| SpecStream | Exa | |
|---|---|---|
| Web search | Searches the live web for every match | Search with text, highlights or summariesE3 |
| Scrape and crawl | Reads each page, PDF or scan needed | Contents API returns page text and crawls up to 100 subpages from each URLE3E8E9 |
| Extract structured fields | Typed rows with the fields you name | Agent returns schema-validated JSONE2 |
| Datasets we already hold | Form D, grants, contracts, rules, nonprofits, placesS2 | Indexes for people and companiesE6 |
| Enrich a list you have | Fills the missing facts in your list | Agent API runs multi-hop enrichmentE3 |
| Monitor and rerun on a schedule | Hourly to yearly, each row change labeled | Monitors rerun searches, new results by webhookE3E8 |
| Map and area filters | Results on a map, filtered by area | Not stated. |
| Deliver to your tools | Sheets, CRMs, Slack, Teams, n8n, Zapier, webhooks | API, Slack and n8n integrationsE8 |
| Agents and MCP | MCP, A2A, REST API, SDKs, pay per request | Hosted MCP server; USDC pay per requestE4E8 |
| Price per result | 5¢, 15¢ or $1 per matching rowS1 | Billed per request, $4 to $7 per 1,000E1 |
| Quote before the run | Maximum shown and approved before anything runs | Agent caps default to $5 or $20E1 |
| Source URL on each value | Source URL and read time on every value | Agent citations on fields, when emittedE2 |
Where SpecStream does more
One record per company and person
Exa Search returns links with text, highlights or summariesE3. SpecStream returns the records: every row meets each condition you wrote, a company and its founder stay two records, and each carries the facts from every site that mentions it. An email that no page printed is labeled likely.
Billed per matching row
Exa bills each request: Search at $4 or $7 per 1,000, Agent at $0.012 to $1.00 a runE1. SpecStream bills each row that matches, 5¢, 15¢ or $1, under a maximum you approve first. A run that finds nothing costs nothing, and rows you already own are never charged againS1.
Rows land in your tools
Exa delivers through its API, with Slack and n8n integrationsE8. SpecStream writes rows into HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio or Affinity, matched to the records already there, and into Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and webhooks.
Every row rechecked on your schedule
Exa Monitors rerun a search at least an hour apart and send new results by webhookE3E8. A saved SpecStream request reruns hourly to yearly and labels every row changed, unchanged or no longer matching, at half the rate for a changed row and 1¢ for an unchanged oneS1.
- Company
- Commure, Inc.sec.gov
- Location
- Mountain View, CAsec.gov
- Industry
- Other Technologysec.gov
- Filing
- Form D new notice filed Oct 27, 2026sec.gov
- Amount sold
- $70,089,315sec.gov
- Offering size
- $70,089,315sec.gov
- Investors
- 11sec.gov
- First sale
- Apr 30, 2026sec.gov
- Person named
- Tanay Tandon, Executive Officer, Director, Promotersec.gov
Pricing side by side
| SpecStream | Exa | |
|---|---|---|
| How it bills | Each matching row: 5¢, 15¢ or $1, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phoneS1 | Each request: Search $4 or $7 per 1,000; Agent $0.012 to $1.00 a runE1 |
| Free start | $10 of work on sign-up for your first 30 days, no card | $10 a month plus a one-time $10, no payment methodE1 |
| A typical job | 100 matching rows at 5¢ each: $5 | 1,000 searches: $4 on lite, $7 on autoE1 |
| Not charged | A run that finds nothing, rows left out, rows you already own, and reading or pricing a request | An empty or failed Agent or Websets run: not statedE1 |
Switch from Exa
- Write the Exa Agent task as a plain-words request: the companies or people you want, the conditions every row must meet and the facts to bring back.
- Read how SpecStream reads the request back, and edit any condition or fact.
- Approve the most the run can cost. Nothing runs before you do.
- Send the rows to your sheet, CRM, Slack or agent, and save the request to rerun it on your schedule.
claude mcp add --transport http specstream https://api.specstream.ai/mcpHow we checked
We read every Exa figure on Exa's own pages on Nov 3, 2026, and each marker links to its page. Where those pages say nothing, the cell reads "Not stated". Our own figures come from specstream.ai/pricing.
Changes
- Nov 3, 2026: page published; every figure read on Exa's own pages that day.
Tarek Etman, Founder & CEO, SpecStream
Sources, each checked Nov 3, 2026
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Write who you need in a sentence. SpecStream reads it back, shows the most the run can cost, and builds the records when you approve. Start with $10 of work on sign-up for your first 30 days, no card.