replacing Exa
Web search API built on embeddings for AI applications — Exa pricing: Free tier: $20 in credits on sign-up plus $10/month, over $120/year. Below: 1 free, self-hostable open source projects that cover the same ground, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
There is 1 open source Exa alternative tracked on this registry, against Exa pricing of Free tier: $20 in credits on sign-up plus $10/month, over $120/year. The most-adopted is SearXNG with 37,473 GitHub stars under AGPL-3.0, written in Python. Together the set has 37,473 stars across 1 language and 1 licence. All 1 are free to self-host with no licence fee, and 1 of 1 received a commit in the last 90 days. 1 head-to-head Exa comparison are available.
The open source projects below are free to self-host. If you would rather pay for a managed service, these are the hosted products in the same space — listed with the vendor's own pricing.
SearXNG is a metasearch engine written in Python. Instead of crawling and indexing the web itself, it queries other search services and databases, merges what they return, and presents a single result set through its own interface. The project describes itself plainly: users are neither tracked nor profiled. It is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL-3.0), and its documentation lives at docs.searxng.org.
AGPL-3.0 · Python · Exa vs SearXNG →
last updated nightly · ranking method: github stars, live-tracked
SearXNG is the most-starred open source alternative to Exa in this registry, with 37,473 GitHub stars. 1 alternatives are compared here in total.
Yes. Every project listed on this page is open source and free to self-host — there is no licence fee. Some projects also sell a managed hosted version, but the self-hosted path costs nothing.
Compare licence terms, community size (stars), primary language and release activity. A fast-moving project with a compatible licence and an active maintainer base matters more than raw star count when you are committing to a migration.