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Exa vs Jina Ai (2026)
Two ways to give an agent the web, priced for developers.
Exa is a neural search API that retrieves by meaning and returns token efficient contents ready for a model, usage based with a thousand free requests a month and from 5 dollars per thousand after. Jina is a broader search foundation platform with a Reader, embeddings, a reranker and DeepSearch, on a token top up model with a generous free trial. Exa if search quality is the whole job; Jina if you also need the embedding and reranking pieces from the same vendor.
Choose Exa if
- Retrieval by meaning is the capability, and you want it as one clean API call.
- Token efficient page contents matter because context window cost is a real line item.
- Per request pricing is easier to reason about than token top ups.
Choose Jina Ai if
- You need more than search: embeddings and reranking from one vendor reduce your stack.
- The Reader turning arbitrary pages into clean text is the piece you actually want.
- DeepSearch style multi step retrieval fits how your agent researches.
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