Exa people and company search

A record per person, with the fields you named

An Exa search with category people returns profiles, and with company it returns company pages. Your code reads each result and builds the record, or you start an Exa Agent run and pay for it separately.

A SpecStream request is the whole job, written once: "Heads of security at Series B healthcare software companies that sell to hospitals, with the company, the city, the last funding round and a work email for each". SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit, then searches the live web, reads each page and joins what it finds into one record per person. A person who fails one condition is not delivered and not billed.

A row costs 5¢, and a miss costs nothing

The rates are on pricing: 5¢ for a row with up to 5 facts, 15¢ for up to 15 facts and one set of related records, and $1 for a deep row with no limit. An email adds 5¢ and a phone 15¢. 1,000 people with 5 facts and a work email cost $100.

Duplicates, rows you already own and rows a page contradicts are not charged, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing. The most a run can cost is quoted before it starts, where a metered Exa Agent run bills usage up to a $5 or $20 cap.

Exa's own search call for $1 per 1,000

A client written for Exa moves by changing its base address and its key. POST https://api.specstream.ai/exa/search answers in Exa's shape, results[].id, url, title, publishedDate and text, at $1 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results. Exa's auto search costs $7 per 1,000.

from exa_py import Exa

exa = Exa(api_key="<your SpecStream key>", base_url="https://api.specstream.ai/exa")
results = exa.search("heads of security at Series B healthcare software companies", num_results=10)

The steps for each SDK are on Migrate from Exa.

The list you already have, filled in

Import a CSV, Excel file, Google Sheet or Airtable base of up to 20,000 people or companies. SpecStream fills in or checks each row and matches it to one identity, with any namesakes shown beside what was found for each, so no namesake is chosen for you. Import is free. A row that matches pays its rate, and a row that does not costs 5¢.

People and company records that stay up to date

Save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate (3¢, 8¢ or 50¢) and an unchanged row costs 1¢, so rechecking 1,000 people who did not change costs $10. New executives, funding rounds and layoffs are at specstream.ai/signals.

The most accurate web search API, on the same key

The Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct), and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. The Extract API reads pages for $0.80 per 1,000 and scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. Scores and method are on benchmarks.

SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. Deep Search returns each person or company as a row at 5¢, 15¢ or $1, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone, with a source URL and read time on every value. New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

Parallel Entity Search

A synchronous people and company search at $5 per 1,000 requests with 100 results, then $0.05 per 1,000 results. Each entity comes back as a name, a url and a description. A SpecStream row carries the fields you asked for and meets every condition you wrote.

People Data Labs

A people and company database sold in credits: Pro starts at $98 a month for 350 credits, and a search takes 1 credit per profile returned. SpecStream has no plan to size: 1,000 people with 5 facts cost $50, charged as the rows are delivered.

Crustdata

People and company APIs billed in credits, with $20 in credits to start and enterprise plans from four figures a month. A base person profile costs 1 credit, and emails and phones are add-ons. On SpecStream an email adds 5¢ and a phone 15¢ to the row, at the same rate on every plan.