How did Exa Research Papers MCP do on X?

Exa posted the Exa Research Papers MCP launch from @ExaAILabs on Apr 3, 2025. The post has 81,936 views, 474 likes, 41 reposts, 5 quotes and 24 replies, an engagement rate of 0.66%. It ranks #1841 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.

Exa@ExaAILabs · 66.7K followersView on X
Introducing Exa Research Papers MCP tool! Semantically search over 100M research papers and get their full text content. Learn how to use below:
Apr 3, 2025 · 81,936 views
  • 47%the median launch175K median views
  • #1841of the launches we trackout of 2839
  • 1.2xits own following66,660 followers
Views
81.9K
Likes
474
Reposts
41
Quotes
5
Replies
24
Bookmarks
433

What would these views cost to buy?

At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 81.9K views would cost $8K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 12x what this post got, for about $25K.

The post reached about 1.2 views for every follower of @ExaAILabs.

What launched?

Exa launched its Research Papers MCP tool, which semantically searches over 100M research papers and returns their full text content.

How does it compare with other launches?

Exa Research Papers MCP has more views than 35% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 47% of the median launch's 175K views.

  • Exa Research Papers MCP81.9K
  • Median tracked launch175K
  • #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
Views on the launch post, read from X on Nov 14, 2026.
MetricExa Research Papers MCPMedian launch
Views81.9K175K
Engagement rate0.66%0.48%
Views per follower1.22.8
Quote posts527
Saves per 10K views52.814.2

Other Exa launches we track: Exa People Search (3.6M views), Exa Connect (1.4M views), Exa Agent (1.1M views), Exa in Codex and ChatGPT (809.4K views), Exa 2.0 (459.6K views), Exa for Claude (422.8K views). All 31 Exa launches, or every ai launch.

Against launches like it

A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.

Compared withLaunchesMedian viewsThis oneRank
AI launches1,462263K31%#1063
Accounts 10K to 100K followers1,13599.4K82%#606
Video launch posts1,940192.5K43%#1308
Every launch2,839175K47%#1841

What this launch shows

From an account with 66.7K followers, the post reached 1.2 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 10K to 100K followers reach a median of 3.1 times their following, so this one went about 40% as far as usual for its size. It ranks 606 of 1135 launches from accounts that size.

It drew 5 quote posts, 0.6 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. Fewer people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.

The first line is "Introducing Exa Research Papers MCP tool!". The post runs 23 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with a video: video launches have a median of 192.5K views, against 137.6K for the rest.

There is no link in the post. Launch posts without a link have a median of 184.9K views in the tracker.

It went out on a Thursday (UTC). Thursday launches have a median of 162.1K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.

Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.

Questions about this launch

What is Exa?
In its own words on X: "We're an AI research lab building a search engine for the future" Exa posted the Exa Research Papers MCP launch from @ExaAILabs on Apr 3, 2025.
How many views did Exa Research Papers MCP get on X?
81,936 views. Exa posted it from @ExaAILabs on Apr 3, 2025, and the post has 474 likes, 41 reposts, 5 quotes, 24 replies and 433 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
Was Exa Research Papers MCP a big launch on X?
It ranks #1841 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 35% of them and 47% of the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.66%, against a median of 0.48%.
What would 81.9K views on X cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 81.9K views would cost $8K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 12x what this post got, for about $25K.

Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/exa-research-papers-mcp, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.