Exa vs MotherDuck
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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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.7 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| 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 | 10 GB storage, 10 compute-hours/month, up to 3 users — no credit card required |
| Paid from | API search billed at $7 per 1,000 requests (as of March 2026 pricing update) | Business plan from $250/month + pay-as-you-go compute ($0.60–$36/hr) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | Thousands of developers and data teams (approx. 2,000 at Sep 2023 waitlist removal / Series B) |
| Founded | 2021 | 2022 |
| Maker | — | MotherDuck (independent, VC-backed) |
| Verdict | Exa is a credible, fast-moving entrant in the agent-search space, with a clean API, MCP support and strong investor backing as of 2026. It competes directly with Parallel and Tavily on freshness and structured retrieval... |
MotherDuck is one of the most compelling new entries in the data warehouse space for small-to-mid-sized teams. Its DuckDB foundation delivers genuine sub-second query performance on local and cloud data, the Python/R/Nod... |
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