Brave Search API
🔎️ Search API0Ranked #2 of 8 in Search API for AI
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Specs
- Architecture
- own-index
- Price /1k queries
- 5 USD
- Free tier
- 1000 q/mo
- Independent index
- ✓
- Shopping/travel endpoints
- ✗
- Result quality
- top
- Privacy / ZDR
- ✓
Compare all 8 in Search API for AI
| Option | Score | Price /1k queries | Free tier | Result quality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parallel | +2 | - | 16000 q/mo | top |
| Brave Search API | 0 | 5 USD | 1000 q/mo | top |
| DataForSEO | 0 | 0.6 USD | - | raw |
| Exa | 0 | 7 USD | 1000 q/mo | top |
| Linkup | 0 | 5.5 USD | - | top |
| SerpAPI | 0 | - | - | raw |
| Serper | 0 | 1 USD | 2500 q/mo | raw |
| Tavily | 0 | 8 USD | 1000 q/mo | mid |
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Independent 40B+ page index. $5/1k, ~1k free/mo but now requires public attribution (free tier was cut in Feb 2026). True ZDR, privacy-first. Strong general quality; no structured shopping/travel endpoints.
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