Recursion Pharmaceuticals vs Exa

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Recursion Pharmaceuticals Publicly traded techbio company (NASDAQ: RXRX) industrialising drug di... Visit Exa Web search and retrieval API built for AI agents and apps Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7 / 10 7.7 / 10
Capability 8
Value for money 7
Ease of use 8
ASEAN readiness 6
API quality 8
Pricing Enterprise 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
Paid from Partnership / collaboration deals (not a self-serve product) API search billed at $7 per 1,000 requests (as of March 2026 pricing update)
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users
Founded 2013 2021
Maker Chris Gibson
Verdict

What this is for: AI-driven, industrial-scale drug discovery combining large biological datasets, automated experiments and its own supercomputing. Who this is for: Pharmaceutical and biotech partners, plus investors in...

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...

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