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  "slug": "brave-search-api",
  "name": "Brave Search API",
  "url": "https://brave.com/search/api/",
  "cat": "search",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Independent web index search API",
  "price": "$5/month in free credits applied automatically; no standing free query allowance. Search $5 per 1K requests at 50 QPS. Answers $4 per 1K requests plus $5 per million input/output tokens at 2 QPS. Enterprise custom.",
  "tier": "paid",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Web search over Brave's own crawled index rather than a resold Google or Bing feed. Returns organic results, news, images and videos as structured JSON, with an Answers endpoint that generates a cited response. Enterprise plans offer full-funnel zero data retention.",
  "why": "An independent index surfaces pages Google-derived APIs cannot, and the licensing is clean for AI grounding. It ships a first-party MCP server so agents can call it directly.",
  "warn": "The $5 monthly credit is roughly <b>1,000 Search requests</b> and there is no free plan beyond it. Long-tail coverage is shallower than Google's index.",
  "category": {
    "key": "search",
    "name": "Search, vector & RAG",
    "desc": "Keyword search, vector stores, and web-search APIs for agents — three different things.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": null,
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T17:12:38.21+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}