Exa vs PocketBase

Exa

PocketBase

Exa · 13 features

• Answer API — Query → direct answer with citations.
• Category Filter — Filter to news, research papers, company, github, tweet, pdf, financial report, …
• Contents API — Retrieve cleaned full-text + summaries from URLs.
• Custom Datasets (Ent) — Enterprise: private indexing of your own corpus.
• Deep Reasoning Search — Adds LLM reasoning on top of Deep Search.
• Deep Search — Multi-hop iterative search for complex queries.
• Find Similar — Given a URL, find semantically similar pages.
• Highlights — Extract most-relevant passages per result.
• Livecrawl — Fetch pages on-demand (bypass cache) for freshness-critical queries.
• MCP Server — Official Exa MCP for Claude Code / Cursor / Agents.
• Monitors — Scheduled recurring search → alerts on new results.
• Search API — Neural + keyword web search for agents. Returns ranked URLs.
• Summaries — LLM-generated page summaries.

PocketBase · 12 features

• Access Rules — Record-level access rules (filter expressions) referencing @request and @collect…
• Admin Dashboard — Built-in web UI for schema + data management.
• Auth — Email+password, OAuth2 (Google, GitHub, Facebook, Apple, Discord, Microsoft, etc…
• Backups — Built-in backup/restore with S3 upload option.
• Built-in Mailer — SMTP integration for verification, password reset, magic link emails.
• Collections — Schema-defined record types with fields, validations, and record/admin/auth acce…
• Embedded JS Engine — JavaScript VM (goja) lets you write hooks in JS without recompiling.
• Extend as Go Library — Embed PocketBase in a larger Go app, add custom routes and events.
• File Storage — Local filesystem or S3-compatible storage with access rules.
• Hooks — Server-side Go or JavaScript hooks that run on CRUD events (OnRecordBeforeCreate…
• Migrations — JS/Go migration scripts applied on startup.
• Realtime Subscriptions — SSE-based subscriptions to collection changes.