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Exa adds a lite search type on October 19, 2026: $4 per 1k requests, and fast, instant and deep-reasoning become legacy
Exa /search gets type lite at $4 per 1k requests (up to 10 results), cache only. fast, instant, deep-reasoning are now legacy.
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What you get
On October 19, 2026 Exa added a new lite search type. You set type: "lite" on /search. It costs $4 per 1k requests with up to 10 results, plus $1 per 1k results above 10. It serves page content from Exa's cache and never fetches pages live. Parameters it does not support return a 400 error that names them.
Search responses now include a warnings array for request fields that have no effect, and a notices array that explains how results were produced. The fast, instant and deep-reasoning types are now legacy. They still work at their current prices. Exa suggests lite for instant, lite or auto for fast, and deep or Exa Agent for deep-reasoning.
Prerequisites
Steps
- Find every call that sets
typetofast,instantordeep-reasoning. - Switch the ones that can use cached content to
lite, following the lite guide linked from the changelog. - Remove any parameter that
literejects with a400.
Test it
Run one query with type: "lite" and check that results come back and the warnings array is empty.
Not confirmed
- A shutdown date for the legacy search types.
- How fresh the cached content used by
liteis.