Exa Labs Releases Exa 3.0 Search Engine for AI Agents

Oct 19, 2026
Exa Labs released Exa 3.0 with updated web retrieval, a lower cost API tier and Dynamic Highlights for reducing token use.

Exa Labs released Exa 3.0 on October 18, according to Startup Fortune. The company says the search engine ranked first across eight internal benchmark comparisons involving services from Perplexity, Brave Search and Parallel.

Exa reported scores of 91.8% on BrowseComp, 88.2% on DSQA, 56.1% on WideSearch, 42.0% on ATLAS, 75.5% on WebCode and 68.0% on FinSearchComp. The results are based on company testing, and Exa did not publish raw outputs or an independently reproducible test framework.

The release includes Exa Lite, priced at $4 per 1,000 requests for applications with high search volumes. Exa also made Dynamic Highlights generally available. The feature extracts relevant passages from web pages and, according to the company, uses 95% fewer tokens than providing an agent with complete page text.

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