Brave Search API pricing: plans and rates
Checked Nov 10, 2026 on Brave Search API’s official pages (sources below). Prices change often: confirm with the provider before you buy.
The Brave Search API gives apps and AI agents results from Brave's own web index, plus LLM-ready context and summarized answers. It uses prepaid credits, no subscription.
Figures below are quoted from brave.com/search/api as read on Nov 10, 2026. Prices change: confirm on Brave Search API's page before you buy.
Plans
- Search
- Price$5 per 1,000 requests
- Free credits$5 every month
- Capacity50 queries per second
- Answers
- Price$4 per 1,000 requests + $5 per million input/output tokens
- Free credits$5 every month
- Capacity2 queries per second
- Enterprise
- PriceContact sales
- Free credits-
- CapacityCustom
Search includes Goggles (custom reranking and filtering), extra alternate snippets and schema-enriched results. Answers adds citations, streaming and OpenAI SDK compatibility. Enterprise adds full-funnel Zero Data Retention, custom agreements and invoicing. The page headline says up to $20 in free calls every month.
Brave Search API pricing FAQ
Is the Brave Search API free?
Each plan includes $5 in free credits every month, applied automatically. After that, Search costs $5 per 1,000 requests.
Does the Brave Search API need a subscription?
No. Brave says it uses prepaid credits, no subscription.
Where do these Brave Search API prices come from?
Brave Search API's own pricing page (https://brave.com/search/api/), read on Nov 10, 2026. We do not estimate bills or add up costs across providers.
Sources (official pages, read Nov 10, 2026)
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