Brave Search API

An independent web index with a straightforward per-query API.

Free tier Free tier for low query volumes; paid plans priced per 1,000 queries Verified 2026-11-10 searchapiindexprivacy

Use it for

Products that need a general web index without depending on Google or Bing

Skip it if

Heavy scraping of result pages — the API returns a fixed set of fields

Brave runs its own index, which makes it the obvious alternative when a product cannot depend on a single upstream provider. The API is conventional: query in, ranked results out, with snippets and optional extra fields. Independent does not mean identical — coverage of long-tail pages differs from the major engines, and that shows up in evaluation.

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