Search with Exa

Exa searches the open web with embeddings. Pin a query to Exa with one field, and its results come back in the same shape as every other provider’s.

Pinned to Exa, answered in 3,725 ms.

Results from Exa

1
How does compound interest work? consumerfinance.gov
2
Chapter 5: Compound Interest | FDIC.gov fdic.gov
3
How Compound Interest Works & How to Estimate It stlouisfed.org
4
What is compound interest? | Investor.gov investor.gov
5
Compound interest en.wikipedia.org

Recorded from live searches on 8 October 2026.

Pin a query to Exa

Over HTTP, send "requested_provider": "exa" with the query.
In an agent connected over MCP, ask it to search with Exa.

Results come back in the same shape for every provider, as the docs describe. Leave the field out, and Grounder routes each query to the provider most likely to answer it well.

search.shShell

curl https://api.grounder.net/v1/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GROUNDER_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "how does compound interest work",
    "top_k": 5,
    "requested_provider": "exa"
  }'

import os
import httpx

KEY = os.environ["GROUNDER_KEY"]

r = httpx.post(
    "https://api.grounder.net/v1/search",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {KEY}"},
    json={
        "query": "how does compound interest work",
        "top_k": 5,
        "requested_provider": "exa",
    },
    timeout=30,
).json()

for hit in r["results"]:
    print(hit["rank"], hit["title"], hit["url"])

const res = await fetch("https://api.grounder.net/v1/search", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.GROUNDER_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    query: "how does compound interest work",
    top_k: 5,
    requested_provider: "exa",
  }),
})

const { results } = await res.json()

claude mcp add --transport http grounder \
  https://api.grounder.net/mcp
# then /mcp, grounder, Authenticate

Filters Exa applies

Set them under filters. A filter a provider can’t apply returns 400 unsupported_filter.

Filter	Keeps
`domains`	Only these sites, or with `"mode": "exclude"`, none of them.
`recency`	The last so many days, or a `range` of dates.

request.jsonJSON

{
  "query": "how does compound interest work",
  "top_k": 5,
  "requested_provider": "exa",
  "filters": {
    "domains": { "values": ["consumerfinance.gov"] }
  }
}