Built for the open web
Exa
Searches the open web for pages, people and companies.
Built for financial research
Bigdata.com
Adds premium financial content, in the same search.
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The short answer.
Exa
Exa suits developers whose agents need to find pages, people and companies across the web.
Bigdata.com
Does your research need company statements, estimates and prices? Choose Bigdata.com: they’re included with every plan. SEC filings, expert interviews and podcast transcripts are available pay as you go.
Best fit, need by need.
Best fit: Exa
Best fit: Bigdata.com
01
Open-web search, people and company lookups
Exa
02
Premium financial content in the same search
Bigdata.com
03
Company financials, matched by market identifier
Bigdata.com
04
Search inside Cursor, VS Code, Vercel or Codex
Exa
05
Research inside Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot
Bigdata.com
06
Published per-search rates, free monthly credits
Exa
Which one fits your agent?
Exa
Choose Exa if…
01
Your agent mostly needs the open web, including people and company lookups, and nothing from behind paywalls.
02
You want a specialist web-search toolkit: several search modes, research agents, monitors and list-building.
03
You’re building a general-purpose or coding agent and want search inside Cursor, VS Code, Vercel or Codex.
04
You want free credits every month and published per-search rates ($4–$12 per 1,000 searches, page text included).
Bigdata.com
Choose Bigdata.com if…
01
You need a company’s financials (statements and ratios since 1985, analyst estimates, prices, segment revenues) and everything published about it in one place, matched by ticker, ISIN, CUSIP or SEDOL, with a sentiment score on financial content.
02
You want the open web and premium financial content not available through general web search, in one search, on one contract and one bill.
03
You want to start free, then pay as you go for premium news and earnings-call transcripts, such as Benzinga Pro, CNBC Pro, The Fly and Quartr. No subscription needed.
04
Your analysts work in Claude, ChatGPT or Microsoft 365 Copilot and want financial research right there, with no code.
05
You want your own research (SharePoint, email, broker research you already receive) searched alongside everything else.
Side by side.
Checked on [date]. Exa details come from Exa’s own public pages, linked in each cell.
Exa
Bigdata.com
Data
The open web
Exa’s core product: its own web index, with people, company and news search (Exa docs)
Live web results in the same search as financial content, from the free Starter plan up; opt-in in the API
Premium content not available through general web search
Exa says its crawler doesn’t try to get past paywalls or logins. Partner data is available on Exa Agent runs through Exa Connect. (Exa FAQ, Exa Connect)
Premium news and research licensed from publishers or their authorised distributors. Pay as you go: Benzinga Pro, CNBC Pro, The Fly, Quartr transcripts and more. With your own licence: Financial Times, S&P Global and others. FactSet through us, with a FactSet licence we request activation of. (Data catalog)
Financial documents
Exa lists earnings-call transcripts since 2010, SEC filings since 1993 and stock pages (Exa Library)
Pay as you go: earnings-call transcripts from Quartr, SEC filings, expert interviews from Knowledge Ridge and podcast transcripts from Podchaser. Earnings-call transcripts from S&P Global with your own licence, and from FactSet through us with a FactSet licence we request activation of. Archives start: Quartr 2010, SEC filings 2020, Knowledge Ridge 2020, Podchaser 2022, FactSet 2003; with your own licence, S&P Global 2004.
Financials and market data
Stock pages for 45K tickers with the last 10 quarters of financial statements and daily prices. The provider isn’t disclosed, and Exa says its quotes aren’t an exchange-licensed feed. More financial data from partners (Financial Datasets, 27K+ US tickers, $0.01 per call) is available on Exa Agent runs only. (Exa stock pages, Financial Datasets on Exa)
Financial statements and ratios since 1985, analyst ratings and estimates since 1996, global prices, dividends, segment and territory revenues, ETF holdings and a company screener, all included with every plan. FactSet fundamentals and estimates through us, with a FactSet licence we request activation of. (Data catalog)
Your own content
Custom indexes on Enterprise (Exa pricing)
Connect SharePoint, email and uploads; searched alongside everything else
Technology
Company lookup
Company search by name and description; accepts cashtags in queries. The API reference lists no market-identifier fields such as ISIN or LEI. (Exa API reference)
By name, ticker, ISIN, CUSIP and SEDOL
Analysis on results
Highlights and structured outputs with field-level citations
Sentiment score on financial-content results
Research agents
Exa Agent at several effort levels, plus Monitors and Websets
Research agent and workflows
Commercials
How you start
Free: $10 in credits every month, plus a $10 bonus; then pay as you go per request (Exa pricing)
Free Starter plan with $10 in credits, then pay as you go per token, with no subscription needed
How you pay as you grow
$4 (Lite), $7 (Auto) or $12 (Deep) per 1,000 searches; Enterprise custom
Optional Pro ($40 a month billed yearly, $50 monthly) and Max ($160 or $200) plans with monthly credits; Enterprise committed spend
Rights to use results
Integration and accessibility
Where it works
Claude, ChatGPT and Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Vercel and Google’s Gemini Enterprise; Python and JavaScript SDKs
Claude and ChatGPT; Microsoft 365 Copilot through your admin; REST API
Trust
For enterprise
SOC 2 Type II; HIPAA; zero data retention, SSO and directory sync on Enterprise (Exa security)
ISO/IEC 27001 certified; SOC 2 Type II report available under NDA; SSO and audit logs on Enterprise. Hosted in the US and Ireland; EU data residency available under enterprise agreements, subject to scope. Certain features, such as web search, involve processing by subprocessors outside the EU.
List prices as published by each provider, excluding applicable taxes. Worked examples are illustrative estimates based on the stated assumptions and are not quotes. Actual costs depend on usage, plan and negotiated terms.
Three reasons to choose Bigdata.com.
01
Data · Integration
One search for the open web and premium financial content
Your agent gets live web results plus premium news and research, licensed from publishers or their authorised distributors. All together, on one contract and one bill.
02
Data · Technology
A company’s numbers and narrative, side by side
Look up a company by ticker, ISIN, CUSIP or SEDOL. Get its financials (statements, ratios, estimates and prices) alongside everything published about it. Financial content comes with a sentiment score and the right to use it in your answers. The Bigdata.com connector adds ready-made company and market tearsheets and a company screener.
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Commercials · Integration
Start free, inside the apps your analysts already use
Add Bigdata.com to Claude or ChatGPT, or to Microsoft 365 Copilot through your company’s admin. Start on free credits, then pay as you go.
For teams, and for individuals.
Teams and enterprises
For teams and enterprises
Enterprise buyers usually weigh three things: do you have the rights to the content, will security approve it, and how many contracts will you manage? Here’s where Bigdata.com stands on each.
Rights
A right to use content to ground AI answers for your own internal purposes, as set out in our Terms of Service. Building or powering a product for others requires an enterprise agreement. Content you access under your own licence is governed by that licence.
Security
ISO/IEC 27001 certified; SOC 2 Type II report available under NDA; SSO and audit logs on Enterprise. Hosted in the US and Ireland; EU data residency available under enterprise agreements, subject to scope. Certain features, such as web search, involve processing by subprocessors outside the EU.
One search
The open web, financial content and your own documents in the same search.
Commercials
Committed-spend pricing with volume discounts.
See how investment banks, asset managers, research firms and wealth managers use Bigdata.com. Read our client stories
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Individuals
For individual analysts and developers
Start free and pay as you go. Even the free Starter plan includes company financials: statements, estimates and prices. Add Bigdata.com to Claude or ChatGPT and get sourced answers from the open web and from premium financial content not available through general web search.
Developers: try the same content through the REST API with $10 in free credits, then top up or pick Pro or Max for monthly credits. Self-serve plans are for individual use; to build or power a product, talk to us about an enterprise agreement.
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The same job, two ways.
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Recap one company’s earnings
Exa
Exa lists 200,000+ earnings-call transcripts since 2010 for US-listed companies, and it’s strong on the company’s own site and on recent web coverage.
Bigdata.com
Look up the company by ticker, and the agent pulls its Quartr earnings-call transcript and premium news such as Benzinga Pro and The Fly, plus recent web coverage. All on pay as you go. S&P Global transcripts come in if you hold that licence, and FactSet transcripts once your FactSet licence is activated through us.
02
Screen, then read
Screen for companies whose margins fell last quarter, then pull what management said about it on the call.
Exa
This runs as an Exa Agent task using partner financial data (US tickers, charged per call), or as text searches over its stock pages.
Bigdata.com
The company screener, financial ratios and Quartr transcripts work together on pay as you go, matched to the same companies.
03
Ground a financial agent’s answers
Exa
Returns web pages with highlights and citations, and it excels when the answer lives on the open web.
Bigdata.com
Returns passages from financial content about the companies you looked up, with sentiment scores and the right to use them, plus web results when you ask for them.
04
“What did we know on a past date?”
Exa
Exa Snapshot returns web pages as they were on a past date. It’s in research preview, with a rolling five-month window on self-serve.
Bigdata.com
Archives by content type: financial newswires from 2000, MT Newswires from 2001, Quartr transcripts from 2010, SEC and international filings from 2020, expert interviews from 2020 and podcasts from 2022. FactSet from 2003, with a FactSet licence we request activation of. With your own licence: the Financial Times from 2012, S&P Global transcripts from 2004 and filings from 2006. Web news and press releases cover a rolling five years.
What you’ll pay.
Prices as of [date]; check both pricing pages for current rates: Bigdata.com pricing · Exa pricing
An analyst using an AI app
Exa
$10
Listed in Claude and ChatGPT as a developer tool; $10 of free credit each month, then pay as you go
Bigdata.com
Free
Free to start with $10 in credits, then pay as you go; or Pro at $40 a month billed yearly ($50 monthly) with $50 of credit each month. Example research workflows on our pricing page cost $0.57 to $1.82 a run: $0.57 for a post-earnings flash, $1.70 for an initiation report.
A developer running 1,000 searches a day
Exa
≈$210/mo
About $210 a month on Auto (30,000 × $7 per 1,000), including page text for up to 10 results
Bigdata.com
Per token
Pay as you go per token, from fractions of a cent, with rates by content type in your account. Subscribing to a content set removes its per-token content charge; search and retrieval tokens still apply.
An enterprise team
Exa
Custom
Custom enterprise agreement with volume pricing, SSO, zero data retention and SLAs
Bigdata.com
Committed
Committed spend with volume discounts, SSO, audit logs and an SLA
List prices as published by each provider, excluding applicable taxes. Worked examples are illustrative estimates based on the stated assumptions and are not quotes. Actual costs depend on usage, plan and negotiated terms.
Keep both, or use one.
Already using Exa? Keep it.
Add Bigdata.com for premium financial content not available through general web search. Both work as connectors in Claude and ChatGPT, and the assistant uses each where it fits.
Starting fresh? Get both in one.
Bigdata.com covers both: open-web results and financial content in the same search, on one bill.
Questions, answered.
Start free with $10 in credits.
Pay as you go after that on the Starter plan, or book a demo for your team.
This comparison is provided for general information purposes only. It is based on publicly available information about Exa, including its website, documentation, pricing pages and terms. Bigdata.com has not independently verified that information, and it may have changed since the Review Date ([date]). Features, data coverage, pricing and terms of both services change frequently. Nothing on this page is a statement or interpretation of Exa’s contractual terms, nor legal or professional advice; please refer to each provider’s current documentation and terms.
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