Exa vs Replicate

Exa

Replicate

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.

Replicate · 11 features

• 10k+ Models — Public catalog of image, video, audio, LLM, embedding, speech models.
• Batch Predictions — Parallel batch execution.
• Cog — OSS tool to containerize ML models. Standard for Replicate.
• Deployments — Private model endpoints with dedicated GPUs.
• File Storage — Temporary output file hosting.
• Fine-Tuning — Fine-tune FLUX, SDXL, Llama 2/3 with your data.
• Per-Second Billing — Pay only while model runs. No idle cost for public models.
• Playground — Interactive UI for every public model.
• Predictions API — Async + sync + streaming predictions.
• Streaming Outputs — SSE streaming for LLMs + audio.
• Webhooks — Notify when predictions complete.