Brave Search

Brave Search API is the world's largest Web search API with a privacy-first approach, powering AI applications with real-time data to reduce hallucinations and ground responses with multiple sources. The platform excels in RAG pipelines and is the leading search tool for applications using Claude MCP. Brave Search API provides world-class quality that performs on par with—or better than—incumbent search giants in blinded testing. The platform offers specialized endpoints including Web, AI Grounding, Image, Video, News, Suggest, and Spellcheck, allowing developers to adapt results for different use cases. With over 30 billion pages indexed and 100+ million daily updates, Brave Search API delivers comprehensive and fresh data. Key features include Search Goggles for domain filtering and result re-ranking, extra snippets for contextual relevance, and schema-enriched results for popular formats like movie reviews and wikis. Pricing starts with a free tier offering 2,000 queries/month, then scales from $5-$9 per 1,000 requests depending on usage tier. The API is trusted by industry leaders including Axel Springer, Chegg, Cohere, Mistral AI, Perplexity, and many others for its accuracy, speed, and intuitive data structuring.