The Brave Search API is a powerful tool designed to integrate web search capabilities into applications. It leverages Brave's independent web index, which includes over 30 billion pages, updated daily with over 100 million page updates. This API is ideal for developers building chatbots, coding assistants, AI-search engines, and other applications that require real-time data to reduce hallucinations and ground responses with multiple sources.
Key Features
- World-class quality: Performs on par with or better than incumbent search giants in blinded testing.
- Specialized endpoints: Adapt results with different specialized endpoints, including local, images, AI summaries, and more.
- Comprehensive and fresh: Index includes over 30 billion pages, kept fresh by over 100 million page updates every day.
- Search Goggles: Discard domains or re-rank results for better control of the response to your query.
- Extra snippets: Get up to five snippets picked in real time to maximize contextual relevance to a search.
- Schema-enriched results: Get additional formatted data for popular formats like movie reviews and wikis.
Use Cases
- Power agentic search: Ideal for chatbots, coding assistants, and AI-search engines that need real-time data to reduce hallucinations.
- Train foundation models: The open Web is a critical source of training data for today’s state-of-the-art AI models.
- Create search-enabled tools: Build comprehensive company profiles in CRM platforms, gather citations for ed-tech apps, or fetch the latest news for a stock trading assistant.
The Brave Search API is trusted by industry leaders such as Axel Springer, Chegg, Cohere, Ghostery, Mistral AI, Kagi, Together.ai, Perplexity, Sana, Swisscows, Turnitin, and You. It offers a range of pricing plans, including a free plan for getting familiar with the API, and paid plans for higher usage and additional features.
