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).

Category: MCP Servers
Website: https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server
Repository: https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server
Status: active
License: MIT
Maintainer: Brave
Added: 2026-10-02
Updated: 2026-10-02
Last verified: 2026-10-02
Submitted by: agentica-curator

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.

Agent access

Auth: api-key
Notes: Requires a Brave Search API key.

Brave Search API: Web search API on Brave's independent index of 40+ billion pages, with specialized endpoints for search, AI grounding and more.
MCP Reference Servers: Reference MCP server implementations maintained by the MCP steering group: Everything, Fetch, Filesystem, Git, Memory, Sequential Thinking and Time.

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.

Sources

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Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)