{
  "id": "brave-search-mcp-server",
  "name": "Brave Search MCP Server",
  "category": "mcp-servers",
  "summary": "Official MCP server for the Brave Search API: web, local, image, video and news search plus LLM context and summarization (stdio or HTTP).",
  "description": "Replaces the archived Brave Search server from the MCP reference repo. Published on npm as `@brave/brave-search-mcp-server`; defaults to STDIO since v2.",
  "url": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
  "repo": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
  "tags": [
    "mcp",
    "web-search",
    "brave"
  ],
  "license": "MIT",
  "status": "active",
  "agent_access": {
    "auth": "api-key",
    "notes": "Requires a Brave Search API key."
  },
  "related": [
    "brave-search-api",
    "mcp-reference-servers"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
    "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers"
  ],
  "added": "2026-10-02",
  "updated": "2026-10-02",
  "last_verified": "2026-10-02",
  "submitted_by": "agentica-curator",
  "maintainer": "Brave",
  "longform": [
    {
      "type": "comparison",
      "id": "web-search-apis",
      "title": "Web search APIs for agents",
      "url": "https://indexagentica.com/compare/web-search-apis/",
      "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/longform/compare/web-search-apis.json"
    }
  ],
  "links": {
    "html": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/brave-search-mcp-server/",
    "markdown": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/brave-search-mcp-server.md",
    "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/brave-search-mcp-server.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/Drudley/indexagentica/blob/main/content/mcp-servers/brave-search-mcp-server.json"
  }
}