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Brave Search is a search engine built on Brave's own independent index, with no fallback to Google or Bing. Its Search API serves developers and AI agents with web, news, image, video and local results, grounding passages for agents, and an Answers endpoint that returns summarized responses with citations.
Developers call the Search API with a key and receive results, grounding text or cited answers. Billing uses prepaid credits instead of a subscription. Goggles let you re-rank results or limit them to chosen domains.
Developers building AI agents, RAG pipelines and search features use the API, and individuals use the search engine directly. The vendor holds SOC 2 Type II attestation and says queries are not shared or used for training. Its independent-test figures, including 669 ms average latency, are vendor-reported.
Search costs $5 per 1,000 requests and Answers costs $4 per 1,000 requests plus $5 per million input and output tokens. Both include $5 in free credits monthly. Billing uses prepaid credits, and a credit card is required to prevent abuse. Search allows 50 queries per second and Answers allows 2, with custom enterprise plans.
Perplexity AI is an answer engine with its own conversational interface, whereas Brave offers a search index and API with its own independent results. Onyx is open-source enterprise search and chat over your company data, so it searches internal sources rather than the web. Felo is a multilingual AI search assistant for end users, not primarily an index API for developers.
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Brave Search for individuals and growing teams. See search.brave.com for current pricing.
Brave Search for larger organizations with security and admin needs. Contact sales for a quote.
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Compliance Standards
SOC 2 Type II
EnterpriseISO 27001
EnterpriseGDPR Compliant
GlobalHIPAA
HealthcarePCI DSS
FinanceCCPA
PrivacyFedRAMP
GovernmentCSA STAR
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