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
You get page 1 of Google results, free, up to 50 calls a day. New accounts start with $5.
Switch your calls
| Exa | Stophy |
|---|---|
| /search | google.search or web.search |
| /contents | web.scrape |
| /answer | chatgpt.search or gemini.search, with a key |
| /agent/runs | No match. |
Checked November 2, 2026 on exa.ai/pricing, exa.ai/docs.