Exa Load and Capacity Verification

Overview

Validate Exa capacity with synthetic workload models, endpoint-specific budgets, bounded queues, and stop conditions. Treat credentials, queries, retrieved content, generated output, spend, and destructive state as separately governed boundaries.

Prerequisites

• The target repository, environment, Exa team, product surface, and accountable owner.
• The workload's data classification, latency and freshness promise, cost ceiling, and retention policy.
• Current first-party documentation plus credentials only for a narrowly approved live check.

Current Contract

Published QPS differs by endpoint and enterprise limits can differ by team. Search, Contents, and Answer have distinct ceilings; asynchronous Agent or Batch is not equivalent to synchronous load. Enterprise Batch is beta, must be enabled, and requires the current first-party Exa-Beta header documented for that feature.

Authentication

For normal REST work, inject EXA_API_KEY from an approved server-side secret manager and send it only as Authorization: Bearer to the configured first-party Exa API host. Team Management service keys, hosted MCP OAuth or enterprise managed authorization, and payment-protocol calls are separate trust models. Never print, commit, place in a URL, or expose a credential to an untrusted client.