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Exa or Stophy? Pick by how your agent searches

Both return search results and page text for an agent. Exa prices search from $4 per 1,000 requests. Stophy's Google search is $1.50 per 1,000, and it covers 137 endpoints.

Pick Exa if

  • You read many pages. Exa charges $1 per 1,000 pages for each content type. Stophy charges $1.50 per 1,000 pages, and more for hard ones.
  • You want results in your own schema. Exa's deep search returns structured output, from $12 per 1,000 requests.
  • You need 1,000 results in one search. Exa Enterprise goes that high. Stophy's web search stops at 100.
  • You search a little every month, for free. Exa gives $10 every month, up to 2,500 lite searches. Stophy gives $5 once.

Pick Stophy if

  • You search a lot. Exa lite is $4 per 1,000 requests and auto is $7. Stophy's Google search is $1.50 per 1,000, or $0.80 when you top up $500 at a time.
  • You want many results per call. 100 results cost $0.015 on Stophy's web search. On Exa auto, the same 100 cost $0.097.
  • You want what Google shows. google.search returns Google's own results, page by page.
  • Your agent needs more than search. 137 endpoints cover Reddit, YouTube, Amazon, LinkedIn, Zillow and more.

Try it with no key

Terminal
curl -X POST https://api.stophy.dev/v1/google/search \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"query":"exa alternative"}'

You get page 1 of Google results, free, up to 50 calls a day. New accounts start with $5.

Switch your calls

ExaStophy
/searchgoogle.search or web.search
/contentsweb.scrape
/answerchatgpt.search or gemini.search, with a key
/agent/runsNo match.

Checked November 2, 2026 on exa.ai/pricing, exa.ai/docs.

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