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  "name": "Brave Search API",
  "slug": "brave-search",
  "website_url": "https://brave.com/search/api/",
  "vendor_description": "\"The Brave Search API provides developers with access to Brave Search results and enables building AI products, chatbots, coding assistants, and AI-search engines with real-time web data.\"",
  "categories": [
    "web-search"
  ],
  "summary": "Brave Search API gives developers access to Brave's independent web index of over 30 billion pages for building AI products, RAG pipelines, chatbots, and search engines, with endpoints covering web, news, image, video, local place search, answers, and LLM context. Pricing is usage-based at $4 per 1,000 requests, with a free tier of roughly $5 in monthly credits, self-serve signup, and an enterprise plan available. The API is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and GDPR compliant, ships with an MCP server, and counts Cohere, Mistral AI, AWS, Shopify, and Snowflake among its documented customers. Usage terms prohibit storing results or using them to train AI models, and attribution is required in customer applications.",
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      "web_search",
      "llm_context",
      "answers",
      "image_search",
      "video_search",
      "news_search",
      "place_search",
      "local_pois",
      "local_descriptions",
      "rich_web",
      "suggest",
      "spellcheck"
    ],
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      "global",
      "country-targeted results via ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes",
      "index of 30+ billion pages"
    ],
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      "multi-language via ISO 639-1 search_lang parameter",
      "UI language via ui_lang parameter"
    ],
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      "natural language query",
      "search operators (site:, filetype:, exact phrase, exclusion)",
      "country code filter",
      "language filter",
      "freshness/date filter",
      "safesearch setting",
      "Goggles reranking spec",
      "location IDs"
    ],
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      "JSON",
      "streaming (Answers API)",
      "OpenAI-compatible chat completions format (Answers API)",
      "structured snippets",
      "schema-enriched results (movies, wikis)",
      "rich results (weather, sports, stocks, calculator, etc.)"
    ],
    "webhooks_supported": false,
    "sandbox_available": false,
    "sdk_languages": [
      "TypeScript/JavaScript (MCP)",
      "CLI",
      "Agent Skills"
    ],
    "mcp_server_available": true
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    "api_version": "v1",
    "versioning_scheme": "header",
    "stability": "ga",
    "deprecation_policy_url": null,
    "auth_methods": [
      "api_key"
    ],
    "auth_docs_url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/guides/authentication",
    "idempotency_supported": false,
    "error_format": "vendor-specific",
    "webhook_signing": null,
    "webhook_events_url": null,
    "rate_limit_requests": 50,
    "rate_limit_window": "second",
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        "package": "@brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
        "language": "TypeScript/JavaScript (MCP)",
        "official": true,
        "repo_url": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server"
      },
      {
        "package": "brave-search-cli",
        "language": "CLI",
        "official": true,
        "repo_url": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-cli"
      },
      {
        "package": "brave-search-skills",
        "language": "Agent Skills",
        "official": true,
        "repo_url": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills"
      }
    ],
    "mcp_url": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
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  },
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    "has_published_pricing": true,
    "starting_price_usd": "4.0000",
    "price_basis": "1,000 requests",
    "free_tier_available": false,
    "free_tier_limit": "$5 in credits/month (approx. 1,000 Search requests or 1,250 Answers queries)",
    "free_tier_details": "No free tier as of February 2026. All plans include $5 in recurring monthly credits automatically applied to paid accounts (credit card required; overages billed with no default spending cap). At $5/1,000 requests, credits cover approximately 1,000 web search queries/month before billing begins. Attribution ('POWERED BY BRAVE') required to retain credits.",
    "minimum_commitment": null,
    "self_serve_signup": true,
    "requires_sales_call": false,
    "requires_verification": true,
    "enterprise_plan_available": true,
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        "item": "Web, LLM Context, Images, News, Videos search requests",
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        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "1,000 requests",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing"
      },
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        "plan": "Search",
        "item": "Monthly recurring credits (applied to paid account; attribution required)",
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        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "month",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Answers",
        "item": "Answers API requests (grounded LLM answers with citations)",
        "amount_usd": "4.0000",
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "1,000 requests",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Answers",
        "item": "LLM input tokens",
        "amount_usd": "5.0000",
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "1,000,000 tokens",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Answers",
        "item": "LLM output tokens",
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        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "1,000,000 tokens",
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        "source_url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Answers",
        "item": "Monthly recurring credits (applied to paid account; attribution required)",
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        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "month",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Spellcheck",
        "item": "Spellcheck requests",
        "amount_usd": "5.0000",
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "10,000 requests",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Autosuggest",
        "item": "Autosuggest requests",
        "amount_usd": "5.0000",
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "10,000 requests",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Enterprise",
        "item": "Custom pricing — bespoke volume, Zero Data Retention, custom agreements, enterprise support",
        "amount_usd": null,
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": null,
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing"
      }
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  "compliance": {
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    "hipaa": false,
    "gdpr": true,
    "iso_27001": false,
    "pci_dss": null,
    "sla_published": false,
    "sla_url": null,
    "data_retention_policy_url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/security",
    "documented_rate_limits": "Search API: 50 requests/second; Answers API: 2 requests/second; Spellcheck & Autosuggest: 100 requests/second each",
    "known_restrictions": [
      "Results may not be stored, cached, or used to create a database beyond transient operational storage",
      "Results may not be used to train, fine-tune, benchmark, or improve AI models",
      "Attribution required: 'POWERED BY BRAVE' plus Brave logo must be displayed conspicuously in customer applications; required to qualify for $5 monthly credits",
      "Cannot redistribute or resell Search Results",
      "Cannot reverse engineer or replicate API functionality",
      "Zero Data Retention (ZDR) available only on enterprise plans"
    ]
  },
  "developer": {
    "docs_url": "https://brave.com/api",
    "api_reference_url": "https://brave.com/search/api/",
    "openapi_spec_url": null,
    "postman_collection_url": null,
    "changelog_url": "https://brave.com/whats-new",
    "status_page_url": "https://status.brave.com",
    "llms_txt_url": null,
    "markdown_docs_url": null,
    "rendering": "static"
  },
  "adoption": {
    "launched_at": "2023-05-30",
    "ga_date": "2023-05-30",
    "github_stars": null,
    "github_stars_at": null,
    "notable_customers": [
      "Apollo",
      "AWS",
      "Axel Springer",
      "Chegg",
      "Cohere",
      "Mistral AI",
      "Shopify",
      "Snowflake",
      "Turnitin",
      "You.com",
      "Firecrawl",
      "Together.ai",
      "Kagi",
      "Motley Fool"
    ]
  },
  "scores": {
    "agent_friendliness": 40,
    "pricing_transparency": 85,
    "setup_speed": 60,
    "docs_quality": 45,
    "procurement_friction": 85,
    "trust_readiness": 40,
    "best_for": [
      "Regulated or enterprise workloads - compliance attestations and an enterprise plan",
      "AI agents and automation - an agent-ready surface (MCP / llms.txt)",
      "Teams needing broad API coverage out of the box"
    ],
    "avoid_if": [
      "You want to try it free before paying"
    ]
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "field": "vendor_description",
      "url": "https://brave.com/search/api/",
      "excerpt": "The Brave Search API provides developers with access to Brave Search results and enables building AI products, chatbots, coding assistants, and AI-search engines with real-time web data.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "supported_actions",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing",
      "excerpt": "Search: $5.00 per 1,000 requests — Web, LLM Context, Images, News, Videos; Answers: $4.00 per 1,000 queries plus token charges; Spellcheck: $5.00 per 10,000 requests; Autosuggest: $5.00 per 10,000 requests",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "supported_actions",
      "url": "https://brave.com/blog/most-powerful-search-api-for-ai/",
      "excerpt": "Search plan covers: Web, LLM Context, Images, News, Videos. Answers plan provides grounded responses. Spellcheck and Autocomplete plans also available.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "free_tier_available",
      "url": "https://www.implicator.ai/brave-drops-free-search-api-tier-puts-all-developers-on-metered-billing/",
      "excerpt": "Brave eliminated its free tier entirely and transitioned all developers to a credit-based billing system. The change occurred on February 12, 2026. Cards previously collected as an 'anti-fraud measure' that would 'never be charged' now function as active billing instruments once monthly credits are exhausted, with no stated spending cap.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "free_tier_available",
      "url": "https://agentdeals.dev/vendor/brave-search-api",
      "excerpt": "The original free tier was eliminated on February 12, 2026. Previously, it offered 'Free plan: 2,000 queries/month, no credit card required' but has been replaced with pay-as-you-go metered billing. Credit card is now required. No spending cap exists, meaning overages will be automatically billed.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "free_tier_details",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing",
      "excerpt": "Includes free $5 in credits every month. Credits are automatically applied to your account.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "free_tier_details",
      "url": "https://www.implicator.ai/brave-drops-free-search-api-tier-puts-all-developers-on-metered-billing/",
      "excerpt": "Each account now receives about $5 in free credits per month — roughly 1,000 queries at the standard rate of around $5 per 1,000 queries — after which usage is charged to your card, with no default spending cap. Additionally, a valid payment method is required even to begin.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "pricing_model",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing",
      "excerpt": "$5.00 per 1,000 requests (Search); $4.00 per 1,000 queries + $5.00 per 1,000,000 input tokens + $5.00 per 1,000,000 output tokens (Answers); $5.00 per 10,000 requests (Spellcheck/Autosuggest)",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "soc2",
      "url": "https://brave.com/blog/soc2/",
      "excerpt": "the Brave Search API underwent a thorough external audit, and earned our first SOC 2 Type II attestation. Going forward, Brave will undergo yearly audits to ensure continued SOC 2 Type II compliance.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "soc2",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/security",
      "excerpt": "SOC 2 Type II attested, with its strict security and privacy controls independently verified by a third-party auditor",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "gdpr",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/security",
      "excerpt": "Brave's Data Protection Officer advises on compliance with data protection and privacy laws such as the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ePrivacy Directive",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "gdpr",
      "url": "https://cdn.search.brave.com/search-api/web/v1/client/_app/immutable/assets/brave-search-api-dpa-2025-09-09.DRXCoye6.pdf",
      "excerpt": "Data Processing Addendum – Brave Search API Last updated: September 9, 2025",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "hipaa",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/security",
      "excerpt": "Security and compliance page lists SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and CCPA/CPRA — HIPAA is not mentioned.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "iso_27001",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/security",
      "excerpt": "Adopts ISO 27001 and 27701 standards for information security and privacy management",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "sla_published",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/terms-of-service",
      "excerpt": "API is provided 'AS IS' and 'AS AVAILABLE.' Provider disclaims all warranties and MAKES NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND that the API will OPERATE WITHOUT INTERRUPTION or ACHIEVE ANY INTENDED RESULT",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "enterprise_plan_available",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing",
      "excerpt": "Contact us about bespoke plans for large-scale deployments with custom terms, capacity, zero data retention, and enterprise-grade support",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "mcp_server_available",
      "url": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
      "excerpt": "Official Brave MCP server maintained by the Brave organization at github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "mcp_server_available",
      "url": "https://brave.com/search/api/guides/use-with-claude-desktop-with-mcp/",
      "excerpt": "\"args\": [\"-y\", \"@modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search\"]",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "documented_rate_limits",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing",
      "excerpt": "Search API: 50 requests/second; Answers API: 2 requests/second; Spellcheck & Autosuggest: 100 requests/second",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "known_restrictions",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/terms-of-service",
      "excerpt": "Customers cannot store, cache, or create a database of Search Results... Cannot use Search Results to create, evaluate, train, re-train, fine-tune, benchmark or otherwise improve artificial intelligence models",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "known_restrictions",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/terms-of-service",
      "excerpt": "Attribution must display 'POWERED BY BRAVE' plus Provider's logo conspicuously",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "sandbox_available",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation",
      "excerpt": "No dedicated sandbox or test environment mentioned. All plans use the live production environment; $5 monthly credits serve as trial usage in the live env.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "self_serve_signup",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/register",
      "excerpt": "Registration page available; credit card required as billing instrument (no longer just anti-fraud after February 2026 changes).",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "supported_regions",
      "url": "https://brave.com/blog/most-powerful-search-api-for-ai/",
      "excerpt": "Brave publicly says its index includes over 30 billion pages with over 100 million daily page updates.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "supported_regions",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/services/web-search",
      "excerpt": "country: 2-character country code for targeting",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "auth_methods",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/guides/authentication",
      "excerpt": "All requests to the Brave Search API must include your subscription token in the X-Subscription-Token HTTP header.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "auth_methods",
      "url": "https://brave.com/search/api/",
      "excerpt": "API requests require the X-Subscription-Token header containing your API key.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "base_url",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/quickstart",
      "excerpt": "The primary endpoint is https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "base_url",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started",
      "excerpt": "Base URL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "versioning_scheme",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/guides/versioning",
      "excerpt": "The Api-Version header uses a date format (YYYY-MM-DD) to specify backwards-incompatible changes. API requests default to latest version if no Api-Version header is specified.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "versioning_scheme",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/api-reference/web/search/get",
      "excerpt": "The API version to use. This is denoted by the format YYYY-MM-DD. Default is the latest that is available.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "api_version",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started",
      "excerpt": "The API uses URL-based versioning with v1 in the endpoint path, e.g., /res/v1/web/search.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "api_version",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/guides/versioning",
      "excerpt": "A major version number (e.g., v1) appears in the API endpoint path, such as /v1/web/search. These change rarely and only during major API redesigns.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "rate_limit_requests",
      "url": "https://brave.com/search/api/",
      "excerpt": "Search: 50 queries per second",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "rate_limit_requests",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing",
      "excerpt": "Rate limit: 50 requests/second",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "starting_price_usd",
      "url": "https://brave.com/search/api/",
      "excerpt": "Answers Plan: $4 per 1,000 requests + $5 per million input/output tokens",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "starting_price_usd",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing",
      "excerpt": "Answers API Cost: $4.00 per 1,000 queries",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "free_tier_limit",
      "url": "https://brave.com/search/api/",
      "excerpt": "Both Search and Answers plans include $5 in free credits every month automatically applied.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "free_tier_limit",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing",
      "excerpt": "Free tier: $5 in credits every month",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "requires_verification",
      "url": "https://brave.com/search/api/",
      "excerpt": "A credit card is required as an anti-fraud measure despite free plans not charging the card.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "requires_verification",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/quickstart",
      "excerpt": "Subscribe to a paid plan (credit card required)",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "notable_customers",
      "url": "https://brave.com/search/api/",
      "excerpt": "Company logos displayed: Apollo, AWS, Axel Springer, Causaly, Chegg, Cleo, Cohere, Firecrawl, Ghostery, Horizon, Kagi, Langdock, Mistral AI, Motley Fool, Shopify, Snowflake, SoftwareOne, Together.ai, Turnitin, You",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "notable_customers",
      "url": "https://brave.com/search/api/",
      "excerpt": "Ben Tucker, SVP of Engineering, Chegg: The Brave Search API provides accurate search results for our academic citation services. It delivers high-quality data at a reasonable price, and with intuitive data structuring.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "launched_at",
      "url": "https://brave.com/blog/search-api-launch/",
      "excerpt": "Launch Date: May 30, 2023",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "mcp_url",
      "url": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
      "excerpt": "Official MCP server implementation from Brave. The server integrates Brave Search API capabilities into the Model Context Protocol, enabling AI assistants to perform web search, local business/place search, video, image, and news searches.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "mcp_url",
      "url": "https://brave.com/search/api/guides/",
      "excerpt": "MCP Server is listed with a link to https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "sdk_packages",
      "url": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
      "excerpt": "Official MCP server from Brave, installable via npx -y @brave/brave-search-mcp-server.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "sdk_packages",
      "url": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-cli",
      "excerpt": "brave-search-cli: A zero-dependency, token-efficient CLI for the Brave Search API, built for AI agents and LLMs with one binary, JSON input/output, and no runtime dependencies.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "sdk_packages",
      "url": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills",
      "excerpt": "brave-search-skills: Official skills for using Brave Search API with AI coding agents.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "error_format",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/api-reference/web/search/get",
      "excerpt": "Error response structure: {type: string, error: object (required), time: integer}. HTTP error codes: 404 Not Found, 422 Unprocessable Entity, 429 Too Many Requests.",
      "confidence": "medium"
    },
    {
      "field": "data_retention_policy_url",
      "url": "https://brave.com/blog/search-api-zero-data-retention/",
      "excerpt": "Brave Search API data is used and maintained only for the narrow purposes documented in our Data Processing Addendum. Unless required by law or regulation, no queries are retained for any length of time under ZDR.",
      "confidence": "medium"
    },
    {
      "field": "data_retention_policy_url",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/security",
      "excerpt": "Trust center URL: https://trust.brave.app/",
      "confidence": "medium"
    },
    {
      "field": "stability",
      "url": "https://brave.com/blog/search-api-launch/",
      "excerpt": "Brave Search API launched May 30, 2023 as a generally available commercial product with paid plans.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "stability",
      "url": "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing",
      "excerpt": "Standard plans at $5.00 per 1,000 requests indicating a fully commercial, stable GA product.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "price_basis",
      "url": "https://brave.com/search/api/",
      "excerpt": "Search Plan: $5 per 1,000 requests; Answers Plan: $4 per 1,000 requests + $5 per million input/output tokens",
      "confidence": "high"
    }
  ],
  "fields_not_found": [
    "iso_27001 (security page states Brave 'adopts ISO 27001 and 27701 standards as guidance' but does not claim certification)",
    "pci_dss",
    "hipaa (not mentioned on any official page)",
    "webhooks_supported (not mentioned in docs)",
    "sandbox_available (no dedicated sandbox environment; trial credits are in the live env)",
    "sdk_languages (no official SDK packages; only raw HTTP examples in Python, Node.js, cURL, Go)",
    "deprecation_policy_url",
    "sla_url",
    "idempotency_supported (not documented)",
    "webhook_signing",
    "webhook_events_url"
  ],
  "source_confidence": "high",
  "last_verified_at": "2026-06-14T00:00:00.000Z",
  "contribute": {
    "note": "This data is crowd-editable. Suggest corrections or leave a review via these endpoints - no auth required, requests are rate-limited, and every submission is reviewed before it goes live. For a field edit, {field} is any key in this response and a citation is required.",
    "endpoints": [
      {
        "action": "review",
        "label": "Leave a review or comment",
        "method": "POST",
        "url": "https://apio.sh/api/feedback/brave-search",
        "example_body": {
          "kind": "review",
          "rating": 5,
          "body": "Your experience with this API…"
        }
      },
      {
        "action": "field_edit",
        "label": "Suggest a correction to a field (cite a source)",
        "method": "POST",
        "url": "https://apio.sh/api/suggest/brave-search/{field}",
        "example_body": {
          "value": "corrected value",
          "citations": [
            {
              "url": "https://source.example/page",
              "excerpt": "supporting quote"
            }
          ],
          "note": "what changed and why"
        }
      },
      {
        "action": "new_api",
        "label": "Suggest a new API to add",
        "method": "POST",
        "url": "https://apio.sh/api/suggest/api",
        "example_body": {
          "value": {
            "name": "Acme API",
            "website_url": "https://acme.example"
          },
          "citations": [
            {
              "url": "https://acme.example"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      {
        "action": "token",
        "label": "Optional - raise your rate limit",
        "method": "GET",
        "url": "https://apio.sh/api/feedback/token"
      }
    ]
  }
}