Brave Search API API
brave.com
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Independent web index search API (web, news, images, local, LLM context). Buying direct: Search $5 per 1,000 requests; $5 free monthly credits. Listed .
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Overview
Researched from the vendor's own pages; every fact links to its source and the day we checked it.
Brave Search API serves results from Brave's own web index: web, news, images, videos, local POIs, LLM context and an OpenAI-compatible answers endpoint, authenticated with the X-Subscription-Token header.
Company
Verified- Legal name
- Brave Software, Inc.
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2015
- Employees
- Not confirmed
- Ownership
- Not confirmed
- Status
- active
- Kind
- Data provider
- Website
- brave.com
API
Verified- Access
- Self-serve API
- Style
- REST
- Auth
- API key (header)
- Base URL
https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1- Features
- Bulk —Async —Webhooks —MCP —Sandbox —
- Rate limit
- Search plan capacity 50 queries/second; Answers 2 queries/second
- Docs
- Reference
Pricing
Verified- Model
- pay as you go
- List prices
- Search $5 per 1,000 requests
- Answers $4 per 1,000 requests, + $5 per million input/output tokens
- Currency
- USD
- Units
- 1,000 requests
- Free tier
- $5 in free credits every month
- Checked
- Sep 29, 2026
Compliance
Vendor-claimed- SOC 2
- SOC 2 Type II
- GDPR
- Not confirmed
- CCPA
- Stated
- DPA
- Not confirmed
- Resale / storage
- Unknown until a written agreement says otherwise
Relationships
- Integrations
- Not confirmed
- Alternatives
- None named by the vendor
Sources (3)
- Brave Search APIchecked Sep 29, 2026
- Brave Web Search get startedchecked Sep 29, 2026
- Wikidata: Brave Softwarechecked Sep 29, 2026
API
The vendor's OpenAPI document as stored in the catalog, its operations, and the rate limits it publishes.
Rebuilt from the vendor's public docs, only what the pages show. Each operation links the page it came from; response shapes the docs don't spell out are left empty rather than guessed.
| Method | Path | Summary | Params | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GET | /web/search | Web search | 2 | Docs |
| GET | /news/search | News search | 0 | Docs |
| GET | /local/pois | Local POIs | 0 | Docs |
Rate limits
| Limit | Scope | Plan | Endpoint | Burst / concurrency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 / second | plan | Search | All | — / — |
| 2 / second | plan | Answers | All | — / — |
GridRouter never paces above these and backs off on 429, honoring Retry-After. Source, checked Sep 29, 2026