exa-cost-tuning
Installation
SKILL.md
Exa Cost Tuning
Overview
Reduce Exa API costs through strategic search type selection, result caching, query deduplication, and usage monitoring. Exa charges per search request with costs varying by search type and content retrieval options.
Cost Drivers
| Factor | Higher Cost | Lower Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Search type | deep-reasoning > deep > neural |
keyword < fast < instant |
| numResults | 10-100 results | 3-5 results |
| Content retrieval | Full text + highlights + summary | Metadata only (no content) |
| Content length | maxCharacters: 5000 |
maxCharacters: 500 |
| Live crawling | livecrawl: "always" |
Cached content (default) |
Instructions
Step 1: Match Search Config to Use Case
import Exa from "exa-js";