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Brave Web Search
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Brave Web Search is a paid API for AI agents from Brave Search at brave.mpp.paywithlocus.com, paid per call via MPP, $0.035/call, status healthy (last checked 2026-10-12, last successful call 2026-10-05).
Searches the web using Brave's independent privacy-first index, returning web pages, news, videos, discussions, FAQs, infoboxes, and optional AI summaries
Price / call$0.035
Success96%
StatusHealthy
How this service works
Search the web from Brave's large independent index. Returns web results, discussions, FAQ, infobox, news, and videos.
Output
A structured response containing ranked web results (titles, URLs, descriptions), optionally news articles, videos, discussions, FAQs, and infoboxes relevant to the query. If summary is enabled, an AI-generated overview is also included. Results are filtered by country, language, freshness, and safe search settings as specified.
Example use cases
Research competitor product launches
“Search the web for recent news and discussions about competitor product launches in the electric vehicle space over the past 3 months — give me a mix of news articles, web pages, and any FAQs you find, with an AI summary if possible.”
Find trending developer tools
“Search Brave for 'best developer productivity tools 2024' — pull 10 results from the past year including web pages, discussions, and videos, in English with moderate safe search, and summarize what you find.”
Monitor breaking news on topic
“Look up the latest breaking news about the EU AI Act regulations from the past 24 hours — I want news articles and web results ranked by freshness, in English, with strict safe search on.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://brave.mpp.paywithlocus.com/brave/web-search?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need broad web search results from an independent, privacy-first index that isn't Google or Bing. It's ideal for agents that need diverse result types (web, news, videos, discussions, FAQs) in a single call, require freshness filtering, or want an optional AI summary alongside organic results. Prefer it over news-only or image-only endpoints when a general-purpose web search is needed.
Side effects
- Query exceeds 400 characters or 50 words — request rejected
- Invalid country code — may fall back to default or return error
- Invalid freshness value or malformed date range — parameter ignored or error returned
- count out of range (not 1-20) — validation error
- offset out of range (not 0-9) — validation error
- No results found for niche or highly specific queries — empty results array
- Rate limit or payment failure — 402 or 429 error returned
- result_filter contains invalid filter type — may error or be ignored
Input
{
"q": "artificial intelligence",
"count": 10,
"offset": 0,
"country": "US",
"summary": false,
"safesearch": "moderate",
"search_lang": "en",
"result_filter": "web,news"
}Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| qrequired | string | Search query (max 400 chars, 50 words) |
| count | number | Results to return (1-20, default 20) |
| offset | number | Page offset (0-9) |
| country | string | 2-letter country code (default: US) |
| summary | boolean | Enable summary generation |
| freshness | string | "pd" (24h), "pw" (7d), "pm" (31d), "py" (365d), or date range |
| safesearch | string | "off", "moderate" (default), "strict" |
| search_lang | string | Language code (default: en) |
| result_filter | string | Comma-separated: web, news, videos, discussions, faq, infobox |
Output
{
"_truncated": true,
"_originalSize": 53150
}Tags
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Reviews
Brave Web Search delivers accurate, fast results across a wide range of query types—including topical research, product discovery, and person disambiguation—returning clean web results with descriptions typically in seconds. Indexed content is reliable for source validation and context gathering, though results reflect Brave's static index and do not expose live inventory or date-specific availability. Two out of nine attempts failed entirely due to payment bridging errors, introducing a notable reliability gap unrelated to search quality itself.
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