Who it is for
Anyone who needs an assistant to work from current web pages instead of what it was trained on.
Overview
What Exa does
Exa gives a model live access to the web. It runs a search, fetches the pages it finds, reads what is on them, and returns the relevant content with links back to each source.
The cases it is pitched at are the ones where training data goes stale: news from the past few days, current details about a company, working code examples pulled from documentation and repositories.
It operates as a retrieval layer, so the answer still comes from the model while the fetched pages supply the material behind it. Exa Labs Inc. publishes the app.
What stands out
It reads the pages it finds and returns their content with links, rather than handing back a list of search hits.
Availability
Where Exa is listed
Exa ships this on both marketplaces: Exa is listed in the Claude connectors directory and in the ChatGPT apps directory, under the same publisher domain.
Only 392 of the 3,150 products in this directory are listed in both marketplaces. One MCP server can serve both surfaces; what differs is each platform's listing and review process.
ChatGPT listing
In the ChatGPT apps directory
- Developer
- Exa Labs Inc.
- Filed under
- Education & Research
- Listed since
- June 2026
- Authentication
- Authenticates when installed
- Website
- exa.ai
- Policies published
- Privacy policy · Terms of service
- Official listing
- Open in ChatGPT
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Example prompts from the listing
- Tell me the latest news on NASA's Artemis II mission?
Claude listing
In the Claude connectors directory
Exa publishes 2 tools to Claude, a deliberately narrow surface; only 5.3% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer.
The median Claude-listed connector filed under Developer Tools publishes 13, so this one sits 11 tools below its bucket's median, 83rd of 95.
It falls in the 1-3 tools band, which holds 16.4% of the Claude directory.
Measured against the live endpoint
A direct call to the endpoint returned 2 tools, matching the 2 the listing publishes. Probed 2026-08-07.
Tools the server actually returns
web_search_exaweb_fetch_exa
Exa publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.
Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.
- Publisher
- Exa
- Verification
- Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory)
- Filed under
- Developer Tools
- Endpoint
-
https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp - Documentation
- Publisher setup docs
- Published tools
- 2 · 1-3 tools band
- Depth rank in Developer Tools
- 83 of 95
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Exa carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server.
In the publisher's words
How Exa describes it
Exa MCP gives you real-time web searches and can extracts content from any URL. It also finds the best code examples and documentation, searches billions of GitHub repos, docs sites, and StackOverflow to give you fresh coding context.
Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.
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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Exa's public marketplace listings as they stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Exa, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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