Brave Search API

Brave Search API provides web, news, image, video, local, and LLM optimized search data from Brave's independent web index for applications, agents, and search experiences.

About Brave Search API

Brave Search API gives developers programmatic access to Brave's web search index for building search applications, AI agents, chatbots, research tools, content aggregation systems, and data enrichment workflows. Brave documents an index of more than 40 billion pages, with more than 100 million page updates per day.

The API includes Web Search for human readable ranked results and LLM Context for machine consumption. Web Search supports web results, news, images, videos, local information, freshness filtering, country and language targeting, search operators, safe search, pagination, extra snippets, and custom reranking with Goggles. The LLM Context endpoint returns extracted web content and source metadata designed to be passed to models and agents.

Brave Search API uses REST and API key authentication. Requests include the API key in the X-Subscription-Token header. The API uses major versions in endpoint URLs, such as v1, and also supports the Api-Version request header for locking behavior to a dated API version.

Key Features

Independent Web Index: Search across Brave's index of more than 40 billion web pages, with more than 100 million page updates documented per day.
LLM Context Endpoint: Returns extracted page content under grounding data with associated source metadata for AI agents and model workflows.
Search Filtering: Supports freshness ranges, country targeting, search language, UI language, safe search settings, and search operators.
Custom Ranking with Goggles: Developers can boost, demote, or filter websites and apply custom reranking rules to Web Search results.
Pagination and Result Controls: Web Search supports up to 20 results per page, offsets up to 9, and a more_results_available response field for pagination.
Structured JSON Responses: Search results can include URLs, titles, descriptions, extra snippets, local results, rich result callbacks, and other structured search data.

Pricing

Search: $5.00 per 1,000 requests Prepaid plan covering Web Search and LLM Context. Includes $5 in free credits each month and supports capacity up to 50 requests per second.
Answers: $4.00 per 1,000 queries plus $5.00 per 1,000,000 input tokens and $5.00 per 1,000,000 output tokens Provides generated answers grounded using one or multiple searches. Includes $5 in free credits each month and supports capacity up to 2 requests per second.
Spellcheck: $5.00 per 10,000 requests Prepaid access to spellcheck and related query assistance features. Includes $5 in free credits each month and supports capacity up to 100 requests per second.
Autosuggest: $5.00 per 10,000 requests Prepaid access for completing queries as users type. Includes $5 in free credits each month and supports capacity up to 100 requests per second.
Enterprise: Contact the sales team for pricing information. Custom plans are available for large scale deployments requiring custom terms, capacity, endpoints, agreements, invoicing, support, or Zero Data Retention.

Use Cases

Build custom web search applications
Add current web information to AI agents and chatbots
Aggregate and enrich data from web sources
Retrieve search results for research and monitoring workflows

Pros & Cons

Pros:

Provides direct access to Brave's independently maintained web index
Supports both human oriented Web Search and machine oriented LLM Context endpoints
Offers filtering, localization, custom reranking, pagination, extra snippets, and structured search results

Cons:

Web Search returns a maximum of 20 results per page and supports an offset value up to 9
Some rich search data is sourced from third party providers and may require attribution

Integrations

REST, Python, Node.js, JavaScript, Go, cURL, OpenAI SDK

FAQ

What does Brave Search API provide?

Brave Search API provides programmatic access to Brave's web search index, including Web Search for ranked search results and LLM Context for web content optimized for models and AI agents.

How does Brave Search API authenticate requests?

API requests use an API key supplied in the X-Subscription-Token HTTP header.

Does Brave Search API support filtering and localization?

Yes. Web Search supports freshness filtering, country targeting, search language, UI language, safe search settings, and search operators.

Does Brave Search API support pagination?

Yes. Web Search supports a count of up to 20 results per page, an offset up to 9, and a more_results_available field for determining whether additional results exist.