# Brave Search API

**Provider:** Brave
**Category:** search
**Base URL:** `https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1`
**Auth:** api-key — `X-Subscription-Token: your-token`
**Rate Limit:** 1 request/s (free)
**Free Tier:** Yes — [object Object]
**Pricing:** Pay per use (pay-as-you-go)
**Docs:** https://api.search.brave.com/app/documentation

## Description

Brave Search API provides access to Brave's independent search index, not relying on Google or Bing. Get web results, news, images, videos, and AI-generated summaries. Features goggles for custom re-ranking, infoboxes, FAQs, and discussions from Reddit.

## Endpoints

| Method | Endpoint | Description |
|--------|----------|-------------|
| GET | `https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search` | Brave Web Search results |
| GET | `https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/news/search` | Brave News Search results |
| GET | `https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/images/search` | Brave Image Search results |
| GET | `https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/videos/search` | Brave Video Search results |

## Authentication

Pass your API subscription token in the X-Subscription-Token header.

```
X-Subscription-Token: your-token
```

## Sample Request

```bash
curl "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=open+source+LLMs&count=5&result_filter=web" \
  -H "X-Subscription-Token: $BRAVE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"
```

## Sample Response

```json
{
  "type": "search",
  "web": {
    "results": [{
      "title": "Top Open Source LLMs in 2024",
      "url": "https://example.com/llms",
      "description": "A comprehensive guide to the best...",
      "age": "2 days ago",
      "language": "en"
    }]
  },
  "query": {"original": "open source LLMs"}
}
```

## Pricing Details

Free: 2K queries/mo. Base: $5/mo for 20K queries. Pro: $20/mo for 200K queries. Enterprise: custom with SLA.

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