Exa Search: Inputs, Cost & CLI Example

Run in Enrichment Spreadsheet

Use this function as a column step in deepline enrich.

deepline enrich --input leads.csv --output leads.enriched.csv --with 'result=exa_search:{"query":"{{query}}"}' --json

Map payload values to spreadsheet columns with {{column_name}} placeholders.

Name	Type	Required	Description
`payload.query`	`string`	Yes	The search query string.
`payload.additionalQueries`	`array`	No	Additional queries (used with type=“deep” to expand coverage).
`payload.type`	`"auto" \| "fast" \| "deep" \| "neural" \| "instant"`	No	Search type (auto chooses the best strategy).
`payload.category`	`"company" \| "people" \| "news" \| "research paper" \| "tweet" \| "personal site" \| "financial report"`	No	Optional result category filter.
`payload.numResults`	`number`	No	Number of results to return (max 100).
`payload.includeDomains`	`array`	No	Only include results from these domains.
`payload.excludeDomains`	`array`	No	Exclude results from these domains.
`payload.startCrawlDate`	`string`	No	Only include links crawled after this ISO date-time.
`payload.endCrawlDate`	`string`	No	Only include links crawled before this ISO date-time.
`payload.startPublishedDate`	`string`	No	Only include links published after this ISO date-time.
`payload.endPublishedDate`	`string`	No	Only include links published before this ISO date-time.
`payload.includeText`	`array`	No	Require these text snippets to appear in page content (max 1 string of up to 5 words).
`payload.excludeText`	`array`	No	Exclude pages containing these text snippets (max 1 string of up to 5 words).
`payload.userLocation`	`string`	No	Two-letter ISO country code, e.g. “US”.
`payload.contents`	`object`	No
`payload.context`	`boolean \| object`	No
`payload.moderation`	`boolean`	No	Enable content moderation (may reduce recall).

Field	Allowed values
`payload.type`	`auto`, `fast`, `deep`, `neural`, `instant`
`payload.category`	`company`, `people`, `news`, `research paper`, `tweet`, `personal site`, `financial report`

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
`result.data`	`object`	Yes		Provider response payload.
`result.meta`	`record`	No		Additional response metadata (status, paging).

Use direct execution for single payload debugging.

deepline tools execute exa_search --payload '{
  "query": "latest developments in AI agents"
}' --json

Flag	Description
`--json`	Print machine-readable output.
`--wait`	Wait for terminal provider status when supported.
`--debug`	Enable wait mode with additional status/log output.
`--wait-timeout SECONDS`	Max seconds to wait in wait mode.
`--poll-interval SECONDS`	Polling interval in seconds during wait mode.
`--timeout SECONDS`	Request timeout in seconds.
`--connect-timeout SECONDS`	Connection timeout in seconds.