What is Exa?
Exa is a ai & search tool. With OSP.net, your AI agent connects to it directly so it can act on your behalf instead of just answering questions about it.
What your OSP agent can do with Exa
- Semantic web search with high-quality sources
- Activates your agent's built-in web_search tool
How to connect Exa
- Sign up at Exa — new accounts include free credits, no card. exa.ai
- Open the dashboard's API Keys page and copy a key. (Heads-up: this page sometimes rate-limits automated checks — it loads fine in a normal browser.) dashboard.exa.ai/api-keys
- Paste it here and Connect. Web search switches on automatically.
Related ai & search integrations
Web search — TavilyWeb search — BraveFirecrawlContext7OpenRouter (image generation)Whisper (transcription)
Frequently asked questions
- Can OSP.net connect to Exa?
- Yes. Exa is a native OSP.net integration — you bring your own Exa key or token, paste it in your dashboard, and your agent restarts live.
- What can my OSP agent do with Exa?
- Neural web search built for AI — meaning-based results instead of keyword matching. A third web-search option next to Tavily and Brave. Specifically: Semantic web search with high-quality sources; Activates your agent's built-in web_search tool.
- Is Exa a native integration or via the gateway?
- Exa is a native, baked-in integration. You connect it with your own credentials, which are stored in an encrypted vault and injected only at runtime.
- Is my Exa data secure with OSP.net?
- Yes. Your Exa credentials live in an encrypted secrets vault, are injected only at container runtime, and are never written to disk in plaintext or used to train any model. Each customer runs in a fully isolated instance.