legacy tools

How to claim

  1. Click claim

    Hit the button on this page — opens the partner site in a new tab.

  2. Sign up through the partner link

    No code needed — the offer applies automatically when you register through our Exa Startup Credits link.

  3. Offer applies automatically

    No surcharge to you — verified by the SaaSTweaks Deal Desk, not the vendor.

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Frequently asked

What can I spend the $1,000 of Exa credits on?
Anything on Exa's usage-based API — semantic/keyword web search calls, retrieving page contents and highlights for RAG, and crawling. Paid usage is billed per request (rates vary by search mode), so $1,000 goes a long way at prototype and early-production volume.
Do I need VC funding to get Exa's startup credits?
Exa doesn't publish funding gates — the pricing page simply offers the credits to "startups and education projects." Expect to describe your company and use case when you contact them; final eligibility is confirmed by the Exa team.
Is there a free tier if I don't get the startup credits?
Yes — Exa's pricing page advertises up to 20,000 free requests per month with no credit card, which is enough to prototype a research agent or RAG feature. The $1,000 startup grant is separate and adds paid-tier headroom on top.