#1 Exa AI Alternative
Exa finds pages with neural search. Context.dev turns any page or domain into data your product can use: stealth scraping, typed AI extraction, and resolved brand entities (logos, colors, company info, industry codes) from one API key.
Exa → Context.dev
Why Switch
Neural search finds the page. Turning that page, or the company behind it, into structured, production-ready data is a different problem.
Discovery is step one. Your product needs step two
Exa's neural search is genuinely impressive at finding pages that keyword engines miss. But finding a page and using it are different jobs. When your pipeline needs the pricing table as JSON, the logo as an SVG, or the whole docs site as Markdown, you need a data API, not a search index. That second job is all Context.dev does.
Stealth scraping of any URL, included
Context.dev runs bot-detection bypass and automatic proxy escalation on every request, on every plan. Pages behind Cloudflare, DataDome, or Akamai come back as clean Markdown or HTML instead of empty shells, with no separate scraping vendor bolted onto your search stack.
Resolved brand entities, not result snippets
Retrieve Brand resolves company profiles by domain, name, email, ticker, transaction descriptor, or direct URL. Read available logos, colors, descriptions, social profiles, addresses, and EIC industry labels. Get Styleguide provides typography and font assets in a separate call.
Research with a JSON output shape
Use Scrape with CSS parsing rules for fields on a known page, or give Answers a research task and an example JSON shape. Answers returns json_content and source URLs in Fast or Ultra mode.
Keep Exa for search, or consolidate
If semantic web search is core to your product, Exa is a fine tool for that slice. But if most of your calls are “get this site and structure it,” you can serve the whole workload from Context.dev: scraping, crawling, extraction, screenshots, and brand data on a single key and a single invoice.
Monthly credit plans
Plans include a monthly credit allowance shared across APIs. Base scraping costs 1 credit across selected formats; other APIs and optional features have their own credit costs. Enable overage when you need usage beyond the allowance.
Full Comparison
From found to structured
Stealth scraping, typed AI extraction, and resolved brand entities from any domain. The data layer your agents need after discovery.