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  "provider": "Brave",
  "assetId": "brave-search-api-pricing",
  "priceLastVerifiedAt": "2026-11-09T01:20:18.554Z",
  "billingTermsLastVerifiedAt": "2026-11-09T01:20:18.554Z",
  "sources": [
    "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing",
    "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/terms-of-service",
    "https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/terms-of-service/credit-terms"
  ],
  "sourceContractPath": "/retrieval-pricing/brave-source-contract.json",
  "claims": {
    "currency": "USD",
    "category": "retrieval-api",
    "products": [
      {
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        "name": "Search / LLM Context",
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        "requestsPerSecond": 50,
        "includesLLMContext": true
      },
      {
        "id": "answers",
        "name": "Answers",
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        "inputUsdPerMillionTokens": 5,
        "outputUsdPerMillionTokens": 5,
        "requestsPerSecond": 2,
        "billingFormula": "query fee + input-token fee + output-token fee"
      },
      {
        "id": "spellcheck",
        "name": "Spellcheck",
        "usdPer10000Requests": 5,
        "requestsPerSecond": 100
      },
      {
        "id": "autosuggest",
        "name": "Autosuggest",
        "usdPer10000Requests": 5,
        "requestsPerSecond": 100
      }
    ],
    "billing": {
      "mode": "prepaid",
      "monthlyCreditUsd": 5,
      "creditApplied": "automatically to account",
      "creditStacking": "not established; do not infer a separate allowance per product",
      "taxesIncluded": false,
      "prepaidPurchasesRefundable": false,
      "creditsTransferable": false,
      "creditExpiry": "earlier of one year from issuance or account closure",
      "promoCreditsCoverTaxes": false,
      "autoReload": "optional; if activated, recurring charges at customer-set balance threshold"
    },
    "enterprise": {
      "pricing": "contact sales",
      "features": [
        "custom capacity",
        "Zero Data Retention",
        "custom agreements and NDAs",
        "invoicing and support"
      ]
    },
    "labs": {
      "status": "blocked-authorization-and-protocol",
      "reason": "Standard terms section 3(b)(xiii) restrict using Search Results to create, evaluate, train, re-train, fine-tune, benchmark or otherwise improve AI models or services.",
      "required": [
        "appropriate written/custom authorization",
        "rights-cleared reproducible retrieval/coverage experiment protocol",
        "approved spend before any paid inference"
      ],
      "defaultApiKeySufficient": false,
      "customerSpecificAgreements": "unknown; no inference that named customers lack negotiated rights"
    },
    "boundaries": {
      "canonicalTokenCatalogChange": false,
      "subscriptionCatalogChange": false,
      "newModelLaunch": false,
      "announcedRateChange": false,
      "litigationIsServiceShutdownEvidence": false,
      "leo": "out of scope: consumer Leo is not this retrieval API",
      "historicalNewsRefreshesCurrentClocks": false
    }
  }
}