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exa-labs/exa-mcp-server

Name: exa-labs/exa-mcp-server
Author: Various

Exa MCP for web search and web crawling!

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Our verdict

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About exa-labs/exa-mcp-server

Exa MCP Server implements the Model Context Protocol to provide web search and web crawling capabilities. It is built in TypeScript and allows AI agents to retrieve live web data through a standardized interface.

Best for

Developers building MCP-based AI agents that need live web data

Use cases

Integrating web search into an MCP-compatible AI agent
Crawling web pages for content extraction via MCP tools
Building a research assistant that queries the web in real time

Notes

4,513 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-05-22. Licensed MIT.

Pros

Open source with a large community (over 4,500 stars)
Written in TypeScript, offering type safety and broad ecosystem compatibility
Combines both search and crawling in one MCP server

Cons

Requires an MCP-compatible client or framework to be useful
Web crawling may be subject to rate limits and robots.txt restrictions
As a server, it needs to be hosted or run locally, adding operational overhead

Key facts

What we have checked

Not checked yet. Dated facts such as prices, releases and repository activity appear here once we have confirmed them from a source.

How to use

How to set it up

As the listing publishes it. We have not run this install.

Tools exposed

web_search_exa
web_fetch_exa
agent_run
web_search_advanced_exa
exa-agent

Clients the listing names (not checked here)

Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, ChatGPT

Example client config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "exa": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Install

Add exa-labs/exa-mcp-server to your client

Not verified yet

Our lab has not run this server yet. "Config checked" on a client means the recipe matches that client's documented config format; it does not mean we ran it.

Claude Code

Config checked

Run in your terminal (remote server)

claude mcp add --transport http exa-labs-exa-mcp-server https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp

Version 3.4.1 · From the Official MCP registry, read 24 Oct 2026 · Format checked against Claude Code's config docs

Cursor

Config checked

Add to .cursor/mcp.json (remote server)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "exa-labs-exa-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Version 3.4.1 · From the Official MCP registry, read 24 Oct 2026 · Format checked against Cursor's config docs

VS Code

Config checked

Add to .vscode/mcp.json (remote server)

{
  "servers": {
    "exa-labs-exa-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Version 3.4.1 · From the Official MCP registry, read 24 Oct 2026 · Format checked against VS Code's config docs

Codex

Config checked

Add to ~/.codex/config.toml (remote server)

[mcp_servers.exa-labs-exa-mcp-server]
url = "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp"

Version 3.4.1 · From the Official MCP registry, read 24 Oct 2026 · Format checked against Codex's config docs

ChatGPT

Config checked

Fill in the Add custom MCP server form (remote server)

Where: ChatGPT Plugins > + > Add custom MCP server
Name: exa-labs-exa-mcp-server
Description: Connect AI agents to Exa for web search, content fetching, and multi-step research.
Connection: Public endpoint
MCP server URL: https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp

Version 3.4.1 · From the Official MCP registry, read 24 Oct 2026 · Format checked against ChatGPT's config docs

Claude Desktop: Its config file takes local servers only; a remote server is added in the app as a connector.

Recipes come from the server's entry in the official MCP registry. Check the package name before you run it, and keep keys out of shared files.

Works with

What exa-labs/exa-mcp-server connects to

5 clients, each with how we know and when we checked.

Works with	Type	How we know	Checked
Claude Code	Client	Install recipe matches the client's documented formatRemote server, version 3.4.1Config checked	24 Oct 2026Claude Code docs
Cursor	Client	Install recipe matches the client's documented formatRemote server, version 3.4.1Config checked	24 Oct 2026Cursor docs
VS Code	Client	Install recipe matches the client's documented formatRemote server, version 3.4.1Config checked	24 Oct 2026VS Code docs
Codex	Client	Install recipe matches the client's documented formatRemote server, version 3.4.1Config checked	24 Oct 2026Codex docs
ChatGPT	Client	Install recipe matches the client's documented formatRemote server, version 3.4.1Config checked	24 Oct 2026ChatGPT docs

Health and security

Is exa-labs/exa-mcp-server looked after, and what do its setup files show

Security check static checks

100 out of 100

Reads what is published about the server: package advisories, licence, secrets in the documented setup and tool permissions. Nothing is installed or run, so this is not a security assessment. Checked 24 Oct 2026 by edna-static-v1. What it checks

Licence: MIT

Note No published npm or PyPI package of this repository was found, so package advisories were not checked.
Note The lab has not recorded this server's tool list yet, so tool permissions were not checked.

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