Exa MCP Server

MIT official MCP server for Exa web search

AI Agents / MCP · OSS/MIT · 5.1k

Reviewed 2026-10-12 · last push 2026-10-07 · repo checked 2026-10-19

What's Good

MIT (exa-labs/exa-mcp-server). Connect to the hosted endpoint or run it locally; default tools cover search and fetching pages as markdown, and more tools can be enabled per connection.

The Catch

The hosted server works without a key but is rate-limited; higher limits and Exa Agent need an Exa API key or OAuth, and usage beyond that is paid. It searches and reads pages you point it at — for crawling whole sites, use a crawler such as Firecrawl. There are no GitHub releases.

Verdict

A clean search-and-read MCP for agents — get a key once you outgrow the anonymous limits.

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