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Exa Launches Agent Ultra: A Subagent Swarm Deep Research API Built for Exhaustive List Building

AnnouncementProductSep 26, 2026

Exa has released Agent Ultra, the highest effort level of its Exa Agent API, available now by setting effort: "ultra". Exa reports that Agent Ultra outperformed Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, and Perplexity Agent at maximum effort on four research benchmarks, including WANDR and DeepSearchQA; results are vendor-reported. Runs typically take about 30 minutes, with a three-hour ceiling, and cost up to $20 by default, adjustable from $1 to $100. It is not open weights.

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