{"slug": "exa-web-search-free-through-august-31-on-ai-gateway-and-eve", "title": "Exa web search free through August 31 on AI Gateway and eve", "summary": "Vercel's AI Gateway now offers Exa web search free through August 31, and it is the default web search for eve agents. The integration requires no separate Exa API key and supports domain filters, date filters, and token-efficient excerpts. Developers can use it via the AI SDK with `gateway.tools.exaSearch()`.", "body_md": "[Exa](https://exa.ai/) web search is now free on [AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway) through August 31, and it's now the default web search for [eve](https://vercel.com/eve) agents.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThe built-in `web_search`\n\ntool in eve now uses Exa by default when the model is served through AI Gateway. See other supported search configurations in the [eve docs](https://eve.dev/docs/concepts/default-harness#built-in-tools).\n\nTo use it with the AI SDK, pass `gateway.tools.exaSearch()`\n\nto the `tools`\n\nparameter of a `generateText`\n\ncall:\n\nRead the [web search documentation](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/models-and-providers/web-search) to learn more and get started.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/exa-web-search-free-through-august-31-on-ai-gateway-and-eve", "canonical_source": "https://vercel.com/changelog/exa-web-search-free-through-august-31-on-ai-gateway-and-eve", "published_at": "2026-08-12 00:01:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-12 21:19:04.337778+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Exa", "AI Gateway", "Vercel", "eve"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/exa-web-search-free-through-august-31-on-ai-gateway-and-eve", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/exa-web-search-free-through-august-31-on-ai-gateway-and-eve.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/exa-web-search-free-through-august-31-on-ai-gateway-and-eve.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/exa-web-search-free-through-august-31-on-ai-gateway-and-eve.jsonld"}}