exa_people_search $0.00875 per call
Search people by description. The search endpoint lets you intelligently search the web and extract contents from the results. (Exa · People & contact data)
For AI agents: call exa_people_search
POST https://toll402.dev/v1/p/exa.people.search
{
"query": "head of security at a fintech in berlin",
"category": "people",
"numResults": 3
}Answers 402 with x402 payment requirements; pay with any x402 client (@x402/fetch, x402 for Python, toll402-client, toll402-mcp) or send a prepaid-credits key as x-toll402-key (https://toll402.dev/credits). Paid per call via x402 (USDC on Base) or with a prepaid-credits key (x-toll402-key, card at /credits); charged only on success. Start at /llms.txt or connect the MCP server:
npx -y toll402-mcp · remote https://toll402.dev/mcp.Input schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"query": {
"type": "string",
"description": "describe the person in words — role, seniority, location, industry, anything a profile page would say. Free text, not filters: 'head of security at a fintech in berlin' works, so does 'ai safety researchers in greater phoenix'",
"examples": [
"head of security at a fintech in berlin"
]
},
"category": {
"type": "string",
"description": "must be `people`",
"examples": [
"people"
]
},
"numResults": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "1-100, default 10; beyond 10 adds $0.001 each",
"examples": [
5
]
},
"includeDomains": {
"type": "string",
"description": "e.g. [\"linkedin.com\"] to keep to one profile host"
},
"contents": {
"type": "object",
"description": "{highlights: true} returns the profile lines that matched the query"
}
},
"additionalProperties": true,
"required": [
"query",
"category"
],
"description": "each result is a profile page: url (mostly linkedin.com/in/…), title (the person's name), publishedDate, and an `entities` block with the structured person record Exa extracted (name, current title, company, location). No contact data — pair with a people.enrich or people.email.find provider for that. Scored 72% R@1 / 94.5% R@10 on Exa's open people-search benchmark; the structured providers under"
}
MCP
{"mcpServers":{"toll402":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toll402-mcp"],"env":{"TOLL402_WALLET_KEY":"0x..."}}}}