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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Brave Search API: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/brave-search-api/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/brave-search-api/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/brave-search-api.md",
  "title": "Brave Search API: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Brave Search API is on the social monitoring map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Feb. 12, 2026.",
  "period": "August 2025 to Feb. 12, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
  "company": {
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    "slug": "brave-search-api",
    "name": "Brave Search API",
    "aliases": [],
    "site": "https://brave.com/search/api/",
    "summary": "Search API on Brave's own independent web index (plans: Search, Answers, Spellcheck, Autosuggest). An agent can query it directly; Brave results are not Google's index.",
    "founded": 2015,
    "categories": [
      "serp-search"
    ],
    "status": "active",
    "price_note": null,
    "update_channels": [],
    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
    "off_map": null,
    "merged_into": null,
    "category_names": [
      "Search APIs"
    ]
  },
  "confirmed_product_launches": 0,
  "dated_product_launches": 0,
  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
  "launches": [],
  "launch_list": false,
  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "Search API on Brave's own independent web index (plans: Search, Answers, Spellcheck, Autosuggest). An agent can query it directly; Brave results are not Google's index.",
    "source": {
      "name": "brave.com",
      "url": "https://brave.com/search/api/"
    },
    "from": "record"
  },
  "maps": [
    {
      "map": "social-monitoring",
      "title": "The social monitoring map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-brave-search-api",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Brave Search API",
      "site": "https://brave.com/search/api/",
      "category": "Search APIs",
      "what": "Search API on Brave's own independent web index (plans: Search, Answers, Spellcheck, Autosuggest). An agent can query it directly; Brave results are not Google's index.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "brave.com",
        "url": "https://brave.com/search/api/"
      },
      "price": "Search $5 per 1,000 requests; Answers $4 per 1,000 + $5 per million tokens; $5 free credit per plan per month (needs public attribution per Brave's blog); no free tier since Feb 2026.",
      "price_published": true,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "Platforms",
        "items": [
          "LinkedIn"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 1,
      "scale": "Enterprise incumbent: nine-figure revenue or public-company scale (Brave Software reports nine-figure annualized revenue (about $100M) and 100M+ monthly active users.)",
      "founded": "2015",
      "founded_source": {
        "name": "en.wikipedia.org",
        "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)"
      },
      "fate": null,
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "brave.com",
          "url": "https://brave.com/search/api/"
        },
        {
          "name": "en.wikipedia.org",
          "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)"
        }
      ],
      "more_sources": 0,
      "cross_listed": false
    }
  ],
  "off_map_url": null,
  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/brave-search-api/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-02-12",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Simpler, cheaper and more powerful plans",
      "summary": "Brave replaced its plans: Search $5/1k requests, Answers $4/1k + tokens; $5 free credit per plan monthly with attribution. Implicator reports the free tier was removed in Feb 2026.",
      "kind": "Pricing change",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-brave-search-api"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Brave blog",
        "url": "https://brave.com/blog/most-powerful-search-api-for-ai/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/brave-search-api/#event-2",
      "on": "2025-08-01",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "Free allowance raised to 5,000 queries per month (AI Grounding update)",
      "summary": "Implicator reports the free limit rose from 2,000 to 5,000 queries per month in the August 2025 AI Grounding update, before being cut to $5 credit (about 1,000 queries) in Feb 2026.",
      "kind": "Pricing change",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-brave-search-api"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Implicator.ai",
        "url": "https://www.implicator.ai/brave-drops-free-search-api-tier-puts-all-developers-on-metered-billing/"
      }
    }
  ]
}