Brave Search API | Brave
Third-party verified as having the highest agent quality score and lowest latency among leading search APIs.
Plans
Search
The real-time search data your chatbots & agents need to generate answers.
Complete search results (URLs, text, news, images, and more), with additional LLM context optimized for AI.
$5 per 1,000 requests
Includes $5 in free credits every month
Credits are automatically applied to your account
Special features
- Goggles: Custom reranking & result filtering
- Extra alternate snippets
- Schema-enriched results + added metadata
Capacity
- 50 queries per second
Answers
Summarized, completed answers to any question.
Answers grounded on a single search or multiple searches for better accuracy & reduced hallucinations.
$4 per 1,000 requests
+ $5 per million input/output tokens
Includes $5 in free credits every month
Credits are automatically applied to your account
Special features
- Grounding supported by citations
- Streaming
- OpenAI SDK compatible
Capacity
- 2 queries per second
Enterprise
Need custom terms, capacity, or endpoints? Contact us about bespoke plans for large-scale deployments.
Special features
- Full-funnel Zero Data Retention
- Custom agreements & NDAs
- Invoicing & enterprise-grade support
API news
- What a pizza-ordering hackathon reveals about connecting AI agents to the Web
- Brave Place Search API: The Google Maps Alternative That Costs 6–7x Less
- Claude Cowork on Amazon Bedrock with Brave Search: bringing real-time Web intelligence for your organization
- Brave Search API approaches 700,000 OpenClaw users, highlighting the surge in machine-first search
Build with the power of the web
Power agentic search
Chatbots, coding assistants, and AI-search engines all need real-time data to reduce hallucinations and ground their responses with multiple sources. The Brave Search API excels in RAG pipelines, and it’s the leading search tool for applications that use Claude MCP.
Train foundation models
The open Web is a critical source of training data for today’s state-of-the-art AI models. With up to five snippets from over 30 billion pages, the Brave Search API is the best blend of scale, quality, and cost.
Create search-enabled tools
Build comprehensive company profiles in CRM platforms, gather citations for ed-tech apps, or fetch the latest news for a stock trading assistant. Thousands of teams rely on the Brave Search API to connect their apps to the Web.
Trusted by industry leaders
The Brave Search API provides accurate search results for our academic citation services. It delivers high-quality data at a reasonable price, and with intuitive data structuring. Its speed and precision have been crucial.
—Ben Tucker, SVP of Engineering, Chegg
Key features
World-class quality
In blinded testing, Brave Search performs on par with—or better than—incumbent search giants.
Specialized endpoints
Adapt results with different specialized endpoints, including local, images, AI summaries, and more.
Comprehensive and fresh
Brave’s index includes over 30 billion pages, kept fresh by over 100 million page updates every day.
Search Goggles
Discard domains or re-rank results for better control of the response to your query via the Brave Search Goggles feature.
Extra snippets
Get up to five snippets picked in real time to maximize contextual relevance to a search.
Schema-enriched results
Get additional formatted data for popular formats like movie reviews and wikis.
Security and Privacy
SOC 2 attested
The Brave Search API is SOC 2 Type II attested, with its strict security and privacy controls independently verified by a third-party auditor. Visit our Trust Center to learn more.
Zero Data Retention
The only search API built with privacy at its core is also the only search API that can offer true Zero Data Retention. With ZDR, companies can meet ever-growing compliance obligations and gain a competitive advantage. Learn more about ZDR.
High capacity, low latency
Engineered for large-scale deployments, the Brave Search API can handle the capacity needs of even the largest global enterprises. Market-leading low latencies support individual use cases and workflows.
FAQ
What is the Brave Search API?
The Brave Search API is a developer tool for building applications with data from the Web. It’s powered by Brave’s independent Web index, the same index that powers Brave Search. It’s commonly used in traditional search engine products, AI search engines, AI training, and agentic (autonomous AI) search.
Why is a credit card required to subscribe to a free plan?
The credit card requirement serves as an anti-fraud measure to protect Brave from bad actors who want to abuse our API. For free plans, the card is only used to confirm your identity and will not be charged.
What about copyright?
Brave Search API offers a ranked list of webpages that are publicly available; this list also includes information to support why the webpage is relevant to the query (for instance, via query-dependent snippets based on the content of the webpage). The Brave Search API does not grant any rights to third-party content such as webpages. Customers who access URLs displayed in the Brave Search API must ensure their access to those webpages complies with the copyright terms of the page publishers.