Brave Search API pricing.
Prices checked
Brave Search API Search costs $5 per 1,000 searches when you make 1,000 a month and $5 at 100,000, checked .
At 1,000 searches a month
Brave Search API
Search · pay as you go
What 1,000 searches cost you, bought the cheapest way Brave Search API sells them.
At 100,000 a month
Brave Search API
pay as you go
The same price per search at any volume: no discount for more.
Every way Brave Search API sells it
Answers, Answers
$4 per 1,000 searches at 1,000 a month; $4 per 1,000 searches at 100,000.
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Answers plan
Tokens on toppay as you go
$4/1k searches
How each price is read
- Plus $5 per million input and output tokens, so the price per answer depends on its length.
- Includes the LLM context endpoint, which returns page text for each result. Up to 50 queries a second.
- $5 of credit every month, which buys this many searches at the Search plan's rate. A card is required.
How we count
Each price is per 1,000 searches when you make 1,000 or 100,000 searches a month and buy them the cheapest way that provider sells: pay as you go, the plan that covers them with its overage, or a pack spread over the months it lasts. A free allowance is not subtracted; free tiers are listed on their own.
A free tier is a limit, not a price: it is listed on every page and called the cheapest on none. A price read for the first time, or that moved a lot, is marked while a second reading checks it.
- Tokens on top
- Something else is billed with each call, so this price is not the whole price and the row leads nothing.
Similar APIs
Other web search APIs with their own index, cheapest first. Each percentage is against Brave Search API's $5 per 1,000 searches at 1,000 searches a month.
Search, fast
pay as you go · $1 at 100k · page text
Parallel$1/1k searches80% lessSearch API, fast
pay as you go · $1 at 100k · page text
Perplexity$1/1k searches80% lessLite search
pay as you go · $4 at 100k · page text
Exa$4/1k searches20% lessStandard search
pay as you go · $5 at 100k · page text
Linkup$5/1k searchesSame price
Frequently asked
- How much does the Brave Search API cost?
- $5 per 1,000 searches for Search when you make 1,000 a month (pay as you go), and $5 per 1,000 searches at 100,000 a month (pay as you go), checked 21 Oct 2026. Tax is extra.
- Does Brave Search API have a free tier?
- Yes. Search: 1,000 a month free. A free tier is a limit, not a price: it is listed on every page and called the cheapest on none.
- What does a Brave Search API search return?
- Answers: A written answer with its sources, from one call. Own index: Results from the provider's own web index, built for a model to read, most with the page's text.
- What is cheaper than Brave Search API?
- Among web search APIs with their own index, Parallel Search, fast at $1 per 1,000 searches, Perplexity Search API, fast at $1 per 1,000 searches, Exa Lite search at $4 per 1,000 searches, each at 1,000 searches a month.
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