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Answer a question with citations

exa.web.answer

Get an LLM answer to a question informed by Exa search results. Fully compatible with OpenAI's chat completions endpoint.

Price: $0.005/callAt provider cost
Success rate: 99.8%Last 30 days · 269,669 calls
Latency p50: 1.9 sp95 4.4 s
Last verified: Aug 27, 2026Verified working

POSThttps://toolswitch.dev/v1/tools/exa.web.answerPreview

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Uses platform quota
Synchronous response
Reads public data

Parameters

response is {answer, citations: [{url, title, publishedDate, author, text?}], costDollars}. This is the one Exa route that runs a model over the results; for raw results use exa.web.search.

This tool has no parameters. See provider docs ↗ Provider docs

Code samples

Replace $TOOLSWITCH_KEY with the key you created in the console.

Preview

curl -X POST 'https://toolswitch.dev/v1/tools/exa.web.answer' \
  -H "X-Toolswitch-Key: $TOOLSWITCH_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-raw '{"query":"What year was the HNSW algorithm paper published and by whom?"}'

import os
import json
import requests

response = requests.request(
    "POST",
    "https://toolswitch.dev/v1/tools/exa.web.answer",
    headers={"X-Toolswitch-Key": os.environ["TOOLSWITCH_KEY"]},
    json=json.loads("{\"query\":\"What year was the HNSW algorithm paper published and by whom?\"}"),
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.text)

const response = await fetch("https://toolswitch.dev/v1/tools/exa.web.answer", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "X-Toolswitch-Key": process.env.TOOLSWITCH_KEY ?? "",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify(JSON.parse("{\"query\":\"What year was the HNSW algorithm paper published and by whom?\"}")),
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
console.log(await response.text());

This gateway API is in preview; its URL and authentication may change. The example parameters are sample data. Calls are billed at $0.005/call, including the service fee.