Head to head · the tale of the tape
GumshoevsExa
Exa sells the ingredients: search, contents, one call at a time. Gumshoe sells the cooked meal, planned, navigated, synthesized, cited.
Gumshoe
AGENTIC COMPANY RESEARCH API
$0.037 to $0.05 per full company investigation, LLM, orchestration, browser fieldwork included.
Exa
NEURAL SEARCH API
Search $7/1k, Deep Search $12 to $15/1k. Per search, not per research. You build the orchestration and pay your own LLM.
Round by round
| GUMSHOE | EXA | |
|---|---|---|
| WHAT YOU BUY | A finished investigation (the meal) | A search primitive (ingredients) |
| ORCHESTRATION | Included: plan, search, read, synthesize | You build and maintain it |
| JS-HEAVY SITES | Real browser: clicks, filters, logins | Search/crawl, no real navigation |
| OUTPUT | Typed JSON verdict, cited, turnkey | Results + your own schema work |
| LLM COST | Included in the credit | Your bill, on top |
PICK GUMSHOE IF
A single company deep-dive isn't one search. It's several searches, pages read, a browser when a site fights back, and a synthesis step. Wire that yourself on Exa and you own the pipeline, the retries, the LLM bill, and the maintenance. We ship the whole thing.
PICK EXA IF
If you're a developer building your own research pipeline and want the cheapest, cleanest search primitive to build on, Exa is excellent. We're the layer above it.
Settle it yourself
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