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Sourced answer to a question, with citations.

Performs a search based on the query and generates either a direct answer or a detailed summary with citations, depending on the query type.

Job web.answer

Your AI asks

checks the price first
telipot run exa.web.answer \
  --input-json '{"query":"What is the capital of France?"}' \
  --quote

Price

$0.005 / request
Priced· before it runs

exa.web.answer

$0.005 / requestYour plan

Whose account it uses

1The person asking
not needed
2Your company’s Exa plan
Selected identity for this example
3Our account
not used

What it sends

{
  "query": "What is the capital of France?"
}

Your Exa login is added for you. Your AI never sees it.

What it costs

$0.005

per request · billed per call

rate$5 per 1,000 requests, billed per call
sourcedocs · exa.ai/docs/admin/pricing · checked 2026-10-05
confidencedocumented
settles onThe charge Exa reports in costDollars.total
noteThe pricing page lists one rate for /answer and does not say whether model changes it.

Preview the price first. --quote runs nothing.

For developers · run it

Shell · runs the task on the named account

telipot run exa.web.answer \
  --input-json '{"query":"What is the capital of France?"}'

query

string · required · at least 1

Natural-language question or instructions for the request.

text

boolean · default false

If true, returns full page text with default settings. If false, disables text return. Each citation has a text field.

model

string · one of "exa", "exa-pro", "exa-research", "exa-fast" · default "exa"

The model used to generate the answer.

systemPrompt

string

Additional instructions that guide generated output, such as source preferences, novelty constraints or duplication constraints.

outputSchema

object

A JSON Schema Draft 7 specification for the desired answer structure. When given, the answer is returned as a structured object matching the schema instead of a plain string.

userLocation

string

The two-letter ISO country code of the user.

requestId

string

answer

string | object

A string by default, or an object matching outputSchema when one was given

citations

object[]

Search results used to generate the answer

costDollars

object

Estimated dollar cost of the completed request; billing is computed from usage counters, not from this object.
Full output schema · JSONNested fields and constraints

Output JSON Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "answer"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "requestId": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "answer": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "object"
      ],
      "description": "A string by default, or an object matching outputSchema when one was given"
    },
    "citations": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Search results used to generate the answer",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "title",
          "url"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "title": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "url": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "id": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "publishedDate": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "author": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "image": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "favicon": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "text": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "costDollars": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Estimated dollar cost of the completed request; billing is computed from usage counters, not from this object.",
      "properties": {
        "total": {
          "type": "number"
        },
        "search": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "neural": {
              "type": "number"
            },
            "keyword": {
              "type": "number"
            }
          }
        },
        "summary": {
          "type": "number"
        },
        "contents": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "text": {
              "type": "number"
            },
            "highlights": {
              "type": "number"
            },
            "summary": {
              "type": "number"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

A real answer

examples/exa.web.answer.json

{
  "requestId": "c178943a8165d7ce25595eca437939ce",
  "answer": "Paris is the capital of France [1].",
  "citations": [
    {
      "id": "https://www.britannica.com/place/Paris",
      "title": "Paris | Definition, Map, Population, Facts, & History | Britannica",
      "url": "https://www.britannica.com/place/Paris",
      "publishedDate": "1998-07-20T00:00:00.000Z",
      "image": "https://cdn.britannica.com/36/135436-050-ED1D0FCE/skyline-Eiffel-Tower-France-Paris.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris",
      "title": "",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris",
      "author": "user"
    }
  ],
  "costDollars": {
    "total": 0.005
  }
}