Exa vs Omni
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Exa
Web search and retrieval API built for AI agents and apps
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Omni
The AI analytics platform built on a governed semantic layer — so ever...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.7 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Free tier | 20,000 search requests per month on the free plan; startup and education grants of $1,000 in free API credits also available | No permanent free tier; demo/trial available on request via omni.co |
| Paid from | API search billed at $7 per 1,000 requests (as of March 2026 pricing update) | Custom enterprise pricing; no published tiers — contact sales for a quote |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | 200+ customers (incl. Perplexity, BuzzFeed) as of the March 2025 Series B; growing |
| Founded | 2021 | 2022 |
| Maker | — | Omni Analytics, Inc. (independent) |
| Verdict | Exa earns its credibility through customer names, not just claims: Cursor, Notion AI, Cognition and OpenRouter all use it in production, and a $250M Series C at a $2.2B valuation (May 2026, led by a16z) backs that up. Th... |
Omni's pitch holds up under scrutiny: a governed semantic layer that keeps SQL analysts, spreadsheet users, and AI agents working off the same metric definitions is a genuinely hard problem to solve well. The April 2026... |
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