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Brave Search API

Brave Search API returns links and short previews from Brave’s web index. It gives your app a list of places to check for an answer.

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How does Brave charge for Web Search?

Brave lists Search at $5 per 1,000 requests, with $5 in monthly credits. Count requests, including searches your app makes after someone changes a question, and check the selected plan before launch.

Search and generated answers have separate plan listings. A request is one call from your app and may return several links.

Can your app keep Brave’s results?

Check your plan and agreement before saving raw responses. Brave’s standard terms limit storage and caching, with exceptions such as transient operations or separate written permission.

Storage permission from the API provider is separate from the publisher’s rights in the original page. Read the policy for the queries you send. Keep customer names, private links and secrets out of public searches.

How can you try the workflow on paper?

Write “Does the fictional town library take Sunday workshop walk-ins?” Then draw two imaginary result cards. Use no account or real query.

  1. Check the page date
    Mark a past workshop announcement as too old to answer the question.
  2. Look for the missing condition
    A current hours page gives a time but no booking rule. Leave the booking rule unconfirmed until a current event page answers it.