
Brave Search API
An independent, privacy-focused search API powering AI applications with real-time web data.
About
The Brave Search API offers developers access to Brave's independent web index, providing real-time search data for AI applications like chatbots and coding assistants. It enables features such as custom result reranking, schema-enriched results, and summarized answers grounded with citations. The API is designed for building agentic search capabilities and training foundation models with open web data.
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Key facts
- Website
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2023
- Business model
- B2B
Brave Search API pricing
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Search PrepaidWeb search with human readable URLs and text snippets, LLM context optimized for models and agents, News, videos, images and more | $5.00 per 1,000 requests |
| Answers PrepaidLLM generated answers grounded on a single search or multiple searches, 2 requests per second capacity | $4.00 per 1,000 queries + $5.00 per 1,00 |
| Spellcheck PrepaidSpellcheck, Enriched autosuggest, 100 requests per second capacity | $5.00 per 10,000 requests |
| Autosuggest PrepaidAutosuggest query completion as users type, Spellcheck, Enriched autosuggest | $5.00 per 10,000 requests |
| EnterpriseBespoke plans for large-scale deployments, Custom terms, capacity and Zero Data Retention, Custom agreements and NDAs | Contact sales |
Prepaid plans require buying credits upfront and drawing them down as you use the API. All prepaid plans include free $5 in credits every month automatically applied to your account.
Plans as published by Brave Search API, checked September 2026. Current prices on api-dashboard.search.brave.com
Tech stack
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- Compliance
- SOC 2
- Frontend
- Tailwind CSS
- Analytics
- Matomo
- CDN
- AWS CloudFront
- Hosting
- AWS
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Frequently asked
Is Brave Search API trustworthy and reputable?
StartupHub's Data Trust & Reputation score for Brave Search API is 94 out of 100, a trusted rating, based on site security posture, privacy practices, malware and phishing checks, and public reputation signals.
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