Exa, Firecrawl Power Agent Search

Search is foundational agent infrastructure, but discovery and extraction are different problems that deserve separate tools.

• –Exa excels at semantic retrieval and finding relevant sources beyond keyword matches
• –Firecrawl converts messy, dynamic pages into clean Markdown or structured data
• –The two-tool stack supports research, RAG, browsing, and knowledge-enrichment workflows
• –Developers should benchmark relevance, latency, token usage, coverage, and cost on their own workloads
• –A modular search layer makes it easier to swap providers as agent requirements change