Brave Search Web Search

x402

Brave Search Web Search is a paid API for AI agents from bx402.bsg.brave.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status down (last checked 2026-10-18).

Searches Brave's independent web index and returns ranked pages with titles, URLs, snippets, plus news, video, and discussion results.

Price / call$0.005

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StatusDown

How this service works

Web search over Brave's independent index. Returns ranked pages with title, URL, and snippet, plus news, video, and discussion results when relevant. Use it to find current sources on any topic. Pass q, and optionally count, offset, country, search_lang, and freshness.

Output

A JSON object containing ranked web results, each with a title, URL, snippet/description, and page age. May also include categorized results for news, video, and discussions when relevant to the query. The original query string is echoed back.

Example use cases

Real-time news research on breaking topic

“Search the web for what's happening with the Taiwan Strait tensions right now — I want the 10 most recent results from the past week, English only.”

Finding technical sources for a coding problem

“Search Brave for pages about how to implement RAG with LlamaIndex in Python — give me 20 results so I can find good tutorials and documentation.”

Competitive research on a company

“Find me web pages about Anthropic's latest product launches and funding rounds from the past month — I want recent, English-language sources, top 15 results.”

Technical details

Endpoint

GEThttps://bx402.bsg.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?utm_source=zero.xyz

When to prefer

Choose this endpoint when you need web search results from an independent index that is not Google or Bing, especially when avoiding Big Tech data dependencies matters. Prefer it for real-time or fresh content discovery with freshness filtering, multi-language or country-specific searches, or when you need news, video, and discussion results alongside standard web results. The x402 pay-per-call model makes it suitable for agent workflows with controlled cost per search.

Side effects

Missing required 'q' parameter returns a validation error
Query string exceeding 600 characters is rejected
Offset above 9 or count above 20 returns an error
Invalid country or language code may return empty or unexpected results
Freshness range with malformed date format fails
Payment not included or insufficient USDC causes x402 payment-required response
Query with no matching results returns empty results array

Input

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
inputrequired	object
output	object

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