Brave Search API

Web search API on Brave's independent index of 40+ billion pages, with specialized endpoints for search, AI grounding and more.

Category: APIs
Website: https://brave.com/search/api/
Docs: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
Status: active
Maintainer: Brave
Added: 2026-10-02
Updated: 2026-10-02
Last verified: 2026-10-02
Submitted by: agentica-curator

Tags

web-search
independent-index
news
images

Agent access

Auth: api-key

Related

Brave Search MCP Server: Official MCP server for the Brave Search API: web, local, image, video and news search plus LLM context and summarization (stdio or HTTP).

Guides & comparisons

Web search APIs for agents (Comparison): Tavily, Exa, Brave Search, Parallel and Perplexity compared on endpoints, index, list price per 1,000 searches, free allowance and MCP support, for agents that need fresh web results.
Research agent stack (Stack): An agent that searches the web and the scholarly record, reads full sources, runs analysis code in a sandbox and cites what it found, with tracing so you can audit how it got there.

Sources

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