spb/tools-spboucher-ai

1{2  "slug": "brave-search-api",3  "name": "Brave Search API",4  "aliases": ["Brave Web Search API"],5  "vendor": { "name": "Brave Software, Inc.", "slug": "brave", "website": "https://brave.com/" },6  "homepage_url": "https://brave.com/search/api/",7  "docs_url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation",8  "pricing_url": "https://brave.com/search/api/",9  "product_type": "api-service",10  "product_status": "active",11  "summary": "Developer API over Brave's independent web index offering web, news, image, video, LLM-context and grounded-answer endpoints on prepaid credits",12  "description": "Brave Search API gives developers programmatic access to the index behind Brave Search, which Brave states is built by its own crawler without falling back to Google or Bing. Endpoints return web results with snippets and metadata, plus news, images, videos and location results; an LLM Context endpoint returns ranked extracted passages sized for model input, and an Answers endpoint produces cited, grounded answers through an OpenAI-compatible chat interface. Requests are authenticated with a subscription token obtained from the API dashboard.\n\nPricing is prepaid credits rather than a subscription: a free monthly allowance is included, usage is charged per request (plus tokens for Answers), and an enterprise tier offers custom terms and capacity. The API is a common choice for agents and RAG systems that want an independent index, and Brave publishes an MCP server for it.\n\nIt is proprietary and hosted; coverage reflects Brave's own crawl, which is smaller than Google's, and the richer endpoints consume more credits.",13  "capabilities": ["Web search with snippets and metadata", "News, image, video and local results", "LLM Context endpoint with extracted passages", "Grounded, cited answers via a chat-completions interface", "Spellcheck and freshness and safe-search parameters", "Prepaid credit billing with a free allowance"],14  "workflows": ["Add web grounding to a chatbot through the LLM Context endpoint", "Replace a retired Google Custom Search integration", "Run keyword monitoring across news and web"],15  "advantages": ["Independent index not derived from Google or Bing", "Pay only for credits used", "Endpoints designed for LLM input"],16  "limitations": ["Proprietary hosted service", "Smaller index than the largest engines", "Advanced endpoints cost more credits"],17  "prerequisites": ["Brave Search API account and token"],18  "audiences": ["Agent and RAG developers", "Teams needing a privacy-oriented search backend"],19  "alternatives": ["serpapi", "tavily", "exa"],20  "categories": [{ "slug": "search-apis", "primary": true }],21  "tags": ["api", "web-search", "llm", "agents", "privacy", "mcp"],22  "use_cases": ["search-the-web-programmatically", "build-agents"],23  "operating_systems": ["web"],24  "execution_modes": ["cloud"],25  "interfaces": ["api", "web", "mcp-server"],26  "deployment_models": ["saas"],27  "integrations": ["Model Context Protocol", "LangChain", "OpenAI-compatible clients"],28  "data_formats": ["JSON"],29  "languages": [],30  "source_model": "proprietary",31  "pricing_model": ["freemium", "usage-based", "enterprise"],32  "pricing_checked_at": "2026-11-02",33  "self_hostable": false,34  "sources": [35    { "url": "https://brave.com/search/api/", "type": "official_site", "title": "Brave Search API", "supports": ["name", "summary", "capabilities", "pricing_model"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },36    { "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation", "type": "official_docs", "title": "Brave Search API documentation", "supports": ["capabilities", "prerequisites"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" }37  ],38  "confidence": "high",39  "discovery_method": "editorial-research",40  "depth": "standard",41  "editorial_status": "reviewed",42  "visibility": "public",43  "featured": false,44  "author": "batch-C"45}46