Brave Search API pricing

Request-billed retrieval, with separate query and token charges for generated answers—not a standalone model-token price.

USD · prepaid · taxes excluded
Product Usage charges (add all components) Capacity Verified / source
Search / LLM Context
  • $5.00 / 1,000 requests
 50 requests/s Official pricing ↗
Answers
  • $4.00 / 1,000 queries
  • + $5.00 / 1M input tokens
  • + $5.00 / 1M output tokens
 2 requests/s Official pricing ↗
Spellcheck
  • $5.00 / 10,000 requests
 100 requests/s Official pricing ↗
Autosuggest
  • $5.00 / 10,000 requests
 100 requests/s Official pricing ↗

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Credits and billing

prepaid: buy credits before use. The official cards include $5.00 in monthly account credits; do not assume a separate allowance for every product. Taxes are excluded.

Credit terms and enterprise conditions

Prepaid purchases are non-refundable, and credits are non-transferable. Credits expire at the earlier of one year from issuance or account closure; promotional credits do not cover taxes.

Credit stacking: not established; do not infer a separate allowance per product.

Auto-reload: optional; if activated, recurring charges at customer-set balance threshold.

Enterprise: contact sales; custom capacity, Zero Data Retention, custom agreements and NDAs, invoicing and support.

Billing terms verified . API terms · Credit terms.

Brave: authorized-experiment and coverage-harness blocker

This retrieval API is not a model-token SKU. Our deterministic text leaderboard cannot measure source coverage or retrieved-content rights. No paid test has been run.

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.

An independent retrieval experiment requires:

  • appropriate written/custom authorization
  • rights-cleared reproducible retrieval/coverage experiment protocol
  • approved spend before any paid inference

Pin queries, permitted sources, endpoint and settings; retain raw responses, coverage/citation grading, retries, latency and the complete query/token bill.

A default API key is not sufficient authorization. Public standard terms do not establish any named customer's negotiated rights.

Official terms · reviewed · Labs coverage notes →

Structured prices · Reviewed source contract · Model-token pricing (separate cost layer)