AI search & answer engines

ExaSearchBot / ExaUser

ExaSearchBot crawls public pages to index them for Exa's search, retrieval and citation API; ExaUser fetches a page live when a user or an app built on the Exa API asks for its current content.

Dossier

Operator: Exa
Documentation: crawler.exa.ai
robots.txt token: ExaSearchBot
Feeds: search index, live answer fetch
Follows robots.txt: Partly, per its documentationExaSearchBot obeys its own group, then major-search-engine rules, then '*'; ExaUser: 'robots.txt rules may not apply' (user-initiated).
How to verify: Signed requests (Web Bot Auth)crawler.exa.ai
Names in our logs: exasearchbotexauser
Researched: 23 Oct 2026

Observed on New Runtime

Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…

Requests: 2,234
Days active: 21 / 93
First seen: 24 Sept 2026
Last seen: 23 Oct 2026

Regularother_bot

Daily requests across the observed window, square-root scale.

Identity check claimed vs verified

No per-family identity check is published for this reader; its name is a claim.

What it reads crawler journeys · current window

The crawler-journeys aggregate tracks reading depth for the busiest named crawlers only; this family is not among them.

Sources

crawler.exa.aicrawler.exa.ai/
crawler.exa.aicrawler.exa.ai/exauser