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Sailor vs Exa

Neural search — narrow surface.

Exa pioneered neural / embeddings search. Sailor gives you neural-quality recall plus traditional SERPs, social platforms, and clean scraping in one API.

TL;DR

All of Exa's recall, none of the lock-in to a single retrieval style.

Feature comparison

Honest, side-by-side. We update this quarterly.

Clean markdown output (no HTML mess)

Sailor

Exa

Structured deep search & enrichment

Sailor

Exa

Multi-engine (Google, Bing, Brave, DDG)

Sailor

Exa

Social-native search (X, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, HN, LinkedIn)

Sailor

Exa

Token-compact responses (~70% smaller)

Sailor

Exa

Source citations with timestamps

Sailor

Exa

Drop-in OpenAPI / OpenAI tool schema

Sailor

Exa

Streaming results

Sailor

Exa

Per-query budget & token limits

Sailor

Exa

JS-rendered page support

Sailor

Exa

Free tier

Sailor

1,000 / mo

Exa

limited

Pay-as-you-go pricing

Sailor

Exa

When to choose Sailor

  • You're shipping an AI product where context quality directly drives output quality.
  • You want one API for SERPs, page content, and social platforms.
  • You care about token cost as much as recall.
  • You'd rather migrate later than hit a ceiling now.

When to choose Exa

  • Your workload is purely semantic discovery on the web.
  • You don't need social, news, or platform-specific search.
  • You're already deeply integrated with Exa's content endpoints.

Migrate in under 30 minutes

Same payload shape. Same response keys. Drop in and ship.

Before — Exa
await exa.searchAndContents("ai agents", { numResults: 10 })
After — Sailor
await sailor.search({ q: "ai agents", enrich: true, format: "markdown" })

Questions, answered

Still curious? Email us at hello@sailorsearch.dev — we usually reply within hours.

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