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Exa MCP

Gives Claude a web search built for AI, with full page content in the results.

FreemiumBy Exa
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What is it?

Exa is a search engine designed for AI rather than people. Ask Claude to "find five Australian agencies that do CRO for Shopify stores" and it returns the pages with their content attached, ready to use.

It works without an account, at a modest rate limit. Signing in unlocks the research agent, which does the digging across many pages and hands back a structured answer.

What Claude can do once it's connected

  • Search the web and get the page content, not just links
  • Read a known page as clean text
  • Filter results by date, domain or type
  • Run a multi-step research task that builds a list or a report

Install in Claude Code

Open your terminal in the project folder and run:

Command
claude mcp add --transport http exa https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp

Who it's for

Anyone doing research, prospecting or fact-checking from Claude Code.

Best for

  • Market research
  • Finding companies and people
  • Fact-checking
  • Building lists

Why it made the list

It returns the content of the pages, which is what Claude actually needs, and it is free to start.

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