Brave Search

API

Web search API on Brave's own independent index

Price: Free tier, then pay per use
Access: API key

Docs
llms.txt

About

Search API on Brave's own independent web index. It covers web, news, image, video and place search, plus LLM-ready context and cited answers. There is no official SDK; you call it over HTTP, and a card is needed to activate a plan.

What you can do with it

Search the web for AI grounding with pre-extracted page content
Build search results pages with web, news, image and video results
Get AI-generated answers to questions with cited sources

Get started

Subscribe to a plan in the API dashboard ($5 monthly credit)
Create an API key
Send it in the X-Subscription-Token header

Example

curl "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/llm/context?q=artificial+intelligence" \
  -H "X-Subscription-Token: $BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY"

Details

Hosting: Hosted service
Available in: Worldwide
MCP server: Local