Search the web
Brave Search API
Web search API backed by Brave's own index that returns ranked results, news, images, or extracted page content for LLMs.
Billing
- Pricing model
- Prepaid credits, no subscription1
- Free tier
- $5 in free credits every month on each of the Search and Answers plans1
- Free tier (other page)
- Up to $20 in free calls every month1
- Card required for free tier
- Yes, payment information is required on all plans5
- Minimum spend
- No minimums1
- Billing period
- Not published
- Payment alternative
- USDC micropayment per request on Base via x402, no API key5
Prices
Prices are listed per 1,000 requests, so no conversion was needed. The Answers plan also bills tokens.
| Plan | Price per 1,000 requests | Other charges |
|---|---|---|
| Search (web, news, images, video, LLM Context) | $5 | None listed |
| Answers | $4 | $5 per million input/output tokens |
Source1Brave Search API product page and pricing
Plans
| Plan | Capacity | Special features |
|---|---|---|
| Search | 50 queries per second | Goggles, extra alternate snippets, schema-enriched results |
| Answers | 2 queries per second | Citations, streaming, OpenAI SDK compatible |
| Enterprise | Custom | Full-funnel Zero Data Retention, custom agreements and NDAs, invoicing |
Source1Brave Search API product page and pricing
Other charges
- Failed requests
- Not billed3
Read from Brave Software’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/search-the-web/brave-search-api.md