Introducing Exa Agent Ultra - A New Frontier for Deep Research
Blog post from Exa
Exa has introduced Agent Ultra, its highest-effort research mode, which coordinates multiple agents across thousands of sources to conduct exhaustive deep research, entity enrichment, and list-building tasks. The company reports that Agent Ultra surpassed Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, and Perplexity Agent on benchmarks including WANDR, DeepSearchQA, WideSearch, and Find-All Company, while claiming lower costs per task or entity found. Designed for applications such as assembling model-training data, financial due diligence, KYC research, market mapping, monitoring business signals, and go-to-market account development, the system breaks complex requests into subtasks and assigns appropriate models based on required depth. Agent Ultra is available through Exa’s API and Playground, alongside the company’s broader search, crawling, content, monitoring, and integration products.
| Trend | Post Mentions | Total Month Mentions | Posts | Companies | MoM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6 Astra | 7 | 619 | 70 | 33 | - |
| Opus 5.5 | 7 | 523 | 34 | 18 | - |
| Exa Agent Ultra | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Cost per task | 3 | 130 | 68 | 32 | +103% |
| Exa Connect | 1 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0% |
| Exa Snapshot | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | - |
| LLM | 1 | 6,030 | 1,165 | 243 | +15% |
| Subagents | 1 | 263 | 73 | 52 | -7% |
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