here is a secret: most web search apis are a wrapper on top of google. they have server farms that take user queries, process them in google, and serve the results: this takes over 700ms but because we built our tech from scratch (crawl the web, train models, own vector database) we can do that in just 423ms
Exa
Exa30.7.2025
Today we're releasing the fastest search API in the world. Exa Fast is a streamlined version of our neural/keyword search with avg latency below 425ms. Link to try it below 👇
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