exa

Exa AI web search, deep research, and content extraction. Provides MCP tools and research skills for comprehensive web search, people discovery, company research, academic papers, and more.

Install

If the official marketplace isn’t added yet, run

Category: Productivity
Author: Exa
GitHub: exa-labs/exa-mcp-server
Website: exa.ai

Good for

Search the web and get clean, ready-to-use content
Read the full content of one or more web pages as markdown
Run multi-step research, lead generation and competitive analysis
Research companies, people and academic papers

Getting started

Run /plugin install exa@claude-plugins-official in Claude Code
For higher limits or Exa Agent, sign in to Exa with OAuth or provide an API key
Ask Claude to search with web_search_exa, or use the search and exa-agent skills for research

Before you install

The hosted MCP server works anonymously with rate limits; higher limits and Exa Agent need OAuth or an API key.

Summarized by AI from the project docs; check the official docs before relying on it.

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