Exa launches Finance search API covering 2B docs, beats Perplexity on benchmarks
ycombinator · x · 2026-11-11
Exa (retweeted by Y Combinator) launched Exa for Finance, letting agents search over 2 billion financial documents: 110M+ daily stock and crypto prices, 2M+ SEC filings and earnings calls, and 250M+ finance news articles.
The company claims state-of-the-art results on FinSearchComp and other benchmarks. A shared benchmark chart shows Exa Lite leading Perplexity Fast, Parallel Fast, and Tavily across FinSearchComp T3 (54.8%), FrontierFinance (39.8%), and Finance Agent v2 (39.0%) under the same GPT-6 agentic search harness.
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