Is the Exa MCP server free?

Yes. Activepieces is open source and free to start, and the MCP server is included on every plan, from the free cloud tier to any self-hosted deployment.

How do I connect Exa to Claude or Cursor?

Connect Exa in Activepieces, enable the server under Settings → MCP Server, then paste your server URL into your client config. It authenticates over OAuth on first use.

What can my agent do in Exa?

It can call 9 tools, including Get Contents, Ask AI, Perform Search, and chain them with steps in other apps inside the same run.

Is it safe to let an agent call Exa?

Connections use OAuth2 with limited scopes and are stored under 256-bit encryption, with no API to read them back, so an agent gets scoped access rather than your keys.

Exa MCP server

AI-powered search and content extraction from the web.

Exa is not a separate install. One Activepieces MCP server exposes it alongside 770+ other apps, behind a single URL.

Start building See the Exa integration

Tools: 9
Works with: Any MCP client
Auth: API key
License: MIT, open source
Updated: October 2026

About the Exa MCP server

Connect Exa once in Activepieces and every action it ships becomes a tool your assistant can call, behind the same server URL as the rest of your apps. Your agent reaches Exa and 770+ other apps over a single connection, on our cloud or a self-hosted install.

Tools

Exa tools your AI can run

Once connected, your assistant can call any of these Exa actions by asking in plain language.

Get Contents
Retrieve clean HTML content from specified URLs.
10 fields
Ask AI
Provides direct answers to queries by summarizing results.
5 fields
Perform Search
Search the web using semantic or keyword-based search.
17 fields
Find Similar Links
Find pages similar to a given URL.
10 fields
Start Agent Run
Starts an Exa Agent run for deep research, list building or structured extraction. The run works in the background; use Get Agent Run to read the result.
7 fields
Get Agent Run
Gets the status and result of an Exa Agent run. Use it after Start Agent Run, for example behind a Delay step.
1 field
List Agent Runs
Lists your team's Exa Agent runs, newest first, one page at a time.
2 fields
Cancel Agent Run
Cancels a queued or running Exa Agent run right away. The run returns no results, and usage so far is still billed.
1 field
Custom API Call
Make a custom API call to a specific endpoint
10 fields

Triggers

Exa events your agent can watch

These start a run the moment something happens in Exa, so work gets picked up on its own.

New Search Monitor Results
Runs a search on a schedule and triggers with the new results Exa found since the last run.
9 fields

Give your assistant Exa

Connect Exa once and every tool above is callable from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client, behind the same server URL as 770+ other apps. Free to start.

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