Exa web search is now free on AI Gateway through August 31, and it's now the default web search for eve agents. The tool works with any AI Gateway model, with no separate Exa API key. When the model calls it, AI Gateway routes the request to Exa's Search API, returning web results and extracted page content with support for domain filters, date filters, and token-efficient excerpts.
The built-in web_search
tool in eve now uses Exa by default when the model is served through AI Gateway. See other supported search configurations in the eve docs.
To use it with the AI SDK, pass gateway.tools.exaSearch()
to the tools
parameter of a generateText
call:
Read the web search documentation to learn more and get started.
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