Exa

What you can do with Exa

Exa is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server published by exa-labs. It ranks #225 of 144,396 active servers on MCP Toplist, and its repository has 5,135 GitHub stars. Exa is listed across 4 registries — Official MCP, mcp.so, Glama and PulseMCP, with 8 tracked versions. It was first listed on Nov 27, 2024 and most recently updated on Sep 23, 2026.

What Exa can and cannot do

Not verifiedMCP Toplist has not catalogued this server's tools or limitations. The repository README lists them.

What you need before using Exa

Connect Exa and confirm it works

claude mcp add --transport http exa https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp

[mcp_servers.exa]
url = "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp"

https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "exa": {
      "url": "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "exa": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "exa": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "exa": {
      "url": "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

When to choose another server

• Exa Labs Exa Code MCP#2,416
• mcp-server-exa-search#8,432
• Exa Websets#26,289
• exa-knowledge-mcp#98,353

No task-specific alternatives are catalogued for Exayet; the list above is its publisher's other servers.

What changed, and when this was checked

First listed

Nov 27, 2024

Latest version published

Sep 23, 2026

Version history

8 versions tracked (below)

Requirements evidence

MCP Toplist probed the public endpoint on Oct 4, 2026 and could not complete the MCP handshake (jsonrpc error). Requirements remain unverified.

Profile checked

Not yet — purpose, capabilities and requirements above come from registry data only

Ranking data as of

Oct 16, 2026

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