The Brave Search API is now live. The service is free for companies and developers for limited use but also offers several paid tiers for those who have more demanding requirements.
Brave Software has announced the release of the Brave Search API. This will allow companies and developers to integrate private, ad-free search results with a simple API call.
For those unfamiliar with Brave Search, it’s the default search engine in the Brave web browser and has been built from scratch by Brave Software so that its results are different from those you’ll get in Google or Bing, rather than being derived from them. Notably, Brave Search is privacy-oriented and doesn’t use algorithms to bias or censor results.
Brave describes its API as “far cheaper than the Bing API” and it’s free for up to 2,000 monthly calls. It has several paid tiers, which are outlined below
Data for Search – Deliver search results
Base $3 CPM
20 queries/second limit
Up to 20M queries per month
Features Web search, Goggles, news cluster, videos cluster, autosuggest*, spellcheck*
Pro $5 CPM
50 queries/second limit
Unlimited queries per month
Features Web search, Goggles, news cluster, videos cluster, schema-enriched Web Results, infobox, FAQ, Discussions, locations, autosuggest*, spellcheck*
Data for AI – Train AI models for inference
Base AI $5 CPM
20 queries/second limit
Up to 20M queries per month
Features Web search, Goggles, news Cluster, videos cluster, autosuggest*, spellcheck*
Extra alternate snippets for AI
Pro AI $9 CPM
50 queries/second limit
Unlimited queries per month
Features Web search, Goggles, news cluster, videos cluster, schema-enriched Web results, infobox, FAQ, Discussions, locations, autosuggest*, spellcheck*
Extra alternate snippets for AI
Data with storage rights – Cache/store data to train AI models
Base+ $26 CPM
20 queries/second limit
Up to 20M queries per month
Features Web search, Goggles, news cluster, videos cluster, autosuggest*, spellcheck*
Extra alternate snippets for AI
Pro+ $45 CPM
50 queries/second limit
Unlimited queries per month
Features Web search, Goggles, news cluster, videos cluster, schema-enriched Web results, infobox, FAQ, Discussions, locations, autosuggest*, spellcheck*
Extra alternate snippets for AI
“The Brave Search API delivers great quality at an affordable cost,” the company said in its announcement.
