Brave Search API
Independent web index via API.
Web search API backed by Brave’s own independent index, popular for LLM grounding.
- Vendor
- Brave
- Category
- Search & web data APIs
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- API
- Launched
- 2023
- Website
- brave.com/search/api
Features
- Independent index
- AI grounding endpoint
Best for
- Research
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