Exa web search free through August 31 on AI Gateway and eve
AI Gateway now exposes Exa search as a keyless tool for any gateway model, and eve uses it by default. The free period ends August 31, so keep cost assumptions temporary.
Exa web search is free on AI Gateway through **August 31** and is now eve’s default web search when its model runs through the gateway. It needs **no separate Exa API key** and returns results plus extracted page content.
AI SDK users can add **gateway.tools.exaSearch()** to generateText tools. Domain filters, date filters, and concise excerpts make it useful for research agents that need bounded, source-oriented retrieval across several tool steps.
Exa web search is free on AI Gateway through **August 31** and is now eve’s default web search when its model runs through the gateway. It needs **no separate Exa API key** and returns results plus extracted page content. AI SDK users can add **gateway.tools.exaSearch()** to generateText tools. Domain filters, date filters, and concise excerpts make it useful for research agents that need bounded, source-oriented retrieval across several tool steps. The announcement does not state pricing after the promotional window or compare search quality with other providers. Measure retrieval relevance, latency, and token use on your own queries before making Exa the only search path.
Exa reduces the setup boundary for source-oriented research agents by bundling search, extracted content, and filtering into AI Gateway without separate credentials. The promotion and eve default make experimentation easier, but do not resolve retrieval quality, latency, token cost, or post-August pricing, so it should remain an evaluated search path rather than an assumed default.