# Exa changelog

> A web search API built for AI agents.

- Vendor: Exa
- Category: AI
- Official site: https://exa.ai
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- Entries below: 14 (newest first)

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## Releases

### July 2026

- Date: 2026-07-22
- Original notes: https://exa.ai/docs/changelog#july-2026
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/exa/releases/feed-6d959de38ef979b4

Expanded publication research with 350M publications, richer organization and people results, and a public retrieval benchmark. Plus Exa Agent and Exa Connect in MCP.

- **added** — Expanded publication research with 350M publications
- **added** — Richer organization and people results
- **added** — Public retrieval benchmark
- **added** — Exa Agent
- **added** — Exa Connect in MCP

### June 2026

- Date: 2026-06-16
- Original notes: https://exa.ai/docs/changelog#june-2026
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/exa/releases/feed-9ea57516061898e0

Introducing Exa Agent and Exa Connect, a new class of frontier web research and partner-data workflows accessible via API.

- **added** — Introduce Exa Agent for frontier web research workflows accessible via API
- **added** — Introduce Exa Connect for partner-data workflows accessible via API

### February 2026

- Date: 2026-06-15
- Original notes: https://exa.ai/docs/changelog#february-2026
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/exa/releases/feed-d085f0ecb3a5c372

Exa Instant Search launch, plus highlights, content freshness, and MCP updates.

### August 2025

- Date: 2026-06-15
- Original notes: https://exa.ai/docs/changelog#august-2025
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/exa/releases/feed-d9a25babb1824c7f

includeDomains and excludeDomains now support URL path filtering and subdomain wildcards.

- **changed** — includeDomains and excludeDomains now support URL path filtering and subdomain wildcards

### March 2026

- Date: 2026-06-15
- Original notes: https://exa.ai/docs/changelog#march-2026
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/exa/releases/feed-cc481d884718b0c9

Exa Monitors launch, Exa Deep revamp with structured outputs, and a pricing update.

- **added** — Exa Monitors feature launched
- **changed** — Exa Deep revamped with structured outputs
- **changed** — Pricing updated

### April 2026

- Date: 2026-06-15
- Original notes: https://exa.ai/docs/changelog#april-2026
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/exa/releases/feed-696c116cbe2980e4

API deprecation notice: legacy fields, parameters, and the /research endpoint removed.

- **removed** — Remove legacy fields, parameters, and the /research endpoint
- **deprecated** — Legacy fields and parameters are marked for removal

### October 2025

- Date: 2026-06-15
- Original notes: https://exa.ai/docs/changelog#october-2025
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/exa/releases/feed-5fd3b2720861daef

Major SDK changes: contents returned by default, highlights removed, and use_autoprompt deprecated.

- **changed** — Contents are now returned by default in SDK responses
- **removed** — Highlights have been removed from SDK responses
- **deprecated** — use_autoprompt parameter is deprecated

### June 2025

- Date: 2026-06-15
- Original notes: https://exa.ai/docs/changelog#june-2025
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/exa/releases/feed-036d64ebd195cb58

Markdown content as the default format, and the new 'preferred' livecrawl option.

- **changed** — Markdown content is now the default format
- **added** — New 'preferred' livecrawl option

### January 2026

- Date: 2026-06-15
- Original notes: https://exa.ai/docs/changelog#january-2026
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/exa/releases/feed-9ebc72ad9861ad1b

Exa Company Search launch with a fine-tuned retrieval model and entity-matching pipeline.

- **added** — Exa Company Search with a fine-tuned retrieval model and entity-matching pipeline

### December 2025

- Date: 2026-06-15
- Original notes: https://exa.ai/docs/changelog#december-2025
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/exa/releases/feed-35ffccad88304c7e

Exa People Search launch with 1B+ indexed profiles; the 'linkedin' category is replaced by 'people'.

- **added** — Exa People Search with 1 billion+ indexed profiles
- **changed** — The 'linkedin' category is replaced by 'people'

### May 2025

- Date: 2026-06-15
- Original notes: https://exa.ai/docs/changelog#may-2025
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/exa/releases/feed-4176fc5bc4ba06b3

The /contents endpoint now returns per-URL status information instead of HTTP error codes.

- **changed** — The /contents endpoint now returns per-URL status information instead of HTTP error codes

### December 2024

- Date: 2026-06-15
- Original notes: https://exa.ai/docs/changelog#december-2024
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/exa/releases/feed-aba214049bd49a39

Auto search is now the default search type, routing each query to the best search method.

- **changed** — Auto search is now the default search type, routing each query to the best search method

### July 2025

- Date: 2026-06-15
- Original notes: https://exa.ai/docs/changelog#july-2025
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/exa/releases/feed-7fd7ce23448be2b0

Geolocation filtering, the new Fast search type, and score deprecation in Auto search.

- **added** — Add geolocation filtering capability
- **added** — Add Fast search type
- **deprecated** — Deprecate score in Auto search

### November 2025

- Date: 2026-06-15
- Original notes: https://exa.ai/docs/changelog#november-2025
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/exa/releases/feed-7850c2e7b1da7ea7

JS SDK highlights restored, the new Deep search type, and default language filtering.

- **added** — Added Deep search type to search capabilities
- **added** — Added default language filtering for search results
- **changed** — Restored highlights functionality in JavaScript SDK