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Exa AI MCP. Turn Web Searching into Conversation

Exa AI MCP connects your agent to advanced web intelligence for deep research and analysis. It moves beyond basic keyword searches, allowing you to query the web based on meaning and context. You can instantly find sites similar to a target URL, pull clean text from any page, or search and retrieve content all in one go. Exa lets your AI client act like a real-time analyst for deep market research or competitor tracking.

Exa AI MCP is compatible with Claude Claude
Exa AI MCP is compatible with ChatGPT ChatGPT
Exa AI MCP is compatible with Cursor Cursor
Exa AI MCP is compatible with Gemini Gemini
Exa AI MCP is compatible with Windsurf Windsurf
Exa AI MCP is compatible with VS Code VS Code
Exa AI MCP is compatible with JetBrains JetBrains
Exa AI MCP is compatible with Vercel Vercel
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Give Claude and any AI agent real-world access

Perform semantic searches

Query the open web using natural language, retrieving results based on meaning rather than literal keywords.

Identify related websites

Find websites that share characteristics with a given URL for competitor analysis or source mapping.

Extract structured content

Retrieve clean, usable text and HTML content from specific web pages without manual scraping.

Execute combined search tasks

Run a single request that searches the web and pulls the full page contents simultaneously.

Monitor API usage

Track your research budget by monitoring API calls and crawl statistics within your agent's workflow.

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What AI agents can do with Exa AI: 4 Web Discovery Tools

These tools allow your agent to perform everything from basic semantic searches to complex, combined content retrieval for deep web analysis.

Make your AI actually useful.

Add this MCP to Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf and your AI stops guessing. It gets real tools to look things up, take action, and handle the stuff you keep doing by hand.

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Find Similar

Finds websites that are similar to a given URL; note this endpoint is deprecated and should not be used.

Get Contents

Retrieves the cleaned text content specifically for provided page IDs.

Search With Contents

Performs a search across the web and pulls both the results and their full page...

Search Web

Runs a semantic query against the open web, returning relevant URLs, titles, and...

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Exa AI MCP is compatible with Claude

Claude AI

1

Open Claude Settings

Go to claude.ai, click your profile icon, then navigate to Customize → Connectors.

2

Add Custom Connector

Click the "+" button and select Add custom connector. Paste your Vinkius endpoint URL:

https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp

Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your token from cloud.vinkius.com. For OAuth-protected servers, expand Advanced settings to add credentials.

3

Start a conversation

Open a new chat. The Exa AI integration is available immediately — no restart needed.

Choose How to Get Started

Build a custom MCP for your own tools, or connect a ready-made integration from our catalog.

Build Your Own

Turn any API into an MCP. Import a spec, define Agent Skills, or deploy with MCPFusion.

  • Import from OpenAPI, Swagger, or YAML specs
  • Create Agent Skills with progressive disclosure
  • Deploy to edge with MCPFusion framework
  • Built in DLP, auth, and compliance on each call
  • Real time usage dashboard and cost metering
  • Publish to catalog or keep private
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Make Your AI Do More

Start with Exa AI, then connect any of our 5,200+ other servers whenever your AI needs more. One click, no limits.

  • Use this MCP plus 5,200+ others, all in one place
  • Add new capabilities to your AI anytime you want
  • Connections are secured and governed automatically
  • Track usage and costs across all your servers
  • Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and more
  • New servers added to the catalog weekly
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The web is always changing, and context is everything.

Today, deep research means opening dozens of tabs, running multiple searches with slightly different keywords, copying snippets of text into a spreadsheet, and cross-referencing data points just to build a coherent picture. It's time-consuming and you always risk missing the full context or pulling in messy junk HTML.

With this MCP, your agent handles that whole process. You ask it about a topic, and it doesn't just give you five links; it executes sophisticated semantic searches, finds related sources, and pulls clean, readable text for all of them. The result? A fully contextualized data packet ready for analysis.

Exa AI MCP delivers verifiable web context.

Manual processes involve searching with keywords, then running another search to find similar sites, and finally opening each site to copy the text. This is a multi-step, error-prone sequence that requires constant human intervention and switching between tools.

Now you instruct your agent to perform a full discovery task—combining `search_web` with content retrieval in one go. You get the intelligence immediately, verified by clean data pulled through `get_contents`. Your focus shifts from gathering data to analyzing it.

What Exa AI MCP does for your AI

Stop bouncing between browser tabs just to gather context. This MCP gives your agent the power of semantic web discovery. You can tell it what you need—like understanding the trends around 'climate change mitigation'—and it searches the web based on meaning, not just matching keywords. Need to know who else is covering that topic? Your agent finds similar websites instantly.

It also pulls clean text from complex pages so your workflow doesn't get bogged down in HTML junk. If you’re doing deep market research or auditing sources for a project, this MCP ensures your answers are grounded in real-time, relevant data. Because Vinkius hosts this MCP, you connect once to your preferred AI client and gain access to sophisticated web analysis that turns complex information gathering into simple conversation.

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Frequently asked questions about Exa AI MCP

How does Exa AI MCP perform semantic searching? +

Exa AI performs semantic searches using meaning-based embeddings rather than simple keyword matching. This means your agent understands the intent of your query and finds results based on topic relevance, even if keywords aren't used.

Can I use Exa AI MCP to monitor my usage? +

Yes, you can track your research budget. The MCP provides monitoring tools so your agent workflow keeps a count of API calls and crawl statistics, keeping you in control of costs.

What is the difference between `search_web` and `search_with_contents`? +

search_web returns metadata—just the URLs, titles, and summaries. However, search_with_contents performs both actions in one request, giving you the full, clean text content of the best results instantly.

Does Exa AI MCP help with competitor analysis? +

Absolutely. You can run a query to find sites similar to a known URL, helping you map out competitors or related sources for market research purposes.

Is the `find_similar` tool still good to use in Exa AI MCP? +

No. The listing notes that find_similar is deprecated by Exa. You should rely on the semantic search capabilities of the other tools for accurate site similarity checks.