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Brave Search API: what it sells, price and AI features

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.

Updated . Launches and events from August 2025 to Feb. 12, 2026.

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: brave.com.

Site
brave.com
Founded
2015
Category
Search APIs
Status
Active

On the research maps

  • The social monitoring map

    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: brave.com.

    Category
    Search APIs
    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.
    Platforms
    LinkedIn
    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

    Sources: brave.com and en.wikipedia.org.

    Brave Search API on the social monitoring map

Launches and dated events, newest first

  1. Simpler, cheaper and more powerful plans

    Pricing change, . 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.

    Source: Brave blog. From the social monitoring map.

  2. Free allowance raised to 5,000 queries per month (AI Grounding update)

    Pricing change, . 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.

    Source: Implicator.ai. From the social monitoring map.

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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

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