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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Exa Labs vs Linkup

Exa vs Linkup for web search. Price: $7 per 1000 queries vs $5 per 1000 queries — edge Linkup Free/mo: 1400 vs 4000 — edge Linkup Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
Exa compared with Linkup per decision axis
AxisExaLinkupEdge
Price$7 per 1000 queries$5 per 1000 queriesLinkup
Relevance14.39——
Latency1200 ms——
Free/mo14004000Linkup
LLM-ready✓✓—
Strengths & caveats
Exa LabsNeural search plus included page contents for the top 10 results, priced separately at $1/1000 pages; strong relevance in the independent eval (14.39, rank 3). The free tier was cut from 20000 requests/month to a $10 monthly credit (~1400 searches); standard search is $7/1k and deep tiers climb fast (Deep and Deep-lite $12, Deep-reasoning $15); median latency (~1.2s) is mid-pack, slower than Brave/Tavily.LinkupLow entry price for standard search ($5/1k raw results, $6/1k with a sourced answer), clean LLM-ready output, and a recurring $20 monthly credit worth about 4000 standard queries. Deep search is 10x the standard price ($50/1k raw, $55/1k sourced), so the cheap entry price only holds for standard queries; not covered by the one independent multi-provider eval available, so its relevance/latency rank is unverified; its top SimpleQA claims are vendor self-reported (Tier 3) and conflict with rival self-reports.
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