Brave Releases its Search API
Brave has released its Brave Search API, making the foundation of its own search service available to third parties worldwide.
“As the only privacy-preserving and independent search index in the West, Brave Search brings much-needed competition to Google and Microsoft Bing,” the announcement post reads. “The Brave Search API allows anyone to integrate billions of private, ad-free results from the Web with a simple API call.”
Brave notes that its Search API is inexpensive and that it’s a great fit for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models developers in particular because it provides access to a collection of high-quality, Web-scale data including recent events.
Brave claims that its standalone Brave Search offering now delivers over 8 billion annualized queries, which makes it the fastest-growing search engine since Microsoft Bing. And in sharp contrast to the market leaders, Brave Search is private and transparent. Plus, it’s fueled by opt-in users of the Brave browser’s Web Discovery Project, which adds millions of new web pages to the index every single day and keeps it current and fresh. The Brave web browser has over 60 million active users now, the company adds.
A free version of the Brave Search API provides one search query per second and up to 2,000 queries per month. Paid tiers start at $3 CPM (cost per one thousand) for 20 queries per second and up to 20 million queries per month, with access to web search, Goggles, news cluster, and videos cluster, plus added cost access to autosuggest and spellcheck at $5 per 10,000 requests. Higher-price tiers add more queries per second and per month, plus additional capabilities like schema-enriched web results, infobox, FAQ, discussions, locations, and more.